Using the results of the CARS pretest, target instruction with the highly scaffolded, five-part lessons in the Strategies to Achieve Reading Success (STARS) series.
The STARS series also supports English Learners with prior knowledge activation, explicit instruction, graphic organizers, and theme-based instruction.
STARS focuses on the 12 key reading strategies to improve students' reading ability: finding main ideas, recalling facts and details, understanding sequence, recognizing cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, making predictions, finding word meaning in context, drawing conclusions and making inferences, distinguishing fact from opinion, identifying author's purpose, interpreting figurative language, and summarizing.
Each lesson is broken out into five parts: Think About the Strategy, Learn About the Strategy, Check Your Understanding, Build on What You Have Learned, and Prepare for a Test. Student Books are available in English for Grades K–8 and in Spanish for Grades 1–5.
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Teacher Guides provide a wealth of information and support for teachers, including:
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The Educational Research Institute of America completed a study of the instructional effectiveness of CARS and STARS.
The STARS series is founded on research-based strategies and features that are designed to support students as they learn how to read for meaning.
