Explore Magnetic Reading Foundations
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Overview
Magnetic Reading Foundations is an essential component of any core reading program, delivering explicit, systematic foundational skills instruction to students in Grades K–2. Research-based routines, engaging texts for practice and application, and quality assessments all help make Magnetic Reading Foundations the key to successful foundational skills instruction.
Watch the Magnetic Reading Foundations Overview video for a quick introduction to the program.
Overview Brochure
Learn how Magnetic Reading Foundations empowers educators, ensures efficacy, and elevates engagement.
High-Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM) Brochure for EdReports
Magnetic Reading Foundations for Grades K–2 has earned perfect scores and "all-green" ratings from EdReports in both gateways of the rigorous Foundational Skills category.
Authors and Advisors
With guidance from advisors and authors who have a wide range of expertise in the field of education, Magnetic Reading Foundations connects the latest research with practical application in the classroom.
Complete or Complement Your Core Literacy Program
Using Magnetic Reading Foundations’ scope and sequence to connect to core skills, Grades K–2 teachers can integrate foundational skills with a core literacy program to enhance and accelerate learning.
Reasons to Choose Magnetic Reading Foundations
With so many resources to support foundational skills, how do you know which is best? See these top reasons for choosing and using Magnetic Reading Foundations.
Connected and Decodable Texts
Discover how connected and decodable texts are at the core of foundational skills instruction.
Scope and Sequence
Magnetic Reading Foundations’ scope and sequence is organized to build systematically and reinforce foundational skills. The scope and sequence is based on research culled from cutting-edge reading science.
Research
All students can become skilled readers, and the best way to achieve this outcome is literacy instruction aligned to the Science of Reading. These beliefs are at the core of Magnetic Reading Foundations, designed to lead every student to reading success.
Research Base
View the research base upon which Magnetic Reading Foundations was built, including information about our authors and advisors, program components, and our evidence base.
Putting the Science of Reading to Work
Learn how Magnetic Reading Foundations has incorporated the Science of Reading, including examples illustrating how the program puts research into practice.
Scope and Sequence Research Rationale
Learn more about the research behind the overall approach to our program-specific scope and sequence, including the strands of foundational skills instruction both within and across grades.
Instruction
The regular use of evidence-based routines, purposeful practice, and engaging texts throughout Magnetic Reading Foundations builds the necessary skills for students to become fluent readers.
Instructional Design
There are six units with five weeks of instruction per unit.
- Sessions 1 and 3: Introduce New Skills
- Sessions 2 and 4: Review and Apply Skills
- Session 5: Review and Assess
Purposeful Practice
Skills-based activities are included for daily practice. Activities are fun, engaging, and purposeful.
Research-Based Routines
Routines are included for Blend Sounds, Phonemic Awareness, Isolate Sounds, Add Phonemes, Delete Phonemes, High-Frequency Words, Encoding, Decoding, and more!
Skills-Aligned Decodable Readers
Learner Variability
Magnetic Reading Foundations empowers teachers to recognize and use the unique assets and needs of all students as tools for learning. The program offers multiple means of engagement, representation, action, and expression throughout the program, weaving the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles into the fabric of the instruction model. The UDL guidelines were created to ensure all learners can access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning opportunities.
Supporting All Learners with the UDL
See how Magnetic Reading Foundations incorporates the UDL guidelines.
Multimodal/Multisensory Approaches
Learn how Magnetic Reading Foundations’ differentiated supports help teachers incorporate multimodal/multisensory supports that can be paired with the instructional routines.
Strategies and Scaffolds for English Learners
Point-of-use supports are included in every lesson to help English Learners read.
Support Learner Variability
Options for differentiation are provided to help teachers address learner variability.
Data to Inform Instruction
Magnetic Reading Foundations' assessments can be used on their own or combined with the i-Ready Diagnostic to monitor and track student progress.
Formative and Summative Assessments
Explore the assessments in Magnetic Reading Foundations that ensure teachers understand how students are progressing as readers.
i-Ready Diagnostic
Pair Magnetic Reading Foundations with i-Ready to lead data-informed instruction.
Experience Magnetic Reading Foundations
Explore these sample program resources to see how Magnetic Reading Foundations provides teachers with everything they need to deliver explicit, systematic foundational skills instruction.
Components
Program components include the Student Worktext, Teacher's Guide, Alphabet Books, Alphabet Tales, Magnetic Readers, and program-specific Foundational Skills Cards.
Digital Resources with Teacher Toolbox
Every teacher has a digital library of instructional resources for on-grade level instruction as well as resources for differentiation.
Professional Learning
Professional learning courses help educators at all experience levels learn carefully developed practices for optimizing the use of Magnetic Reading Foundations from day one.
Professional Learning Opportunities
Professional learning focuses on preparing teachers to utilize program resources effectively.
Contact Us
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Jennifer Burchard
JBurchard@cainc.com
(503) 260-9454
Regional Director, Pacific Northwest Partnerships
Portland, OR
Curriculum Associates
