Measuring Up Foundations
Levels A–H / Grades 1–8
Measuring Up Foundations focuses on the essential foundational skills that are critical for students to meet academic success. Mastering the pre-requisite and foundational skills helps to close the learning gap, allowing students to bridge to grade-level learning.
Foundational Skill Support to Bridge to Grade-Level Learning
Measuring Up Foundations incorporates research-based best practices for struggling students and supports whole-class, in-class intervention, and pull-out intervention programs.
Full-color student worktext features
- Explicit instructional lessons
- Built-in scaffolding support
- 2 distinct independent practice opportunities
- Culminating Exit Ticket
Enhanced Teacher Guide with full support for lesson plan
- Strengthens and expands teaching strategies
- Provides step-by-step teaching notes
- Incorporates a gradual-release model
- Provides specific questions and activities to integrate
- Includes best practice teaching tips in every lesson, including English-learner support
Measuring Up Foundations
READING SKILLS Levels A-E / Grades 1-5
The foundational reading skills are important components of effective reading instruction, supporting the development of proficient readers with the ability to comprehend texts. These skills must be mastered to support a student’s future success with reading grade-level texts.
FOCUS:
FOCUS:
- Print Concepts
- Phonological Awareness
- Phonics and Word Recognition
- Fluency
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READING COMPREHENSION Levels A-E / Grades 1-5
Students who have mastered the essential reading skills but still do not understand what they have read may be a result of lacking a basic understanding of the critical comprehension skills.
Some students need more time to develop basic comprehension skills so they can actively read with purpose. Building upon a solid foundation, students better understand and remember what was read, which prepares them to read more rigorous texts and apply critical thinking skills.
FOCUS:
Some students need more time to develop basic comprehension skills so they can actively read with purpose. Building upon a solid foundation, students better understand and remember what was read, which prepares them to read more rigorous texts and apply critical thinking skills.
FOCUS:
- Generate Questions
- Main Ideas and Details
- Sequence
- Summarize
- Inferences
- Point of View
- Illustrations
- Text Structure
- Compare and Contrast
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Measuring Up Foundations
READING Levels F-H / Grades 6-8
Measuring Up Foundations for students in grades 6-8 targets the skills and strategies middle school students need the most. Incorporating cognitive research, lessons focus on essential prerequisite skills needed for learning grade-level standards.
FOCUS:
FOCUS:
- Phonics
- Fluency
- Generate Questions
- Make Inferences
- Main Ideas and Details
- Summarize
- Characters, Plot, and Setting
- Point of View
- Author’s Purpose
- Textual Evidence
- Illustrations
- Text Structure
- Compare and Contrast
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Measuring Up Foundations
MATHEMATICS Levels A-H / Grades 1-8
Some students struggle to understand basic mathematics principles. For students to be successful in mathematics, it is important to rebuild key foundational mathematics skills by providing a bridge from basic to more complex operational work.
TOPICS VARY BY GRADE:
TOPICS VARY BY GRADE:
- Counting
- Sequencing
- Comparing
- Place Value
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Computation
- Multiplication
- Division
- Fractions
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