Reading: 3-5 students improve their understanding of word structure, and use context clues to establish meaning. Vocabulary continues to progress through these grades, and students learn to interpret workplace data. Recognition of main idea/details and expanded comprehension are primary factors for determining successful readers.

Language: K-5 students focus on sentence structure, spelling, and learning to write for meaning. The ability of students to edit what they read and write is a primary factor for determining successful language students.

Math: K-5 students focus on patterns, algebraic thinking, data analysis, prediction, measurement, and geometric concepts. The ability of students to demonstrate and apply number sense is a key factor for determining successful math students. Houghton Mifflin math offers a powerful approach to teaching math that makes a difference right from the start. The program incorporates engaging hands-on activities, special student manipulative kits including write-on, wife-off workmats. The program utilizes isolation to teach higher-level skills which are broken down and reinforced through differentiated activities presented to students as class work, homework, and enrichment.

Science: K-1 students focus on big ideas in science such as life cycles and patterns of change. 3-5 students demonstrate success by building on previous ideas and developing the ability to apply concepts.

*Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement, National Institute for Literacy, National Reading Panel, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, United States Department of Education