Reading A-Z.com

$49.95, Internet Site

Teaches: reading

CTR Review

This service offers unlimited copies of guided reading books for kids in preschool through grade 3. The core of the program is a series of 160 leveled readers which have been correlated to popular reading leveling systems like Reading Recovery. Benchmark books serve as assessment at each reading level. Teachers can print out as many books as they like, allowing a whole class to take home the same books at one time. The site also features books in Spanish and French, lesson plans, worksheets, phonics books, handwriting tools, and more. New books are added continuously; the teacher subscription costs $49.95 per year. For more details, visit www.readinga-z.com. Note that is is now part of the Orchard Gold Star assessment system.