Read 180 Components
Read 180 is available for students in Grades 3–12. The program is offered in three stages of instruction.
Independent Reading Library
To promote reading confidence and success, Read 180 independent reading libraries provide students with opportunities to read age-appropriate literary and informational books at their independent reading level.
Read 180 independent libraries—available in print, digital, and audio texts—are grouped into four categories:
Foundational Skills Paperbacks and eBooks
- 56 high-interest texts
- Focus skills aligned to the Student App Code Segments
Grade-Level Audiobooks
- 5 grade-level books per stage
- Corresponding digital model of fluency
Leveled Paperbacks and eBooks
- 30 age-appropriate literary and informational paperbacks
- 46 age-appropriate literary and informational eBooks
eReads
- 36 nonfiction articles aligned to each topic in the Student App
- Articles written at grade-level stretch student readers
ReaL Book: Code
Provides daily lessons for students who need foundational skills instruction. The ReaL Book: Code is built on a systematic scope and sequence that teaches students to decode and encode accurately and automatically, preparing them for deeper comprehension work provided by the ReaL Book: Workshop. Lessons are organized into Segments that develop the full range of foundational literacy skills:
- Phonological and phonemic awareness routines exist as stand-alone lessons for students who need these key fundamental skills and are also built into the start of each phonics lesson to help connect word sounds to print.
- Systematic and explicit instruction in phonics, morphology, and high-frequency words helps students “crack the code.”
- A robust scope and sequence of fluency and comprehension helps students apply their phonics knowledge to connected text.
ReaL Book: Workshop
Provides daily teacher-led lessons for students who need comprehension skills instruction. There are three Stages of instruction: elementary (Stage A), middle (Stage B), and high school (Stage C). Each Stage includes 12 units of instruction, called Workshops, which are organized around a content area focus. Each Workshop provides approximately five to six weeks of instruction. Each Workshop includes a full range of reading instruction, including:
- Readings follow a carefully calibrated staircase of text complexity, developing close reading and analysis at the word, phrase, sentence, and text levels.
- Systematic, explicit, efficient vocabulary instruction expands students’ academic and domain-specific vocabulary.
- Frequent, varied writing instruction teaches students to compose on-demand writing, process writing, and research projects.
