Reading Horizons Announces Tech-Enabled Edition of Reading Horizons Discovery
- By Kate Lucariello
- 11/03/22
Literacy
skills company Reading Horizons has launched a new edition of its
multisensory Reading Horizons Discovery program, upgrading to a
tech-enabled version that provides instant and actionable data to
enable teachers to help their K–3 students become proficient
readers.
The
new edition gives teachers immediate data to help them plan
individualized instruction for their students where needed in their
reading progress, without having to keep track of multiple computer
programs. Besides tracking student progress, the upgrade instantly
suggests which students need small-group instruction and specific
intervention lessons, reducing teacher prep time. Each lesson
includes a teacher training video. The new edition allows teachers to
“pace lessons, monitor student mastery, and ensure instructional
equity,” the company said. With a goal of achieving reading
proficiency by the third grade, the Reading Horizons Discovery
program’s latest edition “continues our mission to provide every
student consistent, engaging, and effective foundational reading
instruction,” said company CEO Tyson Smith.
Reading
Horizons has offered its simplified and research-based
teaching strategies to tackle illiteracy for nearly 40 years, having
worked with 50,000 educators to help students gain reading mastery,
the company notes on its website. The K–3 program teaches
word-recognition foundational skills such as phonological awareness,
decoding and encoding words, and sight recognition. Read
more about the Reading Horizons Discovery program here.
About the Author
Kate Lucariello is a former newspaper editor, EAST Lab high school teacher and college English teacher.