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Direct instruction disproves the notion that students will all of a sudden develop skills on their own. Instead, direct instruction teaches students systematically through scaffolded steps, helping them see both the purpose and the result of each step. It is a research base program. “Direct instruction has a long history of meeting the needs of learners with many and differing complex learning issues” (Luiselli, Christian, Russo, Wilczynski, 2008, p. 201). Direct instruction has been successful in targeting Reading. Reading Mastery is a program designed for direct instruction to accelerate growth in the area of reading. “The Report of the National Reading Panel (2000) and Put Reading First (Armbruster, Lehr, and Osborn 2001) identified five areas that are critical to reading success: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension” (Luiselli, 2008, p. 204). Reading Mastery targets all five of these essential components of Reading.
Reading Mastery is targeted for grades K through 5, focusing on phonemic awareness, phonics and word analysis, fluency, vo...

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