Our AchieveReading small-group instructional programs are:

• Backed by scientifically-based research and best practices in reading instruction
• Tailored to meet the needs of our school partners
• Aligned to national and state standards
• Integrate an effective combination of individualized assessment, small group learning with direct instruction, guided and independent practice, parent involvement and a student motivation program.

Our small-group direct instructional programs improve student’s achievement by targeting skill gaps. Best practices, such as assisting students in connecting and integrating new learning to existing knowledge, helping students expand their backgrounds of knowledge, establishing an environment that is conducive to learning by providing immediate feedback to the learner, incorporating ample guided practice and helping students articulate higher-order thinking, are all key features of our signature instructional programs.

AchieveReading prepares students to become active, willing, lifelong readers. The focal point of instruction is the reading of complete, meaningful selections from a variety of literary genres that deal with a wide range of culturally relevant topics. Short stories, novels, expository text, essays, magazine and newspaper articles, biographies and other works of fiction and nonfiction are used in the instructional program. The essential and primary activity in every class is students interacting with text. Activities are planned around the reading of complete selections at appropriate developmental levels.

Each Catapult Learning reading program focuses on developing each student’s ability to use syntactic, semantic and graphophonic clues in deriving meaning from text. Troubled readers are provided with many phonemic awareness and/or phonics experiences as a foundation for reading success. Instruction encompasses listening, speaking, reading and writing in an environment that promotes the development of literacy.

The reading lesson encompasses before, during and after reading activities that include an instructional format such as shared reading, guided reading, or a directed reading-thinking activity (DRTA). These strategies are widely used by reading educators and are recognized to be beneficial for remedial and developmental students and students for whom English is a second language.

Overall, Catapult Learning’s philosophy is grounded in keeping parents informed of student progress and achievements. To this end, we use methods to assist parents in helping their children at home and in becoming a partner in their children’s education. We use a variety of in person and written communication methods designed to keep parents informed on their child’s progress regardless of their individual schedules.

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Catapult Learning's AchieveReading PlusTech™ program combines teacher-directed instruction in groups of no more than eight students with self-paced computer instruction:

• Students participate in face-to-face and self-paced computer instruction on alternating days.
• The computer lab is monitored by a trained computer technician.
• Computer instruction takes advantage of nationally recognized educational software.
• The self-paced lessons target individual student skill weaknesses previously identified in face-to-face instructional sessions.
• The learning paths for each student are reviewed by the teacher and adjustments are made as needed.
• Frequent progress assessments help teachers track progress for each student.

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