Introduction

Experience The Power of the Pair®

Why Flying Start to Literacy® Should Be Your Choice for Small Group Instruction

★ Flying Start’s text pairs work together as paired texts are meant to work—building knowledge around the same big idea—resulting in greater understanding of each topic. ★ Flying Start pairs informational texts with narrative texts, laying the groundwork early for success in the upper grades. ★ Flying Start’s variety of text types require students to develop a range of reading strategies, while increasing the authenticity of their writing. ★ Flying Start books are never written to a template, and the strength of the authorship shines through in every title. ★ Flying Start’s emphasis on high-frequency words and academic vocabulary (each pair introduces and/or reinforces the same set of words) ensures your students are encountering vocabulary in different sentence structures and contexts.

★ Flying Start offers unmatched teaching support, with a laminated lesson plan for every pair, plus extensive other tools—including a Running

Record for every pair—available at no cost online. ★ Flying Start provides National Learning Standards on every lesson plan card, assuring your teaching is tied to outcomes. ★ Flying Start’s readability measurements are available for every title, providing you with reliable guided reading levels, DRA levels, and Lexiles.

★ Flying Start’s boxed classroom sets include Take-Home Books, providing avenues for parental involvement and an extension of smallgroup learning. ★ Flying Start is matched title-for-title by its sister program, Despegando hacia la lectura™, ensuring equity for dual-language instruction. ★ Flying Start includes ample support for emerging bilinguals in every lesson plan at all developmental reading stages. ★ Flying Start augments Tier 1 instruction through differentiated smallgroup learning, but can also be used effectively for Tier 2 RtI, Reading

Recovery, Title I, and supplemental services. ★ Flying Start is manufactured to the highest specifications; the paper, binding, and lamination will hold up through repeated use. ★ Flying Start is teacher-developed and field tested with real students prior to publication.