WORD MEANING: Understanding roots, prefixes, and unfamiliar words. WORD ANALYSIS: Understanding suffixesand unfamiliar words. SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS: Discriminating between synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms. CONTEXT CLUES: Using context with unfamiliar and multiple-meaning words. MAIN IDEA AND DETAILS: Discriminating main ideas from supporting details. CONSTRUCTING MEANING: Relating ideas or events to interpret meaning. DRAWING CONCLUSIONS: Making inferences. EVALUATING INFORMATION: Discriminating fact from opinion, author's purpose, and persuasive writing. CHARACTERS AND PLOT: Understanding the characters and plot in a story. READING LITERATURE: Understanding theme and figurative language.

Each book includes 10 lessons: Sounds and letters -- Word analysis -- Word meaning -- Synonyms and antonyms -- Sentence clues -- Main idea and details -- Constructing meaning -- Evaluating information -- Characters and plot -- Reading literature.