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LANGUAGE! Focus on English Learning Overview
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LANGUAGE! accelerates reading achievement
for students in grades 312.
· LANGUAGE! helps students learn the skills
and concepts necessary to progress from
reading significantly below grade level to
reading at a 10th grade level.
· Students can make two years' worth of
growth in reading in one school year.
· Students build a solid foundation of
concepts and skills upon which literacy
development thrives.
Upon successful
completion of this
curriculum, students
are able to read text
at the high school
instructional level.
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LANGUAGE! Book Levels
Challenge Text
Independent
Text
Instructional
Text
Decodable
Text
The readability level for each text selection, based on the Lexile readability
scale, increases incrementally within and across book levels.
LANGUAGE! Readability Levels for Text Selections
Lexile Ranges and Corresponding Grade Ranges
Book
Decodable
Instructional
Challenge
A
200400
(1)
300700
(23)
650850
(4)
B
300700
(23)
500850
(34)
750950
(5)
C
500850
(34)
650950
(45)
8501075
(67)
Independent
Instructional
Challenge
D
650950
(45)
7501050
(56)
9501100
(78)
E
750950
(5)
8501100
(67)
10001150
(89)
F
8501050
(6)
9501150
(79)
11001200
(10)