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OVERVIEW
System 44
With System 44 Next Generation, our most challenged readers and their teachers have everything they need to prepare for more rigorous state standards. The goal of
System 44 Next Generation is to ensure that each student masters the system of 44 sounds and 26 letters that constitute the English language, allowing them to become uent and con dent readers.
Two of the most authoritative and comprehensive reading research summaries—the National Reading Panel report (NRP, 2000) and Preventing Reading Dif culties in Young Children (Committee on the Prevention of Reading Dif culties in Young Children, 1998)—both found convincing and substantial evidence that explicit instruction in the foundational literacy skills of phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, uency, and comprehension is consistently more effective than instruction that does not contain these components (Torgesen, 2002). In addition, System 44 Next Generation provides students with access to increasingly more complex texts with supports for comprehension, practice with responding to rigorous text-dependent questions, and multiple opportunities for evidence- based writing. These instructional elements help prepare students for the level of academic rigor that the heightened standards require.
Comprehensive Instruction in System 44 Next Generation builds on the successful, research-driven practices of Enterprise Edition,
blending daily opportunities for teacher-facilitated instruction, personalized technology, and independent reading, while new components outlined below have been designed explicitly
to help educators meet the rising demands of rigorous state standards.
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Students are currently learning to read and write in a time
of rapid societal change and continuous education reform as all states push for more rigorous educational standards.
In response, heightened standards have been created
in states across the nation
in recognition that we need
to do more to advance the reading achievement of our students. Many of the new standards clearly communicate expectations for all
students in English Language Arts & Literacy (ELA) and Mathematics at each grade level from kindergarten through 12th grade—with the goal of preparing all students for college and career.