Making Connections® is a direct, systematic, and highly interactive comprehension program that teaches students strategies to build their comprehension. The program employs a scaffolded instructional plan that supports students by modeling, guiding, and then coaching students to independence. Fiction and nonfiction texts are tied to content-area topics to prepare students to analyze and interpret diverse materials across content-areas.
Students will learn how to:
understand skills such as cause and effect, drawing conclusions, and predicting outcomes.
locate, interpret, and organize key information in a text.
analyze words in a text using vocabulary strategies.
utilize text features such as maps, graphs, tables, photos, and glossaries to aid comprehension.
interpret a variety of genres including biographies, science & social studies texts, Greek myth and much more!
For over 60 years EPS Literacy and Intervention has been the leader in developing and publishing programs to help struggling students, including those with dyslexia and other reading difficulties, as well as providing materials that support on-level students so they can continue to meet their goals.
Today EPS continues this mission by providing K-12 blended Customized Intervention Solutions to help at-risk and on-level students build proficiency in reading and math. Our programs connect time-tested content and innovation to give educators the power of differentiation to reach all of their students and meet the changing demands of today’s classrooms. From screening through to intervention, progress monitoring, reporting and professional development, we offer an integrated approach to address the Common Core State Standards and Response to Intervention (RTI).
As we move forward we will continue to bring innovative solutions to the classroom using the power of the latest technology and research proven instructional methods.