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Special Education

Beginning in January 2006, districts and schools are permitted to use up to 15% of their Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) funds for interventions and measurements to be used with Response to Intervention (RtI) services.

When you partner with Scholastic, you’ll find a wealth of products to choose from that are ideally suited to meet the needs of students with disabilities.  Many of our research-based products offer individualization, powerful assessment, motivational presentation and content, and customization options based on learner needs for access.

Check out these products that will address the unique learning needs of your Special Education students!

For all questions regarding Response to Intervention services, please consult the final IDEA, Part B Regulations.


Young students with disabilities, regardless of type, almost universally have essential language development and early literacy learning needs that focus on both oral language development and facility with print.  Building Language for Literacy is a research-based instructional program designed to develop oral language, phonological awareness, print awareness, and alphabetical knowledge for young English- and Spanish-speaking children using approaches recommended by the National Reading Panel and in the NAEYC/IRA Joint Position Statement.

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Building Language for Literacy Product Overview (PDF)

FASTT Math is designed to help students with disabilities develop fluency with basic math facts in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. In just 10 minutes a day, the FASTT system (Fluency and Automaticity through Systematic Teaching with Technology), builds math fact fluency, freeing up mental resources for higher-order thinking skills such as advanced computation, problem solving, and algebra.

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FASTT Math Product Overview (PDF)

Go Solve Word Problems uses the power of technology to teach students strategies for understanding and solving mathematical problems at each student’s individual level.   This engaging program gives students step-by-step instruction in using graphic organizers to understand mathematical situations for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Funding Programs
  • IDEA, Response to Intervention
  • Title I, Part A
  • Title I, Part A--SES
  • Title V, Part A
  • 21st Century Community Learning Centers
  • Enhancing Education Through Technology

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Go Solve Word Problems Product Overview (PDF)

For the middle school teacher of students with disabilities, the Laura Robb Classroom Libraries offer four rich and engaging grade-level collections, carefully chosen to meet the needs and interests of every middle school student.  Laura Robb—a respected teacher, reading coach, and author—specifically designed these libraries to foster independent reading, inspire meaningful discussion, and cultivate personal connections to literature.

Funding Programs
  • IDEA, Response to Intervention
  • Title I, Part A
  • Title I, Part A--SES
  • Title III—English Language Acquisition
  • Title V
  • 21st Century Community Learning Centers


The Marilyn Burns Classroom Math Library will open the world of mathematics to students with special needs!  Developed by America’s leading math educator, this library builds essential math skills and concepts students must master while providing teachers with the instructional support necessary to effectively teach math to all students, including those with disabilities. 

 

Funding Programs

  • IDEA, Response to Intervention
  • Title I, Part A
  • Title I, Part A—SES
  • Title III—English Language Acquisition
  • Title V, Part A
  • Reading First
  • 21st Century Community Learning Centers

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Marilyn Burns Classroom Math Library Reading First Alignment Guide (PDF)
Marilyn Burns Classroom Math Library Title I Alignment Guide (PDF)



The Phyllis C. Hunter Classroom Libraries represent the “gold standard” of children’s literature.  Based on her extensive experience as an educator, curriculum specialist, literacy expert, and advisor on the No Child Left Behind act, Mrs. Hunter has hand-picked each of the 100 titles in every grade-specific library so students can immerse themselves in a high-quality, richly diverse selection of fiction and nonfiction titles by classic, contemporary, and award-winning authors that represent a range of genres, topics and reading levels.

Funding Programs
  • IDEA, Response to Intervention
  • Title I, Part A
  • Title I, Part A--SES
  • Title III—English Language Acquisition
  • Title V
  • Reading First
  • 21st Century Community Learning Centers


READ 180 is an intensive reading intervention program designed to meet the individualized learning needs of students with reading achievement tow or more years below grade level. READ 180 helps educators show that meaningful benefit is gained from student individualized educational programs. READ 180’s powerful diagnostic and reporting tools support the development of high-quality IEPs that are designed for student success.

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READ 180 Product Overview (PDF)

Many initial special education placements occur in the middle elementary grades as students experience difficulty making the transition from learning to read into reading to learn. Find success with ReadAbout, a self-managed reading achievement program that uses technology to individualize reading instruction with nonfiction text for every student.  It is ideal for use with students with disabilites who are placed in both special education and general education settings for reading.

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Scholastic Action Book Collection are motivational libraries of high-interest low-level books that address the needs of struggling readers, both in general and special education settings.  These books are embedded with unique features—welcome pages, target words, comprehension tips, and glossaries—all designed to carefully scaffold student reading.

Funding Programs
  • IDEA, Response to Intervention
  • Title I, Part A
  • Title I, Part A--SES
  • Title III—English Language Acquisition
  • Title V
  • 21st Century Community Learning Centers
  • GEAR UP

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Scholastic Action Book Collections Product Overview (PDF)

The Scholastic Early Childhood Program is a comprehensive, systematic pre-kindergarten curriculum that prepares all children for future success in school.  This unique program provides a full year of integrated curricular experiences that address a variety of IEP developmental and academic goals.  Both teacher-directed activities and child-initiated experiences develop the key concepts of phonological awareness, oral language development, print awareness, alphabetic knowledge, Math/Science content, and Social/Emotional Development.

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Teachers of students with special needs frequently are faced with the challenge of breaking the cycle of failure for older struggling readers who have not mastered sound-symbol relationships.  Designed with this special student in mind, Scholastic FX Books is a collection of high-interest titles that provides important phonics practice.  The FX Books collection of 24 titles will motivate, engage, and respect the needs of older students, while at the same time ensuring the development of basic phonemic skills.

Funding Programs
  • IDEA, Response to Intervention
  • Title I, Part A
  • Title I, Part A—SES
  • Title III—English Language Acquisition
  • Title V
  • 21st Century Community Learning Centers
  • GEAR UP


Powered by the Lexile Framework® for Reading, a research proven assessment technology, Scholastic Reading Inventory gives educators a fast, effective way to assess student reading levels and monitor reading progress.  SRI provides immediate, actionable data on students’ reading growth over time, and is uniquely suited to meet the needs of special educators.

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Scholastic Reading Inventory Product Overview (PDF)

In today’s high stakes environment of educational reform, special education teachers face increased demands to ensure that students with disabilities make AYP in reading.  Scholastic Red offers a complete reading curriculum that helps increase teachers’ knowledge of scientifically based reading research and best practices in literacy assessment and instruction.

Funding Programs
  • IDEA, Response to Intervention
  • Title I, Part A
  • Title I, Part A—SES
  • Title II, Parts A & D
  • Title III—English Language Acquisition
  • Title V, Part A
  • Reading First
  • 21st Century Community Learning Centers
  • Enhancing Education Through Technology

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Scholastic Red Product Overview (PDF)

Scholastic Sprint Reading provides leveled text at specific Lexile levels for your special education students and teaches the strategies successful readers need to decode and comprehend.  Each collection incorporates nonfiction and fiction titles, with easy-to-use lessons for every title to build comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and writing skills.

Funding Programs
  • IDEA, Response to Intervention
  • Title I, Part A
  • Title I, Part A—SES
  • Title III—English Language Acquisition
  • Title V
  • 21st Century Community Learning Centers
  • GEAR UP

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Sprint Reading  Product Overview (PDF)
System 44 System 44 was designed for your most challenged, struggling readers in Grades 3-12. System 44 helps students understand that the English language is a finite system of 44 sounds and 26 letters that can be mastered. The program invites students to "crack the code" and join the community of readers, and provides educators with a comprehensive set of tools to meet this challenge.
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Funding Programs
  • Title I, Part A
  • Title I, Part A-SES
  • Title II, Part D – Enhancing Education Through Technology (Formula)
  • Title I, Part C-Education of Migratory Children
  • Title III
  • Reading First
  • Enhancing Education Through Technology
  • 21st Century Community Learning Centers
  • Special Education/Response to Intervention
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System 44 Product Overview

Students with disabilities generally require intensive language development remediation to make the leap to literacy skills development.  Text Talk is the systematic vocabulary program that builds extensive oral vocabulary and comprehension skills, the critical precursors for reading success.

Funding Programs

  • IDEA, Response to Intervention
  • Title I, Part A
  • Title I, Part A—SES
  • Title III—English Language Acquisition
  • Title V, Part A
  • Reading First
  • 21st Century Community Learning Centers
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Text Talk Product Overview
Text Talk Title I Alignment Guide
Text Talk Reading First Alignment Guide
Text Talk Reading First Grant Assistance Toolkit
Text Talk Consumer’s Guide Kame’enui Supplemental Analysis
Text Talk Supplemental Skills Trace


The Little Red Toolbox is a powerful literacy manipulative program based on the latest research about how all children, especially children with special needs, use phonics and phonemic awareness as the basic building blocks in learning to read.

Funding Programs

  • IDEA, Response to Intervention
  • Title I, Part A
  • Title III—English Language Acquisition
  • Title V, Part A
  • Early Reading First
  • Even Start Family Literacy


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Scholastic Trio is a series of leveled reading collections that engages students at THREE levels of reading ability—Below, On, and Above grade level—all in the SAME content-area topic.  Trio ensures students with disabilities access the same grade-level content as their peers, whether placed in a special education or general education setting.

Funding Programs
  • IDEA, Response to Intervention
  • Title I, Part A
  • Title I, Part A—SES
  • Title V
  • Reading First
  • 21st Century Community Learning Centers

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Scholastic TRIO Product Overview (PDF)

Scholastic Sound & Letter Time manipulative tiles encourage special needs students, as well as young English Language Learners, with hands-on pre-reading success.  This research-based, classroom tested program focuses on six key skills:  sound matching and oddity tasks, oral blending, oral segmentation, phonemic manipulation, alphabet recognition, and vocabulary development.


Funding Programs

  • IDEA, Response to Intervention
  • Title I, Part A
  • Title III—English Language Acquisition
  • Title V, Part A
  • Early Reading First
  • Even Start Family Literacy
  • Reading First
  • 21st Century Community Learning Centers


Thinking Reader is a powerful tool that provides intense specialized instruction and practice with seven scientifically proven reading comprehension strategies.  Using unabridged, award-winning literature and award-winning books found in classrooms across the country, able to access the same grade-level content as their peers with support and prompts customized according to student needs.

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Thinking Reader Product Overview (PDF)

WiggleWorks Guided Reading Edition software and print materials provide individualized guided reading instruction and accompanying support for the preschool and early elementary special education student, both within the specialized and inclusionary special education settings.

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WiggleWorks Guided Reading Product Overview (PDF)