Core Clicks Builds the Most Important
Close-Reading Skills

20 Skill Videos (9 for K–2 and 11 for 3–5) provide engaging instruction on Spotlight Skills. One Skill Video is included in each instructional unit. All 20 are accessible in the "Skill Videos" section.

Assess students’ mastery of the Spotlight Skills with Reading Checkpoints. These performance-based assessments provide practice applying key ELA concepts to new and unfamiliar texts, as they will be required to do on PARCC, Smarter Balanced, and other digital standardized tests.