Destination Reading meets the needs of all students with:

• A research-based instructional approach that balances phonics instruction and reading-for-meaning
• An entire unit devoted to emergent literacy, because some children enter school without a fundamental awareness of the essential concepts and functions of print
• The widest assortment of age-appropriate fiction and nonfiction text genres, because research shows different text genres appeal to different learners
• Exploration activities and traditional question/answer exercises, because some students learn by doing and others learn by being asked
• Creative assignments and explicit instruction, because some students like to forge new paths and others prefer to follow directions

Destination Reading works for you, not the other way around.

• Flexible course structure allows you to work with the whole class, small groups, or individual students
• Easy-to-use assessment and reporting, correlated to your state standards, allows you to track student progress and individualize prescriptive content
• Customized professional development ranging from CD-ROM and online courses to on-site workshops
• A comprehensive Teacher’s Guide with activities and lesson plans
• Toll-free and on-site technical support available
• Our Grants & Funding support points you to hundreds of federal, state, and private grant sources

Destination Reading includes more text genres than any other reading program of its kind.

• Original and familiar tall tales and stories
• Multicultural folktales, fairytales, fables, and myths
• Original fiction, including narrative, historic, adventure, realistic, decodable, diary, and journal
• Poems, rhymes, and songs
• Newspaper, magazine, and encyclopedia-style articles
• Brochures, packaging, recipes, and other commercial and procedural texts
• Schedules and other tabular or graphically presented texts
• Instructional, technical, and informational texts