Our Services
Our comprehensive range of services empowers schools and districts with expertise and resources for targeted reading instruction.
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1:1 and/or Small Group Reading Intervention during School or After-School
- Adaptive Program Design based on your needs
- Expertise in Reading Instruction & Intervention
- Research-based Proven K-8 Curriculum
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Administration of California Approved Reading Risk Screeners
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Supplemental Staffing for Your Literacy Classrooms
- Reading Specialists
- Instructional Aides
Our Approach
Talentook’s Elements of Reading program builds on the science of reading research and years of experience working with struggling readers. For maximum academic gains, the program is grounded in systematic, explicit, engaging and success oriented instruction.
Alignment with Research
Talentnook’s Elements of Reading uses cutting-edge research in literacy development and high-impact instructional practices for reading proficiency.
Science of Reading
National Reading Panel Report
David Kilpatrick’s research and studies
How it works
A simple 3 step process - You tell us where you need support and we take it from there!
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Program Design: Understand your school/district’s needs for supplemental support. Design the program structure customized to the support you need.
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Intervention & Support: Assign a dedicated team of Reading Specialists, Instructions Aides and Program Admins. Provide assessments and adaptive intervention to your students using our research-based curriculum that aligns with learning standards
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Monitoring and Tracking Growth: Provide data-driven progress reporting to ensure students are on track and improving.
We become your trusted partner for your supplemental intervention needs.
Scope & Sequence
Tightly aligned with the Science of Reading, our Elements of Reading Program incorporates the five pillars of effective reading instruction identified by the National Reading Panel– phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
| Levels | Topic Covered |
| Pre-Novice | Letter Names and Sounds Letter Keywords Letter Lists Letter Name Recognition |
| Novice | CVC Words Consonant Digraphs Letter Combinations/Glued Sounds |
| Pre-Reader | Floss Words/Double Final Consonant -ck -dge -tch Suffix -ed Magic E/Long Vowel Sound CVCe |
| Reader | VCe Vowel Team R-Controlled Y as a Vowel |
| Detective | Vowel Teams ow Soft Sounds Silent Letters Dipthongs Suffixes |
| Navigator | Syllables Vowel Digraphs Long Vowel Teams Digraphs Prefixes Suffixes |
| Pathfinder | Word Knowledge Vocabulary Fluency Skill Comprehension- Schema, Author's Purpose, Evidence, Inference, Vocabulary in Context, Synonyms and Antonyms Shades of Meaning, Multiple Meaning Words |
| Achiever | Word Knowledge Vocabulary Fluency Skill Comprehension- Characters, thoughts, actions, feelings, Setting - time, place, environment, Plot Intro/Conflict/Resolution, Rising Action and Falling Action, Theme, 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person, Figurative Language, Sensory Details, Summarizing |
| Warrior | Word Knowledge Vocabulary Fluency Skill Comprehension- Text Features, Text Structures - Description, Chronology/Sequence, Compare/Contrast, Problem/Solution, Main Idea vs, Theme, Main Idea and Supporting Details, Summarizing, Point of View/Perspective, Reading charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines |
| Champion | Word Knowledge Vocabulary Fluency Skill Comprehension- More Complex Character Development, Tough Questions/Internal Conflict, Theme Development and Connection to Plot, Exploring the Connection of Setting to Plot Summarizing - Incorporating Evidence, Firsthand and Secondhand account, Reading Historical Texts/Vocab, Reading Scientific Texts/Vocab, Comparing Themes, Integrating Information from two texts, Reading charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines |
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About us
We developed Talentnook’s Elements of Reading Program to address a crisis: too many students are not yet reading at grade level. Students, teachers, parents, schools and districts are struggling. The 2022 NAEP results indicate that not only does the reading crisis in the U.S. persist, students performing at the lowest levels continue to fall further behind their peers.
Our mission
Every child reading and writing at or above grade level.
