Building Confident Readers Grade by Grade

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The Flower Model is a visual metaphor for how CRSL builds confident readers and writers, showing how essential literacy skills grow from the ground up, rooted in science and nurtured by effective teaching.

Read our complete position paper
Read our complete position paper
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Aligned Instruction PreK through 5

Our Core Reading Programs

Pre-K

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Kindergarten

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Level 1

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Level 2

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