Each level unit provides a sequential Reading Skills Checklist of the skills to be mastered at that grade/reading level for easy individual record keeping, plus 40-70 short, reproducible informal Reading Skills Competency Tests for measuring students' mastery of each skill on the Checklist at that level. Each also includes a Group Summary Profile for recording class progress and a separately printed wall chart that maps out the entire reading skills progression from Readiness through Advanced levels.

Each level unit provides a sequential Reading Skills Checklist of the skills to be mastered at that grade/reading level for easy individual record keeping, plus 40 70 short, reproducible informal Reading Skills Competency Tests for measuring students mastery of each skill on the Checklist at that level. Each level also includes a Group Summary Profile for recording class progress and a separately printed wall chart that maps out the entire reading skills progression from Readiness through Advanced levels.

Walter B. Barbe, PH.D. was the editor-in-chief of Highlights for Children magazine for ten years and is one of the founders of the International reading Association. Dr. barbe lives in Beach Lake, Pennsylvania.