Reading selections are complete works rather than excerpts.
Tasks involve students in constructing ideas, rather than in answering objective questions.
Although this program is grounded in recent research in reading, in actuality it is very similar to traditional skills practice, i.e., main ideas, etc. Prompts about strategy use are inserted into this practice. Reading selections are complete works rather than excerpts. Although prompts calling for response are inserted periodically into the text to promote strategy use, the presence of the prompts makes it difficult to get a sense of the whole text.