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    What are phonics books? Phonics books are texts designed to teach reading. They emphasize the relationship between letters and sounds. Saddleback phonics books provide engaging reading materials for...

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    WHO WE ARE Saddleback started with a problem my father couldn't ignore. Thomas Milano spent years teaching high school math in South Philadelphia. His students weren't failing math because they...

    Rebuilding Reading Identity in Striving Adolescents(Post)

    Why the work in middle and high school is not just about skills. It is about who students believe they are. Ask a struggling tenth grader to describe themselves as a reader, and you will rarely get a

    Science of Reading(Page)

    Science of Reading Intervention Materials for Tweens & Teens For over 40 years, Saddleback has built reading materials for students who read below grade level, but the Science of Reading...

    Reading Fluency at Secondary: The Diagnostic Gap Nobody Is Talking About(Post)

    Fluency screening stops in third grade in most districts. Ninth graders reading two years behind pay the price for the rest of high school. Ask a room of secondary administrators what data they have

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    What high-interest, low-readability books actually do, and why the strongest secondary reading programs use them. Walk into a ninth-grade intervention classroom and you will likely see a familiar sce

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