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Flying Start to Literacy ™

Program Overview

Flying Start to Literacy is an award-winning early literacy program that reflects best practices in literacy instruction. Flying Start to Literacy’s paired fiction and informational texts, which are connected by a big idea, build the kinds of foundations necessary to launch students successfully on their path to college and career readiness.

Complete Program

Nine Reading Stages, Levels A—V (1—50)* Does not include Lift Off to Literacy Sets

• 1752 Paired Texts Student Books (6 copies each of 292 titles)

• 72 Perspectives Texts (6 copies each of 12 titles)

• 146 Paired Texts Lesson Plan Cards (1 for each pair of titles)

• 12 Perspectives Lesson Plan Cards

• 804 Take-Home Books (6 copies each of 134 titles)

• 18 Vocabulary Starters

• 1 Digital Activities CD for the Early Emergent Stage

• 18 Storage Boxes