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Press RoomFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Start-to-Finish® Core Content—Striving Readers Successfully Excel in the Content Areas"The goal of Start-to-Finish Core Content", explains Don Johnston, "is to provide all students who are several years behind their peers with a successful, engaging experience in the content areas."
December 12, 2005—Volo, Illinois—
Don Johnston Incorporated announces that educators will never have a shortage of appropriate content-area reading materials for their diverse classrooms with Start-to-Finish® Core Content — the newest considerate reading solution in the Start-to-Finish Publishing product line. Addressing the needs of striving readers, Start-to-Finish Core Content gives students a complete picture of a topic and successful expository reading experience, compared to the incomplete information and summaries they receive with traditional textbooks. Start-to-Finish Core Content is for any reader who has difficulties comprehending, making connections or expressing meaning of the informational text they just read. It addresses the issues of limited background knowledge, the inability to tap prior knowledge to make connections, poor expository reading strategies, inadequate decoding and word recognition skills, and lack of motivation. It is standards-based and easily integrates into the middle-school history and science curriculum, so students. "The goal of Start-to-Finish Core Content," explains Don Johnston "is to provide all students who are several years behind their peers with a successful, engaging experience in the content areas." With Start-to-Finish Core Content, students have all the elements they need to have this successful experience. First, each book begins with its carefully-crafted considerate text, which makes the content easy to read, easy to understand and easy to recall. The authors and editors do this by carefully monitoring the language and structure in each manuscript to produce less-dense vocabulary, add narrative story elements to make connections, tap prior knowledge, build background knowledge, put ideas together that belong together (avoiding short, choppy sentences), embed reading strategy support and ensure engaging content. Next, the considerate text is further supported with clear, engaging photos or illustrations, professional narration and an uncluttered layout. Finally, multiple formats provide students with multiple age-appropriate ways to access the considerate text — full-color paperback books, audio books and computer books — providing as much, or as little, support for success. Multiple formats keeps the confusion of many levels of written text to only two ranges, 2nd to 3rd grade readability (Gold Core Content) and 4th to 5th grade readability (Blue Core Content). The high-level of support provided by the audio book and the computer book allow students to read materials that are at their instructional level — keeping them from ever reaching their frustration level. "I have great passion and expectations for Start-to-Finish Core Content because it fills a huge void in the marketplace for our struggling readers," Johnston further comments. "Different students have different abilities to understand expository text — I have experienced this first-hand by not reading my first book until I was in ninth grade. I am thrilled to provide such an age-appropriate solution for these kids that have yet to discover that they are readers." Start-to-Finish Core Content is the informational text component of the popular Start-to-Finish Publishing brand, the recognized leader for considerate reading. Start-to-Finish Publishing has been helping striving readers with narrative reading for almost a decade now with Start-to-Finish Library chapter books, and more recently, very beginning readers have been making strides with building language and early reading skills with Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters. Start-to-Finish Core Content is now shipping and can be purchased in a variety of ways to meet the needs of any size classroom. To find out more go to: /catalog/corecontent/index.htm. About Don Johnston IncorporatedDon Johnston Incorporated has been delivering life-changing interventions to struggling learners around the world for over 25 years. Don Johnston is dedicated to building confident and independent students by providing educators with the best professional services and materials that ensure students' success! Don Johnston Incorporated offers industry-standard interventions that address every area of literacy — Word Study, Reading and Writing — as well as support learning in the content areas. Easy-to-use solutions ensure students reach independent participation in grade-level curriculum because unique content is considerate of each student's age, ability and needs. Photos accompanying this Press Release are the property of Don Johnston Incorporated and may only be used and/or published as accompanying photos with the information found in this release or with specific written approval from Don Johnston or members of his marketing staff. Don Johnston Incorporated | |