A straightforward, explicit teaching technique to enhance your curriculum and advancing student achievement in Literacy and Math.

About Direct Instruction(DI)


Direct Instruction: Methodology

Teaching to Mastery
One important hallmark of Direct Instruction(DI) is its focus on teaching to mastery. Before moving from one concept to the next, all students must demonstrate their understanding. This ensures that no student is ever left behind.


The Direct Instruction(DI) method is based on two core principles:
Every aspect of a Direct Instruction(DI) program is designed, tested, and proven to fulfill these essential principles. Lessons are:
  • Explicit - with purposeful instruction designed to develop skilled and confident learners.
  • Intensive - allowing teachers to cover more than a year’s worth of material in a single year.
  • Consistent - allowing students to focus on the material they are learning.
  • Interactive - with quick pacing and group responses that keep all students engaged.
Three Keys to Direct Instruction:
  • Design - Carefully designed programs support students and keep them on track with purposeful instruction that.
  • Delivery - Proper delivery allows lessons to flow smoothly and teachers to respond immediately to students’ needs. After grouping students with program-specific placement tests, Direct Instruction teachers ensure student success.
  • Documentation - Direct Instruction works. Nearly 50 years of research validates the efficacy of this approach for all types of students in various settings.

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Direct Instruction: Why

Direct Instruction(DI) programs give all students the ability to:
  • Achieve at least 80 percent accuracy in every new activity on their first try.
  • Work with 100 percent accuracy after error corrections and scaffolding.
  • Feel successful every day on every activity they complete. Methodology 3.

Three Keys to Direct Instruction:

- Thoughtful Design that Accelerates Learning
  • Accurate Placement ensures a Strong Start
  • A Focus on Mastery means Everyone learns
  • Positive Reinforcement inspires Achievement
  • Field-Tested and Refined Every Lesson
– Deliver Techniques that Keep Learning on Track
  • Following Scripted Lessons to deliver instruction consistently.
  • Fast Pacing and Group Response to keep all students engaged.
  • Using Clear, Concise Languages so students grasp concepts the first time they are taught.
  • Implementing planned Correction Procedures to prevent errors from becoming habits.
– Documentation That Proves It Works

The 6 Steps to Mastery Guidebook & Infographic Chart

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Testimonials: Efficacy

This highly effective approach offers an unparalleled level of explicit instruction, intensity, and support to accelerate learning and prevent academic failure. Thousands of teachers nationwide use direct instruction(DI) programs to make measurable differences in student confidence and academic achievement.

Research shows that explicit, individualized, and validated instruction—like that offered by Direct Instruction programs—is key for optimal learning opportunities.

Direct Instruction(DI) programs are:
  • Validated by extensive and exhaustive research.
  • Proven to work in a wide range of classrooms, schools, and districts.
  • Systematic, explicit instruction for heightened academic achievement.

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Products of Direct Instruction(DI)

Reading Mastery

Language development in PreK to Elementary years is an essential stepping stone towards successful educational performance.

Numerous research studies show that Reading Mastery is one of the most successful and effective reading programs available today as it is built with systematic and explicit instruction that are necessary for effective reading instructions. Reading Mastery is a comprehensive solution for students grade PreK to 5 that teaches elements of comprehension and word recognition that must be taught in order to master that grade level and it meets rigorous Common Core State Standards.

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The 3 Strands in Reading Mastery makes the program flexible enough to serve as your intervention program, in addition to your core program, or combine all strands to work together as a complete program.

These 3 strands are:

 
Testimonial:

We started the Reading Mastery program, and it was so awesome, because they were, like, 'Teacher! I can do it! I can read it!'

Kami Amrein
First Grade Teacher, Fort Hall Elementary
Idaho, USA

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Corrective Reading Meets the Needs of At-Risk Students

Corrective Reading provides intensive direct instruction-based reading intervention for students in Grades 3–12 who are reading below grade level. This Direct Instruction reading intervention program delivers tightly sequenced, carefully planned lessons that give struggling students the structure and practice necessary to become skilled, fluent readers and better learners.

Numerous research proves that Corrective Reading helps close the achievement gap and improves test scores. It meets the needs of at-risk students with effective instructional principles. Corrective Reading provides two major strands (Decoding & Comprehension) and four levels address a wide range of reading problems.

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Testimonial:

At Mount Ridley we have begun exploring the Corrective Reading Program to support some of our readers who have fallen behind in their decoding. The program can accommodate readers from grades 5, 6, 7 and 8. We have found the program easy to PD staff in and easy to set up. Students have their skills in reading and letter-sound recognition constantly tested and built upon by the program. It is definitely contributing to the confidence of our students and they love attending the program.

Terri Allan
Director of Student Learning and Teaching Practice (Junior), Mount Ridley P-12 College
Victoria, Australia

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Language for Learning

Designed for kindergarten and primary age school children, as well as ELL learners, Language for Learning gives early students the essential tools and understanding to foster continued educational success!

The research-proven content of Language for Learning is based on analyses of the words, concepts, and sentence structures that are used for teaching, as well as an analysis of the directions and content of textbooks and other instructional materials in grades K-2.

Who Benefits from Language for Learning Instruction?
  • Kindergarten and primary age school children who have less than adequate language knowledge and skill for their age.
  • Four-year-old children in preschool programs.
  • Primary age school children in bilingual and ELL programs

With the addition of technology-based resources for both student instruction and professional development, Language for Learning helps teachers optimize each minute spent in the classroom.

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Testimonial:

At Burnside State High School we have many students who begin their high school life as non-readers but, through the consistent and highly structured approach of Corrective Reading, finish school as competent readers.

Lee Coleman
Master Teacher, Burnside State High School
Queensland, Australia

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