A Complete System for Intensive Intervention

Focus Forward’s easy-to-manage teaching components are carefully designed to work together seamlessly. This comprehensive system offers teachers systematic differentiation, and offers students engaging books that build their reading confidence.

Everything You Need to Differentiate and Manage Your Class

Focus Forward includes a complete teaching system that provides:

• Focus for core instruction
• Professional development
• Teacher-friendly differentiated instruction
• Differentiated, easy-to-use assessment
• Purposeful technology with built-in tracking

• Foundational Skills

  Build Reading from the Ground Up

  Foundational reading and writing skills taking students back to the very beginning—to fill in any skill gaps. Students who have mastered basic reading skills soon begin to accelerate their learning. With Focus Forward, students gain a solid foothold in foundational reading skills.

  Phonics

  Developmental phonics matches phonics needs to early reading levels

  • Group 1 students books concentrate on 1 and early 2 Grade phonics
  • Group 2 student books focus on advanced phonics skills and word study elements
  • Phonemic awareness occurs as reteaching on the basis of assessment

  Developmental phonics matches phonics needs to early reading levels

  • Short vowel word families
  • Long vowel word families
  • Consonant digraphs
  • Consonant blends
  • Long vowel variant spellings
  • Vowel digraphs
  • Final blends
  • Complex vowel patterns
  • Silent Letter patterns
  • Dipthongs
  • Compound words
  • Prefixes
  • Suffixes
  • Syllabication
  • Antonyms, Synonyms
  • Multiple-meaning words, homophones

• Digital Classroom

  Assessment Tools

  Rigby READS

  The Rigby READS is a valid and reliable assessment that can be administered in a single day. This invaluable resource is built right into the Rigby Focus Forward program. Forms A, B, and C allow you to determine beginning, mid-year, and end-of-year progress.

  Rigby READS Intervention Online

  • Easy-to-navigate online administration for individual student assessment
  • Accurate initial placement levels and evaluation information
  • Targeted diagnostic data in the five key pillars of reading
  • Prescriptive suggestions for initial reteaching in phonemic awareness

  Online Reports for Monitoring Progress

  • Student Reports pinpoint the Instructional Reading Level for placement in Group 1 and Group 2 and provide diagnostic skills assessment.
  • Class Reports help teachers place students into either Group 1 and Group 2 reteaching groups.
  • District and School Roll-up provides important information to schools and districts for planning purposes.

  Data Management Tool

  Focus Forward offers an easy-to-use data management tool for tracking and monitoring student progress. It's everything you need to differentiate and manage your intervention class.

  1. Visit http://dmt.RigbyFocusForward.com in your web browser.
  2. Click Register Now
  3. Enter the word "Motivate" in the key code field
  4. Review "Terms of Use"
  5. Click Save

• Small-Group and Whole-Group

  

  A comprehension strategy focus connects whole-group and small-group instruction to produce strategic readers. The program focuses on one comprehension strategy per week, introduced in whole-class and practiced and applied in both small groups.

  • Eight Key Strategies with Connected Subskills
  • Engaging worktexts help students develop their skills everyday.
  • Comprehension and Vocabulary
  • Comprehension, Phonics, and High-Frequency Words
  • Writing

• Assessment

  A Complete Assessment System

  The Focus Forward assessment program provides easy-to-follow assessment tools for this comprehensive intervention system.

  • Rigby READS Intervention (Reading Evaluation and Diagnostic System)
  • Daily Assessments
  • Weekly Assessments
  • Quarterly Assessments

  Rigby READS Intervention

  The Rigby READS is a valid and reliable assessment that can be administered in a single day.

  This invaluable resource is built right into the Focus Forward program. Forms A, B, and C allow you to determine beginning, mid-year, and end-of-year progress.

  Ongoing Assessment and Progress Monitoring

  The program features on-going informal assessment and progress.

  Daily Assessment

  • After Reading, the Small-Group Teaching Versions offer daily comprehension checks.
  • In the reteaching section of the Whole-Class Teacher's Guides, daily checks of phonemic awareness, phonics, and comprehension are also provided.

  Weekly Assessment

  • Student Self-Assessment pages in the Worktexts present opportunities for students to evaluate their progress on comprehension strategies and reflect on their learning.
  • The Assessment Guide features Weekly Tests for Group 1 and 2 to assist teachers in evaluating key skills and in placing students in the following week's Reteaching Groups.

  Quarterly Assessment

  • Quarterly Tests in the Assessment Guide allow teachers to continually monitor student progress in Groups 1 and 2.

Our Mission Is to Advance Yours

HMH Professional Services forges student-centered partnerships with schools and districts in the belief that all learners deserve a quality education and the opportunity for lifelong success.

HMH Professional Services includes teachers, leaders, and technologists. Our Professional Learning Consultants become part of your team, working right beside you to build and implement professional learning plans that respect the unique needs and culture of your school or district community. Through program, practice, and technical services, we work collaboratively to unlock the full potential of every student, teacher, and leader.

Visit us at hmhco.com/professionalservices to learn more.