Pathways to Reading

The curriculum provides teacher training through videos on articulation and methodology, plus email support to introduce course components.

Parents need to watch videos on articulation before starting, optional training videos available, series of emails introduce course components

The curriculum is heavily teacher-directed with scripted lessons that tell teachers exactly what to say and do, supporting explicit instruction principles.

Lessons are scripted and tell you exactly what to say and do, program is interactive and heavily dependent on the teacher, includes short online instructional videos

The program provides highly systematic, explicit phonics instruction based on Orton-Gillingham methodology with sequential letter introduction and multisensory approaches.

Orton-Gillingham based methodology, letters introduced one at a time sequentially, extensive emphasis on mouth movements for sound pronunciation, systematic phonemic awareness instruction

The program includes structured handwriting instruction from the beginning and adds grammar and writing instruction at the Proficient level.

Handwriting taught simultaneously with phonics using skywriting and progression to whiteboard then paper, grammar and writing added in Proficient Foundational program

The curriculum uses a mix of complete texts and excerpts, including whole children's storybooks like Stone Soup and complete readers, alongside shorter texts and sentence strips.

Program includes 14 readers per level, incorporates complete children's storybooks like Stone Soup by Marcia Brown, and uses nursery rhymes like Little Miss Muffet in full

EdReports rated the curriculum as only partially meeting expectations for building knowledge through texts, suggesting limited systematic domain knowledge development.

EdReports Gateway 2 rating of 'Partially Meets Expectations' for Building Knowledge and quality of text-dependent questions

EdReports rated the curriculum as only partially meeting expectations for alignment to grade-level text complexity demands.

EdReports Gateway 1 rating of 'Partially Meets Expectations' for Text Quality & Complexity alignment to grade-level text demands

The program includes mini-assessments every two weeks and reinforcement activities, suggesting some retrieval practice elements.

Mini assessments given about every two weeks, Reinforcement Activity Books provide practice opportunities

The curriculum includes vocabulary instruction as one of its five core components, though specific methods and depth are not detailed in the reviews.

Program explicitly covers vocabulary as one of five main components (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension)