Cars and Stars is a powerful combination of assessment and instruction that works effectively together to improve student's reading comprehension. Both series focus on 12 core strategies, noted below, to give students the essential tools they need to improve their reading and comprehension skills.

The 12 core strategies are: Finding Main Idea, Recalling Facts and Details, Understanding Sequence, Recognizing Cause and Effect, Comparing and Contrasting, Making Predictions, Finding Word Meaning in Context, Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences, Distinguishing Fact from Opinion, Identifying Author's Purpose, Interpreting Figurative Language, and Summarizing.

Zoom In targets the following 6 comprehension strategies providing extensive instruction and concentrated practice through engaging, non-fiction text one strategy at a time.

The 6 strategies are: Understanding Main Ideas and Details, Understanding Sequence, Recognizing Cause and Effect, Comparing and Contrasting, Making Predictions, and Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences.

The Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention System (LLI) is an intensive, small-group, supplementary literacy intervention for students who find reading and writing difficult. The goal of LLI is to lift the literacy achievement of students who are not achieving grade-level expectations in reading.

REWARDS is an intensive, small-group, literacy intervention that focuses on decoding multi-syllabic words, identifying and understanding prefixes and suffixes, increasing word and passage reading fluency, building academic vocabulary, and deepening comprehension.