Explicit Teaching

CARS & STARS: Alignment with ACARA Reading Comprehension Standards

CARS & STARS: Alignment with ACARA Reading Comprehension Standards

This blog discusses the CARS & STARS program’s alignment with ACARA’s reading comprehension standards. It highlights how the program uses diagnostic assessments and targeted instruction to map 12 core reading strategies to specific ACARA outcomes. The approach allows educators to effectively pinpoint and nurture students’ reading strengths and weaknesses, ensuring tailored and data-driven instruction that aligns with national educational standards. Click the link below to learn how CARS & STARS program’s alignment with ACARA’s reading comprehension standards.

Tips for Using STARS in the Classroom

Tips for Using STARS in the Classroom

Here are three of our top tips for using the STARS module of CARS & STARS Online effectively in the classroom. These tips are all designed to harness the power of explicit teaching and can also be utilised – with a bit of rearrangement – via distance learning as well.