Close learning gaps
With Direct Instruction
Find a programme that fits your needs, across all grade levels
Rooted in Science, Proven by Research
For more than 60 years, our Direct Instruction (DI) programmes have transformed students from all backgrounds into confident and highly skilled learners. Time-tested and research-validated, DI is proven to meet everyone where they are and accelerate them one powerful step at a time.
Direct Instruction operates with the understanding that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts—and when we work together, every student can make significant progress toward lifelong success.
Watch this video on the right to see how schools use McGraw Hill DI programs to achieve remarkable literacy and numeracy gains for disengaged or at-risk students.
Connecting Maths Concepts
Spelling Mastery
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12months
spelling age improvement in 6.5 weeks intervention (Pilot project across 16 schools in Staffordshire and Warwickshire with Spelling Through Morphographs)
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25%
of students do not reach the expected standards in Reading by the end of KS2 (Dept for Education official statistics KS2 attainment 2024/25)
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2.5years
average reading age improvement in one teaching year at Athena Learning Trust (Corrective Reading)
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80/20
content split in every DI lesson — 80% review, 20% new.
Professional Development
We’re committed to supporting educators with the tools to confidently teach Direct Instruction. Comprehensive training solutions include in-person and online implementation support as well as ongoing product training and coaching.
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Implement Programmes with Fidelity
To get your curriculum up and running, McGraw Hill is pleased to offer an array of comprehensive virtual and in-person training solutions tailored to accommodate busy schedules and professional learning needs.
Initial Training
Training options include in-person sessions or virtual training with expert curriculum specialists.
Virtual Implementation Support
Digital support is accessible at point of use and includes teacher tutorials, videos, and support resources outlining best practices.
Ongoing Support and Coaching
Professional development is an ongoing process. After completing initial implementation training, continue learning with an array of tools and resources for teachers, administrators, and academic coaches.
For Teachers
During on-site support and coaching for teachers, curriculum specialists model instructional best practices, provide feedback, and suggest strategies for improving student performance.
For Administrators and Academic Coaches
To support administrators and academic coaches, curriculum specialists can help identify common problems and collaborate to implement effective solutions and strategies.
Weekly Drop-in Sessions
For those burning questions in between coaching sessions, drop-in to our weekly office hours to meet with a curriculum specialists and fellow educators also striving to improve their practice.
Refresher Training
Begin each school year on the right note! Refresher sessions allow teachers to get back into the routine and be fired up and ready to start the school year. (Intended only for educators who have some experience teaching Direct Instruction.)
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SRA Open Court Foundational Skills Kit (K–3)
Provide research-based instruction and classroom-tested tools to help every student master essential reading skills.
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SRA Open Court Reading Word Analysis Kit (4–5)
Helps develop critical reading skills that enable students to approach new words and more complex texts with ease.
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SRA Open Court Reading English Language Development Kit (K–5)
Provides extra support to help ELs quickly acquire vocabulary and skills for social, community, and classroom interactions.
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All Sorts (K-5)
All Sorts is a 6-level American English course (Pre-A1–A2+) for ages 6-12, embracing diverse learning styles with engaging stories, songs, games, and hybrid resources.
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Reading Mastery Signature Edition
For over 35 years, Reading Mastery has helped thousands of schools achieve and sustain measurable gains in literacy. Reading Mastery Signature Edition is an efficacy-proven core comprehensive programme. It gives teachers the flexibility to use reading, language arts, and literature together or separately, each strand can be targeted for use as an intervention programme.
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Reading Mastery Transformations (K–5)
Uses the highly explicit, systematic approach of Direct Instruction to accelerate reading and help students achieve a high rate of success.
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SRA Corrective Reading (3-12)
Provides intensive direct instruction-based intervention for grade three through adult students who are reading below grade level.
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Early Interventions in Reading
Early Interventions in Reading provides intensive instruction to empower low-level readers to meet grade-level expectations. This research-proven, Tier 2 intervention programme helps identify struggling readers and provide them with lessons that build mastery of essential skills through explicit, systematic instruction in the five critical reading strands.
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Spelling Mastery International Edition
Spelling Mastery provides structured lessons to effectively and efficiently teach the spelling skills students need to become proficient readers and writers.
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Expressive Writing
Help students become better writers with Expressive Writing, an easy-to-use instructional approach to teaching the basics of good writing with added focus on editing sentences, paragraphs, and stories.
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Spelling Through Morphographs
Using Direct Instruction methodology, students are taught research-proven strategies to accurately spell 500 morphographs resulting in the ability to spell over 12,000 words. Spelling Through Morphographs also empowers vocabulary growth.
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Language for Thinking
Langauge for Thinking builds on the concepts, vocabulary, and statement patters introduced in Language for Learning, but focuses on the reasoning and critical-thinking skills. Sequence activities, vocabulary development, extensive practice, retelling exercises, and inference activities set the stage for reading comprehension and the grammatical analysis of written language.
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Language for Writing
Language for Writing teaches students the conventions of clear writing, the vocabulary needed to describe actions, events, and objects, and the sentence structures required to put complex ideas into writing. Ongoing exercises teach students how to write narratives, use specific words, make precise comparisons, summarize, and proofread.
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SRA Connecting Math Concepts (K–8)
Teaches explicit strategies that enable students to master difficult ideas such as ratios, proportions, probability, functions, and data analysis.
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Corrective Mathematics
Efficacy-proven, intensive support for students who have difficulty with mathematics. Corrective Math is organized into seven strategic modules that provide teacher-directed, explicit instruction on critical math skills and concepts students struggle to grasp.
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SRA Language for Learning
Language for Learning provides young learners with the knowledge and understanding of language they need to achieve proficiency and reading comprehension. This oral language programme was designed for kindergarten and primary age school children, as well as English language learners, giving them a strong foundation for expressive and receptive language.
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Reading Laboratory, SRA
Develop confident and independent readers with SRA Reading Laboratory. Give your student’s access to hundreds of texts and empower teachers with flexible implementation options and in-depth reporting on individual and class performance.
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SRA Phonemic Awareness
Helps establish the early framework necessary to help pre-K to Grade 1 students progress into fluent and confident readers.
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Level Up (K-12)
Level Up is a globally recognized PreK-12 computer science curriculum by McGraw Hill and Binary Logic, fostering digital literacy, coding, AI, and tech skills for future-ready students.
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