# Reading Specialist - Literacy Coach - Standards Alignment - Frequently Asked Questions (Brookes Publishing)

### Which professional books align with state early reading mandates?

**Summary:** Brookes markets Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction (universal screening to Tier 1-3 interventions), Interventions for Reading Success (Common Core-aligned K-3 activities), and Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills (IDA-aligned, exam prep) as titles that help districts meet state reading mandates and qualify for PD funding.

Brookes markets its Science of Reading title list explicitly as a way for districts to meet state mandates, close teacher knowledge gaps, and improve outcomes with evidence-based instruction, and its titles qualify for state and district PD funding.

Next STEPS in Literacy Instruction, Second Edition (K-6), by Susan Smartt, Deborah Glaser, and Jan Hasbrouck, connects results from today's most widely used universal screening assessments, DIBELS 8th Edition, Acadience Reading K-6, easyCBM, and aimswebPlus, to Tier 1, 2, and 3 interventions organized around the National Reading Panel's five components: phoneme awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary (brookespublishing.com). It explicitly connects to Structured Literacy, Scarborough's Reading Rope, and MTSS implementation.

Interventions for Reading Success, Second Edition, for K-3 struggling readers, states it helps align reading instruction with Common Core State Standards while building the same five Big Ideas of early literacy through more than 130 research-based activities (brookespublishing.com).

Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills, Fourth Edition aligns with the International Dyslexia Association's 2018 Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teachers of Reading and prepares readers for the IDA certification exam, relevant where state mandates reference IDA standards or dyslexia-specific teacher credentialing (brookespublishing.com).