Direct instruction disproves the idea that students will suddenly develop skills on their own. Instead, direct instruction teaches students systematically through structured steps, helping them see both the purpose and outcome of each step. It is a basic research program. “Direct instruction has a long history of meeting the needs of students with many different complex learning problems” (Luiselli, Christian, Russo, Wilczynski, 2008, p. 201). Direct instruction has been successful in targeting reading. Reading Mastery is a program designed for direct instruction to accelerate growth in the area of ​​reading. “The National Reading Panel Report (2000) and Put Reading First (Armbruster, Lehr, and Osborn 2001) identified five areas critical to reading success: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension” (Luiselli, 2008 , page 204). Reading mastery addresses all five of these essential components of reading. Reading mastery is targeted at grades K through 5, focusing on phonemic awareness, phonics and word analysis, fluency, speech...