What happens at this level
The entire general book library as one undifferentiated tier — free choice among public-domain classics, fairy tales, fables, and more, browsed exactly as today via the full library search and category filters.
The research behind it
This level's sequencing is taken from published structured literacy frameworks rather than designed in-house:
- Chall (1983/1996), Stage 3: Reading to Learn the New
- National Reading Panel (2000), five pillars framing