Empower Reading: Grades 2-5, Decoding & Spelling is intended for students who are in grades 2 to 5 and struggling with acquiring age-appropriate word identification, decoding and spelling skills. The goal of this module is to enable students to become independent and flexible multi-strategic decoders and spellers, develop the skills needed for academic success, and to read independently for meaning, information, or pleasure. This module teaches five metacognitive decoding and spelling strategies and how to apply them to words they cannot read or spell. Over the course of 110 lessons the strategies are taught in sequence and are practiced cumulatively on words presented individually and in connected text to ensure mastery. Accuracy and fluency are both emphasized. The rapid recognition of letter-sound patterns, affixes, and individual words are incorporated into the lessons because of their importance in facilitating the development of reading fluency at the text level. Once students learn the first three strategies of the program, they learn a metacognitive organizational structure that helps them to orchestrate successful selection, application, monitoring, and evaluation of the Empower™ strategies. Embedded in the dialogue that is used to teach and practice the strategies are statements that retrain students’ attributions about success and failure. As students learn the five strategies, they also acquire a new approach to tackling unfamiliar material and more positive beliefs in their own abilities. Retraining maladaptive attributions and beliefs about learning and building constructive motivational profiles is inherent to every lesson as is the specific instructional content.