DISTAR is an acronym for Direct Instruction System for Teaching Arithmetic and Reading, a trademarked program of SRA/McGraw-Hill, a commercial publishing company. The program is used particularly for historically disadvantaged and/or at-risk students. DISTAR has been rebranded by SRA/McGraw-Hill as Reading Mastery while DISTAR Arithmetic is still available. DISTAR Language I and II have been updated and renamed Language for Learning and Language for Thinking. Direct instruction is one of several… (More on Distar)