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The Literacy Tool Families Need to Help Kids Succeed

 

Let’s be honest: Most families want to support kids in learning how to read. They just don't know how!

Boost family engagement with a straightforward, easy-to-use resource that can fit into any family schedule.

This free Family Resource Guide gets rid of the guesswork, providing simple exercises and supplemental activities designed to align with the foundational literacy skills kids are already working on at school.

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This District Flipped Their Reading Crisis on Its Head — Here’s How

In one urban school district, kids aren’t just hitting their 1st grade benchmarks, they’re staying on benchmark through 2nd grade and growing as readers.

They aren’t the only ones.

Lisa Lineweaver

“Our graphs went from 60-some percent of students coming into 1st grade needing intensive support and having that flip completely,” says Lisa Lineweaver, principal of George F. Kelly Elementary School.

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In Lineweaver’s entire district (Chelsea Public Schools):

  • 1st graders reading at or above benchmark
    increased 19.5X
  • 1st graders gained an additional 6.7 months
    of learning on average

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University followed nearly 2,000 1st graders enrolled in the Ignite Reading early literacy intervention across 13 districts — including Chelsea. The results prove 1st grade is a critical window to create reading gains that last:

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"At one given time, we have 15 students plugged into Ignite Reading, receiving instruction from 15 different adults. Never could we replicate that in a school system, and we couldn't afford it."

— Almudena Abeyta, Ed.D, Superintendent, Chelsea Public Schools, Chelsea, Massachusetts 

Chelsea Public Schools, Chelsea, Massachusetts

Johns Hopkins University researchers followed 1st graders in the Chelsea Public Schools — an urban district located right outside Boston — for one year to evaluate success of their early literacy intervention.

They found the number of students in need of intensive intervention was cut in half with the help of Ignite Reading tutor educators — from 88% to just 35%.

Oakland Unified School District, Oakland, California

Esperanza Elementary School in Oakland, CA, has a student population with one of the highest percentages of multilingual learners (MLLs) of any school in the United States. 

The school has partnered with Ignite Reading to help multilingual students who were reading well below benchmark master foundational reading skills.

After 25 weeks of tutoring, 91% of students had achieved 1 to 2 grade levels of reading growth.

Outcomes studied by:

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The Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University

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