Build Calm Classrooms · Get Clear Data · Deliver Explicit Instruction
Build Calm Classrooms
Get Clear Data
Deliver Explicit Instruction
Improve reading outcomes
Keep your students and your teachers
in the classroom
Stop reteaching main idea.
Teachers and admins of teen students with chronic low ELA scores assume the problem lies in the standards.
But most students failing the state ELA test can find the main idea, when the text is accessible.
The standards are not the problem.
Junior high & high school students’ foundational literacy gaps are.
- Incomplete phonics mastery (yes, even in high school)
- Difficulty decoding 2 and 3 syllable words
- Low comprehension of complex sentence structures
Schools ignore this reality and instead reteach the standards most students ‘failed’.
Yet never know how many of those students struggle with, say, 2-syllable words in those texts.
Nor consider the role classroom management plays in holding growth back.
Mastery of grade-level standards will only come with growth in foundational literacy skills.
And this only happens in calm, predictable classrooms. Nothing else works.