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| Ramp-Up Literacy offers a comprehensive acceleration system, including: |
- Advanced phonics for students who need it
- A year-long curriculum with 90-minute classes— differentiated for middle and high school—tailored specifically to the needs of adolescents who have never known academic success. Unlike remedial classes, the targeted, systematic instruction in Ramp-Up to Middle-Grade Literacy and Ramp-Up to Advanced Literacy gives students a real opportunity not only to master the basics of reading, but to leap forward to the college preparation curriculum
- Well-crafted instructional materials, including daily lesson plans, homework assignments, and effective ways to illustrate key concepts
- A high-quality training program, giving teachers a solid grounding in how to accelerate learning and differentiate classroom instruction in reading
- Ongoing technical assistance and professional development that demonstrates and reinforces effective strategies and techniques, and helps teachers analyze the errors students make
- Assessment tools that enable teachers to tailor instruction to students’ individual profiles and to prepare them for success on state accountability tests
- An approach to classroom management that builds students’ confidence as learners and engages them in a community of learners
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| Literacy problems may start in the elementary years, but they trigger a spiral into academic failure that reaches its deepest point in the middle and high school years. |
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Adolescents who are two or more years behind in reading are embarrassed and frustrated that they cannot make sense of classroom materials. The longer they stay in school, the more they lose ground.
Most secondary schools are ill prepared to deal with this crisis in adolescent literacy. Reading teachers and resources are targeted primarily at elementary schools, especially the K-–3 years. But secondary schools bear the brunt of the problem, with millions of adolescents hiding their deficiencies, biding their time in dead-end classes, and simply doing time until they can legally drop out of school.
As a nation, we can do better.
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| Mastering the Basics and Beyond |
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Students who are far behind in reading need accelerated instruction, not remedial classes that keep them disengaged and falling further behind. Schools, teachers, and students themselves know that remedial classes, which are often just a “louder, slower” version of failed practices, don’t work. Instead, Ramp-Up Literacy offers different pedagogy and a rigorous curriculum—with well-trained teachers, better resources and 90-minute classes—to help striving readers meet the same high standards that are important for every student.
Ramp-Up Literacy is a comprehensive system that trains teachers with the best practices in reading acquisition, building schools’ capacity to improve adolescent literacy in middle schools and high schools.
Solving the adolescent literacy crisis demands more than a new textbook, a stand-alone technology program, or a couple of teacher workshops. Rather, it requires a complete instructional system that can overcome years of failure in a short time, while providing professional assistance to teachers who have never thought of themselves as experts in reading instruction.
Striving readers need to do more than master the basics to succeed on state assessments. To accomplish this, teachers need to address a broad range of problems, from strengthening decoding skills and reading comprehension to supporting English language learners (ELLs). Ramp-Up Literacy is a proven solution that equips teachers to deal with these many issues—and to help students experience success as readers, writers, and learners.
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