Middle School Reading Program Empowers Students to Accelerate Reading Growth
Despite scoring just above the state average in English Language Arts on the end-of-year state tests, Humboldt Middle School continued to have students who placed in tier 2 or 3 because of their lack of foundational reading skills.
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“Secondary-level teachers, they’re great teachers, but we weren’t trained in strategies to help students with phonics and fluency. When students come to us without those skills, we don’t know how to help them.”
Jennifer Savery, Middle and high school Spanish and English teacher
They needed an effective middle school fluency program to close the gap between phonics instruction and reading fluency: WordFlight.
After Using WordFlight, Students Made Gains in Reading Proficiency and Fluency
Students who completed the WordFlight Instructional Program averaged over 1.5 years growth on the state end-of-course assessment.
Students who completed the WordFlight Instructional Program averaged more than 1 year growth on the FAST A reading assessment
Case Study: WordFlight Empowers Middle Schoolers to Achieve Over a Year of Reading Growth
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WordFlight is a middle school reading intervention program that helps move 90% of struggling adolescent students to proficiency in foundational reading skills with just 60-80 minutes a week for one school year.