In just two weeks—with six 15-20 minute sessions.

  • Join hundreds of teachers using Zinc’s revolutionary reading protocol to deliver reading growth to all secondary students

  • Act now to get FREE Zinc accounts for all your students

Improve Your Students’ Reading Now...

Matt Bardin, Founder of Zinc

To ALL Secondary Students

% of students who complete Zinc’s Ignition program advance their reading level by 1.5 grade levels—after just 2 hrs

47

% of students say: “Yes, this helped me improve my reading”

85

% of students say: “Yes, I enjoyed the experience”

75

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Level Placement—Find Each Student’s Baseline

This short assessment allows Zinc to engage each student with the right level of challenge.

Takes ~30 minutes

Students work at their own pace

Sets the optimal starting point for their reading journey

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Ignition—Students Learn Key Reading Strategies

A reading growth program that teaches core skills through engaging content and interactive exercises.

Teaches Zinc’s four transformative reading skills

Differentiated, choice-driven, interactive

Builds reading confidence, enjoyment, and stamina

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Lift Off – Build a Love of Reading

Students choose from curated content to reinforce skills and build identities as readers

A wide variety of relevant, authentic texts

Gamified vocabulary and close reading

Differentiated and driven by student choice

See How Choice Drives Engagement

Zinc Ignition teaches students four scientifically proven, easy-to-apply reading skills.

    • The easiest way into a text is to start with the words and phrases you can see, smell, touch, hear, or taste in your head: “Swimming in a pond in the rain.”

    • More challenging abstract words only make sense when we think of relevant examples: “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

    • When students miss a “this” or an “it,” they get lost and bored. Connecting pronouns to their antecedents keeps them following the text.

    • Transition words and punctuation marks guide us through the layers of meaning in any text.

See How Ignition WOrks

Hear Teachers Describe Zinc’s Classroom Impact

Aaron, 11th, California

Allison, 6th, Connecticut

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