Let’s Start a Reading Revolution
Here are our thoughts, best practices, and resources for giving middle and high school students conscious-reading skills and a love-based-learning experience.
Zinc Conscious-Reading Skills Lead to Massive Growth
Two-thirds of students who scored at least 85% on our “Show What You Know” assessments of Zinc-ing and Tracking skills went up at least one Zinc reading level from the start of the Ignition Unit to the end. In just a few hours of work over two or three weeks, that’s growth of about 150 Lexiles, which typically takes months!
The Case Against Annotation
The key to improving adolescent literacy is to get students to enjoy reading. A constant annotation practice can work against that goal.