Beyond Intervention: Improving Adolescent Student Literacy

At the secondary level, teaching literacy isn’t just the domain of educators in ELA classrooms or interventionists. Skill gaps in literacy affect student performance in all content areas from art to social studies. District leaders across the country are charged with closing these persistent literacy gaps at higher grades. In the absence of consistent systemic training, this often involves costly interventions such as tutoring or programming specific to a narrow slice of a school’s population. 

Lexia Aspire® Professional Learning brings the science of reading into every content classroom, making the use of programs like Lexia® PowerUp Literacy® more effective. Aspire gives educators across content areas the means to reinforce the literacy skills and strategies introduced in PowerUp in an academically effective and age-appropriate way, ensuring students receive the instructional support they need before expensive interventions are required.

Aspire benefits all stakeholders:

• International Dyslexia Association-accredited, flexible professional learning 

• Expands educators’ understanding of the science of reading across the district, beyond the early elementary grades

• Connects literacy to content area instruction in an immediately applicable way 

• Supports educators in accelerating literacy skills for all of their adolescent students

• Reduces the need for costly nonsystemic interventions

Aspire is a flexible, self-paced, digital solution that infuses explicit literacy instruction into core curriculum and content area classes. It helps educators understand the why, what, and how of effective literacy instruction. In addition to supporting student literacy learning in PowerUp, Aspire equips educators with a common language to boost student academic performance and skills in all classrooms. 

An investment in Aspire is an investment in instructional efficiency, educator professional development, and most importantly, student success.