Reading Edge is a comprehensive literacy program designed to address the unique needs of adolescent learners. Through systematic reading instruction customized to each student’s instructional level, the program aims to equip students with essential skills and strategies. This preparation is vital for success in challenging subject-area classes and ensures a smooth transition into high school courses.

Key Components

• High Expectations: The program sets high expectations to help students comprehend complex texts, providing explicit instruction and in-depth practice for reading content-area materials. The top level of Reading Edge prepares students for advanced courses, including AP classes.
• Engaged Students: Students actively participate in discussions, analysis, and questioning of their reading and thoughts within a positively structured cooperative learning environment.
• Quality Teaching: Reading Edge emphasizes quality teaching through carefully crafted materials, supportive schoolwide systems, and extensive professional development with ongoing coaching.
• Schoolwide Support and Intervention: The Success for All Middle School drives the development of aligned strategies to ensure attendance, engage families, support positive conflict resolution, and intervene with struggling students.
• Data-Driven Planning: Students are assessed and placed in instructional groups based on their levels. Progress is assessed quarterly, allowing students to move to new levels as they grow.

“We feel like we have a common language. Never have I experienced a schoolwide laser focus on a specific area, where we’re all looking at the same data, we’re using the same tools, the same resources, just to drive one particular focus.”
~LaShauna Harper, SFA Facilitator, Detroit, MI

Instructional Approach

Reading Edge motivates and engages students through cooperative learning, forming the foundation of the Success for All Foundation’s approach to increasing student achievement. Each lesson follows the cycle of effective instruction: active instruction, team study, assessment of progress, and celebration of success.

Differentiated Instruction

Reading Edge provides differentiated instruction with leveled materials to meet students’ needs at various reading levels, from beginning readers to advanced levels. Honors units offer the next steps to accelerate students toward college and career readiness.

Use of Data and Ongoing Formative Assessment

Assessments guide teachers in making instructional decisions, using baseline data for initial placement, and monitoring progress through daily observations and quarterly reassessments.

Professional Development and Ongoing Support

Success for All Foundation coaches provides ongoing professional development and coaching, including a two-day program introduction and continuous support for school leaders and staff. Component teams focus on data analysis, student goal setting, feedback, recognition celebrations, and strategies to accelerate achievement.

Proven by Research

Research shows that Reading Edge Middle School significantly increases reading levels for students, with testimonials indicating a positive impact on student achievement.

For information, including samples, pricing, and more, please email 
sfainfo@successforall.org

For information, including samples, pricing, and more, please email 
sfainfo@successforall.org

“This is a program that works…It’s a kind of program that brings rigor. It’s a program that brings efficacy and results to school systems.”
~Wilfredo Laboy, Former Superintendent, Lawrence, MA Public Schools

“When we began the program, approximately 38% of our students were reading on or above grade level. At this point, we have gone to 51% with only an eight-month implementation of the program.”
~Jodi Colman, Assistant Principal, Cambridge, MD