four students rotate through three instructional stations focused on comprehension strategies on a short text for 45 minutes a day for six to eight weeks. Scholastic RISE and RISE Up ofer a kit with teacher resources, books, short reads, and digital access for teachers and students. Scholastic partnered with LXD Research to conduct a third-party evaluation of the Scholastic RISE and RISE Up Program as it was implemented in a Florida school district during the 2022-2023 school year. All the elementary schools use Benchmark Advance as a core reading curriculum, and the comparison schools use School Specialty’s SPIRE or Fountas and Pinnell’s Leveled Literacy Intervention. RISE coaches provided guidance for the district to modify the program for use during a 30-minute a day timeframe, with one instructor, to meet the district’s intervention model. Treatment Group: Program Key Features The Scholastic RISE and RISE Up feature instructional practices that difer from the typical reading instruction provided by the core curriculum. A phonemic awareness and phonics continuum of skills is followed using structured literacy characteristics. An emphasis on peer discussions and independent writing during enrichment lessons encourages student voice and choice throughout courses. Texts feature relatable, diverse characters that deal with real-life situations, a strategy enabling students to synthesize previous knowledge with that learned during their lessons to efectively participate in small group discussions where their unfnished learning may have rendered them silent in similar whole group settings.
Table 1. Structured Literacy Characteristics in RISE and RISE Up Lessons
Structured Literacy Characteristic
Associated Scholastic RISE and RISE Up Resource or Instructional Practice
Phonology
Oral segmentation, sound identifcation practice
Syllables
Syllable counting, pattern recognition, open and closed syllables
Morphology
Word families, afxes, base words, morphemes, letter scrambles
Syntax
Sentence building, dictation
Semantics
Context clue exercises, vocabulary, comprehension cards
Sound-Symbol Association
Sound walls, hand signals for letter sounds & blends
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