Building the Foundation for a Lifetime of Confident Reading
One-to-one foundational reading skills tutoring for schools and districts
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Every Great Journey Starts with Mastering the Basics
Every student can learn to read with the right instruction. Ignite Reading’s one-to-one, online, Science of Reading-based tutoring closes students’ decoding gaps to get them caught up fast. Through 15-minute daily sessions, our expert tutors teach students the foundational skills they need to become confident, fluent readers.
How We Turn Students into Skilled Decoders
Differentiated Instruction
We pair every student with a highly trained reading tutor who teaches into their precise decoding gaps for 15 minutes daily. Students get the differentiated instruction, volume of practice, and repetition they need—and a caring tutor who builds their confidence.
Proven Curriculum
Our Science of Reading curriculum is a National Council on Teacher Quality exemplary resource written by reading researchers. Systematic and fully scripted, it helps students master phonological awareness, decoding, and word recognition so they can go from learning to read to reading to learn.
Data-Driven Approach
We use baseline diagnostics, curriculum-embedded assessments, and progress monitoring to identify each student's skill gaps and track their growth. A dedicated literacy specialist conducts in-depth data meetings with your school leaders and teachers monthly, giving teachers actionable data to support students in the classroom.
The Ignite Reading Impact
Results from An Evaluation of Ignite Reading by the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University showed that students reading below grade level who received Ignite Reading’s one-to-one online tutoring achieved significant literacy gains. Students across populations — historically marginalized groups, English learners, and students with IEPs — achieved similar high-growth results.
Students Needing Intensive Intervention Decreased 55%
Students at Benchmark Increased 213%
A study of 1,872 1st graders across 13 Massachusetts public school districts,
64% of whom were reading well below grade level
Source: Study by Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University
Ignite Reading is one of the most, if not the most, successful interventions we have implemented in our district. The student results and program design are indisputable.
Claudia Salvestrin
Assistant Superintendent, Red Bluff Union Elementary School District
Red Bluff, CA
Here’s What Makes Our Tutors Excellent Reading Instructors
Every Ignite Reading tutor completes 110+ hours of Science of Reading-based professional learning and tutoring practicum.
Tutors follow a data-driven, research-based curriculum, and our coaches ensure they teach it with fidelity.
Our tutors build caring, consistent relationships with students that boost their confidence and motivation to learn.
Our Program Fits Easily Into Your School Day
Students do Ignite Reading for 15 minutes every day, in class or in a designated tutoring area.
We recruit and manage your students' virtual tutors so your staff can focus on other priorities.