Reading Acceleration Pathway
Help children read on grade level or grow 1.5 years in reading in a single year. The Montessori Reading Acceleration Community of Practice curriculum, webinars, and coaching will help you achieve academic equity with your children
Built by teachers for teachers
The Problem We Must Solve
How to unlock strong literacy for all children—regardless of their backgrounds—to help open doors of opportunity as well as a lifelong joy for reading.
Our Solution
Montessori For All blended its knowledge from high-performing public schools with its deep roots in Montessori to design an accelerated Reading Acceleration Pathway to help kindergartners read at a 1st grade level by the end of kindergarten and elementary children grow at least 1.5 years in a single school year.
The Montessori Reading Acceleration Pathway incorporates the Science of Reading with Montessori principles to offer a systematic, streamlined curriculum to move children from letter sounds to reading books in ten months or less.
This pathway is an effective tool for all teachers in primary or elementary communities, SPED, or interventionist programs.
How it works:
Teachers, interventionists, and administrators who join the Community of Practice receive a curriculum, quick assessment, individual tracker, webinars across the school year, coaching, and weekly emails focused on:
How to help kindergartners move from learning letter sounds to reading at a 1st grade level by the end of the school year
or
How to guide Elementary children to advance at least 1.5 years in reading in a single school year using our Montessori Reading Acceleration Pathway.
Inside the Curriculum
The Montessori Reading Acceleration Pathway starts with a strategic sequence of letter sounds.
Once children have mastered 6 letters, the guide begins dictating CVC words, which the children build with a moveable alphabet.
Simultaneously, the guide teaches a specific sequence of sight words.
Once the children have mastered a couple sight words, the guide begins dictating particular phrases and then sentences.
Once children have practiced building carefully scaffolded words, phrases, and sentences with the moveable alphabet, they go back and read those same words, phrases, and sentences on paper.
Eventually, children start reading books that have been carefully written to isolate the difficulty, based on which phonetic elements and sight words children have mastered.
The Pathway also includes phonological awareness activities.
In elementary, the lessons occur 1-3 times per week, depending on level. In primary they occur 3-4 times per week.
“I’m really excited. This is the first really concrete webinar where I feel as if there are very tangible things I can take and use immediately this Fall in my class.”
What’s Included in the Community of Practice
Teachers’ Manuals
Our manuals include scripted lessons and extra resources for 14 levels of reading development from phonological awareness and learning letter sounds → advanced syllable rules and other phonics skills.
Progress Monitoring Tool
Our streamlined assessment helps educators pinpoint exactly where children are on the trajectory of reading development and track whether they are growing at least 1.5 years in 10 months
Family Resources
Our program includes supplemental resources to send home for extra support from families.
Five Training Webinars
Our synchronous or asynchronous modules help deepen educators’ knowledge, skills, and mindsets across the school year.
Personalized Data Trackers
Participants enter assessment data and lesson delivery data into individualized trackers to support a more data-driven and outcomes-oriented approach
Individualized Coaching
Our Cohort Leaders are on-hand to answer questions of practice throughout the entire school year and monitor participant progress through the program.
Weekly Emails
We send regular communication for inspiration and accountability.
$750
a person for year-long participation
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“I was so proud of the progress that the children have made! They work so hard! The children are engaged!!! Conferences went really well as the parents feel that their children are learning and engaged...The structure and predictability of the pathway are things the children and I need to support our work together!”
What people are saying
“We were worried initially about implementing this program because of our commitment to high-fidelity Montessori, and we wanted to make sure that we stayed aligned to that commitment. But our Montessori Guides have said that this program is everything they needed and everything they wanted. We are seeing great results with our children!”
— Public Montessori Administrator