Passport to Literacy

Passport to Literacy is a year-long supplemental reading intervention for fourth-grade students with reading comprehension difficulties (scoring at or below the 30th percentile). The program provides multi-component reading instruction delivered in small groups of 4-7 students for 30-minute sessions, 4 days per week throughout the school year (up to 120 lessons). Each lesson includes an Adventure Starter activity (3-5 minutes) to build background knowledge, followed by two major components: Word Works (word study teaching students to decode multisyllabic words using affixes, roots, and syllabication strategies, with more intensive instruction in the first six weeks) and Read to Understand (teaching vocabulary, comprehension skills and strategies for fiction and non-fiction texts, including previewing, text structure, making inferences, summarizing, and questioning). Interventionists require approximately 8 hours of training over two days, with ongoing twice-monthly coaching visits and monthly meetings to ensure fidelity.