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SPIRE Next™ Raise Critical Reading Comprehension Skills to the Next Level

Direct-reading instruction and scaffolded practice that uses close-reading strategies to provide a real solution for striving students who need additional focus developing critical reading comprehension skills to move toward grade-level.

  • Comprehension & Vocabulary
  • Grades 3–12
  • Tiers 2 & 3
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Skills-Based Instruction & Practice for Comprehension Development

Reading Comprehension provides skills-based, genre-specific instruction and practice that uses close reading to build comprehension skills in each lesson. Lessons are genre-specific and allow for flexibility with starting points within the program. SPIRE Next presents a real solution for striving students who need additional focus developing their comprehension skills through direct reading instruction, scaffolded practice, and close reading strategies.

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SPIRE Next Earns ESSA Level IV Validation

SPIRE Next meets ESSA Level IV standards with a research-backed logic model, providing structured reading comprehension support for grades 3–8. With scaffolded instruction, it ensures all learners engage with complex texts, making it an essential solution for evidence-based literacy intervention.

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Maximize the Opportunities for Comprehension Skills Development with the Close Reading Support of SPIRE Next

  • First read focuses on developing a reading comprehension skill.
  • Second read focuses on a literary or genre skill.
  • Third read focuses on critical thinking.
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SPIRE Next Student Edition Features:

  • Multiple lessons in each book include at least two stories per close reading lesson and at least two skills per story.
  • Each lesson presents three close read opportunities to build comprehension skills; literary or genre skills; and critical thinking skills.
  • The color-coded navigation makes it easy to teach and practice critical reading skills.

SPIRE Next Teacher’s Manual Features:

  • In-depth instruction and modeling of skills and strategies that support close reading.
  • Optional fluency and foundational skills activities.
  • Rubrics at point of use.
  • Explanations of the objective and skills the student will learn in each close read.
  • The lesson overview chart saves preparation time. A breakdown of the lesson's components helps teachers plan.
  • Objectives and granular reading comprehension, literary, genre, and vocabulary skills give teachers at-a-glance information about the lesson's focus.
  • Color coding orients the teacher to the three-read process.
  • Scaffolded instruction and interactive prompts provide successive intervention for the callout prompts in the Student Edition.
  • Support for striving learners is provided at point of use.
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SPIRE Next Highlights

  • Provides direct instruction with scaffolded practice for striving students.
  • Uses close reading pedagogy to provide multiple opportunities for comprehension skills development.
  • Offers a balance of fiction and nonfiction texts and genres appropriate to the grade level being taught.
  • Can be used with students exiting SPIRE Level 4.

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  • SPIRE Next: Reading
    Comprehension Overview 

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  • SPIRE Next Lexile Levels

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  • SPIRE Next ESSA Level IV Study

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