Improving Literacy for all Nevada Students

American Reading Company’s ACTION 100 RtI model organizes school resources around a performance management framework ensuring that all students, in all subgroups, receive high-quality instruction.

  • Integrates Your Balanced Literacy Program
  • Tracks Real-Time Rate of Reading Growth
  • Provides a Performance Management Framework for Federal Grants
  • American Reading Company, a Nevada SRCL approved vendor, works with school leaders and principals to implement a continuous improvement model for literacy (in English and Spanish) by leveraging existing resources and training teachers to teach with materials aligned to the CCSS.

    As a SIG-funded partner to schools in more than seven states and the District of Columbia, American Reading Company has proven effective in aligning to grant requirements and raising student achievement in all grades, PreK to 12. See results.

    Essential Goals for Nevada Students

  • Pre-K students will demonstrate literacy achievement, including oral language development that will indicate data documented growth in all subpopulations.

  • K-5 grade students will demonstrate improved literacy achievement that will indicate growth in all subpopulations.

  • 6-12 grade students will demonstrate improved literacy achievement and an increased graduation rate of 5% over five years compared to baseline data.

  • Essential Goals for Nevada Educators

  • Train teachers to teach with curriculum and material aligned to the Common Core State Standards and incorporate effective literacy instruction to support needs of all students, including the disadvantaged.

  • Use valid and reliable assessments to identify and monitor progess of students in need of intervention or advanced enrichment.

  • Implement intervention and enrichment programs that will increase (by minimum of 10%) the number of students performing at, or above, grade level compared to 2010-11 base line.