The Pennsylvania Comprehensive Literacy Plan: Keystones to Opportunity

American Reading Company is leading the way with rigor and accountability to transform schools using a formative assessment framework to teach the Common Core State Standards for Reading and Writing. Aligned to the CCSS, American Reading Company’s professional development and classroom-ready solutions ensure that all students, in all subgroups, receive high-quality instruction.

  • Teach grade-level standards and use differentiated instruction with CCSS Leveled Science and Social Studies Classroom Libraries.
  • Close the reading achievement gap with RESEARCH LABS using intensive reading intervention programs for wide reading and nonfiction.
  • Train every teacher to be a reading and writing expert with clear, explicit step-by-step instructions with the ACTION 100 built on the CCSS.
  • Transform your literacy block to teach the Common Core State Standards for Reading and Writing with ACTION CCSS.

American Reading Company’s professional development services, curriculum resources, and classroom- ready materials meet the CCSS Publishers’ Criteria and have proven effective in aligning to grant requirements and raising student achievement. Already, more than 1,000 American Reading Company schools are implementing the CCSS and getting excellent results.

Essential Goals for Pennsylvania Educators and Students

  • Effective research-based, field-tested instructional literacy model that demystifies the essential elements of effective instruction and assessment.

  • Real-time performance data for school leaders and teachers to guide instructional decision making that will accelerate exceptional reading growth for every student at every level.

  • Teacher training to facilitate teaching with curriculum and material aligned to the Common Core State Standards and incorporation of effective literacy instruction to support needs of all students.

  • Shared focus on evidence of student learning and the use of formative assessment as the keys to effective instruction and interventions.

  • Literacy achievement demonstrated by PreK to Grade 12 students, including reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language skills they need to be college- and career-ready.

  • Pennsylvania Grant Application Template

    Please download the document below for the grant template provided by American Reading Company. The grant template outlines how ACTION 100 fulfills the Pennsylvania Striving Readers Grant requirements.

    Pennsylvania Grant Template (PDF)

    Contact

    Pennsylvania Contacts for Striving Readers Grant Proposals Consultation

    Account Manager

    Gregory Smith

    gregory.smith@americanreading.com

    330-861-8116

    Account Manager

    Dan Herbst

    dan.herbst@americanreading.com

    610-999-3234

    Account Manager

    Dan Herbst

    dan.herbst@americanreading.com

    610-999-3234

    Account Manager

    Gregory Smith

    gregory.smith@americanreading.com

    330-861-8116

    Account Manager

    Dan Herbst

    dan.herbst@americanreading.com

    610-999-3234

    Account Manager

    Gregory Smith

    gregory.smith@americanreading.com

    330-861-8116

    Account Manager, Philadelphia

    Jesse Hileman

    jesse.hileman@americanreading.com

    267-718-5975