Whether implementing a summer program or looking to provide an intensive boost when returning to school in the fall, the Fundations Ready to Rise Program is designed to help teachers instruct their rising first and second graders by targeting foundational skills. To prepare students for the next level, this 20-day program focuses on three key skills: decoding, transcription, and fluency.
Ready to Rise helps teachers organize for and accomplish accelerated learning by:
Learn more about how this approach aligns with research-based recommendations in one of our Stories and News articles. Also, check out this article by David Steiner and Barbara Wilson on the importance of adopting an acceleration strategy and its key features.
For both groups, each Fundations Ready to Rise lesson is 90 minutes, divided into three components.
30 minutes
Handwriting and spelling
30 minutes
30 minutes
Any student in need of additional foundational skills support to address learning loss, including ELL and struggling students.
Summer Implementation:
90 minutes in three components following the 20-day plan in the Ready to Rise Guide:
If students can only be scheduled for 60 minutes a day, students can do the Word Study Component each day, and alternate between the Transcription and Fluency Components. This 1/3 reduction in time, however, will also likely result in reduced outcomes for most or all students.
Group size is ideally 3-4, but up to 6 per group (larger groups may require time or lesson modifications).
Back to School Implementation:
Click here to access Ready to Rise Back to School Implementation Recommendations
Ideally, any individual with Fundations teaching experience who has attended a Launch Workshop. However, with the Teacher Guide and the Ready to Rise Workshop, other educators and tutors can be prepared to implement this instruction.
Fundations Ready to Rise Teacher Guide and minimum teacher and student materials.
See full list of materials recommended to implement the programs.
Minimum Teacher Materials
Minimum Student Materials
* Contact Wilson for cost-saving alternative.
Ideally, teachers will have attended a Launch Workshop. Additional 3-hour Ready to Rise Workshop.
To further support teachers, a virtual, half-day Ready to Rise Workshop is also available! It provides a review of the program schedule and activities as well as an overview of the day-by-day Teacher Guide.
