Scholastic RISE provides a powerful short-term intervention with targeted small-group instruction for reading comprehension, word study and phonics, and guided writing. Based on Jan Richardson’s The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading, the RISE framework offers daily instruction for students who are reading below grade-level benchmarks. After six to eight weeks in RISE, nearly all students gain the confidence, proficiency, and skills they need to excel as readers.
Accelerate your students’ RISE to reading success!
Help Students Become Confident, Capable Readers
Intensive Daily Intervention
RISE offers two dynamic instructional options across a gradient of texts from Levels C–Z. Based on Richardson’s proven Assess-Decide-Guide framework, instructors work with small groups of students who are reading at similar levels. The goal is for students to reenter their classrooms as engaged, proficient and confident readers who are able to process and comprehend grade-level material.
Find the Right Level of Intervention for your Students
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Improves Comprehension, Word-Solving, Fluency, and Writing
Scholastic RISE | Reading Intervention Program
- Groups of four students rotate through four instructional stations.
- Students read and reread a book to build comprehension and engage in word study and guided writing.
- Implement for 45–60 minutes a day for six to eight weeks.
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Improves Comprehension, Word-Solving, Fluency, and Writing
RISE Framework
Station 1
Children learn to read by reading—so having sustained time to read is the key to becoming a successful reader. Here students will read a new book at their instructional level with prompting from the instructor. While students are reading, the instructor will watch and listen for evidence of students’ ability to monitor for meaning, problem-solve unknown words, and read with fluency and comprehension.
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Station 2
Each group of level-specific lessons focuses on a developmentally appropriate target skill. Students will learn sight words and build phonics skills with the goal of solving words in the most efficient manner possible and then apply what they’ve learned to their daily reading and writing.
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Station 3
The instructor will ask students to reread a familiar book to give them an opportunity to practice strategic processing actions such as monitoring and problem-solving for meaning, figuring out unknown words using a range of strategies, reading fluently, and delving deeper into comprehension.
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Station 4
The instructor will guide students to write about the book they read yesterday. Students write short responses to capture their thinking. This extends their comprehension and improves writing skills.
Advances Students Who Struggle with Comprehension
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- Groups of four students rotate through three instructional stations.
- Students practice a variety of comprehension strategies on the same short text.
- Implement for 45 minutes a day for six to eight weeks.
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Advances Students Who Struggle with Comprehension
RISE Up Framework
Station 1
Students will focus on reading for literal or surface understanding by applying one of four comprehension strategies: comprehension monitoring, retelling, developing vocabulary, and asking and answering questions.
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Station 2
Students reread the text they read at Station 1 the previous day and apply a deeper comprehension strategy such as identifying the main idea and details, analyzing characters, summarizing, or understanding text structure.
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Station 3
Guided writing, like guided reading, supports differentiated learning. Instructors will provide the explicit instruction that each student needs as he or she works on a piece of writing.
A Flexible Implementation Pathway
The various implementation models provide the flexibility to manage the RISE stations with one to four instructors for 45–60 minutes a day, and the RISE Up stations with one to three instructors for 45 minutes a day.
Support for All Learners
RISE was designed to meet the needs of all striving readers, including English learners and students with special needs. Daily scaffolded instruction supports all four language processes—reading, writing, speaking, and listening—in a safe small-group setting. Engaging texts broaden students’ experience with fiction and nonfiction while building academic vocabulary. RISE instructors have time to confer with one another on a daily basis about each student’s progress in order to accelerate learning. The RISE framework fosters a culture of success as students learn and grow as independent readers.
What's Included
RISE includes everything you need to implement the intervention program with teacher resources and lesson guides, student texts, and access to RISE Online.
Author-Curated Texts with Increasing Complexity
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RISE Books C-N
Scholastic RISE | Reading Intervention Program
RISE includes 96 trade books for Levels C–N, with eight unique titles per level and eight student copies per title.
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RISE Teacher Resources
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- Four RISE Station Handbooks with 96 lesson guides each
- RISE Station Cards
- Picture Sorting Cards
- Rime Magic for RISE
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RISE Teacher Resources
Station Handbooks
RISE Instructional Tips
Each RISE Station Handbook includes:
• An overview of the station
• An up-close look at a lesson guide
• A station materials list
• 96 lesson guides for Levels C–N
• A detailed description of what to do to make your RISE work a success—before, during, and after the lesson
Station Handbooks
RISE Sample Lesson
The scaffolded instructional model follows Jan Richardson’s framework to support responsive teaching. The lesson guides provided for each of the 96 RISE texts include reading prompts, discussion starters, and more.
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Continuous Assessment
Each lesson offers instructors the opportunity to assess students’ strengths and challenges. Daily mini-records, coupled with a formal running record taken every two to three weeks, help the instructional team decide when students are ready to move up a level–or exit the intervention and return to classroom guided reading instruction.
RISE Up Short Reads
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RISE Up includes 96 short reads for Levels O–Z, with eight unique texts per level and eight student copies per card.
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RISE Up Short Reads
RISE Up Teacher Resources
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- Three RISE Up Station Handbooks with 96 lesson guides each
- RISE Up Station Cards
- RISE Up Comprehension Cards
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RISE Up Teacher Resources
Station Handbooks
RISE Up Instructional Tips
Each RISE Up Station Handbook includes:
• An overview of the station
• An up-close look at a lesson guide
• A station materials list
• 96 lesson guides for Levels O–Z
• A detailed description of what to do to make your RISE work a success—before, during, and after the lesson
Station Handbooks
RISE Up Sample Lesson
The scaffolded instructional model follows Jan Richardson’s framework to support responsive teaching. The lesson guides provided for each of the 96 short reads in the RISE Up collection provide step-by-step guidelines for the instructor and supporting Comprehension Cards for students.
Additional Resources
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Also included in RISE and RISE Up:
- Jan Richardson’s foundational book, The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading.
- Implementation Guide
- Box for organizing materials
- Poster to reference collection texts
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Additional Resources
Digital Access to Encourage At-Home Reading and Family Engagement
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RISE Online
Scholastic RISE | Reading Intervention Program
RISE includes digital access to encourage at-home reading and family engagement. With RISE Online, instructors can assign students texts, monitor student progress, and access videos and other resources. Students can access assigned texts for extra reading practice on any device.
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RISE Bookshelf
As a RISE instructor, you’ll have access to all 96 books in the RISE collection. You can review and assign books to groups for rereading at home, promoting the engagement that leads to skilled readers. Students access RISE books from their own bookshelf page, opening books with an e-reader that’s formatted for reading on any device! Students will see newly assigned and in-progress books on the top shelf and completed books on the bottom shelf—all easy to access at any time.
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RISE Up Bookshelf
As a RISE Up instructor, you’ll have access to all 96 short reads in the RISE Up collection. You can review and assign books to groups for rereading at home, promoting the engagement that leads to skilled readers. Students access RISE Up short reads from their own bookshelf page, opening books with an e-reader that’s formatted for reading on any device! Students will see newly assigned and in-progress books on the top shelf and completed books on the bottom shelf—all easy to access at any time.
RISE Online
Groups
Setting up and keeping track of your RISE and RISE Up groups is easy. The Groups page allows you to create, view, and organize all of your groups. You can also access students' reports from this page.
RISE Online
Reports
The Reports tool provides several views of students’ progress for tracking and monitoring their growth and sharing the results with colleagues and families.
RISE Online
Resources
Organized for easy navigation, the Resources page directs you to lesson resources, assessment tools, implementation and planning materials, and professional learning videos that show each station in action.
Meet the Authors
Jan Richardson, Ph.D., has transformed guided reading for tens of thousands of teachers and students across North America and beyond. She works with schools and districts, helping educators understand what’s needed to ensure that every student succeeds in reading. Richardson’s work is informed by her experience as a reading specialist, a Reading Recovery® teacher leader, a staff developer, and a teacher of every grade from kindergarten through high school.
Ellen Lewis, M.Ed., is a reading teacher, Reading Recovery® teacher, reading specialist, literacy consultant, and author of a number of children’s books. She has more than three decades of literacy teaching experience in the United States and abroad. Her ongoing collaboration with Jan Richardson includes writing the Professional Development Study Guide for The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading.
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