The Power of Print celebrates the research-proven practices of leading instruction with a printed text or workbook and teacher guidance. Printed materials are a powerful tool, reducing distractions while promoting focus and deeper engagement with essential skills. The tactile and visual nature of print supports comprehension, reinforces skill development, and enables meaningful, structured practice—critical for accelerating progress and addressing skill gaps.
A growing body of research and classroom experience points to a powerful truth: Print-based, teacher-guided instruction remains one of the most effective ways to support deep learning, strong comprehension, and lasting academic growth. Here are some key benefits of print-based instruction:
“The most effective instructional model uses both print and technology. The question is: Which one to use and when?”
– Dr. Louisa Moats
Print-based, teacher-guided instruction remains essential for deep, meaningful learning. Teacher guidance keeps students engaged by providing structure and direction—ensuring students stay on task and fully absorb what they’re learning. Digital learning tools should pair with print-based instruction to extend or reinforce what students are learning. Technology is especially powerful when used to streamline practice and assessment. Together, they create a structured, engaging, and effective educational experience that helps every student thrive.
Because when students focus deeply, engage actively, and learn with expert guidance—real learning happens and student confidence shines.
An inspiring conversation with Dr. Louisa Moats, author of LETRS® professional learning and LANGUAGE! Live® reading intervention, as we talk candidly about the power of printed books and materials and how educators can best select and use them to encourage student motivation and engagement—while helping all students build essential reading skills.
Too many students in our classrooms struggle with learning to read. This does not need to occur. Research has shown that approximately 95% of all students can be taught to read at grade level, including those with learning disabilities and dyslexia. How can we meet the needs of every student in today’s classrooms?
Setting clear goals and objectives is critical in any educational setting, especially when it comes to early literacy instruction. One of the most important goals is the development of strong concepts of print.
As you explore, watch for the Power of Print badge. This badge signifies the program delivers instruction primarily through teacher-guided, print-based materials—supporting explicit, systematic instruction in foundational reading, writing, and math skills.
With teacher-led print instruction at the core, educators can deliver clear, consistent routines, provide immediate, targeted feedback, and differentiate support to meet the unique needs of every learner. This approach ensures equitable access to evidence-based intervention—helping educators change the trajectory of student outcomes and empower every learner to succeed in school, career, and life.
These Voyager Sopris Learning programs deliver instruction primarily through teacher-led, print materials.
Assessment is a critical component of instruction because it provides educators with the clear, actionable insights they need to support every learner’s path toward mastery. By offering reliable data that guides instructional decisions, assessment empowers teachers to deliver the right support at the right time—ultimately helping students build the literacy and math skills essential for success in school, career, and life.
Educators rely on a range of assessment types to gain a complete picture of student learning and guide effective instruction. Together, these assessment types create a purposeful, connected system, ensuring every student stays on a path toward success.
Universal screeners, or screening assessments, offer a quick, reliable way to identify which students may need additional support at the beginning of the year or at key checkpoints.
Progress-monitoring assessments provide frequent checks into how students are responding to instruction, helping teachers adjust lessons and pacing with confidence.
Diagnostic assessments take a deeper look at specific skill gaps so educators can target instruction precisely where it’s most needed.
Formative assessments, embedded within daily instruction, give teachers real-time data that informs immediate next steps.
Summative assessments measure mastery of key skills at the end of a unit or year.
Voyager Sopris Learning® embeds a full range of assessment types across its intervention solutions to give educators the meaningful data they need to guide effective, responsive instruction. Designed to integrate seamlessly within Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) or Response to Intervention (RtI) frameworks, our programs work alongside widely used screeners and benchmark tools. These solutions provide educators with valuable insights so they can deliver the right instruction to build a strong foundation for long‑term academic success.
Voyager Passport® includes ongoing formative assessments that help teachers monitor mastery of key literacy skills. Teachers can use differentiated instruction lessons and built‑in extension activities to individualize instruction. Each lesson also includes embedded supports and correction procedures that offer immediate feedback and address misconceptions in real time.
LANGUAGE! Live® includes reliable, research-based assessments that support instructional planning, strategic grouping, differentiated teaching, and ongoing progress monitoring. Its comprehensive assessment suite—including benchmark, formative, end-of-unit, and baseline/summative measures—helps educators determine placement, track growth, and evaluate mastery in comprehension, fluency, and spelling. These insights enable teachers to refine instruction, monitor pacing, and ensure students build the skills they need to succeed.
Assessments in REWARDS® give educators powerful insight into students’ decoding and fluency growth, helping them pinpoint exactly where support is needed. With easy-to-administer tools and clear, actionable data, REWARDS assessments make it simple to monitor progress and guide instruction. The result is a more confident, capable group of readers who accelerate quickly toward grade-level success.
Step Up to Writing® incorporates both formal and informal assessments. The assessments help teachers determine areas in which students are exhibiting growth and areas that would benefit from additional support. The strategies and assessment materials can be used flexibly to comply with state, district, or school requirements and help prepare students for high-stakes writing assessments.
TransMath® incorporates frequent assessment opportunities—including skill checks, lesson‑embedded tasks, and unit performance activities—that measure students’ understanding of rational numbers, expressions, equations, and essential problem‑solving skills. These assessment touchpoints help teachers identify misconceptions early and adjust pacing or provide additional modeling and practice, ensuring students build a solid pathway to algebra.
Vmath® offers a robust, data-driven assessment system that identifies student strengths, pinpoints skill gaps, and guides targeted instruction. Initial assessments establish clear entry points, while ongoing progress monitoring tracks growth and informs timely support. With online access to results, teachers can easily adjust instruction, plan interventions, and document students’ response to intervention.
Many Voyager Sopris Learning solutions integrate with third-party norm-referenced assessments. LANGUAGE! Live incorporates assessments that measure the Lexile® Framework for Reading. TransMath and Vmath offer assessments that measure the Quantile® Framework for Mathematics. This integration supports Voyager Sopris Learning’s broader mission of delivering data‑informed intervention and helps educators personalize instruction using universally understood metrics.
Thoughtful assessment helps teachers identify each student’s strengths and areas of need, enabling flexible, targeted instruction that ensures progress for students of all abilities. Grounded in evidence-based practices and a commitment to meaningful results, effective assessment fuels confident teaching and stronger, more sustainable learning outcomes for all students.
Improving reading outcomes for all students is not just a goal, it is a civil right and moral imperative for educators across the country.
Join us for this informative and applicable presentation during which our presenter, renown researcher and literacy expert Dr. Barbara Foorman, will share the facts, research, and strategies surrounding using data to inform classroom instruction and guide intervention.
What happens after a formative literacy assessment? How can educators translate the results into targeted interventions and improved reading outcomes?
It is sometimes hastily assumed that older students arrive in middle school with the skills they need to meet the demands of their classes. Adolescents certainly have much in their favor—they have lived a little longer, are often beginning to accumulate cultural knowledge, and are developing a keener sense of self.
Presented by Joan Sedita, Author of The Writing Rope: A Framework for Explicit Writing Instruction in All Subjects
Joan Sedita discusses the skills and strategies needed for proficient writing. Discover how writing and reading instruction can be integrated, sharing the same cognitive processes and oral language base.
Presented by Charles Haynes, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, Professor Emeritus, MGH Institute of Health Professions
Dr. Charles Haynes illustrates how topical vocabulary and concepts can be tapped to support Structured Literacy techniques for teaching writing. Emphasis is placed on leveraging semantic feature analysis and developing "micro-discourse" skills for cohesion and elaboration of personal sequence narrative (PSN) and expository text forms. Learn cutting-edge tools to help students enhance their oral and written language comprehension.
Dr. Michael Herbert, Professor, School of Education, University of California, Irvine
Dr. Michael Herbert shares strategies for using writing to support reading and learning. Dr. Herbert provides practical strategies applicable across different schooling levels and explains how to support students with or at risk for disabilities within a Multi-Tiered System of Supports framework.
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Adolescence is a time of rapid growth in students, especially physically, emotionally, and intellectually. Students in middle and high school are developing independence, forming identities, and preparing for college and careers. These changes also bring unique challenges to learning. Gaps in reading, writing, and math can grow, impacting confidence and long-term success.
Our intervention solutions are designed specifically for adolescents to increase student success.
Adolescents require targeted, evidence-based strategies that close skill gaps in reading, writing, and math, build confidence and motivation, and prepare them for college readiness and career success.
Unlike younger learners, adolescents are navigating:
These factors can make academic struggles feel overwhelming—and without intervention, gaps can widen.
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Reading: Adolescents need strong comprehension and critical thinking skills to tackle complex texts in subjects like science, history, and literature.
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Math: Advanced concepts demand fluency in foundational skills and logical reasoning. Math confidence often dips in middle and high school as concepts become abstract.
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Writing: Strong writing skills are essential for essays, research papers, and college readiness. Writing calls for organization, clarity, and analytical depth. Challenges: Organization issues, unclear thesis statements, grammar struggles
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Effective interventions do more than improve grades. Students become more confident, resilient, and are provided with lifelong skills when interventions have a targeted approach. Our approach incorporates elements that make our interventions impactful, like:
Ready to meet your middle and high school learners where they are and get them to where they need to be? Explore our solutions designed to help.
When it comes to helping students learn to read even better, it takes a seasoned expert to provide insight and guidance on what really works. Susan Ebbers is that expert: she knows what it takes to help all students—struggling or not—become even better at reading, and this presentation will showcase her proven strategies and approaches.
Ebbers will focus on how to support emerging and advancing readers through various aspects of word structure, including phonetically regular words, irregular words, syllable and morpheme analysis.
Attendees will learn:
We hope you’ll join us.
