Accelerate K–12 Reading and Math Learning This Summer
As educators plan for summer learning sessions, addressing students who need support requires quality, research-based reading and math solutions. Voyager Sopris Learning® offers proven programs that accelerate students’ foundational skill growth in reading and math for those struggling to reach grade-level goals. Keep students curious and attending class with high-interest topics and engaging activities found in these solutions.
Summer Learning Supports Long-Term Outcomes
By implementing effective learning solutions, educators can help mitigate learning achievement gaps, maximize knowledge retention, and support vulnerable students. Consistent learning helps students build on their knowledge year after year, leading to better long-term academic and social outcomes.
- Prevent learning loss: Engage students in academic activities, ensuring they retain and build upon knowledge gained during the regular school year
- Variety of activities: Keep students motivated and interested by providing a balanced mix of interactive, creative, and hands-on activities
- Targeted support: Address individual student needs and help them overcome academic challenges
- Structured programs: Offer a consistent and organized learning environment, helping students stay focused, and teachers make the most of their time
| Use research-based, explicit instruction. This type of instruction helps students build skills in a clear, structured way that supports long-term understanding. It gives teachers a dependable framework for addressing learning needs during the shorter summer window. |
| Select students through assessment data. Using data ensures the students who need the most support are identified quickly and accurately. It also helps teachers tailor instruction to specific skill gaps from the very start of the program. |
| Establish and maintain good communication with families. Keeping families informed builds trust and encourages consistent participation throughout the summer. When families understand student goals and progress, they can reinforce learning at home too. |
| Provide adequate time for instruction and practice. Students need repeated opportunities to apply new skills to grow. Allocating enough time for both teaching and meaningful practice helps them make real progress in just a few weeks. |
Related Resources
Flexible learning solutions are essential for students during out-of-session periods. Summer school, extended learning programs, and tutoring offer tailored approaches to address individual academic needs, providing opportunities for remediation, enrichment, and personalized support beyond the traditional classroom setting.
It’s hard to believe it’s already time for educators and district leaders to begin planning for the summer months ahead. For some teachers, the summer time means a few well-deserved weeks off to relax and regroup. For others, it means tackling student learning outcomes head on as we help some of our most vulnerable students during summer sessions.
Knowledge loss during the summer between school years is well documented. A research study in 2020 revealed the average student loses 17 percent to 34 percent of their learning during a summer break. Reading gaps based on income also increased during the summer, as middle-class students showed improved reading skills while lower-income students experienced loss.
Summer Learning Solutions
Sound Partners is a research-based, supplementary tutoring program that provides individual instruction in phonics-based early reading skills. Through explicit instruction, engaging 30-minute lesson activities, and storybook reading practice, students work to improve alphabetic, phonemic awareness, decoding, word identification, and spelling skills.
LINKS to Literacy™ is a reading intervention program for developing readers in grades K–5. Based on the science of reading, it delivers systematic, explicit instruction in the five essential components of reading. LINKS to Literacy is designed for small-group intervention, includes flexible implementation models, and follows a consistent routine with engaging themes about art, science, technology, travel, personal reflection, courage, and resilience. This solution gives students more opportunities for practice and immediate corrective feedback.
Vmath® Summer Adventure is a research-based intervention that provides targeted instruction and practice for essential concepts and skills students may have missed in math. The modular structure allows for either 30 or 60 hours of instruction, and is flexible to meet your program's needs. The explicit, systematic approach of Vmath Summer Adventure ensures students learn essential skills and strategies to build a strong foundation in mathematics.
The REWARDS® suite is a powerful, research-validated program for adolescent students who struggle reading long, multisyllabic words and comprehending content-area text. With explicit, teacher-led instruction, REWARDS gives students the tools to improve fluency and comprehension to become successful readers.