A spiral reading program that’s easy to use will make preparation simpler for teachers, engage student attention, and sequence literacy learning in a spiral curriculum.

An effective spiral reading program is a research-proven reading intervention program for your lowest-performing students as well as for students who come to you ready to learn more and learn faster. An effective spiral reading program will be more than a box of curricular materials. It is designed to build reading success through daily reading practice within a structured and spiraling curriculum. It focuses on all strands of literacy development: phonological awareness, phonics, spelling, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension in a systematic way that’s easy to use.

That’s what we aim to provide at Spiral WarmUps.

Online Spiral Reading Program

Through quick, 3-6 minute online warm-ups you can deliver an effective spiral reading program in your classroom. The problem with many online reading programs is twofold:

1. They absorb 30-60 minutes of time.
2. They try to replace the teacher.

Spiral WarmUps is neither of these two things. In fact, we are the opposite of these two problems.

Our online spiral reading program is packaged in brief daily videos that are designed to engage the whole class. From word study activities such as word sorts and speed speller to projectable task cards and timed fluency passages. We cover the entire gamut of foundational literacy skills, in short, daily spiral reviews.

And you, the teacher, are very much a part of the process. We take the planning and material preparation off of your plate, so you can focus on the one thing that makes you a superhero – TEACHING!

How Spiral Review is a Natural Part of Reading Instruction

If we consider the progression of skills from early elementary to upper-middle schools, we see that reading instruction is a slow spiraling process. First students learn about print and books and begin taking ownership of holding a reading a text. Then in upper elementary reading becomes the art of thinking – inferring, predicting, drawing conclusions, and summarizing. Finally, in middle school, students use reading as a tool for learning.

Instead of learning to read, they read to learn.

For example, students learn to contrast two characters in a storybook when they are learning how to read. In later grades, students will recognize when the author structures paragraphs within a compare and contrast organizational pattern. This allows students to understand more complicated books and texts. The reading curriculum spirals out from basic word decoding to comprehension skills to independent reading of complex texts that require a blend of cognitive skills and comprehension strategies.

An effective spiral reading program takes this spiral process into the core of its design.

Explore Our Spiral Review Program Today, Free

We provide free word study warm-ups design to target fundamental reading skills. Join today to explore spiral warmups yourself.