Spiral WarmUps: Building stronger readers and writers through 3-6 minute daily warm-ups.
Free Word Study Warm-Ups
that boost reading levels & comprehension.
Without prep Time and headaches!
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Changing the Lives of Teachers
Join the 4,567 teachers who are actively using Spiral WarmUps to easily use daily spiral review to build stronger readers and writers!
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What is a Spiral WarmUp?
How is it different than a worksheet, a review page, or some other reading program?
Spiral WarmUps is a no-prep, artificially intelligent, streaming warm-up that allows students to practice the most essential word study, fluency, vocabulary, spelling, and comprehension skills.
Yes, Spiral WarmUps was created so teachers like you, who are passionate about student growth, can easily implement daily review of basic reading and literacy skills to ensure mastery and reading growth! Here's how it works:
*What's in the Video Warm-Ups? The videos are an active combination of explanations, timed activities, and reading practice, and student response tasks. They are not "Sit and Get".
Easy to Use Warm-Ups
Login and Select the Warm-Up
Tell Students What They Will practice
Students Engage With Warm-Up
Repeat 5 Days Per Week
Spiral WarmUps gives you the tools and resources you need in one convenient spot!
Yes, Spiral WarmUps gives you the tools and resources you need to help students master the basic skills that you rarely get time to teach.
Increase Word Knowledge
Your students will increase word knowledge: spelling, recognition speed, vocabulary, and knowledge of word parts. Word builder, word sorts, and other quick, no-prep activities will engage students in the spiral review that would take you hours to prepare for each week - but it's easy with Spiral WarmUps!
Increase Reading Comprehension
In just 3-6 minutes per day, students will increase vocabulary, decoding, and reading fluency - the foundation of excellent reading comprehension. Plus, they will engage in comprehension warm-ups to practice skills such as:
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It's Free. Yeah, but does it work?
In 2017, we asked the same question and set about over a dozen split tests and in-classroom experiments to answer one question, "Do Spiral Warm-Ups for reading actually boost reading levels?"
The Short Answer Is "YES!"
Classrooms that used Spiral WarmUps gained an average of 233% more growth in terms of reading levels (DRA PM Benchmarks) and reading comprehension levels (Renaissance Star Reading®) than their peer classrooms that did not use Spiral WarmUps.
We started with Evidence Based Reading Research, which informed us of 5 core components in effective reading instruction (Moats & Dakin, 2007):
- Phonological & Phonemic Awareness - Explicitly taught speech sounds;
emphasizes blending and separating sounds in spoken words - Phonics & Word Study - Explicit and systematic instruction in mapping sounds and symbols; teaches “Sound it out” before “Does it make sense?”
- Fluency - Measurable goals determined by grade level for ORF in passage reading; uses rereading, partner reading, and reading with a model
- Vocabulary - Important words in text pre-taught; structured practice using new words done in writing and verbally
- Comprehension - Text structure taught directly; strategies modeled and practiced; sub-skills taught
Then over course of 6-week intervals we tested our free Word Study warm-ups in 13 third grade classrooms. Students took the Renaissance Star Reading (R) assessment at the beginning of the six weeks. Classrooms that used Spiral Warm-Ups measured statistically significant greater gains in reading comprehension compared to classes who did not use Spiral WarmUps. We repeated the studies and achieved similar results.
Need to Know More About Spiral WarmUps?
Click Below To See More Detailed Information About These Powerful Features Inside Of Your Spiral WarmUps Account:
Literacy Sequences
Carefully designed warm-up sequences based on DRA levels.
Word Study Units
Flexible units that can be used with any other core curriculum!
Animated Word Sorts
Fun, timed animated word sorts that build fluency & word knowledge.
Video Activities
Interactive videos lead students in engaging learning tasks!
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