Welcome to the Spiral WarmUps knowledge base. Here you will find tutorials and documentations & troubleshooting tips for all the warm-ups we have on offer. You can either search for something you want to know more about, or select articles from the lists below.
Quick Questions
Where are the Warm-Ups?
The warm-ups are in your dashboard after you login.
What activities will students do?
All no-prep word sorts, forced fluency, multiple-choice and more.
How many warm-ups are there?
Over 50 weeks of warm-ups! New units arrive each month in your dashboard.
FAQs
Teaching Tips
Professional Learning Courses
Spiral WarmUps now provides free professional learning courses. You can access in your member dashboard under support. If you are not a member, you can access the free professional learning courses by signing up here.
Word Study
Research Base
Reading Fluency
Reading Comprehension
Word Study Courses
- Word Building
- Word meaning
Word Fluency is one of three courses in our Word Study Warm-Ups.
It focuses on building word recognition through decoding skills, phoneme mapping, and automaticity tasks. You can view the course here: Word Fluency.
View the full list of reading warm-ups here.
Reading Comprehension Units
- Interactive Videos
- Task Cards
The warm-ups are organized by color: literal comprehension (light gold) and inferential comprehension (light blue).
The literal questions begin at a simpler 2nd- and 3rd- grade level, but they quickly increase vocabulary and reading rates for 4th-6th-grades.
View the full list of reading warm-ups here.
Ongoing Survey Results
In our recent survey teachers shared their most needed areas for word study warm-ups. We used this data design the original Spiral Warm-Ups curriculum. At that time, reading teachers were asking for pre- and post-assessments and affixes in their word study warm-ups.
Since the original research, we've conducted numerous studies asking what teachers need in the classroom.
Which Word Study Warm-Ups do teachers need the most?
In our research, based on over 3,400 teachers' input, teachers want/need reading warm-ups for Affixes, Word Meanings, and Fluency with Multiple-Meaning Words. What do you think?
Tell us your needs for reading warm-ups in this quick Three Question Survey.