Unlocking the power of literacy in Missouri
Missouri’s Read, Lead, Exceed initiative promises to empower every student across the state to achieve literacy success. Using 95 Percent Group’s state-approved instructional materials, Missouri educators have begun to transform schools into literacy-focused powerhouses that provide cohesive, targeted instruction while sparking a love of reading in students.
Give Missouri educators and students the materials they need to experience targeted, structured literacy instruction. These 95 Percent Group products are approved by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and are included on the state’s K-5 supplemental instructional materials list:
95 Phonics Core Program®: Grounded in the science of reading, this Tier 1 structured literacy solution supports meaningful literacy progress and instructional cohesiveness linked across grades.
95 Literacy Intervention System™: A powerful reading intervention platform that brings assessment data, grouping tools, and evidence-based resources together to deliver just-right instruction for every level reader.
Sound Wall Classroom Kit: This helpful kit helps you explicitly teach letter-sound correspondence and develop both phonological and phonemic awareness through cards, posters, mirrors, and instructional guides.
What our customers in Missouri are saying
Spotlight Missouri: Science of reading success
For this feature on Fort Zumwalt School District’s efforts to implement explicit, research-based phonics instruction, we turned to Stephanie Sanker, curriculum coordinator for elementary English language arts, and second grade teachers Amanda Fowler and Marcia Biermann, to hear about their challenges and successes.
What we have learned on our journey is that 95 Phonics Core Program is a great centerpiece for our literacy instruction. It is the program that we are dedicated to ensuring happens for our kids each day. It’s intensive, explicit, and straightforward, offering exactly what you need to do with students instead of being one piece of an overwhelming ‘big box’ curriculum.
Sarah Mwangi, Assistant Superintendent of Learning Services Joplin School District, MO