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The School-Wide Program for Improving Reading and Learning (SPIRAL) is a research-based approach that builds school and teacher capacity to address the literacy needs of ALL students. Developed by the Center for Resource Management, Inc. (CRM), SPIRAL provides middle schools and high schools with a well-integrated, systemic set of school and classroom strategies for accelerating students' literacy development.
The SPIRAL program is offered in two interrelated
phases of implementation:
There is growing empirical evidence that: 1) a well-integrated,
focused set of school-wide approaches to literacy in secondary
schools can be effective in accelerating students' literacy
development; and 2) when reading instruction is integrated into
content-area courses, basic literacy skills are reinforced and
reading to learn in content areas is supported. CRM's Adolescent
Literacy SPIRAL Program is based on research-based
evidence drawn from the Adolescent Literacy Support Framework, a
synthesis of the research on adolescent literacy developed by Dr.
Julie Meltzer (2001), Director of Adolescent Services at CRM.
Phase I: The SPIRAL Adolescent
Literacy Audit maps literacy support and literacy
instruction across the school program. The Audit builds school
capacity to support literacy development and implement literacy
instruction across content areas. Schools examine their status
against research-based practices and receive a detailed analysis of
school and teacher capacity to improve literacy skills, along with
specific recommendations for improvement.
Phase II: SPIRAL Professional
Development for Literacy focuses on intensive
professional development that models how teaching and learning
strategies proven to support literacy development can create
motivating contexts for reading, writing, and learning in
content-area classrooms. SPIRAL materials and approaches include
explicit strategy instruction, content specific activities,
instructional scenarios describing classroom use of linked
strategies, structured opportunities for teachers to reflect upon
and share their best practices, and facilitator guidelines.
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