CHANGING LITERACY’S TRAJECTORY
Transforming Comprehensive Literacy
for Pre-Kā12 Students
Available Summer 2026
From Pre-K Readiness to Advanced Fluency
AscendĀ® delivers a consistent learning experience across grades, tiers, and classroom modelsāensuring every student receives needs-based instruction. With proven learning routines, unified lessons, and intentional skill progression, teachers can focus on teaching while students build mastery one skill at a time.
Word Recognition
Comprehension
Oral Language
Writing
Research-Based
The AscendĀ® Research Base Paper outlines the foundation of the program and the role of cohesive, aligned structured literacy in supporting effective instruction across all tiersāconnecting research, instructional design, and classroom practice.
Educator-Inspired
Designed in response to the real challenge of fragmented literacy instruction, the AscendĀ® Product Guide shows how a unified approach brings structure, clarity, and coherence across core, supplemental, and intervention instruction.
Curriculum Overview
Explore Ascendās structured literacy instructional materialsāincluding scope and sequences and sample lessons for core and interventionāto see how research-based instruction comes to life in classrooms.
Move Literacy Forward: Discover the Power of Ascend
Designed to Support All Learners
AscendĀ® Mastery
Comprehensive Pre-Kā5 core literacy curriculum addresses word recognition, language comprehension, oral language, and writing, with age-appropriate progression.
AscendĀ® Focus
Adaptive K-12 intervention identifies exact skill gaps and provides individualized, developmentally aligned supportāhelping students accelerate progress to return to grade-level.
AscendĀ® Foundations
Supplemental Pre-Kā5 program addresses the lower strands of Scarboroughās Reading Rope to ensure mastery of phonemic awareness, phonics, and decoding.
AscendĀ® Language
Supplemental K-12 program addresses the upper strands of literacy, strengthening vocabulary, oral language, comprehension, and writing.
ASSESSMENT SUITE
Pinpoint Learner Needs
Assessing student skills is about guiding instruction in the moment. Teachers gather evidence of learning through daily checks, weekly skill checkpoints, and unit assessments that surface misconceptions early and confirm mastery over time. Benchmark tests at the beginning, middle, and end of the year track cumulative growth, while adaptive diagnostics pinpoint exact skill gaps and create a personalized literacy profile. Progress monitoring ensures students are ready to advance, helping teachers fine-tune pacing and intensityāso every learner gets the right support at the right time.
SEAMLESS INSTRUCTION
Simplified for Impact
Every lesson integrates common themes and genres across reading, writing, speaking, and listeningādeveloped together and woven with foundational skills, language, and comprehension. Grounded in our proven instructional method, a purposeful progression ensures that skills are strengthened and mastered across every grade and tier.
INTUITIVE DASHBOARDS
Every Learner’s Journey Clearly Seen
No matter if a student is in whole-class instruction or intervention, their data follows themācreating one connected view of progress. Administrators track school-wide growth, teachers monitor progress through customizable dashboards, caregivers stay connected to learning, and students see and celebrate their own achievements in dashboards designed just for them.
LEARNER EXPERIENCE
Student-First Learning
Learning is designed around the student experienceācombining guided support, engaging visuals, and adaptive practice so learners always know what to do next. Age-appropriate activities reinforce essential literacy skills, helping students build confidence, stay focused, and make steady progress.
EVERY CLASSROOM
Maximizing Learning Environments
Instructionally aligned texts support literacy development at every stageāfrom learning letters and sounds to strengthening fluency and comprehension. Each resource is purposefully designed to reinforce instruction and is available in print and digital formats, making it easy to enhance learning in high-tech, low-tech or mixed classrooms.
It’s Time to Reimagine Pre-K-12 Literacy.
1 in 3
3rd graders
meet grade-level reading expectations
38%
of 8th graders
are reading proficient
50%
of educators surveyed
prefer a single resource that can meet the needs of all students
NAEP 2024 / Independent Study 2025
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