Reading Solutions for Admins

Build a culture of reading joy on your campus where teachers feel confident teaching reading and students feel joy completing the reading. Shared language, shared strategies, supported teachers and students

Let's get everyone in your class reading and feeling great about it. In just one hour, you’ll get strategies to: Spark deeper discussions in class, leverage books as an antidote to teen stress and “scrolling brain”, and, boost every student’s confidence and enjoyment of reading

Professional Learning Modules

Module 1: Vocabulary, Decoding, Fluency

  • Understand the obstacles that decoding and vocabulary pose for secondary readers

  • Recognize common decoding gaps among adolescent readers and learn how to address them with simple, everyday classroom practices

  • Create a classroom environment where all students know to look for and correct reading mistakes

Module 2: Zinc-ing and Tracking

  • Understand the obstacles that hold students back from comprehending when reading

  • Learn a simple reading protocol that teaches students what to DO when they read

  • Acquire tactics to apply these strategies to any text, making class discussions more inclusive and alive

Module 3: How to Use Zinc

  • Plan effective integration of Zinc activities

  • Understand the components and intended outcomes of Zinc Journeys

  • Assign course-aligned activities in Zinc

  • Identify key information in Zinc Reports to inform classroom instruction

Module 4: Teen Motivation Playbook—21st Century Version

  • Explain the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation

  • Understand the role of love-driven effort in learning

  • Understand what motivates teens and how reading can appeal to their deepest needs 

Zinc Instructional Tools

Zinc Reading Programs

• Teach students what to do when they read

•  Differentiated by student level and student choice

•  Support students who read at a 3rd grade level to post-secondary

Test Prep

• Shares 4 key strategies

•  Organically integrated into every Zinc programs so that strategies become automatic

•  Focused content to support explicit test prep

Mini Lessons

• Support a shared language for reading instruction

•  Downloadable and editable

•  Great reminders to kick off the school year

•  Work well for small group instruction

Comprehensive Reports

Easily access high level data on reading growth, activity completion, progress, and standards performance. Want to go deeper? Drill down to the school, teacher, and individual student level.

Reinforce reading wins with built-in opportunities to celebrate school leaders and teachers, or highlight areas for growth with a quick message.

Funding Guide

Zinc Learning Labs provides scalable solutions, designed to close gaps for students and ease stressors for teachers. Supporting secondary students from a grade three to post-secondary reading levels with a variety of activities and scaffolds means that Zinc is an effective tool for struggling readers and excelling readers alike.