In just two weeks—with six 15-20 minute sessions.
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Matt Bardin, Founder of Zinc
To ALL Secondary Students
% of students who complete Zinc’s Ignition program advance their reading level by 1.5 grade levels—after just 2 hrs
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% of students say: “Yes, this helped me improve my reading”
85
% of students say: “Yes, I enjoyed the experience”
75
Level Placement—Find Each Student’s Baseline
This short assessment allows Zinc to engage each student with the right level of challenge.
Takes ~30 minutes
Students work at their own pace
Sets the optimal starting point for their reading journey
Ignition—Students Learn Key Reading Strategies
A reading growth program that teaches core skills through engaging content and interactive exercises.
Teaches Zinc’s four transformative reading skills
Differentiated, choice-driven, interactive
Builds reading confidence, enjoyment, and stamina
Lift Off – Build a Love of Reading
Students choose from curated content to reinforce skills and build identities as readers
A wide variety of relevant, authentic texts
Gamified vocabulary and close reading
Differentiated and driven by student choice
Zinc Ignition teaches students four scientifically proven, easy-to-apply reading skills:
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The easiest way into a text is to start with the words and phrases you can see, smell, touch, hear, or taste in your head: “Swimming in a pond in the rain.”
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More challenging abstract words only make sense when we think of relevant examples: “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
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When students miss a “this” or an “it,” they get lost and bored. Connecting pronouns to their antecedents keeps them following the text.
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Transition words and punctuation marks guide us through the layers of meaning in any text.
Hear Teachers Describe Zinc’s Classroom Impact
Aaron, 11th, California
Allison, 6th, Connecticut