Build A Community of Readers with Zinc
Deepen students’ reading comprehension with mini-lessons, videos, and printables.
Bring the skills students learn in Zinc to any text you teach.
Connect Zinc Comprehension Skills to Your Curriculum
These 10-minute, teacher-led mini-lessons help you introduce and reinforce the skills and strategies students practice in Zinc. Customize them to fit any text or unit.
How to notice and fix “small mistakes” in fluency and decoding
Zinc’s 4-step test-taking method
High-value writing and editing skills for the TX STAAR test
Re-ignite Independent Reading with a Flight Reading Mission
Send your students on a multi-week journey to discover their next great read. Use the full six-week plan or pick and choose activities to supplement your independent reading unit.
Discussion starters and reflection prompts
Lesson plans and full-class activities
Printable reading logs and points-based “missions”
Research shows when students hit just five unknown words on a page, comprehension collapses.
Use these printable word cards alongside Zinc’s multi-modal vocabulary games.
Build Background Knowledge with High-Value Vocab
Tier 1 Words
For EB and MLL students, a lack of confidence with everyday words can easily stall in comprehension. Build essential knowledge with must-know words like “provide” and “item”—so texts feel more accessible from the start.
Tier 2 Words
Words like “ambivalent,” “evaluate,” and “magnitude” show up everywhere—from literature to science to current events. This list gives students the versatile academic vocabulary they need to unlock meaning.
Deepen Your Literacy Instruction with Zinc
From getting started with the Zinc app to Science of Reading-aligned resources specifically for 6-12 teachers, Zinc offers Professional Learning options for everyone:
Free self-paced, online courses
Live monthly Office Hour meet-ups
In-person or virtual workshops for your team