Summer School

A Summer Literacy Program Built for Measurable Growth

A research-backed summer school solution delivered over five focused weeks, designed to reduce regression, strengthen decoding, and provide meaningful data to guide fall placement and intervention decisions.

Program Overview

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Three Pathways. One Goal. Proven Gains.

This summer, give your students the structured, effective instruction they need with Really Great Reading’s Science of Reading–aligned summer school curriculum. Our evidence-based approach helps students build foundational skills, decode with confidence, and accelerate reading growth in a short instructional window. RGR Summer School is intentionally designed to deliver measurable decoding gains through explicit, systematic, and efficient instruction.

Address unfinished foundational reading skills

Deliver consistent, high-fidelity instruction

Measure growth quickly and clearly

Enter fall with confidence and data

Each leveled pathway is designed to produce clear gains in foundational reading skills within a short summer window.

Emerging

For students who need foundational decoding skills to access grade-level reading next year.

Students build early reading foundations and automaticity that support orthographic mapping and fluency.

Solidify Letter Knowledge

Build Fluency

Develop Basic Phonemic Skills

Developing

For students who have basic foundations but need fluency and automaticity to close gaps.

Students deepen word structure knowledge and strengthen decoding efficiency.

Review Letter-Sound Relationships

Gain Advanced Phonemic Skills

Build Automaticity

Advancing

For students who need decoding support to fully engage with grade-level content.

Students develop the decoding skills required to access and comprehend grade-level text.

Learn and Practice Phonemic Awareness Skills

Examine Phoneme-Grapheme Relationships

Read Multisyllabic Words

Foundational Page Multilingual Learners

Use Summer to Change What's Next

If your district wants to:

Reduce the number of students entering the year below benchmark
Pilot an evidence-based, structured literacy program with
Generate early outcomes data
Enter fall with clarity and momentum

Summer is the time to act.