Research: Students on Once grew on i-Ready from 38th percentile nationally to 67th percentile!
We train school support staff members to become Once Instructors. We provide them with scripted instructional content that is aligned to 50 years of educational research, we video record every instructional session, and we coach them to teach every student in kindergarten to read. Watch the videos below to see Once for yourself.
Below are examples of the instructional content in the Once program. We call each lesson a cycle because all of the instructional content is carefully spiraled. Each cycle is divided into 5-10 tasks covering sound introduction and review, segmenting, blending, rhyming, word reading, non-phonetic words, story reading, finger tracking, and writing.
Each student moves through Once at that student's own pace. On average, kindergarteners complete a little less than one cycle per session. If they receive 140 sessions in the school year (~80% of school days), students will be well beyond Cycle 100 and well above grade level in reading.
