CHANGING LITERACY’S TRAJECTORY
Transforming Comprehensive Literacy
for Pre-K–12 Students
Available Summer 2026
From Pre-K Readiness to Advanced Fluency
Ascend™ delivers a consistent learning experience across grades, tiers, and classroom models—ensuring every student receives needs-based instruction. With proven learning routines, unified lessons, and intentional skill progression, teachers can focus on teaching while students build mastery one skill at a time.
Word Recognition
Comprehension
Oral Language
Writing
Research-Based
The Ascend™ Research Base Paper outlines the foundation of the program and the role of cohesive, aligned structured literacy in supporting effective instruction across all tiers—connecting research, instructional design, and classroom practice.
Educator-Inspired
Designed in response to the real challenge of fragmented literacy instruction, the Ascend™ Product Guide shows how a unified approach brings structure, clarity, and coherence across core, supplemental, and intervention instruction.
Curriculum Overview
Explore Ascend’s structured literacy instructional materials—including scope and sequences and sample lessons for core and intervention—to see how research-based instruction comes to life in classrooms.
Move Literacy Forward: Discover the Power of Ascend
Designed to Support All Learners
Ascend™ Mastery
Comprehensive Pre-K–5 core literacy curriculum addresses word recognition, language comprehension, oral language, and writing, with age-appropriate progression.
Ascend™ Focus
Adaptive K-12 intervention identifies exact skill gaps and provides individualized, developmentally aligned support—helping students accelerate progress to return to grade-level.
Ascend™ Foundations
Supplemental Pre-K–5 program addresses the lower strands of Scarborough’s Reading Rope to ensure mastery of phonemic awareness, phonics, and decoding.
Ascend™ Language
Supplemental K-12 program addresses the upper strands of literacy, strengthening vocabulary, oral language, comprehension, and writing.
It’s Time to Reimagine Pre-K-12 Literacy.
1 in 3
3rd graders
meet grade-level reading expectations
38%
of 8th graders
are reading proficient
50%
of educators surveyed
prefer a single resource that can meet the needs of all students
NAEP 2024 / Independent Study 2025
