Students on Voyager Ticket to Read Program Read Eight Million Passages
DALLAS, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The number of students participating on
Ticket to Read(TM) (www.tickettoread.com), continues to grow as do the number
of passages read. Today, more than ten thousand students logged in Ticket to
Read and exceeded the eight million reading passage mark.
Excitement around the program continues to build, especially among the
growing number of students using the program.
"I want to go to the Ticket to Read website everyday because I love it!"
"The Ticket to Read website is so cool!"
"Ticket to Read helps me learn to read!"
"Ticket to Read is awesome!"
Students aren't just saying they love the program, they are proving it
with consistently high usage week-to-week. During the week of January 5,
2009, more than 238,000 students completed at least one passage and students
read more than 310,000 total passages. Currently, more than 700,000 students
are registered on the site.
"Ticket to Read is a good tool for teachers to have to help students,"
says Doug Wicks, Texas principal. "It is an added piece teachers use to help
students learn to read, and the students love doing it."
Ticket to Read, is an easy-to-access and easy-to-use website designed to
increase phonics skills, reading fluency, comprehension and vocabulary through
increased practice at home and at school. Designed for all students,
including struggling and on-track readers, the embedded reward system
motivates students to spend more time reading. Students read high-interest
passages at increasing levels of difficulty and take passage quizzes to
demonstrate they understood what they read while earning points to use in
customizing their personal clubhouse. Students can independently practice
important reading skills at school, home, library or anywhere there is
Internet access. The program is targeted to students in kindergarten through
sixth grade.
Voyager Expanded Learning provides core, intervention, and supplemental
reading programs, as well as math intervention and ongoing professional
development programs, for school districts throughout the United States.
Founded in 1994, Voyager has delivered extended-time reading and basic skills
intervention programs, as well as large-scale reading and math programs, to
more than 1,000 school districts in cities such as Buffalo, N.Y.; Miami; New
York City; Richmond, Va.; El Paso, Texas; and Los Angeles, resulting in
dramatically improved student performance. Voyager Expanded Learning, Inc. is
a business unit of Voyager Learning Company (OTC: VLCY.PK) and based in
Dallas, Texas. For more information, please visit www.voyagerlearning.com or
call 1-888-399-1995.
