Ticket to Read Students Surpass the Seven Million Reading Passage Mark
Students set a new record and read one million passages in only 20 days
DALLAS, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Expanded Learning(R) announced
today that students registered on Ticket to Read(TM) ( www.tickettoread.com ),
the company's online reading program, surpassed seven million reading
passages. It took students only 20 days to reach the new milestone. They
recently hit the six million mark on November 25.
Ticket to Read, is an easy-to-access and easy-to-use website designed to
increase phonics skills, reading fluency, comprehension and vocabulary through
a reward system that promotes reading practice at home and school for all
students including struggling and on-track readers. 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.
"If you find something that resonates with children, no matter what their
background, they will want to learn and will learn, without even realizing it.
It is evident that Ticket to Read is one of those things," says Ron Klausner,
president of Voyager Expanded Learning. "We are excited about the role the
program continues to play in learning and the effect it has had on students
from all backgrounds and reading levels."
Voyager consistently receives positive feedback about Ticket to Read and
educators have even observed students reading through their recess time
because they are so engaged in the program.
"We were having indoor lunch recess due to air quality as a result of the
recent wildfires and as I visited and monitored the students, it amazed me
that one of the favorite activities to "play" during the recess time was
Ticket to Read," says Dorie Staack, principal at Mabel Paine Elementary School
in Yorba Linda, California. "One of the second grade boys informed me that he
couldn't really talk to me now because he had to get to work. He was trying to
earn enough points to purchase a world globe that he saw in the "Clubhouse of
the Week" of a girl in Florida."
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.
