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California Readers Succeed with SIPPS
Across California, students are succeeding with SIPPS®, an evidence-based, systematic decoding program that helps striving K–12 readers quickly develop the accuracy and automaticity needed for fluent, independent reading.
SIPPS is the program of choice for California schools, districts, and community-based partners.
About California’s Reading Difficulties Risk Screener Selection Panel
Starting in 2025–26, students in grades K–2 must be screened for risk of reading difficulties, including possible neurological disorders such as dyslexia, per CA Education Code Section 53008.
By June 30, 2025, the governing boards of all local educational agencies (LEAs) serving kindergarten to grade 2 must adopt one or more screeners from the approved list of reading difficulties risk screeners.
Learn Why SIPPS is an Essential Tool for Use with the Universal Screener
Systematic and Explicit Phonics Instruction
- SIPPS provides systematic, explicit phonics instruction in alignment with the science of reading and documented best practices for supporting students with reading difficulties, including dyslexia.
Structured Yet Flexible
- SIPPS is structured yet flexible: While SIPPS follows a clear scope and sequence, it is designed for differentiation and includes multimodal enhancements to meet individual needs.
Supports Mastery of Critical Foundational Reading Skills
- SIPPS emphasizes phonological awareness, spelling-sound correspondences, decoding, and fluency, which are essential for all students but especially for students with reading difficulties. The SIPPS approach to teaching high-frequency words supports orthographic mapping.
Meets Recommendations from Leading Literacy Organizations
- The design and structure of SIPPS instruction is consistent with recommendations from the International Dyslexia Association (IDA).
Comprehensive Educator Support
- SIPPS provides embedded professional learning, specific guidance around lesson routines and corrective feedback, and scripted language. An AI-powered chatbot provides in-the-moment implementation support, and a new student app ensures sufficient, aligned practice.
Upcoming Events in California
The Literacy Lounge: A Networking Event for Literacy Leaders (San Bernardino, CA)
San Bernardino County Early Education Symposium (Speaker & Sponsor)
CA MTSS Professional Learning Institute (Exhibitor)
California Success Stories
”SIPPS addresses all of the reading foundational skills in a sequential and effective manner. Teachers can see results immediately with SIPPS, and they aren’t searching for different components in the curriculum, or trying to design effective teaching sequences on their own… Though the eight elementary schools in my district have tried several other programs, no other program has given us the consistent results that we have achieved through using SIPPS Beginning, Extension, and Challenge in our K–3 classrooms.”
–Chris Ann Horsley, Senior Director of Elementary Curriculum (retired) at Bonita Unified School District, ranked No. 1 on the 2022 California Reading Report Card
“Principal Michael Rogers [of Lockeford Elementary, Lodi Unified] said the impact was almost immediate. Reading scores soared—in the beginning of the year, only 18% of first graders were proficient or advanced in reading, but by midyear, 44% were. Among kindergartners, the percentage of students who were proficient or advanced nearly doubled.”
—How one California district invested its Covid funds in literacy, boosting student achievement — and morale, EdSource.org
“For our children, who have had so much taken from them, it is easy to feel like nothing is “theirs.” Education and a sense of self are something that nobody can take away. SIPPS delivers on both fronts.”
“SIPPS meets students at their point of need. It’s systematic. They know the routines. They’re not having to second-guess what we’re doing today, and that’s huge for the kids. Because we’re looking at small chunks of their learning, they’re feeling successful . . . With SIPPS, students are set up to be able to do what you’re asking them to do, and there’s immediate feedback with corrective routines for me as needed.”
“We appreciate how SIPPS is extremely concrete with both its scope and sequence and within the individual lessons our tutors deliver in the classroom. Our tutors come from all different professions and walks of life so having a SIPPS ‘curricular roadmap’ provides a wonderful through line to the work.”
–Angie Holman and Cristiana Freed, Ravenswood Classroom Partners, a community-based tutoring organization working in partnership with Ravenswood City School District, East Palo Alto
“Based on the mid-year I-Ready Reading Assessment, the median percent progress towards Typical Growth for my class was 125 percent. In comparison, last year, my class’ median percent progress towards Typical Growth based on their mid-year scores was around 50 percent. This is a 75 percent increase in growth compared to last year! Since implementing the SIPPS program, I have observed students who were continuously reading two grade levels below average not only progress towards grade-level reading, but also grow their academic confidence.” –Hannah Wheeler, fourth grade teacher, Peres K–8 School, Richmond, CA
Meet Your Partners in California
Seasoned educators Stacy Storm, Emily Cremidis, Rachel Solis, Babak Movahed, Alice Burkart, and Zenaida Soria-Cummins support our school, district, community, and expanded learning partners in California.
