Learn why the SIPPS curriculum is a trusted solution for tutoring, summer school, and expanded learning settings.
SIPPS: Research-Based, Easily Implemented, and Results-Driven
SIPPS is an evidence-based, systematic decoding program that helps striving readers in grades K–12 quickly develop the accuracy and automaticity needed for fluent, independent reading.
The program has been proven to help students efficiently progress in their mastery of foundational skills and engage in grade-level reading.
The instructional design of SIPPS ensures that it is highly effective and easily implemented in both school- and community-based tutoring programs, summer school, afterschool, and other expanded-learning settings.
Why SIPPS Succeeds in Tutoring, Summer School, and Expanded Learning Settings
Evidence-Based Instruction
SIPPS provides structured lessons, systematic instructional routines, and immediate feedback using corrective procedures. Students read connected text to immediately apply their foundational skills learning.
Assessments Ensure Correct Placement
Placement assessments provide the data needed to group students with similar decoding needs and identify gaps in foundational skills knowledge.
Targeted, Small-Group Learning
Taught in groups of students with similar needs, SIPPS allows instructors to target exactly what students need to know next.
Easily Monitored Progress and Built-In Support
Periodic mastery tests help instructors monitor student progress and provide support for instructional decision making around pacing and reteaching.
Active and Engaged Learning
Consistent routines and practice across lessons allow students to engage fully, experience success, and recognize their achievement as they apply what they know to successful reading of connected text.
Easy to Use
Lessons provide specific guidance and scripted language to support the teaching of systematic instructional routines. Embedded professional learning, including videos and online animations, help instructors implement SIPPS successfully.
Get SIPPS Sample Lessons
Download lessons, text excerpts, placement assessments, and the SIPPS brochure.
What Literacy Leaders Say About SIPPS
“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… We love the transformative results that our students are getting with SIPPS. Students are not only mastering foundational skills, but we are also seeing increases in their confidence and engagement in the classroom.” Angie Holman and Cristiana Freed of the tutoring organization Ravenswood Classroom Partners, working in partnership with Ravenswood City School District, CA
“SIPPS has made a huge impact… During the 2021–22 school year, progress monitoring data showed that 97.3% of the kindergartners who participated in our OCPS Read2Succeed Program utilizing SIPPS showed growth from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.” Elizabeth Conrad, Senior Administrator, Read2Succeed tutoring program, Florida
“We love that we see our students progress with SIPPS. We also love that SIPPS is based on practices supported by evidence and current science of reading research… When SIPPS routines are established, students are fully engaged and confident.” Jacklyn Minimah-Wilson, Chief Operating Officer, Literacy Now, a nonprofit organization providing reading intervention tutoring to students throughout Houston, Texas
“In my work supporting special education and reading intervention in multiple districts across the country, I’ve become familiar with many programs, and I continue to recommend SIPPS as the best tool for supporting foundational skills instruction.” Genevieve Thomas, Montana-based educator and consultant, on using SIPPS for K–2 summer reading-intensive programs
Why Are So Many States Recommending SIPPS?
Learn why states across the nation have vetted and approved SIPPS as high-quality, research-based instructional materials.
“SIPPS was an easy choice because of its systematic approach to teaching that helps our striving readers. Since many of our YMCA Reads staff and volunteers don’t have a traditional teaching background, we love working with Collaborative Classroom to deliver SIPPS because of the resources and built-in support that the curriculum offers.” Katie Croland, State Director of Literacy and Enrichment Initiatives, Florida State Alliance of YMCAs, about the organization’s YMCA Reads after-school tutoring program
“SIPPS is a game changer for our students. Our staff have commented that students participate more, engage with reading more consistently, and demonstrate increased academic confidence.” Stephanie Brady, Executive Director for ALIVE, a nonprofit K–6 educational organization serving children in foster care, California
Questions?
Click here to contact your local Manager of Educational Partnerships and learn more about SIPPS for tutoring, summer school, afterschool, and other expanded learning settings.