iSPIRE® Simple, Sustainable Reading Intervention in a Digital Format

Intensive, structured, multisensory reading intervention that’s comprehensive, easy to implement and easy to use, lets students work primarily online and empowers teachers with real-time progress monitoring, digital assessment, and reporting. Powered by Exploros™.

  • Reading Intervention
  • Grades PreK–8+
  • Tiers 2 & 3
  • Digital Format
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Intensive, Multisensory Reading Intervention That Opens Up a World of Imagination

There are boundless worlds of wonder available only to those who know how to read. For beginning readers, striving readers, and students with dyslexia, iSPIRE®, powered by Exploros™, opens the door through 10-step teacher-led lessons and reinforcing practice, locking in measurable gains and replacing doubt with delight.

Students work primarily with online activities and manipulatives, ending the need for distributing and collecting materials. Teachers also work online, enabling real-time progress monitoring, digital assessment and reporting. Available iSPIRE workbooks add easy student access to printed instructional resources and lesson reinforcement.

This complete multisensory Orton-Gillingham-based reading intervention program brings Science of Reading principles to work in your K–8+ classrooms in a digital format.

iSPIRE’s Journey to Successful Reading Begins with the 10-Step Lesson

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5 minutes

Step 1 — Phonogram Cards

Teachers introduce and review concepts with a Key Word, Phonogram Cards, and Word Cards

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5 minutes

Step 2 — Phonological Awareness

Multisensory activities help students segment words into sounds

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5 minutes

Step 3 — Word Building

Students build words with letter tiles and by writing them

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10 minutes

Step 4 — Decoding and Sentence Reading

Students mark up words, then read words and sentences

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5 minutes

Step 5 — Prereading (Oral Activity)

A word is orally reviewed for phoneme-grapheme analysis

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15 minutes

Step 6 — Reading/Reading Comprehension

Students identify new concept words, then read and comprehend fiction and nonfiction texts

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2 minutes

Step 7 — Sound Dictation

Students hear 10 sounds, then say and write all known letter combinations for them

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3 minutes

Step 8 — Prespelling (Oral Activity)

The Spelling dictation's first word is analyzed for phoneme-grapheme relationships

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5 minutes

Step 9 — Spelling

Students spell dictated words, naming letters and sounding them out

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5 minutes

Step 10 — Sentence Dictation

With support, students write sentences targeting new concepts

Comprehensive Assessment

Students in SPIRE are assessed individually to ensure concept mastery.

  • Placement Assessment—places students in the appropriate level of SPIRE.
  • Pre- & Post-Level Test—assesses student mastery of all level concepts. Results can be compared to show gains at the end of a level.
  • Mid-Level Test—assesses student mastery of the concepts taught in the first half of the level, checking spelling and decoding skills concept-by-concept.
  • Concept Assessments—assesses students' mastery of a specific lesson concept.
  • Concept Mastery Fluency Drills—provides a score of words correct per minute (WCPM).
  • With iSPIRE, teachers assess students using their devices and tap on incorrect responses. The teaching and learning platform captures data and creates easy-to-read reports.
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Professional Learning

EPS Learning Professional Development team will work with your school or district to develop the training and support plan that ensures your ongoing success with SPIRE Teachers can be trained to use the program in a one-day workshop. We offer virtual and face-to-face training as well as customized support. Let us partner with you to help:

  • Place your at-risk students
  • Deliver explicit and systematic instruction
  • Differentiate instruction based on student need
  • Monitor students’ progress as they become skilled readers

To find out more, contact Professional Development at 800.225.5750

iSPIRE Highlights

  • Consistent 10-Step Lessons: Systematic, sequentially structured 10-Step Lessons help ensure mastery of concepts and enable easy implementation.
  • Multisensory Learning: Auditory, visual, and kinesthetic teaching techniques keep students actively engaged and help them retain information.
  • Mastery of Concepts: Data-driven instruction with continual practice and review promotes learning gains. 
  • Classroom Experience: Each iSPIRE lesson follows a 10-Step Lesson Plan that employs multisensory instruction. 
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Placement Test

To ensure that you have the correct materials for all of your students, we recommend that you administer the SPIRE® placement test prior to ordering. This assessment will provide you with the information you need to group and place students in the appropriate levels.

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