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Find information, insights, and curriculum to support students and educators all summer long.

Turn summer slide into summer success.

Summer can be a time for growth! Over summer break, students can lose some of the previous year’s learning gains if they don’t stay engaged. Capture their attention and inspire them to keep learning all summer long, with resources for Science, English Language Arts, and Math from School Specialty.

Prevent the summer slide before it starts.
In Grades 1–8, the average student can lose up to a third of the previous year’s learning gains over the course of summer break. Students who lose ground one summer are statistically more likely to lose more ground in subsequent summers, with up to half of all learning gains lost by the end of middle school for some students.* See Report
Make summer brighter with School Specialty resources.
Depend on our supplemental curriculum solutions to:
  • Minimize summer slide and promote summer success
  • Close learning gaps with targeted intervention tools for school or home
  • Implement flexibly and efficiently even when time is limited
*Source: Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) study, American Educational Research Journal, May 2020.

Find discussions of topics related to summer learning and discover useful knowledge that can help educators keep students engaged over the summer months.  

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Take Steps to Promote Summer Learning

Districts can take steps throughout the year to promote summer learning. Prepare and get ahead with useful tips for school and district leaders.

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Summer Learning Loss and Preventing the Summer Slide

Prevent the summer slide! Summer learning helps school districts continue their post-pandemic rebound after the school year ends.

Get students reading, experimenting, learning, and growing all summer long with engaging resources for Science, English Language Arts, and Math. Brighten up the summer with these powerful curriculums:

Science

ELA

Math

Science

Invite your students to apply scientific thinking to the environment around them. Our supplementary science programs engage students through hands-on, real-world experiences. From hands-on STEM curriculums to libraries of science readers, our resources support your district’s summer learning plans.

Hands-On STEM

FOSS STEM
Grades K-8
This summer, set your students' hands and minds in motion. In FOSS STEM modules, students learn core ideas by actively investigating phenomena as scientists and engineers. They practice what they’ve learned and then solve engaging challenges, developing their skills as critical thinkers and problem solvers. Let us help you set up a program customized for your district.
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ScienceFLEX
Grades 3-5
Empower your summer school students to learn science through hands-on experience. Topic-based ScienceFLEX supplementary modules blend flexible classroom-vetted activities with informational text readings. Students explore real-world phenomena through science and engineering practices, and make connections via crosscutting concepts that span the science disciplines.
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Science Readers:

Five Series. 98 Titles. Limitless Uses. 
Grades K-8

Fascinating for your students and flexible for you, Delta Education science non-fiction readers are the perfect supplement for your science and literacy summer programs. Select one book series, all five, or any combination in between to reinforce science concepts while building literacy skills.

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Delta Science First Readers
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Delta Explore Readers – Science
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Delta Science Content Readers
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ScienceFlex Readers

ELA

English Language Arts programs from School Specialty are ideally suited for your district’s summer learning needs. Our portfolio of phonics instruction, foundational skill building, skills practice, and readers can help teachers minimize the summer slide, so students of all levels grow into confident learners.

Phonics Instruction

Explode The Code Online
Grades K–4

Instead of sliding backward, help your students gain reading proficiency three times faster with adaptive online multisensory phonics-based instruction. A systematic, sequential approach provides abundant practice and reinforcement, supported by robust reporting and progress monitoring.
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Primary Phonics
Grades K–2

This summer learning favorite has strengthened fluency in beginning readers for more than 30 years. The flexible, skills-based workbooks and storybooks correspond to students’ ability levels and help keep students engaged wherever they’re reading. Systematic, phonics-based readers facilitate individualized instruction all summer and throughout the year.
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EPS Phonics PLUS
Grades K–3

Take a hands-on approach to the fundamentals of phonics. Build automaticity and fluency to help students become confident readers. Systematic, explicit direct instruction offers ample opportunities for practice and home-school connections, perfect for summer learning.
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Foundational Skills

Coach Digital Compass
Grades 3–8

Fill gaps in the previous year's learning with a range of ELA and Math instructional resources for on-level practice, acceleration, or remediation. Print and digital formats support teacher-led summer school instruction or independent practice throughout the summer. Assessments analyze summertime growth and inform future instruction.
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Success Coach
Grades 3–5

Maintain grade-level skills over the summer through active targeted instruction and two-level practice. Success Coach STAR Digital Companion monitors progress, then differentiates your ELA instruction using curated content based on assessment results to awaken every student’s potential.
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Common Core Clinics
Grades 1–8

Promote student achievement through rigorous, relevant content that targets the foundational skills of reading, writing, and language needed to master ELA standards. This flexible program can be easily tailored to suit your summer learning instructional goals.
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Skills Practice

Support Coach
Grades 1–8

Build foundational skills over the summer with an intense focus on reading comprehension for students struggling with rigorous standards. This program uses multiple genres to help students deeply understand fiction and nonfiction text through the research-based Multiple Reads Strategy.
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Practice Coach PLUS
Grades 3–8

Accelerate mastery with scaffolding and guided practice that leads students through increasingly rigorous reading, writing, and language content. Organized by skills, the program’s lessons are easily incorporated into your summer learning curriculum.
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Reading Comprehension in Varied Subject Matter
Grades 2–11

Build comprehension skills over the summer with this popular cross-curricular series of nonfiction passages and questions covering seven subject areas. Themes reappear in each book, making it a useful way for students of different reading levels to interact with one another.
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Buckle Down
Grades 3–8

Help every student become proficient in standards-aligned ELA content, including writing practice. Students get both targeted review and extensive practice, making this a complementary resource for your summer learning curriculum.
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Summer Counts!
Grades K–8

Fight summer learning loss by motivating students through high-interest content. This best-selling series helps students retain what they've learned in the previous grade so they're ready for the next year in reading and ELA (math also available).
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Readers

Decodable Readers
Grades K–8

Foster reading skills over the summer with narrative and informational texts. Our expansive selection includes readers from proven programs such as S.P.I.R.E., EPS Phonics PLUS, Primary Phonics, the Alphabet Series, and Touchphonics.
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Leveled Books
Grades K–12

Build a library of leveled books to provide practice with high-interest nonfiction and fiction texts, spanning all ages and reading levels. Your students will enjoy summer reading with Handprints, Making Connections, and MCI Student Library readers.
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Handwriting

PAF Handwriting Program
Grades K–6

Help your summer learning class succeed. This multisensory handwriting program is designed to teach all students, including those with graphomotor weaknesses, to write easily and legibly.
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Math

Give students not only the tools and knowledge to solve a math problem this summer, but confidence for the fall. From tutorials and engaging interactive practice to skills-targeted instruction and intervention, our portfolio of supplemental math solutions can be implemented easily during the summer months…and beyond.

Skills Practice

Math Force
Grades 3–8

Combine the power of technology with the instincts of a teacher to give students the best of both. This full-featured digital math program offers premade learning pathways that can be tailored by the teacher, meeting the summer learning needs of every student.
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Buckle Down Mathematics
Grades 3–8

Ensure that every student becomes proficient in standards-aligned math content. Students get both targeted review and extensive practice that includes a manipulatives section, making this an excellent complementary resource for your summer learning curriculum.
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Practice Coach PLUS
Grades 3–8

Accelerate mastery with scaffolding and guided practice that increases in rigor. Lessons are organized by skills for easy incorporation into your summer learning curriculum. Coached instruction in every lesson allows teachers to help students unpack passages as well as item questions and responses.
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Summer Counts!
Grades K–8

This best-selling series is expressly designed to combat summer learning loss by motivating students through high-interest content. Students retain what they've learned in the previous grade so they're ready for the next year's math challenges (reading and ELA also available).
Learn More

Foundational Skills

Support Coach, Target: Foundational Mathematics
Grades 1–8

Give your struggling students the foundational math skills this summer to help them master the standards next year. This program focuses intensely on the prerequisite skills needed to approach grade level and the grade-level skills that build on them, giving students a deep understanding of concepts critical for success.
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Coach Digital Compass
Grades 3–8

Fill gaps in the previous year's learning with a range of ELA and Math instructional resources for on-level practice, acceleration, or remediation. Print and digital formats support teacher-led summer school instruction or independent practice throughout the summer. Assessments analyze summertime growth and inform future instruction.
Learn more

Success Coach
Grades 3–5

Maintain grade-level skills over the summer through active targeted instruction and two-level practice. Success Coach STAR Digital Companion monitors progress, then differentiates your math instruction using curated content based on assessment results to awaken every student’s potential.
Learn more

Common Core Clinics
Grades 1–8

Meet rigorous standards with a focus on the essential skills that underlie them. This series gives you the flexibility to tailor your purchase to suit the instructional focus of your classroom, making it ideal for the time limitations of summer learning.
Learn more

Skills Practice

Math Force

Grades 3–8

Combine the power of technology with the instincts of a teacher to give students the best of both. This full-featured digital math program offers premade learning pathways that can be tailored by the teacher, meeting the summer learning needs of every student.
Learn More

Buckle Down Mathematics

Grades 3–8

Ensure that every student becomes proficient in standards-aligned math content. Students get both targeted review and extensive practice that includes a manipulatives section, making this an excellent complementary resource for your summer learning curriculum.
Learn More

Practice Coach PLUS

Grades 3–8

Accelerate mastery with scaffolding and guided practice that increases in rigor. Lessons are organized by skills for easy incorporation into your summer learning curriculum. Coached instruction in every lesson allows teachers to help students unpack passages as well as item questions and responses.
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Summer Counts!

Grades K–8

This best-selling series is expressly designed to combat summer learning loss by motivating students through high-interest content. Students retain what they've learned in the previous grade so they're ready for the next year's math challenges (reading and ELA also available).
Learn More

Foundational Skills

Support Coach, Target: Foundational Mathematics

Grades 1–8

Give your struggling students the foundational math skills this summer to help them master the standards next year. This program focuses intensely on the prerequisite skills needed to approach grade level and the grade-level skills that build on them, giving students a deep understanding of concepts critical for success.
Learn more

Coach Digital Compass

Grades 3–8

Fill gaps in the previous year's learning with a range of ELA and Math instructional resources for on-level practice, acceleration, or remediation. Print and digital formats support teacher-led summer school instruction or independent practice throughout the summer. Assessments analyze summertime growth and inform future instruction.
Learn more

Success Coach

Grades 3–5

Maintain grade-level skills over the summer through active targeted instruction and two-level practice. Success Coach STAR Digital Companion monitors progress, then differentiates your math instruction using curated content based on assessment results to awaken every student’s potential.
Learn more

Common Core Clinics

Grades 1–8

Meet rigorous standards with a focus on the essential skills that underlie them. This series gives you the flexibility to tailor your purchase to suit the instructional focus of your classroom, making it ideal for the time limitations of summer learning.
Learn more
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