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Ticket to Read Students Surpass the Seven Million Reading Passage Mark

Posted on: Friday, 19 December 2008, 11:00 CST

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."

To request a free trial password for Ticket to Read, visit: http://www.voyagerlearning.com/tickettoread/trial.jsp

Voyager Expanded Learning

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.

SOURCE Voyager Expanded Learning

Source: PR Newswire

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