by Dr. Jack Dempsey, Director of Research
Introduction
Our mission at Cascade Reading is to reach as many students as possible to help mitigate the ever-growing reading comprehension crisis. To do this, we have teamed up with several schools and universities to conduct rigorous research and develop our tools in ways that are sensitive to the needs of teachers and students. We have also made our tools flexible in the types of texts they can cascade, from text copied and pasted into the Cascade Reader or Explorer to web pages of text that can be automatically Cascaded using the Cascade Chrome Extension. Still, the burden shouldn’t be on teachers to find Cascaded texts when they are looking for examples to examine themselves or, perhaps more importantly, share with their students.
We offer several books that are cascaded, which can be found on our website; however, those books are not particularly targeted toward an adolescent audience. To address this gap in resources, we have developed a new passage library, offering 81 unique passage sets each with 7 different grade levels. These passages can be used for a variety of classroom activities and offer teachers a powerful new way of sharing the Cascade format with their students.
How to Use the Passages Library
