Program areas at Reading in Motion
Rim aspire is a world-class Reading program for at-risk children. This program uses arts-based activities that are physical, kinesthetic, and imaginative to address key Reading skills. During the year ended june 30, 2023, 2,575 pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade students benefited from this program. in 2022, 3,750 pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade students benefited from this program. Benchmarks includes the extra dosage component, which provides well-trained extra dosage instructors in first grade classrooms to provide additional small group instruction, at the same time the teacher is doing small group instruction in the same room.
National expansion program is focused on bringing rim's best in class rim aspire program (in english and spanish) to other major metropolitan areas across the united states with large populations of at-risk students. 425 and 900 students participated in the national expansion program during the years ended june 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Spanish is is the spanish language version of rim aspire and is an adaptation designed to be used in bilingual pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and 1st grade classrooms in which Reading is taught in spanish. This program uses music and drama-based activities to address key Reading and pre Reading skills. During the year ended june 30, 2023, 550 pre- kindergarten, kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade students benefited from this program. in 2022, 425 pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade students benefited from this program. The spanish adaptation accounts for the particulars of the spanish language and its orthography, such as an emphasis on syllabic segmentation and an earlier push for encoding and decoding skills.