Our Solutions

Teaching time is valuable. That’s why everything on T2 English is thoughtfully designed to provide high-impact instruction that builds better readers.
Driven by cognitive science
Created for the practical realities of your classroom

Reading Passages

  • 4,560 K-12 passages (and counting)
  • Search by grade or by lexile
  • Written by experts, curated by educators
  • On topics you’re teaching and topics worth knowing
Research Says
To become better readers, students need to read... a lot.
  • Texts should always be excellent
  • Levels should be appropriate for the reading task
  • Students need to read a wide range of nonfiction and literary texts

Question Sets

  • Text-based questions
  • Multiple choice and written answer questions
  • Explicit and inferential questions that build a deeper understanding of the important elements of a text
Research Says
For comprehension, the questions’ job is to support students as they dig into a text to understand meaning.
Questions should:
  • Build on each other
  • Focus students on the important information and key attributes of a text, such as text structure, main idea, story grammar, and vocabulary
  • Move a student to deeper understanding

Vocabulary

  • Carefully selected, high-impact words
  • Multiple definitions and authentic sentence examples
  • Practice with word families and metacognition
Research Says
Students need a deep understanding of the most important words and their word families, which make up the majority of written English. The best way to learn vocabulary is in context.

T2 English Article-A-Day

  • A 10 minute daily routine that dramatically increases background knowledge, vocabulary, and reading stamina.
Research Says
Background knowledge, vocabulary, and reading stamina are key to comprehension. Article-A-Day systematically builds all three with a research-based routine that includes reading nonfiction texts, writing, and oral sharing.

Paired Texts

  • Two texts related by topic or theme
  • Question sets to draw connections and comparisons
Research Says
Research has proven that reading multiple texts on a related topic can build vocabulary and knowledge exponentially more quickly than reading unrelated texts.

StepReads

  • Less complex versions of original passages.
  • Designed to provide access for struggling students.
  • Preserve the integrity of the original text, including vocabulary, knowledge, and length.
Research Says
Struggling readers may need scaffolds to access the same texts as their on-level peers. Every effort should be made to ensure that struggling readers enjoy the same access to important knowledge, key vocabulary, and author’s craft. Texts for struggling readers should never be “dumbed down” or shortened.

Lessons & Units

  • Based on trade books.
  • Support instruction of longer texts.
  • Include complete lesson plans with guided practice and independent practice.
Research Says
The concepts of comprehension should be taught explicitly and remediated when necessary. Lesson plans use the gradual release of responsibility model.

eBooks

  • T2 English texts remixed to feature rich illustrations.
  • Expressive human-voice audio narration as a scaffold for understanding and model for fluency.
Research Says
For struggling readers, read-aloud and visual supports are helpful tools to grant access to background knowledge and vocabulary, and to support comprehension. For all readers—visual and audio supports can provide access to texts above independent reading levels.

Student Tools

  • Audio versions of all reading content, including an ever-expanding number of human voice audio narrations.
  • Highlight and annotate.
  • Adjustable text size.
  • Guided reading strip.
  • Split-screen view.
Research Says
All of these tools provide scaffolding for struggling students to engage with the text. Student control over these tools and scaffolds encourages engagement and motivation.
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