SPARK Literacy Foundation funds Linguistic Phonics (Sound-to-Print) reading instruction for schools in the United States and around the world — the curriculum, the training, the coaching, and the teachers' time.
Every child can learn to read. No school should be priced out of it.
Mission
To ensure every learner, regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic background, has access to high-quality Sound-to-Print (Linguistic Phonics) reading instruction, so all students become proficient, confident readers with access to knowledge and opportunity throughout their lives.
We work in the United States and internationally.
Method
Sound-to-Print (Linguistic Phonics) starts with the sounds of speech and maps them to print — and it stays true to that method throughout. Every lesson, in every language, begins with the sound.
We support Linguistic Phonics because it is the most effective way to teach reading, built on the latest science on what works — unlike the programs being used in schools today, which are methodologies that are over 100 years old. Hence our name:
SPARK: Sound-to-Print Access for Reading and Knowledge
What We Fund
The Negev Bi-Literacy Project in Partnership with mindCET
Reaching under-resourced communities in Israel's Negev to ensure access to Hebrew and English literacy.
School grants: curriculum, training, and teacher stipends
Grants to US schools and districts that grant access to Sound-to-Print (Linguistic Phonics) curriculum, professional development for every teacher and stipends that pay teachers for their training time. Read more
Awareness and advocacy
Helping school leaders and families understand what Sound-to-Print (Linguistic Phonics) is and why it’s important for all students to access it when learning to read.
Coming soon
Research
We support cutting edge research on Sound-to-Print (Linguistic Phonics) and its impact on student literacy acquisition.
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How our grants work
SPARK Funds the Teachers
Our grants cover teacher professional development, implementation coaching, and stipends that pay teachers for their training time.
CAPIT Grants the Curriculum
Capit Learning provides platform access to CAPIT Reading through its own grant program, the CAPIT Reading Grant.
A Single Application
Schools fill out one application through SPARK Literacy Foundation, and it covers licenses, training, coaching, and stipends.
SPARK is an independent nonprofit founded by the founders of Capit Learning. Capit Learning grants access to the CAPIT Reading program; SPARK funds the teachers.
Founders
Tzippy Rav-Noy and Eyal Rav-Noy
Thirty years in education. They ran an adult education nonprofit in Los Angeles for 15 years, then founded Capit Learning, makers of CAPIT Reading, a Sound-to-Print (Linguistic Phonics) curriculum, in English and Hebrew, validated by Johns Hopkins. They started SPARK Literacy Foundation because they kept meeting schools that wanted the method and could not pay for the training it takes to teach it well.