Reading Next: A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High School Literacy reflects the findings of nationally known educational researchers, working in conjunction with representatives from Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Alliance for Excellent Education.

Passport Reading Journeys, Voyager's reading intervention system for secondary students, incorporates the nine instructional components listed in Reading Next as crucial to ensuring academic achievement:

	Direct, explicit comprehension instruction
	Effective instructional principles embedded in content
	Motivation and self-directed learning
	Text-based collaborative learning
	Strategic tutoring
	Diverse texts
	Intensive writing
	Technology
	Ongoing formative assessment of students

With Passport Reading Journeys, students discover the power of reading for pleasure as well as for information, and they can use their improved reading skills as the foundation for greater academic achievement.