PreK–12 Literacy Solutions

Literacy is for LifeYou became an educator to improve children’s lives—a process that begins with literacy. With our

continuum of differentiated literacy programs and learning platforms, you can precisely tailor literacy

instruction to the needs of all your students. Our shared commitment and expertise can transform

them all into the skilled readers, writers, and thinkers of the 21st century. Together, we can ensure

that literacy is for life.

Engage & Inspire

To inspire, you must first engage students through learning that’s active and relevant. We design all our content with that in mind, so you become the catalyst for the “aha” moments that power results.

Instruct With Intent

Infuse teaching and learning with purpose. From research-based print resources to powerful digital tools, our materials foster appropriate instruction and connect literacy to the lives of students.

Reach All Learners

Your students’ literacy needs are as unique as they are. Our literacy instruction supports great teaching, empowering you to reach all learners and raise them to new levels of achievement.

Table of Contents

Wonders ® | K–6

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Core Instruction for Accessing Complex Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Wonders Connected Programs | PreK–6

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Multiple Solutions, Parallel Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Open Court Reading ® | K–3

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Instructional Emphasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

StudySync ® | 6–12

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Digital Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Intervention Solutions | K–12

Direct Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

SRA FLEX Literacy® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Early Interventions in Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Supplemental Solutions | K–12

SRA Open Court Reading Foundational Skills Kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

SRA Reading Laborator y™ 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Grades K–6

The Power of Connection

Wonders is a comprehensive Grades K–6 literacy solution that is built for your new standards. Through its intentional instruction, inspiring content, and purposeful technology, it prepares all students for college and career in the 21st century.

Wonders provides unmatched support for:

• Building strong early reading skills.

• Accessing complex text.

• Finding and using text evidence.

• Engaging in collaborative conversations.

• Writing to sources.

• Conducting research and inquiry.

Inquiry Space provides gamified performance task practice for grades 3-6.

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The power of purposeful technologyActionable data is at your fingertips. Know exactly where your students are every day and which resources to use for the most efficient, effective instruction. Data Dashboard provides point-of-use recommendations for support, differentiation, and acceleration.

Close Reading Companion

The power of complex textsEvery week provides a full range of informational or literary texts connected by Essential Questions. Throughout the week, students read, re-read, and integrate ideas across texts, building content knowledge and deep understanding.

World of Wonders Develop your early learners with World of Wonders, our PreK curriculum. Prepare children for kindergarten by building the background knowledge and classroom routines they’ll need to meet rigorous new expectations and developing valuable social and emotional skills. Clear, differentiated pathways ensure that teachers can address a wide variety of needs in the PreK classroom and make the most of every instructional minute. A collection of engaging print and digital resources— including music, videos, and eBooks—along with Teacher’s Choice mini-units make learning fun for children and teachers.

The Power of Connected Programs

Link every minute of your day and watch your students blossom.

All Wonders programs are closely connected, focusing on the same Essential Question, vocabulary, skills, and strategies throughout a given week. Students receiving supplemental instruction return to the core classroom ready to move ahead the very same day.

Grades PreK–6

Wonders Balanced LiteracyWonders Balanced Literacy provides educators with a new instructional pathway for building strong readers and writers through a wealth of connected resources tied to units of study. Unitized student and teacher materials give educators the flexibility to plan instruction in response to students’ needs, and print and digital resources deliver dynamic content and frequent modeling opportunities.

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WonderWorksThe same core content as Wonders, scaffolded to accelerate progress.

MaravillasEquitable, parallel instruction in Spanish with a wealth of authentic literature.

Wonders for English LearnersThe same core content as Wonders, used for developing language proficiency.

The fully connected Wonders programsWonders, Wonders for English Learners, WonderWorks, and Maravillas all focus on the same Essential Question, vocabulary, skills, and strategies throughout the week. Prepare all your students—core ELA, designated English Language Development, intensive intervention, and dual immersion—to meet the same rigorous literacy standards.

Leading the Way to Literacy Success

Open Court Reading is a comprehensive reading and language arts program powered and supported by more than 50 years of research and efficacy. Open Court Reading reinforces student learning through systematic, explicit instruction. Teacher-informed, research-based teaching and learning strategies create undeniable results for every learner.

Open Court Reading provides the proven literacy curriculum and resources districts need to meet today’s standards and turn all learners into strong readers, writers, and thinkers.

• A blueprint for success Open Court Reading is built upon—as well as refined and validated by—50 years of research. We keep it relevant through unmatched professional development and strong ongoing partnerships with districts and educators.

• Systematic teaching, systematic learning The backbone of Open Court Reading—its carefully crafted instructional plan—ensures confidence and growth for students and teachers alike.

• Resources for reaching every learner Open Court Reading provides a range of differentiation options for extending literacy achievement to all students, including at-risk students and English Learners (ELs).

Grades K–3

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Teach with passion and learn with delight with the help of our engaging, easy-to-use digital tools.

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Purposeful teaching that ensures student learning

• Systematic and explicit instruction helps build students’ abilities through a logical progression of skills.

• A spiral curriculum helps teachers introduce new skills while reinforcing previously taught skills.

• Core concepts and skills are reinforced at every level to provide scaffolding for students in all areas.

Partnership that fosters teacher success

With Open Court Reading, you get more than just a highly effective early reading curriculum. You get an experienced partner committed to your students’ success and your growth as an educator. You also get a wide range of resources to ensure your success, including:

• Quick Start and Implementation courses

• Administrative support

• A User Community

• Embedded “Show Me How” coaching videos

• In-depth online professional learning modules

Instructional Emphasis chart

Grades 6–12

Leading the Way in English Language Arts

StudySync is a comprehensive blended ELA/ELD literacy program designed for today’s diverse classroom environments. Its powerful digital instruction and engaging print resources ensure that teachers can give students a systematic path to success.

The StudySync core curriculum links literacy and learning with the way today’s students experience the world. Teachers benefit from an easy-to-use, flexible platform with strong classroom management tools and online standards-based assessment.

The flexibility you need to teach your best

StudySync offers:

• Four core units of study at each grade level, along with an expansive digital library of high-quality texts representing all genres, including literary and informational.

• Short- and long-form writing assignments with built-in tools for teacher and peer review.

• Multiple opportunities for developing foundational language and literacy skills while building content knowledge and helping students make meaning.

• Lesson plans with a core path and access path with leveled handouts for differentiated instruction.

• Scaffolded instruction, including Access handouts, for Emerging, Expanding, and Bridging English learners and approaching grade-level learners.

• Embedded assessment opportunities throughout, with rigorous, customizable prompts and rubrics combined with robust data collection and reporting options.

Whichever format is right for your classroom—digital, print, or a combination of both—StudySync makes teaching and learning intuitive. It looks and feels natural, so you and your students can focus on learning.

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A dynamic learning experience for the next generation of learners

StudySync offers media-rich learning experiences that advance reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language skills, including:

• Dynamic, movie-like Previews that draw students into Units and texts to provide context essential for deep reading and analysis

• Award-winning StudySync® TV Lessons that provide explicit instruction and effective models of academic discussion and student collaboration

• SkillsTV Videos that model how students apply key concepts to specific texts

• Concept Definition Videos with relatable student narrators to define and explore important literary concepts

• Social-media-like Blasts assignments to make real-world topics come to life and challenge students to read, write, and share ideas with their peers

• Closed captioning, audio text highlighting, and a variety of supports for reading skills development

Today’s rigorous standards challenge schools to prepare all students for the demands of 21st century college and careers. But some students struggle to reach grade level and perform well on high-stakes tests. Regardless of the reason, Direct Instruction (DI) programs are extensively tested and proven to ensure these students meet or surpass grade-level expectations in reading, language arts, and math. Direct Instruction gives schools a clear path to achieving annual progress toward universal reading and math proficiency.

Proof. Performance. Progress.

ProofDI delivers evidence-based results.

PerformanceDI raises teacher effectiveness as well as student achievement.

ProgressDI ensures that schools meet academic goals.

Reading Mastery | Grades K–5

Built on the rigor of today’s standards, Reading Mastery is a literacy and language arts program that gives students and teachers the ability and confidence to reach higher. Proven lesson instruction and additional tools ensure mastery by maximizing vocabulary acquisition, tracking lesson progress online, and enhancing students’ comprehension with interactive whiteboard activities.

Reading Mastery can be implemented to help even significantly at-risk students become fluent, independent, and highly skilled readers. It has been used in thousands of schools across the country for more than 35 years.

Corrective Reading | Grade 6–12

Corrective Reading provides intensive instruction of critical skills and strategies to optimize learning for students whose reading difficulties place them one or more years behind their peers.

The Corrective Reading program gives educators the tools to help close achievement gaps in both decoding and comprehension.

• Two major strands and four instructional levels address a wide range of reading problems.

• Multiple points of entry appropriately address skill levels of students in grades 4–Adult.

• Fully integrated assessments monitor progress and guide movement through the program.

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A Powerful, Flexible, Data-Driven Intervention SystemSRA FLEX Literacy combines the best of computer-based and teacher-led instruction with collaborative learning to provide struggling readers and writers the skills they need for college and career readiness. FLEX Literacy creates true differentiated learning and maximizes results by using student performance to inform instruction throughout the program.

The program provides three powerful learning experiences:

• The Digital Experience presents individualized lessons that motivate students with sequential instruction, assessment, remediation, acceleration, and review opportunities.

• The Print Experience uses teacher-led, shared–reading exercises to teach comprehension strategies by combining systematic, explicit instruction with independent reading lessons and digital tools that differentiate students’ skills.

• The Project Experience uses whole-group, small-group, and independent learning to connect students to writing-centered projects that help build 21st century skills and make cross-curricular and literacy connections.

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Prevent failure, promote literacy, and promise success.

Designed to work comfortably with your core early reading program or for Tier II interventions, SRA Early Interventions in Reading provides the significant increase in the intensity of instruction that low-level readers need to meet grade-level expectations. This program helps you identify struggling readers and provide them with lessons that build mastery of essential skills through explicit, systematic instruction in five critical strands: phonemic awareness; letter-sound correspondences; word recognition and spelling; fluency; and comprehension.

Build Spanish early literacy skills

The integrated curriculum of Intervenciones tempranas de la lectura provides an efficient framework for reading instruction. Rather than teaching skills in isolation, one by one, this program covers multiple strands in unison on a daily basis, each one tightly sequenced with the text. This design makes the program both more relevant and more effective.

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Grades 3 and Up

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Building the Foundation for Lifelong Literacy Success

Open Court Reading Foundational Skills Kits provide classroom-proven systematic, explicit instruction to help students learn the basics of reading and writing. This easy-to-use program is carefully crafted to enable your students to decode and encode written language—skills that become their basis for not only reading and writing fluency but reading comprehension as well.

Open Court Reading Foundational Skills Kits for grades K–3:

• Complement any core reading and language arts program for additional foundational skill instruction and practice.

• Supplement any guided reading or leveled reader program, linking reading with essential foundational skills.

• Work as a stand-alone program for any student needing foundational skill instruction.

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Digital, Interactive, Personalized: Classic Innovation

SRA Reading Laboratory 2.0 is an interactive, personalized reading practice program based on the classic print SRA Reading Laboratory. It makes proven leveled reading instruction available on any device, anytime, anywhere. This gives students more opportunities for practice and enhances ease of use for teachers.

Designed to complement any core reading and language arts program, SRA Reading Laboratory 2.0:

• Allows students to learn at their own level and manage their own learning experience.

• Fosters critical thinking with engaging 21st century community and writing features.

• Enhances comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, word analysis, and study skills.

Grades K-3

Grades K–12

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