Transform Literacy Outcomes with Learning A-Z
Enhance your foundational skills instruction and meet the needs of all students with solutions you can trust.{berry}
- Research-based supplemental resources aligned to state standards
- Comprehensive support for ELL and Dual-Language Learners in one platform
- Digital and print resources to complement your core curriculum
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Award-Winning K-6 Literacy Resources for Every Stage of Learning
Empower every student’s journey to literacy success with research-based programs that build foundational skills, enhance writing proficiency, and foster a love for reading at every stage of learning.
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Foundational Skills
Explicit, systematic foundational skills instruction for all grades K-5 with embedded professional development.
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Writing
Robust teacher resources and engaging student practice to support writing and grammar skills critical to literacy success.
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Decodable texts, high-interest books, independent reading resources, reporting, and assessment tools.
Did You Know?
Within Foundations A-Z and Writing A-Z, you'll find LETRS correlations to support your recent LETRS training!
Support for LETRS Unit 8 Training
Educators who recently completed LETRS Unit 8 Training have found Writing A-Z to be the perfect companion for helping students:
- Gain competence in building sentences
- Support narrative compositions
- Understand informational and opinion writing
Content- and Thematic-Based Resources for ELL
- Develops English speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills
- Integrates grammar and vocabulary into each lesson
- Aligns to WIDA, TESOL, ELPA21 and state standards for ELL proficiency and multileveled resources and instruction
Flexible Resources for Dual-Language Instruction
- Hundreds of authentic Spanish texts written by Spanish-language authors
- Complete, equitable Spanish versions of Level Up! and the Reading Room from Raz-Plus
- Independent practice opportunities to strengthen biliteracy skills
Support Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction With Raz-Plus
Select each strand of The Reading Rope to learn how the resources in Raz-Plus align and help teachers foster Word Recognition and Language Comprehension for all K-5 students.
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1. Decoding
2. Phonological Awareness
3. Sight Recognition
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4. Vocabulary
5. Background Knowledge
6. Language Structures
7. Literacy Knowledge
8. Verbal Reasoning
Modified from Scarborough, H. S. (2001). Connecting early language and literacy to later reading (dis)abilities: Evidence, theory, and practice. In S. Neuman & D. Dickinson (Eds.), Handbook for research in early literacy. New York, NY: Guilford Press
Word Recognition
Decoding
Decoding is the ability to apply one’s knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including knowledge of letter patterns, to correctly pronounce written words.
- Phonics Lessons
- Systematic, sequential, explicit, multi-sensory curriculum
- 32 weeks per grade (K-2)
- Direct instruction with decoding words in isolation prior to reading words in the decodable
- Encoding in addition to decoding - Decodable Books
- Decodable Passage Packs
- Sound/Symbol Books
- Alphabet Books
- Alphabet Chants
- Phonics Learning Centers
- Phonics Assessments
Phonological Awareness
Phonological Awareness is the ability to recognize and work with sounds in spoken language.
- Phonological Awareness Curriculum
- 32 weeks of systematic sequential lessons (K-1)
- Built in complexity horizontally within a grade and vertically across grades - Phonological Awareness Centers
- Phonological Awareness Assessments
Sight Recognition
Sight Recognition is knowing a word by sight without having to decode it. Sight recognition includes knowing a word’s meaning in context.
Language Comprehension
Vocabulary
Working on Vocabulary includes learning the meanings of words, understanding the connection between words, and using words to express understanding.
Background Knowledge
Background Knowledge refers to facts, concepts, and experiences specific to situations and information presented in text or during a discussion.
Language Structures
Language Structures refers to syntax and semantics. Syntax speaks to a language system that has everything to do with how word order is used to convey meaning. Semantics is about the way words are used to convey meaning.
Literacy Knowledge
Literacy Knowledge refers to the understanding of how conventions, the patterns, and organization are all used to convey meaning in print, including the idea that different genres serve different purposes in terms of conveying ideas.
Verbal Reasoning
Verbal Reasoning involves students thinking deeply about texts while also thinking outside of the text to draw inferences and integrate information. It also requires background knowledge and understanding of language structures.
More Resources to Support the Science of Reading
Use the free samples below to deliver literacy instruction to all students. Or, connect with your sales rep to address learning opportunities and formulate a plan to start a free trial or pilot for your school.
ESSENTIALS to Inspire Curiosity
Social Studies Books
Seamlessly integrate literacy instruction across content areas with texts that inspire curiosity, from social studies to science.
ESSENTIALS to Ensure Comprehension
Comprehension Skill Packs
Build background knowledge and increase reading comprehension with the more than 3,000 texts available in our library.
ESSENTIALS to Instill the Joy of Learning
High/ Low Graphic Books
Meet students where they are by engaging them with high-interest texts at low readability levels, complete with graphic images.
Project-Based Learning Packs
Develop communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity skills to help students find deeper meaning in the text.
Close Read Passages
Provide students with content-rich nonfiction texts that cover high-interest topics across content areas and instructional settings.
Reader’s Theater Scripts
Encourage students to strengthen fluency, read with expression, and better understand literary characters.
Breakroom Blog
Stay up to date on the latest trends in education with insights from leading thought leaders and Learning A-Z experts. Explore our latest articles below to gain valuable knowledge and inspiration from industry experts.
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Make the Most of Your Storytimes and Boost Reading Development
3 Steps to a Science of Reading-Aligned Read Aloud
Dr. Molly Ness shares her 3-step approach to make the most of your storytimes and boost reading development
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Joan Sedita's Examination of the Writing Rope and the Writing A-Z Resources Aligned to Each Strand
Writing A-Z and The Writing Rope
Sedita's Writing Rope is a fantastic metaphor for helping educators understand what it takes to be a skilled writer. Writing A-Z has resources to support each strand of the rope and each stage of the writing process.
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Explore the Research Behind the Need For Foundational Skills Instruction
5 Must-Haves for Foundational Skills Instruction
Foundational skills instruction helps students become the best readers they can be. See what the research says are the five crucial must-haves for foundational skills instruction.
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