Planning for the new school year is not easy. We understand there are going to be learning gaps from lost classroom time. You need to be prepared to support learning in classroom and remote environments. Above all else, you need time, so you can focus on leading your students through the challenging year ahead.
Learning A-Z products provide rich collections of ready-to-use printable and digital resources that save you time and help you personalize learning. For the 2020-21 school year, new resources and pathways provide stronger systematic and explicit instruction and practice to help you close gaps and build critical foundational skills.*
Click on the tabs below to explore what’s launching for the new school year, including additional enhancements to help make your life easier and less stressful, so you can focus on improving student outcomes.
Phonics Lessons and Decodable Texts
Provide systematic and explicit phonics instruction using
Phonological Awareness Lessons
Ensure beginning readers learn to manipulate sounds by using new
Daily Language Practice
Meet grammar and word work standards for grades 1–5 with
K–2 Foundational Skills Scope and Sequence
Develop early reading skills using the
Additional Enhancements
Access Easy-to-Use Distance Learning Packs
Provide opportunities for ongoing virtual learning with Raz-Plus Distance Learning Packs. Deliver standards-based Reading and Activity resources for students in Grades K–5 via easy-to-access packs, carefully curated for each grade level. This grade-appropriate ELA content is easy-to-access and -use for extra student practice at home.
NOTE: Not Available in Reading A-Z
Get Started Quickly With the New Reading Placement Tool
Save time and make it easy to get students started reading level-appropriate books in Raz-Plus/Raz-Kids. Through a series of adaptive reading activities, the Reading Placement Tool identifies the appropriate starting point for newly rostered students, and places them at one of nine entry points in the program.
NOTE: Not Available in Reading A-Z
Meet K–5 ELA Standards With the Literacy Curriculum Map
Easily find Raz-Plus/Reading A-Z resources to meet K–5 ELA standards using the Literacy Curriculum Map. Organized into content-based units, including science, social studies, and social-emotional learning, the map provides a week-by-week guide for the entire school year at each grade level, detailing specific materials to use for instruction and differentiation.
Support Struggling Readers With High/Low Text Sets
Help students reading below grade level build content knowledge, vocabulary, and reading confidence with engaging, relevant, and accessible High/Low Text Sets. Complete with instructional materials, these resources connect to content-area standards, to help you meet these students where they are and spark a love of reading.
Expanded Early Reading Episodes
Strengthen decoding skills and increase vocabulary with new, expanded Headsprout Early Reading episodes. Combining systematic and explicit advanced phonics instruction with adaptive practice of more complex spelling patterns and letter combinations, these new episodes prepare students to easily decode unknown words and better comprehend more complex texts.
Advanced Reading Comprehension
With recently launched Advanced Reading Comprehension episodes, Headsprout now provides added systematic and explicit instruction that develops reading comprehension and close reading skills. Help students develop core comprehension strategies, apply new skills to increasingly complex texts, and move towards proficiency.
New Spelling Activities
Build encoding skills and promote a stronger link between reading and writing with fun, game-based spelling activities in
New Phonics Activities
Build decoding skills necessary to become a successful reader with fun, game-based phonics activities. Provide daily phonics practice that ties instruction to multiple practice activities and a quiz, to help K–6 students build key foundational skills.
Added Vocabulary Activities
Build vocabulary as part of the foundational skills necessary to become a successful reader with fun, game-based vocabulary activities. Provide daily practice that ties instruction to multiple practice activities and a quiz.
Enhanced Assignment Options
Quickly choose assignment options to determine the sequence of practice activities and assessments students see when you assign a lesson. You can choose preset sequences, allow students to select activities, or you can create a custom sequence that best aligns specific activities with student instruction and practice needs.
*All product enhancements and images subject to change.
