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  • Effective Reading Intervention: What Research Says and How SIPPS Brings It to Life

    Effective Reading Intervention: What Research Says and How SIPPS Brings It to Life

    Based on insights from the Collaborative Classroom white paper High-Quality Interventions to Ensure Literacy for All Students, this article connects research on effective reading intervention to the SIPPS® program.

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  • How to Help Older Striving Readers Access Complex Texts

    How to Help Older Striving Readers Access Complex Texts

    As students move into the upper grades, the texts they encounter become increasingly complex—and reading becomes essential to learning across every subject. For students with gaps in foundational reading skills, this shift can make subjects like science, history, and even math more difficult. Striving readers may understand the concepts being taught but struggle to access…

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  • Developing Early Literacy Skills: Vocabulary and Meaning

    Developing Early Literacy Skills: Vocabulary and Meaning

    Vocabulary and Meaning is the final article in a series based on the findings of the National Early Literacy Panel and the instructional practices that best support emergent literacy in children from birth to 5 years old. The Big 5 Early Literacy Skills are oral language, phonological awareness, print concepts, alphabetic principle, and vocabulary and…

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  • Implementing Walk to Read: Lessons From Jurupa Unified School District

    Implementing Walk to Read: Lessons From Jurupa Unified School District

    When Jurupa Unified School District Literacy Coach Sonya Martinez and Principal Tina Herrera first saw Walk to Read in action, they didn’t know exactly how they would make it work at their own schools.

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  • Developing Early Literacy Skills: The Alphabetic Principle

    Developing Early Literacy Skills: The Alphabetic Principle

    The Alphabetic Principle is the fourth article in a series based on the findings of the National Early Literacy Panel (2002) and the instructional practices that best support emergent literacy in children from birth to 5 years old. The Big 5 Early Literacy Skills are oral language, phonological awareness, print concepts, alphabetic principle, and vocabulary…

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  • Beyond Intervention: How SIPPS Has Shifted the Instructional Culture of Colorado’s District 49

    Beyond Intervention: How SIPPS Has Shifted the Instructional Culture of Colorado’s District 49

    Jess Crawford, Colorado’s Manager of Educational Partnerships, spoke with Kimberly Escobido, Literacy Instructional Coach at Stetson Elementary, and Yuki Rockwell, District 49’s Coordinator of Literacy Performance, to learn about their successful district/school collaboration and how SIPPS is impacting their young readers.

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  • How a Comprehensive Preschool Curriculum Helps Early Childhood Teachers Ensure Kindergarten-Readiness

    How a Comprehensive Preschool Curriculum Helps Early Childhood Teachers Ensure Kindergarten-Readiness

    Jennifer Wilson and Karie Dowell are PreK teachers serving the School District of the City of York, Pennsylvania. Jennifer teaches the children of Edgar Fahs Smith STEAM Academy and Karie teaches at Goode PreK-8 School. Both schools piloted, then adopted the Every Child Ready program. Here, Jennifer and Karie share their experience working with Every…

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  • How Oakland Unified School District’s Coaching Infrastructure Drives Reading Tutoring Success

    How Oakland Unified School District’s Coaching Infrastructure Drives Reading Tutoring Success

    When high-quality instructional materials are coupled with curriculum-based professional learning, educators are equipped to ensure student outcomes. Since 2021, the Rainin Foundation has partnered with Collaborative Classroom (and formerly FluentSeeds) to build a coaching infrastructure in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) that develops SIPPS® tutors into skilled instructional experts. SIPPS tutors are OUSD employees recruited…

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  • How California’s DEEP Schools Use SIPPS Tutoring to Challenge the System and Fill Gaps

    How California’s DEEP Schools Use SIPPS Tutoring to Challenge the System and Fill Gaps

    Southeastern San Diego’s Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership (DEEP) currently partners with school leaders and staff at four San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) Lincoln Cluster schools to strengthen Tier 1 literacy instruction, expand coaching, professional learning and small group literacy tutoring.  Although some of their partner schools have implemented SIPPS® for 10 years, not all…

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  • What’s Missing from Your MTSS Framework? It Might Be Alignment Across Tiers

    What’s Missing from Your MTSS Framework? It Might Be Alignment Across Tiers

    Instructional alignment across tiers is a critical but often missing ingredient in many RTI/MTSS implementations. To fix this, schools must make instructional alignment a key criterion when selecting curricula.

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