Thinking about implementing a Walk-to-Read model in your school or district? Strong implementation starts with strong preparation. This new blog breaks down what leaders need to consider before getting started—and includes a free readiness checklist to help you assess your next steps.
Free Tools and Resources for Educators, Instructional Leaders, and PLCs
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Implementing a Walk-to-Read Model? Start with this readiness checklist
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Downloadable Early Math Family Resource Guide
Empower parents to turn daily moments at home into playful, engaging learning to nurture early math skills. This 12-page Early Math Family Resource Guide—developed by our partners at Every Child Ready—provides at-home, play-rich activities that are simple for preschool teachers to share and fun for families to do with their children.
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Uppercase Letter Formation PDF (English and Spanish)
Download our Bilingual Uppercase Letter Formation Tool to help your preschool and Pre-K learners master uppercase letters with confidence – in both English and Spanish.
- Dual-Language Cues: Verbal prompts in English and Spanish to support every student.
- Kid-Friendly Visuals: Clear arrows that promote independent practice.
- Research-Based and Classroom-Tested: Research-based, classroom-tested sequences from the evidence-based Every Child Ready curriculum to build a strong foundation.
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Language Support Strategies Checklist
Available in English and Spanish, this checklist provides six easy-to-implement, practical strategies to strengthen receptive and expressive language development in young learners.
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Downloadable Bookmark: Classroom Facilitation Tips from Collaborative Literacy
Keep Your Students Doing the Talking With Facilitation Tips From Collaborative Literacy
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Tip Sheet for Creating Quality Interactions
Quality interactions foster a sense of security and belonging in children and provide a strong root system to strengthen early cognitive, social, and emotional development.
We can increase the quality of our interactions with our youngest learners by making small changes in the language we use.
Download these Tips for Quality Interactions for some quick and easy tips to support you.
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Transition Songs for Early Childhood Educators
Are you looking for ways to make transitions between activities more meaningful and less chaotic?
Music has the power to enhance higher brain function in the areas of reading and literacy skills, spatial reasoning, mathematical abilities, and emotional intelligence. Using songs during activity transitions takes advantage of every opportunity to teach and keeps children move to the next activity productively and minimize off-task behaviors.
Download Transition Songs and watch transition times transform into joyful learning opportunities.
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Play Continuum Observation Sheet
Play and learning go hand-in-hand in early childhood education. Play supports healthy physical development through large motor movement and promotes social skills and self-regulation.
Observing our young students at play can provide us with valuable insights into skills acquired such as creativity, communication, vocabulary, and language.
Download the Play Continuum Observation Sheet to support your observations!
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Reconnecting and Rebuilding Toolkit
The Reconnecting and Rebuilding Toolkit offers developmentally appropriate, easy-to-implement Class Meetings for students in grades K–6.
The Toolkit also includes guidance for building relationships, supporting students, and sustaining your classroom learning community. Class Meeting topics include:
- Responding to Tragedy
- Developing Empathy
- Problem Solving
- Managing Difficult Emotions
- Handling Loss
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eBook: Collaborative Conversations About Evidence-Based Writing Instruction
This eBook and discussion guide for leaders & PLCs discusses the elements of effective, evidence-based writing instruction. Contents include:
- Interviews with Professor Steve Graham and Joan Sedita
- Reading-writing reciprocity
- Writing conventions
- The writing process
- Cultivating a classroom writing community
- White papers that unpack the research
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eBook: Collaborative Conversations About the Science of Reading
This eBook and discussion guide for leaders & PLCs explores essential components of evidence-based reading instruction. Contents include:
- An interview with Dr. Louisa Moats
- Small group vs. whole class foundational skills instruction
- Phonological and phonemic awareness
- Orthographic mapping
- Aligning tiers of instruction
- White papers that unpack the research