New York State–Aligned Literacy and Writing Programs

Aligned with New York State Standards and Trusted by Educators

Explore early childhood and K–5 literacy and writing programs aligned with New York State Literacy and Writing Instructional Best Practices, New York Early Learning Standards, NYSED Next Generation Standards (ECE), and NYS BEST standards. Designed to support evidence-based instruction, our programs help educators implement coherent, high-quality literacy instruction across tiers.

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Every Child Ready – Comprehensive Early Childhood Curriculum

Every Child Ready is a comprehensive, evidence-based curriculum for preschool and pre-K. Available in English and Spanish, the program blends purposeful play, targeted instruction, and family engagement.

Every Child Ready aligns with New York State standards. This reflects its research-based, developmentally appropriate approach to supporting early language, literacy, and learning in preschool and pre-K.

Alignment: NYS Literacy and Writing Instructional Best Practices

Alignment: NY Early Learning Standards and NYSED Next Generation Standards Alignment

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Being a Writer — Comprehensive Writing Instruction

Being a Writer™ is a comprehensive, evidence-based K–5 writing program that integrates foundational skills, deep comprehension, and rich knowledge-building literacy experiences with daily social skills instruction.

The program meets New York State standards and advances an approach that builds authentic student voice, critical thinking, and a lifelong love of writing through:

• Explicit, systematic instruction that gives educators clear, research-backed methods to steadily build student independence.
• A comprehensive writing process that supports writing for a range of purposes and audiences.
• Daily meaningful practice that builds fluency, confidence, and skill over time.
• Integrated foundational writing skills, including sentence construction, grammar, spelling, handwriting, typing, and word processing.

Being a Writer is already in use in New York schools, where educators report strong success and students grow into more skilled, fluent, and purposeful writers.

Alignment: Being a Writer and NYS Best Practices

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Collaborative Literacy

Comprehensive Literacy Instruction (K–5)

Collaborative Literacy is a comprehensive K–5 curriculum that brings together Being a Reader and Being a Writer. Aligned with New York State standards, the program creates meaningful connections between reading and writing, builds knowledge and literacy skills, supports positive classroom communities, and helps teachers strengthen their instructional practice.

Alignment: Collaborative Literacy and NYS Best Practices

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SIPPS: Tier II and Tier III Intervention Supporting Being a Reader and Collaborative Literacy

Thanks to an aligned scope and sequence, common routines, and a consistent lesson structure, students can move seamlessly between Being a Reader core instruction and SIPPS intervention. In SIPPS, students receive focused, explicit instruction to strengthen foundational skills, preparing them to re-engage with core instruction with confidence and success.

SIPPS is:

• Flexible and differentiated, and aligned with MTSS across all tiers of instruction
• Highly supportive for educators, easy to implement, and well suited for tutoring and expanded learning settings
• Aligned with the science of reading
• Effective for young readers (K–3), older readers (4–12), multilingual learners, and students with dyslexia

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Big Results in the Big Apple: Middle School ENL Teacher Desiree Torres on SIPPS

ENL middle school teacher Desiree Torres shares how implementing SIPPS has strengthened her students’ reading skills and confidence in the Bronx. She describes SIPPS as a “one-stop shop” for explicit, structured literacy instruction that supports rapid student growth—especially for multilingual learners—and also gives teachers a clear, time-saving system that leads to consistent success in the classroom.

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