Comprehensive Core Instruction
Collaborative Classroom offers two dynamic K–5 programs—Being a Reader™ and Being a Writer™ —that can each be taught on their own or used together to form the comprehensive core ELA program, Collaborative Literacy.
For the crucial year before kindergarten, Pinecone Path provides seamless instructional alignment with Collaborative Literacy, setting up Pre-K/TK students for K–5 literacy success.
Being a Reader, Second Edition (K–5)
Being a Reader’s evidence-based instruction ensures that students acquire effortless, fluent word recognition while also developing skills and building knowledge that support comprehension of complex text.
Being a Writer, Third Edition (K–5)
Being a Writer provides comprehensive, research-based writing instruction that develops students as proficient, enthusiastic writers within a strong and highly collaborative classroom writing community .
Pinecone Path: A Curriculum for the Year Before Kindergarten
Pinecone Path: A Curriculum for the Year Before Kindergarten™ ensures that children develop the early literacy, executive functioning, and social skills necessary to thrive in elementary school.
Foundational Skills Instruction
Foundational reading skills lay the groundwork for a lifetime of literacy success. Effective, evidence-based foundational skills instruction is an essential ingredient in your literacy block.
SIPPS (K–12)
SIPPS® provides systematic, explicit decoding instruction for K–12 students. This evidence-based program is a proven solution for both new and striving readers, including multilingual learners and students identified with reading difficulties.
Being a Reader Small-Group Reading Sets (K–2)
Small-Group Reading Sets from Being a Reader provide easy-to-use, evidence-based resources to help K–2 students build and practice phonics and foundational skills, improve language comprehension, and develop independent thinking skills.
Student Apps
Take practice to the next level: give your students independent retrieval practice that is 100% instructionally aligned with their SIPPS and Being a Reader lessons.
A renewable subscription to the CC PAL app is now included with purchase of any SIPPS or Being a Reader classroom package.
CC PAL Student Practice App
CC PAL is an all-in-one solution with a library of decodable texts, student recording capabilities, and interactive, adaptive skills practice that is directly aligned to SIPPS and Being a Reader instruction.
Manipulatives
Phonics manipulative kits for hands-on learning and practice.
Collaborative Classroom Literacy Kit
Collaborative Classroom and Hand2Mind have partnered to curate supplemental phonics manipulative kits for educators implementing Being a Reader Small-Group Instruction Sets 1-5 or SIPPS Beginning and Extension Levels.
Libraries
Expand your classroom library with engaging, high-quality fiction and non-fiction books from both new and timeless authors and build fluency, strengthen reading skills, expand knowledge, and feed students’ innate curiosity.
Individualized Daily Reading (IDR) Classroom Libraries (K–5)
Aligned with Being a Reader, these grade-level-specific collections of leveled fiction and nonfiction books enable all K–5 students to explore their interests, feed their imagination, and build knowledge.
Fluency Practice Libraries for SIPPS (K–12)
These K–12 libraries support your SIPPS implementation, with Decodable Books for SIPPS, Fluency Practice Libraries, and Hi/Lo Libraries.
Building Caring Classroom Communities
Research shows that students excel in supportive learning environments. The Caring School Community® program is a comprehensive solution that nurtures strong classroom and school-wide communities.
Caring School Community (K–8)
A CASEL SELect program, Caring School Community builds school-wide community, develops students’ social skills, and enables a transformative stance on discipline through daily, grade-specific lessons.