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Collaborative Literacy
Caring School Community
Libraries
After-school Enrichment

Collaborative Literacy

Collaborative Literacy is the only curriculum that authentically integrates social and emotional learning with literacy. It marries the latest research in literacy education with useful, concrete support for teachers to build a caring classroom community that motivates and inspires students to grow as readers, writers, thinkers, and principled people.

Making Meaning

Carefully selected nonfiction and fiction read-aloud texts provide a platform for rich discussions as students encounter increasingly complex texts and build their vocabularies.

Being a Reader

This unique early reading curriculum creates confident readers, independent learners, and caring members of the classroom community.

Being a Writer

Students learn to love writing and grow through the grades as writers, thinkers, and principled people; and teachers hone their skills as teachers of writing and as writers themselves.

SIPPS

SIPPS helps new and struggling readers build the skills and confidence they need to gain reading fluency and comprehension.

Caring School Community

Caring School Community, Second Edition, is a nationally recognized, evidence-based program that builds classroom and schoolwide community while developing students’ social and emotional skills and competencies.

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Libraries

Collaborative Classroom offers multiple libraries that provide engaging books at appropriate levels to help young readers both during and after school to build fluency, strengthen their reading skills, and boost their confidence.

Individualized Daily Reading

These grade-level-specific collections of leveled fiction and nonfiction books allow all students to find books they can read successfully for pleasure, information, or exploration.

Comprehension Strategies Libraries

These customized, grade-level libraries allow Making Meaning teachers to give students additional practice with strategy instruction.

SIPPS Fluency Practice Libraries

These libraries provide high-interest, controlled-readability books for struggling readers who need additional practice reading independently.

AfterSchool KidzBooks

Carefully curated sets of children’s books can be used during out-of-school time for kids to read independently or together, and for leaders to read aloud.

AfterSchool KidzLibrary

These collections offer a range of fiction and nonfiction books at easy, on-level, and challenging reading levels.

After-school Enrichment

Academic enrichment in out-of-school settings is a powerful way to support students’ learning in a way that is fun and engaging. Enrichment creates a space and an environment in which kids feel safe expressing themselves. Students are invited to expand their thinking and share their ideas, which in turn builds their confidence and success. Help kids connect with their “in-school” day without out-of-school time being more of the same.

AfterSchool KidzLit

Leaders use powerful literature and related activities to increase children’s enjoyment of reading, build their vocabulary, deepen their thinking, and foster their ability to work with others.

AfterSchool KidzMath

Children develop mathematically and socially while having fun with cooperative math games and literature-based activities. The program gives children extra practice with the important skills they need to become confident math learners.

AfterSchool KidzScience

This inquiry-based science program helps children learn key scientific concepts in five areas—earth and space science, forensics, green science, life science, and physical science.

Math Explorer

This collection of creative, hands-on mathematics games and activities are designed to engage young people in standards-based mathematics learning.

Science Explorer

Children explore everyday scientific concepts and natural phenomena using ordinary materials. Lessons support what students discover with explanations and provide inspiration for further exploration.