The new Units of Study in Reading is a comprehensive reading curriculum designed in alignment with the latest research about how kids learn to read, bringing the science of reading components into every lesson. The new units focus on structured whole class instruction, including:
phonological awareness
explicit phonics lessons
decoding practice in isolation and in text
support for fluency and oral language development
By pairing intense work in classrooms with ongoing deep study of research, Units of Study in Reading, K-2 offers a proven, scientifically-based literacy approach that helps students advance along their trajectory of reading development and fosters powerful communities of learning.
Units of Study
There are five Units of Study in Reading for each grade level, and each unit represents four to six weeks of teaching. Each unit is organized into two or three “bends.” Typically, the first bend introduces skills and concepts, the second bend goes deeper, and the third bend offers new ways to apply the learning. Skills and concepts introduced in one unit are revisited and strengthened, both within and across grade levels.
The Guide to the Reading Workshop
An overview of the essential routines of a reading workshop that describes the writing development of the four core genres. This resource also guides teachers in establishing a classroom environment that cultivates engaged and independent readers.
Supporting All Readers: High-Leverage Small Groups and Conferences
Ready-to-teach small groups and conferences focused on major reading development goals, organized into skill progressions that range from more supportive to more advanced, so that teachers can ensure that all readers progress along a trajectory of development.
Ensuring Access for All Readers
You will see Ensuring Access sections at the start of each session, that give specific tool and strategy ideas. These sections can be helpful, whether or not a student has an identified learning need.
See Supporting All Readers: High-Leverage Small Groups and Conferences for additional work times to meet the needs of your full range of readers.
Supporting Multilingual Learners
Each session provides supports to ensure that all Spanish-speaking students have access to the essential aspects of the curriiculum. There are video previews of each minilesson in Spanish. These orient children to the upcoming minilessons, teach key vocabulary words, and illustrate the work they’ll be doing. All anchor charts and teaching points are also now available in Spanish, and mentor texts in Spanish are recommended as well.
Let’s Gather: Reading to and with Your Students (available for additional purchase)
Let’s Gather supports whole-class book studies and read-alouds of text-sets of grade-level complex books. Each grade level contains five units built around a sequence of challenging texts at the target Lexile level with vocabulary and comprehension support. There are plans for first reads and rereads of the read-aloud texts and regular opportunities for partner talk and whole-class conversations, helping to support students in close reading and collaborative, text-based discussions.
Decodable Texts (available for additional purchase)
The Jump Rope Readers series consists of high-interest decodable books, and accompanying read-alouds that are just right for kids who are learning how to read. The titles in both the Fiction and Nonfiction series gradually and systematically introduce beginning readers to new letter-sound correspondences and high-frequency words. Along the way, the books also introduce memorable characters, exciting adventures, and the foundational elements of literary fiction.
Trade Book Pack
Each Trade Book Pack includes grade-level appropriate books that teachers use as mentor texts to model the skills and strategies they want students to try.
Online Resources
Online Resources provide digital access to all the printed books in the core Units of Study set (Units, Guide, etc.), along with a rich array of resources to support each unit. These resources include downloadable versions of charts, handouts, book lists, exemplar texts, supports for Spanish-speaking students, and more, all arranged session-by-session to streamline each day’s preparation.
Premium Digital Content—Annual Subscriptions
The minilesson videos in the Premium Digital Subscriptions for grades K–2 are designed to
serve as valuable exemplars for effective, concise, and engaging minilessons – exemplars that
can help teachers lift the level of their teaching. Each minilesson is modeled by a Reading & Writing Project Staff Developer and can serve as powerful professional learning for individual teachers and for teams as they plan instruction.