OpenLiteracy’s Reading Curriculum is designed for use in 1:1 and small group tutoring and intervention
Curriculum
Here’s what you’ll find in the OpenLiteracy Reading Curriculum
Our digital literacy curriculum tools empower educators to deliver high quality tutoring and small group literacy instruction with ease. Our Foundations and Bridges scope and sequence is aligned with UFLI Foundations, allowing for coherence between small group and whole class instruction.
Instructional Routines
Our curriculum is anchored by a small set of high leverage instructional routines. We provide short, easy to access videos about each routine.
On Ramp to Reading
On Ramp to Reading is a 30-lesson sequence for beginning readers focused on letter sounds, phonemic awareness, and letter formation.
Reading Foundations
Reading Foundations is a systematic and sequential phonics sequence of 110 lessons for beginning readers.
Reading Bridges
Reading Bridges lessons follow a systematic and sequential sequence for developing readers with a focus on greek and latin roots, fluency, and reading multisyllabic words with ease.
Non-Fiction Navigators
Non-fiction navigator lessons are anchored in non-fiction text sets and focus on developing rich content knowledge, reading fluency, and reading comprehension.
Novel Study
Novel study lessons are anchored in authentic literature. Through reading and discussion, students develop as skillful readers as they enjoy content-rich, complex texts.
FAQ
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Each OpenLiteracy lessons follows a predictable lesson format and has six parts. When we do these lessons in 1:1 instruction they take 30-40 minutes. With some students we do the lesson over two fifteen-minute sessions.
In every lesson, students receive explicit, direct instruction as well as ample opportunities to practice reading connected text. Students get better at reading and writing by having as many “at bats” as possible. Educators are provided with easy to follow lesson guides and supplemental materials that allow for extended practice.
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Our lessons are developed along a systematic and sequential scope and sequence anchored in the science of reading. Across the lesson continuum we focus on:
• Developing phonological awareness through blending and segmenting words
• Blending with accuracy and confidence
• Reading connected text
• Reading and spelling irregular and high frequency words
• Developing automaticity and fluency with increasingly complex texts
• Encoding language through dictation
• Identifying generalizable language patterns
• Understanding affixes, including attention to morphology
• Building world knowledge through non-fiction and fiction texts
• Reading comprehension and vocabulary development
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We started this work by designing lessons for use by our 1:1 tutors, but our lessons work well for just about anyone who wants to teach reading! Teachers, tutors, classroom assistants, paraprofessionals, volunteers, and MTSS staff, will find them to be an invaluable resource, especially for 1:1 and small group instruction. Each lesson is designed to be easy to access, predictable, and fun for both the educator and the child.
