OpenLiteracy’s Reading Curriculum is designed for use in 1:1 and small group tutoring and intervention
OpenLiteracy’s Tutoring Curriculum
Our digital literacy curriculum tools empower educators to deliver high quality remote tutoring and small group literacy instruction with ease. Our Foundations scope and sequence is aligned with UFLI Foundations, while Non-Fiction Navigators supports students in developing world knowledge, reading comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary.
Rooted in Reading
Our curriculum is specifically designed for newcomer English learners with limited oral language skills.
OpenLiteracy Foundations
OpenLiteracy Foundations is a systematic and sequential phonics sequence of 110 lessons for beginning readers.
Non-Fiction Navigators
Non-fiction navigator lessons are anchored in non-fiction text sets and focus on developing rich content knowledge, vocabulary, fluency, and reading comprehension.
How are lessons structured?
OpenLiteracy lessons follow a predictable structure and are rooted in a small set of high-leverage routines. This allows students to build confidence through familiarity, focus on mastering essential literacy skills, and make steady progress over time.
Warm Up
Focused on reviewing previous taught material.
Learning Lab
Explicit teaching of the target skill with immediate applied practice.
Fluency
Focused on building accuracy, speed, and appropriate prosody when reading connected text.
Irregular Words
Learning high frequency irregular words, spelling them, and reading them in a sentence.
Reading
Reading a text that allows for ample practice of the target skills, with a focus on reading comprehension.
Writing
Focused on letter formation, sentence dictation, or writing in response to text.
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.
