English Language Arts

PAF is a multisensory phonics-based program in which reading, spelling, and handwriting are taught as one unified lesson.s. PAF contains all the critical elements of a comprehensive reading program for primary grades: phonemic awareness, phonics, decoding, word recognition, vocabulary, spelling, handwriting, and comprehension strategies. All these vital components of reading are taught simultaneously in integrated lessons, each subject reinforcing and strengthening the others. Read the brochure for more information.

PAF Reading Program

Aprendo Leyendo is a classroom program for teaching reading. It is specially developed so that, through it, children acquire precision, automaticity and fluency to reach an optimal level of reading comprehension. Aprendo Leyendo includes two years of instruction to be implemented through second grade of elementary school. The goal is for children to learn to read and understand texts at an early age and then learn by reading other content.

Aprendo Leyendo is appropriate for all beginning readers and for children at risk of learning to read difficulties. The program incorporates teaching practices based on the latest available scientific evidence about the brain during the literacy process. In line with these practices, it teaches in a clean, systematic and multisensory way: (i) phonological awareness, (ii) reading, decoding and understanding texts; and (iii) spelling, handwriting, and grammar.

Aprendo Leyendo 

Benchmark Advance/Adelante is a California Standards-based English Language Arts/English Language Development program. Topics and texts, based on science and social studies topics, allow students to begin each grade with essential background information, and then expand their standards-aligned knowledge and vocabulary each year. Text sets develop content knowledge while engaging students in the analysis of texts and identifying text evidence while annotating. As a knowledge-based curriculum, students engage daily in the Three Key Shifts in the Common Core: Reading Complex Text, Evidence-based Writing, and Academic Discussion.

Benchmark Advance/Adelante

Through SpringBoard, students read and analyze a wide range of texts in genres including poetry, novels, plays, biographies, nonfiction narratives, speeches, and films.  They also learn to write in forms including essays, personal narratives, and argumentative texts such as editorials and research papers. Each grade level uses complex texts that allow students to examine an idea from multiple points of view while working with a variety of genres.

SpringBoard Curriculum 

CommonLit is an open-source comprehensive curriculum that deepens knowledge through interconnected skills. Throughout each lesson, students read, write, and speak to deepen their understanding.  Students write for different audiences and purposes, and demonstrate content proficiency through culminating writing tasks. Each lesson includes purposeful scaffolding to engage English Language Learners and those reading below grade level in productive struggle with complex texts and content.

CommonLit Lessons