Structured Literacy Curriculum and Instructional Resources

This guidance document discusses the essential elements of evidence-based reading instruction, including theoretical and practical structured literacy checklist that systems can use to review practices used in reading instruction. 

• Evidence-Based Reading Instruction Guidelines Document (PDF)

This comprehensive tool can be used to guide quality conversations related to classroom practice using a model of structured literacy. The checklist should be used in combination with KSDE ELA Standards and scope and sequence recommendations and the accompanying video. 

• KSDE Structured Literacy Components Checklist (PDF)

This resource provides free reports on curriculum to guide systems in making well-informed decisions when selecting high-quality instructional materials. It is important that systems read full reports when using this resource to fully understand the rating provided for a curriculum resource. 

• EdReports weblink is available upon request.

• Knowledge Matters Curriculum Evaluation Tool weblink is available upon request.
  

Free evidence-based resources for literacy success. You can search by audience, type or topic. The research reported is funded by a grant to NCIL from the US Department of Education-Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, in partnership with the Office of Special Education. 

• National Center on Improving Literacy weblink is available upon request.

This free resource provides ready-to use teaching strategies, demonstration videos and interviews with researchers and literacy experts about the best ways to teach reading and writing. You can search this resource by teaching topic, the resource type, or key instructional concepts. 

• Reading Universe weblink is available upon request.

This free resource by Amber Hicks and Chelsea Kilgore provides curriculum for students needing instructional support on the reading of multisyllabic words. 

• Advanced Word Study: Accelerated learning of multisyllabic word reading and morphology (PDF) Document is available upon request.