Approved K-3 Reading Curriculum Models or Programs by District

Public Posting of Connecticut Approved K–3 Reading Curriculum Models or Programs By District

Pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes (C.G.S.) Section 10-14gg(B)(5), the Center for Literacy Research and Reading Success (Center) has collected and shall post the following list of Connecticut Approved Kindergarten through Third Grade (K–3) Reading Curriculum Models or Programs reported as being implemented by Connecticut K–3 districts.

Please note, pursuant to C.G.S. Sec. 10-14gg(B)(4), the Center will conduct independent, random reviews of how districts and Charter Schools are implementing their reported Connecticut Approved K–3 Reading Curriculum Models or Programs.

The Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) does not interpret the following information as evidence of compliance with C.G.S. Sec. 10-14hh, nor does this posting constitute an endorsement of any submission.

District or School

District or School Reported CT Approved K–3 Reading Curriculum Models or Programs

Achievement First Bridgeport Academy Elementary School

Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and Great Minds – Geodes

Achievement First Hartford Academy Elementary School

Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and Great Minds – Geodes

Achievement First Amistad Academy Elementary School

Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and Great Minds – Geodes

Andover Public Schools

Open Up Resources – Bookworms; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and Great Minds – Geodes

Ansonia Public Schools

American Reading Company – ARC Core; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); and Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum

Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES)

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Ashford School District

K – 2: Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading
Grade 3: McGraw Hill – Wonders

Avon Public Schools

Savvas Learning Company – myView Literacy

Barkhamsted Elementary School

Great Minds – Geodes; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Open Up Resources – Bookworms; and University of Florida Literacy Institute – UFLI Foundations

Berlin Public Schools

Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Great Minds – Geodes; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and William H. Sadlier, Inc. – From Phonics to Reading by Wiley Blevins

Bethany School District

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Bethel Public Schools

Savvas Learning Company – myView Literacy

Bloomfield Public Schools

McGraw Hill – Open Court

Bolton Public Schools

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); Great Minds – Geodes; and Open Up Resources – Bookworms

Booker T. Washington Academy

McGraw Hill – Wonders

Branford School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Brass City Charter School

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Bridgeport Public Schools

McGraw Hill – Wonders

Bristol Public Schools

Great Minds – Geodes; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom (Kindergarten); full implementation of Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom by 2028–29

Brookfield Public Schools

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Brooklyn Public Schools

Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; University of Florida Literacy Institute – UFLI Foundations; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and Great Minds – Geodes

Canterbury Public Schools

EL Education

Canton Public Schools

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Capitol Preparatory Harbor School

McGraw Hill – Wonders

Capitol Region Education Council (CREC)

Open Up Resources – EL Education

Chaplin Elementary School

Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); Great Minds – Geodes; and Developing Readers

Cheshire Public Schools

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Open Up Resources – Bookworms; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); and many different decodables including ones from Benchmark

Chester Elementary School

Open Up Resources – Bookworms; Great Minds – Geodes and/or Wilson – Fundations Readers; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

Clinton Public Schools

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Imagine Learning – EL Education; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

Colchester Public Schools

McGraw Hill – Wonders

Colebrook Consolidated School

Savvas Learning Company – myView Literacy

Consolidated School District of New Britain

American Reading Company – ARC Core

Cooperative Educational Services (CES)

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Coventry Public Schools

Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); and Great Minds – Geodes

Cromwell Public Schools

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); Great Minds – Geodes; and Open Up Resources – Bookworms

Danbury Public Schools

American Reading Company – ARC Core; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and decodables

Darien Public Schools

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Deep River Elementary School

Derby Public Schools

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Open Up Resources – Bookworms; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); and Wright Skills and Heggerty decodables

East Granby Public Schools

Savvas Learning Company – myView Literacy

East Haddam Public Schools

East Hampton Public Schools

Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Great Minds – Geodes; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

East Hartford Public Schools (Approved CSDE Waiver)

Schoolwide – Fundamentals Unlimited Reading, Writing, and Grammar Units; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); and Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum

East Haven Public Schools (Approved CSDE Waiver)

Savvas Learning Company – ReadyGEN; Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

East Lyme Public Schools

Great Minds – Geodes; Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

East Windsor Public Schools

Savvas Learning Company – myView Literacy

Eastford Elementary School

Open Up Resources – Bookworms; Great Minds – Geodes; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

Easton Elementary School

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

EdAdvance

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Ellington Public Schools

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Elm City College Preparatory Elementary School

Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Great Minds – Geodes

Elm City Montessori School

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Enfield Public Schools

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Essex Elementary School

Fairfield Public Schools

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Farmington Public Schools

EL Education

Fields Memorial School

American Reading Company – ARC Core

Franklin Elementary School

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Glastonbury Public Schools

District did not report.

Goodwin University Magnet School System

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Granby Public Schools

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Greenwich Public Schools

Great Minds – Geodes, Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Open Up Resources – Bookworms; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

Griswold Public Schools

Open Up Resources – Bookworms; Wilson – Fundations Readers; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

Groton Public Schools

Great Minds – Geodes; Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Literacy Resources LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and University of Florida Literacy Institute – UFLI Foundations

Guilford Public Schools

Imagine Learning – EL Education; Open Up Resources – EL Education Skills Block

Hamden Public Schools

Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Great Minds – Geodes; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

Hampton Elementary School

McGraw Hill – Wonders

Hartford Public Schools

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); Great Minds – Geodes and Wilson – Fundations decodables; and Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom

Hartland School

Open Up Resources – Bookworms; Great Minds – Geodes, Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and William H. Sadlier, Inc – From Phonics to Reading by Wiley Blevins

Hebron Public Schools

Great Minds – Geodes; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Open Up Resources – Bookworms; and University of Florida Literacy Institute – UFLI Foundations

Highville Charter School

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Horace W. Porter School

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Integrated Day Charter School

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Jumoke Academy

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Killingly Public Schools

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

LEARN

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Lebanon Public School District

Curriculum Associates – Magnetic Reading Foundations; Savvas Learning Company – myView Literacy

Ledyard Public Schools

Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Great Minds – Geodes and/or Wilson – Fundations Readers; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

Lisbon Central School

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Madison Public Schools

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Great Minds – Geodes; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); and Open Up Resources – Bookworms

Manchester Public School District

American Reading Company – ARC Core

Mansfield Public Schools

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance; Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

Marlborough Public Schools

Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Great Minds – Geodes; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

Meriden Public Schools

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Great Minds – Geodes; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

Middletown Public Schools

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Great Minds – Geodes; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

Milford Public Schools

Open Up Resources – Bookworms; Great Minds – Geodes; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and University of Florida Literacy Institute – UFLI Foundations

Monroe Public Schools

Open Up Resources – Bookworms; Great Minds – Geodes; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and University of Florida Literacy Institute – UFLI Foundations

Montville Public Schools

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Naugatuck School District

American Reading Company – ARC Core

New Beginnings Family Academy

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

New Canaan Public Schools

New Fairfield Public Schools

Great Minds – Geodes; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Open Up Resources – Bookworms; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

New Hartford Public Schools

Imagine Learning – EL Education

New Haven Public Schools

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

New London Public Schools (Approved CSDE Waiver)

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); and Schoolwide – Fundamentals

New Milford Public Schools

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; University of Florida Literacy Institute – UFLI Foundations; Great Minds – Geodes; and Open Up Resources – Bookworms

Newington Public Schools

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Newtown Public Schools

Imagine Learning – EL Education

Norfolk Public Schools

American Reading Company – ARC Core

North Branford Public Schools

North Haven Public Schools

Open Up Resources – Bookworms; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Great Minds – Geodes; and University of Florida Literacy Institute – UFLI Foundations

North Stonington Public Schools

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Norwalk Public Schools

McGraw Hill – Wonders; Wilson – Fundations

Norwich Public Schools

Great Minds – Geodes; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Open Up Resources – Bookworms; and University of Florida Literacy Institute – UFLI Foundations

Odyssey Community School

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA); Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum supplement

Old Saybrook Public Schools

American Reading Company – ARC Core

Orange Public Schools

District-adopted program of instruction.

Oxford Public Schools

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Plainfield Public Schools

McGraw Hill – Wonders

Plainville Community Schools

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Plymouth Public Schools

Great Minds – Geodes; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; and University of Florida Literacy Institute – UFLI Foundations

Pomfret Community School

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Pomperaug Regional School District 15

Open Up Resources – Bookworms; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Great Minds – Geodes; and University of Florida Literacy Institute – UFLI Foundations

Portland Public Schools

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Preston Public Schools

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Putnam Public Schools

American Reading Company – ARC Core

Redding Elementary School

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Region 1 School District

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Regional School District 10

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Great Minds – Geodes; Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; and University of Florida Literacy Institute – UFLI Foundations

Regional 12 Schools

American Reading Company – ARC Core

Regional School District 13

EL Education

Region 14 Schools

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Regional School District 16

EL Education; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum

Regional School District 17

Great Minds – Geodes; Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

Region 18 Lyme-Old Lyme Schools

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Open Up Resources – Bookworms; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); and Great Minds – Geodes

Regional School District 20

Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

Ridgefield Public Schools

Open Up Resources – Bookworms; Great Minds – Geodes and/or Wilson – Fundations Readers; Literacy Resource, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

Rocky Hill Public Schools

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); Great Minds – Geodes and Wilson – Fundations Readers; and Open Up Resources – Bookworms

Salem School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Sayles School - Sprague

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Scotland Elementary School

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading; Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

Seymour School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Sharon School District

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Shelton Public Schools

Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Great Minds – Geodes; and University of Florida Literacy Institute – UFLI Foundations

Sherman School

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Side By Side Charter School

Open Up Resources – EL Education

Simsbury Public Schools

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Somers Public Schools

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

South Windsor Public Schools

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); Wilson – Fundations Readers; and Open Up Resources – Bookworms

Southington Public Schools

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Stafford Public Schools

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Stamford Charter School for Excellence

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Stamford Public Schools

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA); Curriculum Associates – Magnetic Reading Foundations

Sterling School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Stonington Public Schools

McGraw Hill – Wonders

Stratford Public Schools

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Suffield Public Schools

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Thomaston Public Schools

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Thompson Public Schools

McGraw Hill – Wonders

Tolland Public Schools

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Torrington Public Schools

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Trumbull Public Schools

Open Up Resources – Bookworms; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Great Minds – Geodes and Wilson – Fundations Readers

Union School

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Vernon School District

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); Great Minds – Geodes; and Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom

Voluntown Public Schools

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Wallingford Public Schools (Approved CSDE Waiver)

Received a waiver to use district-created curriculum

Waterbury Public Schools

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Waterford Public Schools

Great Minds – Geodes; Great Minds – Wit and Wisdom; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and Wilson – Fundations (second edition)

Watertown Public Schools

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

West Hartford Public Schools (Approved CSDE Waiver)

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; Wilson – Fundations (second edition); and received a waiver to use district-created curriculum

West Haven Public Schools

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Westbrook Public Schools

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Weston Public Schools

American Reading Company – ARC Core

Westport Public Schools

Great Minds – Geodes; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; University of Florida Literacy Institute – UFLI Foundations; and Open Up Resources – Bookworms

Wethersfield Public Schools

Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; University of Florida Literacy Institute – UFLI Foundations; Open Up Resources – Bookworms; and Great Minds – Geodes

Willington Public Schools

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Wilton Public Schools

K – 2: Open Up Resources – EL Education; Grade 3: Imagine Learning – EL Education

Winchester Public Schools

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Windham Public Schools

American Reading Company – ARC Core

Windsor Locks Public Schools

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA)

Windsor Public Schools

Open Up Resources – Bookworms; Literacy Resources, LLC – Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; University of Florida Literacy Institute – UFLI Foundations; and Great Minds – Geodes

Wolcott Public Schools

Savvas Learning Company – myView Literacy

Woodbridge School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Woodstock Public Schools

Open Up Resources – EL Education