Approved K-3 Reading Curriculum Models or Programs by District

Public Posting of District and Charter School Connecticut Approved K–3 Reading Curriculum Models or Programs

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

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

Ansonia School District

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 School District

Savvas Learning Company – myView Literacy

Barkhamsted School District

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

Berlin School District

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 School District

Savvas Learning Company – myView Literacy

Bloomfield School District

McGraw Hill – Open Court

Bolton School District

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

Bozrah School District

American Reading Company – ARC Core

Branford School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Brass City Charter School

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Bridgeport School District

McGraw Hill – Wonders

Bristol School District

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 School District

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

Brooklyn School District

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

Canaan School District (Region 1)

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Canterbury School District

EL Education

Canton School District

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Capitol Preparatory Harbor School

McGraw Hill – Wonders

Capitol Region Education Council (CREC)

Open Up Resources – EL Education

Chaplin School District

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

Cheshire School District

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

Chester School District

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

Clinton School District

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

Colchester School District

McGraw Hill – Wonders

Colebrook School District

Savvas Learning Company – myView Literacy

Columbia School District

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

Consolidated School District of New Britain

American Reading Company – ARC Core

Cooperative Educational Services (CES)

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

Cornwall School District (Region 1)

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Coventry School District

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

Cromwell School District

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

Danbury School District

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

Darien School District

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

Deep River School District

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

Derby School District

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

East Granby School District

Savvas Learning Company – myView Literacy

East Haddam School District

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

East Hampton School District

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

East Hartford School District (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 School District (Approved CSDE Waiver)

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

East Lyme School District

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

East Windsor School District

Savvas Learning Company – myView Literacy

Eastford School District

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

Easton School District

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

EdAdvance

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

Ellington School District

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 School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Essex School District

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

Fairfield School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Farmington School District

EL Education

Franklin School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Glastonbury School District

District did not report.

Goodwin University Educational Services (GUES)

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

Granby School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Greenwich School District

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

Griswold School District

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

Groton School District

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

Guilford School District

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

Hamden School District

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

Hampton School District

McGraw Hill – Wonders

Hartford School District

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 District

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 School District

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

Highville Charter School

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Integrated Day Charter School

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Jumoke Academy

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Kent School District (Region 1)

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Killingly School District

Amplify Education, Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts

Learn

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Lebanon School District

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

Ledyard School District

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 School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Madison School District

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

Manchester School District

American Reading Company – ARC Core

Mansfield School District

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

Marlborough School District

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

Meriden School District

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

Middletown School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Milford School District

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

Monroe School District

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

Montville School District

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

Naugatuck School District

American Reading Company – ARC Core

New Beginnings Inc Family Academy

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

New Canaan School District

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

New Fairfield School District

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

New Hartford School District

Imagine Learning – EL Education

New Haven School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

New London School District (Approved CSDE Waiver)

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

New Milford School District

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

Newington School District

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Newtown School District

Imagine Learning – EL Education

Norfolk School District

American Reading Company – ARC Core

North Branford School District

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)

North Canaan School District (Region 1)

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

North Haven School District

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

North Stonington School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Norwalk School District

McGraw Hill – Wonders; Wilson – Fundations

Norwich School District

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 School District

American Reading Company – ARC Core

Orange School District

District-adopted program of instruction

Oxford School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Plainfield School District

McGraw Hill – Wonders

Plainville School District

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

Plymouth School District

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

Pomfret School District

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 School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Preston School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Putnam School District

American Reading Company – ARC Core

Redding School District

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

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 School District 12

American Reading Company – ARC Core

Regional School District 13

EL Education

Regional School District 14

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)

Regional School District 18

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 School District

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 School District

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

Salisbury School District (Region 1)

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Scotland School District

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

Seymour School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Sharon School District (Region 1)

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Shelton School District

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 District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Side By Side Charter School

Open Up Resources – EL Education

Simsbury School District

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Somers School District

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

South Windsor School District

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

Southington School District

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Sprague School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Stafford School District

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

Stamford Charter School for Excellence

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Stamford School District

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

Sterling School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Stonington School District

McGraw Hill – Wonders

Stratford School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Suffield School District

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

Thomaston School District

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

Thompson School District

McGraw Hill – Wonders

Tolland School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Torrington School District

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Trumbull School District

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

Union School District

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 School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Wallingford School District (Approved CSDE Waiver)

Received a waiver to use district-created curriculum

Waterbury School District

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Waterford School District

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

Watertown School District

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

West Hartford School District (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 School District

Benchmark Education – Benchmark Advance

Westbrook School District

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

Weston School District

American Reading Company – ARC Core

Westport School District

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

Wethersfield School District

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

Willington School District

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

Wilton School District

K – 2: Open Up Resources – EL Education;

Grade 3: Imagine Learning – EL Education

Winchester School District

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

Windham School District

American Reading Company – ARC Core

Windsor Locks School District

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

Windsor School District

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

Wolcott School District

Savvas Learning Company – myView Literacy

Woodbridge School District

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading

Woodstock School District

Open Up Resources – EL Education