Resources

Connecticut's K-3 Literacy Strategy

The Center for Literacy Research and Reading Success developed the Connecticut’s K-3 Literacy Strategy with guidance from the Reading Leadership Implementation Council. The resources and information provided in this document create a road map for Connecticut to improve practices and methods of a comprehensive, multi-tiered educational learning system that includes culturally responsive, scientifically based, evidence-based literacy practices, strategies, and structures.

Watch

• Dr. Louisa Moats Talks Teachers And Reading Science with Dyslexia Live - Bing video (2020)
• Video Interviews with National Literacy Experts | Reading Rockets

Listen

• Podcast: Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong | Podcast (apmreports.org)
• Podcast: The Podcast - The Reading League

Read

• Connecticut State Department of Education Evidence-Based Practice Guides
• Evidence for ESSA. (2022). Evidence-based reading
• Five Action Steps for School and District Leaders Implementing the Science of Reading, by Dena Mortensen. Published in The Reading League Journal – May/June 2022 Edition.
• Hanover Research. (April 2022). The Science of Reading: A literature review prepared for the Connecticut State Department of Education
• Institute of Education Sciences, and National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance. (2019). WWC | Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade (ed.gov)
• Institute of Education Sciences, and National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance. (2010). Practice Guide: Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through 3rd grade
• Louisa C. Moats, Of ‘Hard Words’ and Straw Men: Let’s Understand What Reading Science is Really About
• The Reading League’s Curriculum Evaluation Guidelines, 2023, is a tool for districts to utilize while evaluating the K-3 English language arts curriculum alignment to evidence-based reading teaching and learning.
• University of Connecticut. (2021). Connecticut Partnership for Literacy Success: Our Research

More Resources

• Changing Course: Large Scale Implementation of the Science of Reading - A School Board Member's Insights by Brenda Warren, The Reading League Journal, January/February 2024
• Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents. Science of Reading - Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS)
• Edreports. EdReports
• Florida Center for Reading Research. Resource Database | Florida Center for Reading Research (fcrr.org)
• Hill for Literacy. HILL For Literacy | Translating Research into Meaningful Practice
• Literacy How, Inc. Research - Literacy How
• The Reading League. The Reading League - The Science of Reading