Comprehensive Core Instruction
There’s an undeniable reciprocity between reading and writing. Collaborative Classroom offers two dynamic programs—Being a Reader™ and Being a Writer™ —that can each be taught on their own or used together to form Collaborative Literacy.
Being a Reader, Second Edition (K–5)
Being a Reader’s evidence-based instruction ensures that students acquire effortless and fluent word recognition while at the same time developing skills that support comprehension of complex text.
Being a Writer, Third Edition (K–5)
Being a Writer provides comprehensive, research-based writing instruction that builds a classroom community where students learn from, support, and inspire one another as writers.
Foundational Skills Instruction
Foundational reading skills lay the groundwork for a lifetime of literacy success. Effective, evidence-based foundational skills instruction is an essential ingredient in your literacy block.
SIPPS (K–12)
SIPPS® provides systematic, explicit decoding instruction for K–12 students. This evidence-based program is a proven solution for both new and striving readers, including multilingual learners and students identified with reading difficulties.
Being a Reader Small-Group Reading Sets (K–2)
Small-Group Reading Sets from Being a Reader provide easy-to-use, evidence-based resources to help K–2 students build and practice phonics and foundational skills, improve language comprehension, and develop independent thinking skills.
Student Apps
Give students the independent retrieval practice they need to master foundational reading skills with apps that align with Collaborative Classroom instruction.
CC PAL Student Practice App
CC PAL is a fun and user-friendly practice app for foundational skills mastery that fully aligns with our evidence-based scope and sequence.
Manipulatives
Phonics manipulative kits for hands-on learning and practice.
Collaborative Classroom Literacy Kit
Collaborative Classroom and Hand2Mind have partnered to curate supplemental phonics manipulative kits for educators implementing Being a Reader Small-Group Instruction Sets 1-5 or SIPPS Beginning and Extension Levels.
Libraries
Expand your classroom library with engaging, high-quality fiction and non-fiction books from both new and timeless authors and build fluency, strengthen reading skills, expand knowledge, and feed students’ innate curiosity.
Individualized Daily Reading (IDR) Classroom Libraries (K–5)
Aligned with Being a Reader, these grade-level-specific collections of leveled fiction and nonfiction books enable all K–5 students to explore their interests, feed their imagination, and build knowledge.
Fluency Practice Libraries for SIPPS (K–12)
These K–12 libraries support your SIPPS implementation, with Decodable Books for SIPPS, Fluency Practice Libraries, and Hi/Lo Libraries.
Building Caring Classroom Communities
Research shows that students excel in supportive learning environments. The Caring School Community® program is a comprehensive solution that nurtures strong classroom and school-wide communities.
Caring School Community (K–8)
A CASEL SELect program, Caring School Community builds school-wide community, develops students’ social skills, and enables a transformative stance on discipline through daily, grade-specific lessons.