Blended, Core Literacy Solution

Lenses
on Literature

Think critically. Read joyfully. Write confidently.

CLEAR Literacy™

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Grades 6–12
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Overview

What is Lenses on Literature?

Lenses on Literature is a comprehensive, digital-first ELA curriculum for grades 6-12. High-quality and standards-driven, Lenses is designed to engage all students in authentic and rigorous grade-level literacy experiences.

With this goal in mind, Lenses’ research- and efficacy-backed journey offers equitable access to the knowledge, skills, and competencies learners need to engage with standards-driven tasks and complex texts. Ultimately, students will be set up to succeed as engaged local and global citizens who think critically, read joyfully, and write confidently. 

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Our blended core ELA curriculum draws from the guiding principles of disciplinary literacy and task-based learning to help all students find joy in grade-level reading, writing, and critical thinking.
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Take a closer look at Lenses on Literature in our program overview brochure.

 
Highlights

What makes Lenses unique?

We’ve designed a literacy solution grounded in educational equity, student growth, and educator excellence.

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    All means all
    All learners can experience engagement and joy in rigorous, complex thinking.
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    Proven radical growth
    Lenses on Literature makes a curricular guarantee—radical, research-backed growth.
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    Intentional educator learning
    Progress for learners and educators is our mission.
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All means all
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Lenses on Literature includes tools to support all readers in reading, writing, and thinking processes, embedding them in a unique and powerful task-driven instructional sequence. With a driving purpose to guide them, students engage with complex texts multiple times and draw from knowledge-building articles and genre exemplars in order to apply new literacy skills and develop their understanding and analysis.

Learn more about standards-driven instruction and its impact on all learners.
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Proven radical growth
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Across 15 years of research and field testing with expert partners, the results from 100,000 educators and 2.4 million students are undeniable. Students who experience the task- and standards-driven model make significant learning gains year over year, gaining 4 to 9 months of additional learning in one school year when compared to matched peers.
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Intentional educator learning
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Lenses on Literature takes a new stance on continuous growth: that educators deserve just as much support in their development as students do. Our curriculum is intentionally designed to support educators’ professional development by weaving in learning opportunities at the most relevant points of use. Our model is laser-focused on supporting educators in building discipline-specific knowledge and skills to best support students.
 
Materials

Student experience and materials

Students embark on a purposeful journey through each unit, engaging with digital and print materials.

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Dynamic digital experience
  • All text selections, student activities, and assessments
  • Seven levels of built-in, student-facing scaffolds
  • Multilingual supports for engaging with texts and activities
 Consumable student edition
  • All Anchor texts as well as select Building Knowledge and Genre Study texts
  • Texts in landscape format with space for annotation and multiple interactions
  • Activities for brainstorming, planning, relfecting, and writing
  • Rubrics for final writing products
 

Teacher experience and materials

Educator materials help teachers seamlessly implement our rigorous, task-driven curriculum and reach readers of all levels.

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These print and digital materials include:
  • Teacher Implementation Guides with unit planning, launch materials, and targeted educator support.
  • Assessment tools to measure complex reasoning and provide ongoing formative feedback.
  • Detailed and flexible lessons that identify focus skills, artifacts of student learning, planning considerations, facilitation steps, and responsive teaching moves.
  • Easy-to-use scoring guides to help monitor learning and adjust instruction as needed.
  • Digital scaffolds and differentiation to support all learners in engaging with grade-level texts.
  • Point-of-use professional learning content focused on supporting educators in building discipline-specific knowledge and skills to best support students.
  • Novel Study Lesson Plans for incorporating theme- or genre-aligned full-length works.
 
Efficacy

Radical growth, undeniable results

Lenses on Literature evolved out of a central question: How can we design instruction from the assumption that every student can read, think, and write creatively and confidently using complex, grade-level tasks and texts?

To find the answer, educators and experts across 40+ states joined to form the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) and prove this is possible for all students. 

LDC found that students using the Lenses instructional model gained, on average, 4-9 months of additional learning in one school year.

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Testimonials

Don’t just take it from us

Read what Lenses-prototype users had to say:

“Students move through a process towards sifting the information and then use it to support their own assertions.”

 

-Gary McCormick, 
Literacy Design Collaborative partner

-Marsha Derice,
7th and 8th Grade Reading Teacher

“It puts these pedagogical tools in [educators’] hands and enables them to share information and best practices in a way that really promotes leadership."

 

-Patricia Mitchell, Principal

Ready to bring literacy into focus?

Your journey with Lenses on Literature begins now. Click below to take the first step.

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