Blended, Core Literacy Solution
Lenses
on Literature
Think critically. Read joyfully. Write confidently.
CLEAR Literacy™
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.
Take a closer look at Lenses on Literature in our program overview brochure.
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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 allAll learners can experience engagement and joy in rigorous, complex thinking.
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Proven radical growthLenses on Literature makes a curricular guarantee—radical, research-backed growth.
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Intentional educator learningProgress for learners and educators is our mission.
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.
Materials
Student experience and materials
Students embark on a purposeful journey through each unit, engaging with digital and print materials.
- All text selections, student activities, and assessments
- Seven levels of built-in, student-facing scaffolds
- Multilingual supports for engaging with texts and activities
- 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.
- 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.
Testimonials
Don’t just take it from us
Read what Lenses-prototype users had to say:
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