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.

The 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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HIGHLIGHTS

What makes our product unique?

We've designed a solution grounded in innovation, growth, and excellence, centered around three core principles:

All means all

All learners can experience engagement and joy in rigorous, complex thinking. Lenses on Literature includes tools to support them in reading, writing, and thinking processes, embedding them in a unique and powerful task-driven instructional sequence. When we say all learners, we mean all.

Intentional teacher and leader support

Educators deserve just as much support in their development as students do. Lenses is designed to support educators’ professional development by weaving in curriculum-aligned learning opportunities and targeted workshops during the implementation.

Proven student growth

Lenses on Literature makes a curricular guarantee—research-backed growth. 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.

MATERIALS

Student Resources

Student materials support a purposeful journey through unit texts and activities.

Digital Experience

Streamlined online learning space with built-in support for all learners.

Print Experience

Unique landscape design to maximize meaningful text interactions.

Teacher Resources

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

Digital Experience

Intuitive, point-of-use educator content in our newest platform.

Print Experience

Comprehensive print resources with flexible daily lesson plans.

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Implementation Support

Embedded support to help continuously improve instruction.

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

Watch and read what Lenses users had to say:

Marsha Derice

7th and 8th Grade Reading Teacher

“Lenses on Literature is a systematically laid out, research-based curriculum with embedded professional development that truly supports our teachers to be the strongest leaders they can be in the classroom, which, in turn, builds confident students.”

Robin Poynter

Assistant Superintendent for Instruction and Assessment

"Nothing in the program is out of left field. Everything builds toward the driving task prompt. It’s cohesive and makes a nice finished product that the students can see."

Matt McGee

Educator and instructional coach

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

Patricia Mitchell

Principal

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Lenses on
Literature

Blended, Core Literacy Solution

Think critically. Read joyfully.
Write confidently.

What is Lenses
on Literature?