Connecticut State Department of Education

Connecticut's Approved K-3 Reading Curriculum Models or Programs

Connecticut General Statutes (C.G.S.) Section 10-14ii requires the Center for Literacy Research and Reading Success at the CSDE, in consultation with the Reading Leadership Implementation Council, to review and approve at least five reading curriculum models or programs that must be fully implemented by all public-school districts by July 1, 2025. 

The following K–3 curriculum models or programs, listed in alphabetical order, are approved for use by Connecticut districts until June 30, 2027, as they meet the expectations of the Connecticut 2022 Guidelines for Open Review Period for Grades Pre-Kindergarten to Three Reading Curricula and/or Programs (2022 Guidelines) and scored in the Meets Expectations range by other credible and comprehensive literacy review processes:

  • American Reading Company – ARC Core (K-3), (2020)
  • Amplify Education Inc. – Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA, 2022)
  • Benchmark Education - Benchmark Advance (2022)
  • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Into Reading
  • Imagine Learning – EL Education Grades K-3 (2017)
  • McGraw Hill - Open Court Reading (2016)
  • McGraw Hill Education – Wonders (2020) and Wonders (2023)
  • Open Up Resources – EL Education (2017)
  • Savvas Learning Company – myView Literacy (2020)

Compendiums of Curriculum Models or Programs

  • Savvas Learning Company - ReadyGEN K-6 (2016) with Wilson - Fundations (2012)
  • Great Minds - Wit and Wisdom (2016 or 2023) with Curriculum Associates - Magnetic Reading Foundations (2023)
  • Great Minds - Wit and Wisdom (2016 or 2023) with
    • Great Minds - Geodes;
    • Literacy Resources, LLC. - Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and
    • Wilson-Fundations (2012)
  • Great Minds - Wit and Wisdom (2016 or 2023) with
    • Great Minds - Geodes;
    • Literacy Resources, LLC. - Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and
    • University of Florida Literacy Institute - UFLI Foundations (2022)
  • Great Minds - Wit and Wisdom (2016 or 2023) with
    • Great Minds - Geodes;
    • Literacy Resources, LLC. - Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and
    • William H. Sadlier, Inc. - From Phonics to Reading by Wiley Blevins (2020)
  • Open Up Resources - Bookworms (2021) with Curriculum Associates - Magnetic Reading Foundations (2023)
  • Open Up Resources-Bookworms (2021) with
    • Great Minds - Geodes;
    • Literacy Resources, LLC. - Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and
    • Wilson - Fundations (2012)
  • Open Up Resources - Bookworms (2021) with
    • Great Minds - Geodes;
    • Literacy Resources, LLC. - Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and
    • University of Florida Literacy Institute - UFLI Foundations
  • Open Up Resources - Bookworms (2021) with
    • Great Minds - Geodes;
    • Literacy Resources, LLC. - Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum; and
    • William H. Sadlier, Inc. - From Phonics to Reading by Wiley Blevins (2020)

Please note: Schoolwide, Inc. – Fundamentals of Reading, Writing, Grammar, Content Literacy, and Foundational Skills is under review. While it scored in the Meets Expectations range on the 25 indicators, it has not been reviewed by any other credible and comprehensive literacy review process.

On May 26, 2023, the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) announced the ARPA-Right to Read Grant which deploys $20 million in the CSDE’s American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to local and regional boards of education during fiscal year (FY) 2023 and FY 2024 for the purpose of supporting scientifically based, evidence-based literacy teaching and learning in grades Kindergarten through third (K-3). For more information, please see the ARPA Right to Read Guidance.

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Melissa Wlodarczyk Hickey, Director of the Center for Literacy Research and Reading Success, at SDE.LiteracyCenter@ct.gov.