enCORE K-12: A Comprehensive Overview of Our Literacy Resources
We recognize the immense dedication and expertise you bring to your classrooms every day as you work to deliver meaningful, individualized instruction. Our primary goal is to ensure you are equipped with the most effective, research-backed tools to help every student achieve literacy success.
Core Literacy Resources in enCORE K-12
Across all grade bands, our curriculum provides varied and engaging resources to support a comprehensive approach to literacy:
- The Adapted Library (K-12): The enCORE Adapted Library includes hundreds of titles across K-12 that offer an equitable and inclusive literary experience, featuring non-fiction, fiction, and chapter books that mirror the genres and content seen in general education classrooms. By providing adapted, accessible texts at multiple levels, we ensure all students have the opportunity to engage with high-quality literature and apply their growing decoding and comprehension skills.
- Middle and High School Companion Texts: Our Middle and High School programs provide adapted content that maintains the appropriately challenging academic rigor of grade-level standards. These titles, including chapter books and companion texts in ELA, Science, and Social Studies, feature works such as classical fiction, biographies, and speeches. These materials support age-appropriate academic instruction by helping students build the necessary background knowledge and vocabulary to deepen their comprehension of complex concepts.
- Decodable Readers (Elementary): For our youngest readers, decodable readers are integrated into enCORE Elementary ELA units to build reading fluency. These resources allow students to apply explicitly taught phonics and word recognition skills, which strengthens the connection between letters and sounds in a meaningful reading experience. Comprehensive support materials for each reader include a PDF, an e-Reader, vocabulary support, sight word flashcards, and a comprehension check.
- enCORE Events and The TeachTown Chronicle: Leverage enCORE Events and The TeachTown Chronicle as accessible news resources designed to build background knowledge and connect students to the real world. enCORE Events is a standards-aligned weekly resource devoted to accessible news stories based on timely, real-world current events, like Lunar New Year, the Super Bowl, or Women’s History Month. Differentiated across three levels, enCORE Events covers ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies, while also incorporating writing activities. The TeachTown Chronicle is a new, weekly, student-friendly periodical designed to truly deepen that real-world learning and complement enCORE Events. Each weekly edition builds background knowledge and supports comprehension of timely news stories. Available instantly as both easy-to-use PDFs and e-Readers.
Partnership in Literacy Growth
Everything within enCORE K-12 is intentionally designed to support a common, evidence-based goal: measurable literacy gains for every student. This commitment to student success is deeply rooted in our instructional framework, which is why we must continually align our methods with research. As literacy research has developed, particularly for students with disabilities, the evidence is clear: our students benefit most significantly from the same reading and writing strategies used with their typically developing peers. This allows us to focus our instruction on five essential, evidence-based components of reading: systematic, explicit instruction in phonics; phonological and phonemic awareness; vocabulary acquisition; fluency; and text comprehension.
To fully embrace this research, we have minimized the use of icons to support emergent and conventional literacy goals, favoring instruction that uses conventional orthography (standard print). Icons can be invaluable as a communication or comprehension support tool, but they are not intended to help students decode words or apply their growing knowledge of phonics and phonological awareness skills. This shift ensures every instructional moment within enCORE directly supports the ultimate goal of reading comprehension.
