From California’s Literacy Priorities to Classroom Practice

Created through AB 121, California’s Literacy Professional Development initiative supports professional learning that meets state criteria for effective literacy instruction. Lexia® LETRS® aligns with these criteria, qualifying it as a professional learning program on California’s Literacy Professional Development Programs List.

Download the document to discover how LETRS meets key TK–5 literacy professional learning priorities in California, making it the ideal program to implement to meet state requirements in your district. The flyer examines LETRS’ alignment in each of these critical areas:

• Professional development model, emphasizing the science of reading

• Interactive and collaborative, featuring blended learning models

• Mastery and feedback, using pre- and post-volume assessments

• Print concepts, including units modeling print organization

• Phonological awareness, moving from syllable awareness to full phoneme-level manipulation

• Phonics and word recognition, focusing on concepts including phonome-grapheme correspondences and orthographic patterns

• Reading fluency, bridging decoding to comprehension

• Oral language, emphasizing the interdependence of language abilities and reading

• Vocabulary development, providing systematic instruction in academic and content-specific vocabulary

• Background knowledge, integrating knowledge-building prior to instruction

• Comprehension, featuring instruction on the Reading Rope framework

• Writing, addressing the reading-writing connection

• English Learners (EL), highlighting designated/integrated English language development (ELD) strategies

• Early intervention/dyslexia, preparing educators to identify early indicators of dyslexia

• Diagnostic techniques, teaching the use of screening, diagnostic assessment, and progress monitoring

• English language arts (ELA)/ELD framework, using structured literacy practices to emphasize foundational word recognition skills and concepts like higher-order meaning-making

LETRS is comprehensive professional learning that provides early childhood and elementary educators with deep knowledge in the science of reading. The program teaches the foundational and fundamental concepts of reading instruction—phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and written language.

Discover how LETRS supports California districts and educators with state-aligned professional learning.