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Board hears Wonders elementary ELA overview; vendor says consumables included for life of adoption
Summary
Wonders representatives gave the Jersey Shore Area School District board an overview of the K–5 ELA program, emphasizing the program’s grounding in the science of reading, decodable texts and assessment tools. Board members and the public asked about costs, classroom management, customization and ideological neutrality; the vendor said consumables are provided for the life of any adoption.
Wendy, a Wonders representative, and virtual colleagues Whitney Bowen and Marissa Semenicchio presented a 5–10 minute overview of Wonders, the publisher’s K–5 English language arts program, to the Jersey Shore Area School District board on Jan. 12.
Wendy said the program is “grounded in the science of reading,” combines reading and writing instruction, and balances fiction and nonfiction content about 50/50. She described daily decodable readers, tier 2 and tier 3 supports, a teacher’s guide with lesson banks, digital and print consumables, and built-in assessments that generate assignable remediation or enrichment resources for…
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