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Roxbury teachers recommend HMH 'Interreading' after pilot; district plans phased rollout
Summary
District supervisors and pilot teachers told the board that HMH Interreading (version 3) better meets the district's structured‑literacy goals; kindergarten will begin the program next year and the rest of grades will phase in over the following two years, district leaders said.
Jen Mower, the district supervisor of humanities for preschool through sixth grade, told the Roxbury Township Board of Education the district piloted two literacy programs and that HMH Interreading (version 3) is the one recommended for wider use. “Interreading…is a program based on teacher feedback,” Mower said, adding that elementary reading specialists voted unanimously for the program and that roughly 70% of piloting teachers across both programs preferred it.
Mower described the program as a structured‑literacy approach that combines phonics and phonemic‑awareness instruction with authentic, award‑winning texts, built‑in teacher manuals and assessments. She said the program provides “workbooks” that include literature students can mark…
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