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Wyoming Valley West committee recommends Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Into Reading for K-5; board asked to consider six-year contract
Summary
At its April 8 meeting, district staff presented a year-long evaluation that favored HMH's Into Reading (committee score 7.6/10) as the recommended K-5 English language arts series; the board was asked to approve a six-year contract and will rely on state testing and built-in program diagnostics to measure effectiveness.
John Sharkus, the district's English department chair, told the board on April 8 that a year-long reading-committee process produced a single recommendation for kindergarten through fifth-grade English language arts.
Sharkus said the committee evaluated three programs ' Amplify's Core Knowledge and Language Acquisition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Into Reading, and McGraw Hill's Immerse ' using a rubric informed by EdReports and the Reading League. Pilot teachers ran eight-week classroom trials, intervention specialists reviewed tier-two and tier-three supports, and evaluators collected qualitative and quantitative feedback. "The overall score out of a possible 10 that the committee awarded to Into Reading was a…
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