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Supporting English Learners in California’s Middle Grades

A guide for finding the right literacy platform


Building a culture of literacy in your middle school starts with the right resources. This new guide can help.

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Don't-Miss Webinar
Closing the Literacy Gap:
Supporting California’s English Learners in Middle School

California districts are pushing structured literacy beyond the early elementary grades, but middle school remains a critical and often overlooked part of the puzzle. English learners make up a significant and growing share of students who need continued literacy support during these years, making it essential to strengthen literacy across subjects.
 
Designed for California district leaders and middle school principals—and valuable for educators supporting English learners in the classroom—this session will explore how to build a cohesive approach to supporting multilingual learners in building knowledge and strengthening literacy across every subject.

1 p.m. PT, November 17

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Build A Middle School
Culture of Literacy  

Meaningful literacy growth at the middle school level doesn't happen in isolation. It happens when a whole school commits to it, when content-area teachers, ELA teachers, and administrators share a common language, a common approach, and the practical tools to make it work across every subject.

A culture of literacy doesn't require every teacher to become a reading teacher. It requires every teacher to understand their role in helping students access and learn from the content in front of them. That shift changes everything.

Strengthening literacy takes a whole school, not just one classroom. And, it takes the right text for every reader, expertly created nonfiction texts, incredibly credible content in a world of AI, and just 15 minutes of reading and interacting with a text every day. 

See how ClassMate by World Book supports literacy across middle grade classrooms.