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Cicero School District 99

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Literacy

Laying the foundation for strong readers, confident writers, and lifelong learners.

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Director: Dr. Ben Zulauf 

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Cicero District 99 has adopted a structured literacy approach to foundational reading instruction to better meet the needs of all learners. This evidence-based model provides explicit and systematic instruction in word recognition and decoding strategies, focusing on the following key components:

Phonology, Sound-Symbol Association, Syllables, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.

This approach benefits all students—including multilingual learners and those with identified reading challenges—by providing a strong foundation in how language works.

In addition to foundational skills, our reading instruction also builds students’ background knowledge, vocabulary, verbal reasoning, understanding of language structures, and overall literacy awareness.

 

  • Amplify CKLA
    Amplify CKLA (K-5)

    The leading early literacy curriculum grounded in the Science of Reading. By combining knowledge-building and research-based foundational skills, our instruction guides educators in developing strong readers, writers, and thinkers.

  • Amplify Caminos
    Amplify Caminos (K-5)

    A language arts curriculum that helps teachers inspire students as they become confident readers, writers, and thinkers in Spanish. The program combines rich content knowledge with systematic foundational skills instruction that is grounded in the Science of Reading and supports multiple teaching models.

  • Amplify ELA
    Amplify ELA (6-8)

    A blended English language arts curriculum designed specifically to support students and prepare them for high school and beyond. Students learn to tackle any complex text and make observations, grapple with interesting ideas, and find relevance for themselves.

  • Vista Galeria
    Vista Galeria (6-8)

    A print and digital solution that uses engaging videos, authentic texts, differentiated instruction, and leveled practice activities to expand students' listening, reading, speaking, and writing competencies as they learn about their own cultures and those of other Spanish-speakers around the world.