Literacy Schoolwide

Every content area requires literacy and comprehension of academic vocabulary in order to be successful. Reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking are essential skills in learning and life.

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AVID gives educators the tools they need to empower students to read, write, think, and engage in academic conversations like content experts.

What the world needs most are students who analyze problems like engineers, develop hypotheses like scientists, think analytically like mathematicians, recognize the power of individuals like historians, create like artists, and record their thinking about all of the above like authors. AVID helps students make this dream a reality.

We provide the resources and strategies teachers need to foster students’ literacy skills so that they are prepared for a life of possibility. Providing students with the scaffolds they need to unlock content by leveraging reading and writing across disciplines closes expectation, opportunity, and achievement gaps for all students.

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Academic Language and Literacy Architects: Language Building Through Culture and Identity

Professional Learning
Engage elementary through postsecondary educators in supporting their students to become language architects. This Community of Practice is available both virtually and face-to-face.
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AVID English Language Development Summer Bridge

AVID Members only

AVID Products
Accelerate language acquisition for students in grades 6–10 who are emerging to bridging English language learners. Through this experience, students will develop a comfortable and connected scholarly community.
Explore Curriculum Sampler

AVID Excel® Elective: Implementing the Foundations of Instruction

Professional Learning
This Community of Practice is designed for AVID Excel teachers, site administrators, and District Directors who are new to AVID Excel, an elective class designed to accelerate language acquisition for long-term English learners. This Community of Practice is available both virtually and face-to-face.
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AVID Reading for Disciplinary Literacy: A Schoolwide Approach

AVID Members only

AVID Products
This book provides educators with tools for developing a reading routine that enables students to access rigorous content within every content area, grade level, and discipline.
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AVID Weekly® and AVID Elementary Weekly

AVID Products
Bring engaging and relevant texts to life in your classroom with turn-key lesson plans designed to increase reading comprehension and accelerate learning schoolwide.
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AVID Writing for Disciplinary Literacy: A Schoolwide Approach

AVID Members only

AVID Products
This book provides multidisciplinary writing-to-learn strategies and writing for academic purposes from a schoolwide perspective.
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Critical Reading Grab-and-Go Lessons

Free Resources
Explore lessons aligned with AVID’s critical reading process to engage students in deep learning through disciplinary literacy.
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Cultivating Writing Schoolwide – Elementary

Professional Learning
Empower elementary educators with foundational knowledge and strategies to increase their skills and confidence in using writing as a powerful tool in a 21st century learning environment. This Community of Practice is available both virtually and face-to-face.
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Cultivating Writing Schoolwide – Secondary

Professional Learning
Empower secondary and postsecondary educators with knowledge and strategies to increase their skills and confidence in using writing as a powerful tool in a 21st century learning environment. This Community of Practice is available both virtually and face-to-face.
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Develop Speaking and Listening Skills – Instructional Practice

Free Resources
This structure is used to provide students with the opportunity to develop speaking and listening skills while simultaneously learning how to provide and receive feedback.
Curriculum Sampler (PDF)

Digital Reading Deep Dive Podcast

Free Resources
Ty Stevenson and Paul Beckermann will share strategies and tech suggestions for guiding your students through deep reading protocols for digital content.
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Explore Critical Reading and Viewing in a Digital Age – Topic Collection

Free Resources
This collection will provide you with concepts, strategies, and tools to empower your students with the skills they will need to be critical consumers of digital content.
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Making the Note-Taking Process More Accessible: What Educators Can Do

Free Resources
This text explores ways educators can provide scaffolding to make the note-taking process accessible to all students.
Curriculum Sampler (PDF)

Schoolwide Academic Language and Literacy: Academic Language Scripts, Language Functions, and Word Banks

AVID Members only

Professional Learning
This module is designed for schoolwide content-area teachers to support academic language and literacy in elementary through higher education classroom settings.
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Transforming Literacy Through Content-Area Reading

Professional Learning
The Transforming Literacy Through Content-Area Reading Community of Practice is designed to engage elementary through postsecondary educators in realizing what happens when we leverage reading in all content areas to eliminate literacy gaps. This Community of Practice is available both virtually and face-to- face.
Explore

AVID English Language Development Summer Bridge

AVID Members only

AVID Products
Accelerate language acquisition for students in grades 6–10 who are emerging to bridging English language learners. Through this experience, students will develop a comfortable and connected scholarly community.
Explore Curriculum Sampler

AVID Reading for Disciplinary Literacy: A Schoolwide Approach

AVID Members only

AVID Products
This book provides educators with tools for developing a reading routine that enables students to access rigorous content within every content area, grade level, and discipline.
Explore

AVID Weekly® and AVID Elementary Weekly

AVID Products
Bring engaging and relevant texts to life in your classroom with turn-key lesson plans designed to increase reading comprehension and accelerate learning schoolwide.
Explore

AVID Writing for Disciplinary Literacy: A Schoolwide Approach

AVID Members only

AVID Products
This book provides multidisciplinary writing-to-learn strategies and writing for academic purposes from a schoolwide perspective.
Explore

Critical Reading Grab-and-Go Lessons

Free Resources
Explore lessons aligned with AVID’s critical reading process to engage students in deep learning through disciplinary literacy.
Explore

Develop Speaking and Listening Skills – Instructional Practice

Free Resources
This structure is used to provide students with the opportunity to develop speaking and listening skills while simultaneously learning how to provide and receive feedback.
Curriculum Sampler (PDF)

Digital Reading Deep Dive Podcast

Free Resources
Ty Stevenson and Paul Beckermann will share strategies and tech suggestions for guiding your students through deep reading protocols for digital content.
Explore

Explore Critical Reading and Viewing in a Digital Age – Topic Collection

Free Resources
This collection will provide you with concepts, strategies, and tools to empower your students with the skills they will need to be critical consumers of digital content.
Explore

Making the Note-Taking Process More Accessible: What Educators Can Do

Free Resources
This text explores ways educators can provide scaffolding to make the note-taking process accessible to all students.
Curriculum Sampler (PDF)

Academic Language and Literacy Architects: Language Building Through Culture and Identity

Professional Learning
Engage elementary through postsecondary educators in supporting their students to become language architects. This Community of Practice is available both virtually and face-to-face.
Explore

AVID Excel® Elective: Implementing the Foundations of Instruction

Professional Learning
This Community of Practice is designed for AVID Excel teachers, site administrators, and District Directors who are new to AVID Excel, an elective class designed to accelerate language acquisition for long-term English learners. This Community of Practice is available both virtually and face-to-face.
Explore

Cultivating Writing Schoolwide – Elementary

Professional Learning
Empower elementary educators with foundational knowledge and strategies to increase their skills and confidence in using writing as a powerful tool in a 21st century learning environment. This Community of Practice is available both virtually and face-to-face.
Explore

Cultivating Writing Schoolwide – Secondary

Professional Learning
Empower secondary and postsecondary educators with knowledge and strategies to increase their skills and confidence in using writing as a powerful tool in a 21st century learning environment. This Community of Practice is available both virtually and face-to-face.
Explore

Schoolwide Academic Language and Literacy: Academic Language Scripts, Language Functions, and Word Banks

AVID Members only

Professional Learning
This module is designed for schoolwide content-area teachers to support academic language and literacy in elementary through higher education classroom settings.
Explore

Transforming Literacy Through Content-Area Reading

Professional Learning
The Transforming Literacy Through Content-Area Reading Community of Practice is designed to engage elementary through postsecondary educators in realizing what happens when we leverage reading in all content areas to eliminate literacy gaps. This Community of Practice is available both virtually and face-to- face.
Explore

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