Colorado’s Littleton Public Schools (LPS) is a high-achieving school district that serves approximately 15,000 students. When LPS implemented a Structured Literacy curriculum in the 2017–2018 school year for grades K–2, supporting teachers through the transition and beyond was paramount.
LPS adopted LETRS training when the balanced literacy approach to teaching early literacy was not adequately helping LPS students achieve the level they needed to be for phonemic awareness. The administration recognized teachers needed to understand and be trained in the science of reading pedagogy, and Lexia® LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) was the best literacy training solution to build capacity.
Littleton adopted the LETRS literacy professional learning solution for K–5 educators, and implemented LETRS for the 2018–2019 school year with an initial cohort of 44 educators that included K–2 classroom teachers, special education teachers, literacy specialists, instructional coaches, and administrators.
As a result, students of LETRS-trained teachers are the most likely to have strong phonological and phonemic awareness. This was not the case prior to this training. Students in Littleton kindergarten classes are much more successful with blending sounds and knowing better sounds automatically.
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