Research-based resources for meeting
ELA/literacy standards
Motivate your students to develop a love for reading with meaningful, age-respectful, and developmentally appropriate lessons. Unique Learning System includes the vital pillars of an inclusive reading program within each of its grade bands—preschool through transition.
Cover grade-level standards and more with monthly instruction
Lessons in each thematic unit provide consistent access to your state’s ELA standards and support literacy skills like those in Scarborough’s Reading Rope, allowing you to effectively target goals on a student’s IEP.
- Phonological Awareness
- Comprehension
- Phonics
- Vocabulary
- Word Recognition
- Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
- Fluency
- Range and Text Complexity
- Key Ideas and Details
- Print Concepts
- Craft and Structure
- Production and Distribution of Writing
Strengthen instruction using the Science of Reading
Unique Learning System has always been aligned to the latest in literacy research, which is a key to meaningful growth for unique learners. It’s the only curriculum that’s aligned to the Science of Reading AND specially designed for students with moderate to severe disabilities across all grade levels.
- Nine courses based on research into how students with disabilities learn best
- Explicit, systematic instruction and repetition meet unique learner needs
- Differentiated, age-appropriate content and activities engage students pre-K–transition
- Ready-made lesson plans and embedded implementation support ensure success from day one
Build skills through explicit and systematic instruction
Scaffolded lessons differentiated for three levels of ability allow students to begin at their level, then move up to more challenging content with repeated exposure to:
- High-frequency words
- Vocabulary and key concepts
- Phonics/early reading instruction
- Nonfiction, informational text
- Thematic units that cover a full range of reading and ELA standards
Enhance & extend learning in the n2y Library
The n2y Library can be used as a complement to Unique Learning System’s inclusive reading program, or as a fully independent resource. Extend learning, support classroom instruction, or encourage home engagement with a searchable collection of more than 1,000 books, including decodables, covering a wide range of topics and interests. You and your students can interact with books online using text to speech, highlighting, and accessibility settings.
Share classic literature to meet Key Standards
Teach 12 of the world’s greatest novels and plays with Classics, a solution that gives your unique learners in middle and high school the chance to explore timeless stories. Lesson plans, questions, and activities for each piece of literature are differentiated to four levels (Levels 1–3 are based on alternate standards while Level 4 is based on general education standards).
Are you ready to see it in action?
The time is now! See for yourself why educators across the country rely on n2y’s products and vision to elevate the quality of education for students with unique learning needs.
