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Accelerate Literacy Learning With RedThread Knowledge Curriculum
The Principles Behind RedThread Knowledge
Empowering students to think critically and independently is key to their future success. RedThread helps students to thrive in a rapidly changing world. Our K-8 language arts curriculum builds literacy skills while engaging and inspiring young minds.
Comprehensive Teacher Tools & Guides
Content-Rich Materials that Bridge the Knowledge-Gap
Meaningful Topics and Themes
Multicultural Literature that Reflects our Multicultural World
The Curriculum Components
Develop confident and independent readers, writers, and thinkers.
RedThread Knowledge K-2
A multicultural, project-based, and integrated reading and writing curriculum.
- Delivers a focused 75-minute daily literacy session
- Aligns with our K-2 RedThread Foundations phonics curriculum
RedThread Knowledge 3-5
- Delivers a focused 90-minute daily literacy session
- Aligns with our 3-5 RedThread Foundations phonics curriculum
RedThread Knowledge 6-8
A global, thematic, and project-based middle school reading and writing curriculum.
- Delivers a focused 90-minute daily literacy session
Connect with Every Learner
Inspire students to fall in love with reading and encourage them to think more deeply about the world around them. Guided by our carefully selected themes, students deepen their understanding of themselves, their communities, and the world. This thematic approach enables students to progressively build knowledge, deepen critical thinking, and synthesize skills and concepts throughout each unit and grade.
RedThread Curriculum Institutes
Guide students to success with our immersive curriculum adoption and implementation support. Promotes consistency in instructional practices and curriculum delivery across all levels of implementation, with interactive leader cohorts, curriculum launches, and yearlong unit launches.
RedThread Knowledge (K-8)
For teachers and leaders in grades K-8 implementing RedThread Knowledge
Curriculum Launch Options
Explore our comprehensive RedThread Literacy Program with an in-person or virtual curriculum launch, followed by yearlong virtual unit launches.
IN-PERSON INSTITUTE (NYC)
DATE: August 21, 2024
TIME: 9AM – 3PM
VIRTUAL
TIME: 10AM – 4PM
YEAR-LONG VIRTUAL UNIT LAUNCHES (5)
DATE: Throughout the Year
TIME: 10AM – 12PM EST
One-Day Workshops
IN-PERSON INSTITUTE (NYC)
DATE: August 21, 2024
TIME: 9AM – 3PM
VIRTUAL
DATE: July 16, August 15, or August 23, 2024
TIME: 10AM – 4PM
Explore K-5 Themes
Integrated into our RedThread Foundations curriculum for grades K-5, RedThread Knowledge uniquely combines English language arts and phonics instruction, delivering a powerful, dual-impact approach to knowledge-building.
Grade: Kindergarten
Growing Together
What does it mean to be part of a community?
Grade: First
Making a Difference
How do people solve problems?
Grade: Second
Traveling Through Time & Space
How do people and communities change over time?
Grade: Third
Discovering My Voice
What does it mean to be a citizen in a democracy?
Grade: Fourth
Finding Freedom
What does it mean to be free?
Grade: Fifth
Cultivating Ingenuity and Resilience
How do people innovate, create, and thrive?
Explore 6-8 Themes
Encourage students to explore their identity, societal roles, and personal impact throughout our middle school curriculum.
Grade: sixth
Identities and Human Development
Who am I and what does it mean to be human?
Students embark on a yearlong exploration of themselves and their own identities.
Grade: Seventh
Collaboration, Conflict, and Community Throughout Human History
What is my role in society?
Students shift their focus from personal and individual human development to a study of human interactions in the United States and the world throughout history.
Grade: eighth
Changemakers in the Ancient, Modern, and Future World
What is my impact on the world?
Students learn and reflect on change makers throughout history, while exploring how humans continue to work to positively impact the future.
Inspire Every Child
Our book lists for each grade aren’t just chosen for their literary quality. They also are selected for their ability to connect with students on multiple levels—emotionally, intellectually, and socially.
Explore 1st Grade, Unit 2 Literary Works
In our RedThread Knowledge curriculum, first graders explore the yearlong theme, “Making a Difference,” through multicultural books, such as What Do You Do with a Problem?, Every Dog in the Neighborhood, and Maybe Something Beautiful. Each is read aloud or independently, connecting students to diverse stories and topics that inspire empathy, creativity, and community involvement.
Students explore the theme Making a Difference
Explore 4th Grade, Unit 4 Literary Works
Fourth graders navigate the yearlong theme, “Finding Freedom,” in our RedThread Knowledge curriculum. Throughout the year, students interact with multicultural texts including Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and Pushing Up the Sky that help students answer the essential question, “What does it mean to be free?” Read aloud and independently, these literary works deepen cultural connections, enrich vocabulary, ignite curiosity, and foster critical thinking.
Students explore the theme Finding Freedom
Explore 8th Grade, Unit 4 Literary Works
In eighth grade, our RedThread Knowledge curriculum introduces students to classical texts like Antigone and modern works including Uprising. Throughout the school year students read and analyze these texts, relating them back to the yearlong theme, “Changemakers in the Ancient, Modern, and Future World.” Students grow as independent readers, writers, and thinkers as they engage with global, thematic books that help develop deep content knowledge.
Teacher and Leader Testimonials
Learn about the transformative impact of our curriculum from educators just like you.
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