The New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) is expanding its efforts to close literacy gaps with the launch of the 2025 CLSD Upper Elementary and Secondary Interventions Mini Grant

Interactive writing engages a class in collaborative writing as teachers guide students to add words and ideas. Learn simple strategies to get started.

Writing development progresses through five stages: pre-phonemic, early phonemic, random letters, invented spelling, and conventional writing. Learn more here.

Metacognition prompts students to look beyond the tasks they undertake or the books they read. It fosters deep thinking and self-reflection about the material they encounter.

Consonant blends support student reading skills. Explore how blends like “bl” and “str” improve decoding and comprehension.

This guide offers a helpful progression for teaching sentence combining.