Laprea Education

The program can be used as a whole-group K–2 foundational program and/or supplemental program that follows our provided pacing guide, and it includes built-in small-group differentiated support. 

The program can also be used for targeted instruction and/or intervention for students in grades K–4. Use the provided preassessments to place each student into the program where their skills best align, and move forward through the scope and sequence from there.

How the program aligns with the science of reading and strategies for effective literacy instruction.

Indiana districts and schools can enhance their literacy instruction by adopting the Structured Literacy with E.A.S.E program, which is firmly grounded in the science of reading and incorporates research-based strategies. This program aligns with current educational research by providing explicit, systematic instruction of foundational reading skills, while simultaneously integrating language comprehension components (Blevins, 2024; Gough & Tunmer, 1986; Scarborough, 2001).

Structured Literacy with E.A.S.E utilizes a Speech-to-Print approach, an instructional methodology that connects phonemes to graphemes through abundant orthographic mapping (Wasowicz, 2021). This approach leverages the brain’s natural aptitude for oral language while helping facilitate the development of new neural networks (Dehaene, 2009; Seidenberg, 2017). Lessons in this program focus on teaching how a phoneme connects to a grapheme. The most common graphemes that represent the forty-four sounds of the English language are explicitly taught throughout the four reading sequences.