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The Office of Standards and Instruction provides resources to support districts and schools as they develop and implement high-quality, culturally responsive instruction designed to help all students achieve the expectations set forth in the NYS Learning Standards.    In addition to the below, please see the individual content area pages for resources specific to the content areas.

The Science of Reading Literacy Briefs

These briefs were produced by Dr. Nonie K. Lesaux, Professor of Education and Human Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Katie C. Carr, M.Ed. The new literacy briefs may be used to strengthen knowledge of evidence-based literacy practices in PK-12 education.

  • Briefs Roadmap
  • Brief 1: Science of Reading: What is it?
  • Brief 2: Science of Reading: Debunking Common Myths
  • Brief 3: Science of Reading: The Role of Writing
  • Brief 4: Science of Reading: The PreK Years
  • Brief 5: Science of Reading: The Elementary Years
  • Brief 6: Science of Reading: The Secondary Years
  • Brief 7: Science of Reading: Leading for Literacy
  • Glossary of Key Terms

Find more information relating to the literacy in New York State at the Literacy Initiative webpage . 

Academic and Linguistic Demands: Creating Access to the Next Generation Learning Standards in English Language Arts for Linguistically Diverse Learners (ALDs)

The New York State Education Department discontinued support for the EngageNY.org website on July 7, 2022. The NYSED encourages educators to download any EngageNY content they wish to use in the future from our archive sites below.

All ELA and mathematics curriculum files will be available at the links below, and will remain free and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license . 

Archived EngageNY Curriculum Files:

  • Mathematics Curriculum Modules
  • English Language Arts Curriculum Modules

Grades 3-8 ELA and Mathematics Test Materials:

  • Office of State Assessment Past Examinations

EngageNY Video Library Archive

All videos that were posted on EngageNY are available from our YouTube or Vimeo accounts:

  • Vimeo EngageNY Video Library
  • YouTube EngageNY Video Library

Questions regarding this change may be directed to the Standards and Instruction office .

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