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Building Wings

Reading and writing are
within reach for ALL students.

They just need the right tools.

Do you struggle with:

• Meeting ALL students’ learning needs?
• Engaging ALL students in reading and writing?
• Helping ALL students make IEP progress?

With Building Wings, you can feel confident your students are learning from the best possible reading and writing instruction —and will be prepared to demonstrate their skills.

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First Author™

Get step-by-step guidance for teaching writing to students with a range of abilities, from scribbling to writing paragraphs —and measure progress of ALL proportions using our proven Developmental Writing Scale.
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Readtopia®

Engage ALL students in learning phonics and early reading with Readtopia. Developed based on research by Dr. Karen Erickson, Readtopia teaches experiential lessons across multiple themes and subjects.
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ReadtopiaGO™

ReadtopiaGO™ by Building Wings is a comprehensive early literacy curriculum for emergent learners, Pre-K to Grade 2, designed to help get our youngest students on the road to literacy.
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How We Build Wings

Led by Don Johnston, Building Wings develops engaging instructional materials that meet the widest range of student needs.
We partner with an interdisciplinary team of specialists in literature, literacy, history, education, photography, film, alternate assessment, and exploration.
Our contributors include:
Don Johnston
M.S.
Karen Erickson
PhD
Caroline
Musselwhite
EdD, CCC-SLP
Janet Sturm
PhD, CCC-SLP,
BCS-CL, F-ASHA

Watch your students become success stories

Imagine seeing ALL of your students with varying abilities working on their writing independently. When you implement our special education resources in your classroom, the “impossible” becomes possible.

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Karen A. Erickson, Ph.D.​

Karen A. Erickson, Ph.D. is Director of the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies at University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. Her focus is on understanding the best ways to assess and teach reading and writing to children with the most severe disabilities. As a special education teacher, Dr. Erickson has worked to support students with a range of disabilities in a variety of classroom settings, particularly students who do not use speech as their primary means of communication.

Website: https://www.med.unc.edu/ahs/clds

Author Profile: https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_Contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=110&Name=Karen+Erickson,Ph.D.​

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