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Great Minds has created a suite of resources to support educators and ensure a successful implementation.
MISSISSIPPI TEACHERS AND STUDENTS DESERVE THE BEST
Reviewing Wit & Wisdom® and Geodes® for Grades K–5
Great Minds® believes every child is capable of greatness and it’s our mission to empower educators to help children achieve it.
Mississippi has the opportunity to provide the powerful, high-quality ELA materials for ensuring all students have access to the rigorous, standards aligned, and knowledge-building content necessary for success in college, career, and beyond.
Celebrate the joys of reading, writing, speaking , and more with Wit & Wisdom® along with Geodes® and Really Great Reading®, all designed to build student content knowledge while enhancing their creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration skills. Click the links below to access the resources that are available to review and evaluate the curricula, and the suite of implementation support resources that are available.
Authentic, Complex, Information-Rich Texts
The Facts About Wit & Wisdom And Its Impact
It starts with the books. Excellent texts are at the center of Wit & Wisdom. Students build knowledge through carefully curated core texts that
- are rich with content that piques curiosity,
- represent grade-level complexity, and
- showcase diverse perspectives.
Literary Journeys for All Students
Discover the impact of high-quality texts that provide windows into different time periods, cultures, and parts of the world that students may otherwise never experience, mirrors for students to see themselves represented, and sliding glass doors to step into the shoes of characters, as students build perspective and understanding of other citizens of the world.
Supporting Student Equity Through Diverse, Complex Texts
The Power of High-Quality Curriculum for Students With Diverse Learning Needs
Investing in Teachers and Students Through High-Quality Curriculum
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Teacher Editions
Multilingual Learner Resources
Geodes
Inside Geodes Teacher Guides & Booklists
Wilson Fundations
Teacher Materials
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Teacher Editions
Multilingual Learner Resources
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Student Editions
Family Tip Sheets (Consejos Para Familias)
Geodes
Level K Sample Titles
Level 1 Sample Titles
Level 2 Sample Titles
Wilson Fundations
Student Materials
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Student Editions
Family Tip Sheets (Consejos Para Familias)
More Meaningful English
Wit & Wisdom® is a comprehensive K–8 English language arts curriculum crafted to help students build the knowledge and skills they need to be successful readers, exceptional writers, and effective communicators.
Through a rigorous learning design based on Scarborough’s Rope, students gain content knowledge and an awareness of how to read texts, write, speak, and listen.
Free Curriculum Overview Recording
We know that many teachers need additional, targeted scaffolds to support multilingual learners. That’s why we created research-aligned resources that ensure all students have the same access to high-quality grade-level materials as their peers.
Our new Multilingual Learner Resources put the spotlight on existing lesson elements that specifically benefit multilingual learners in addition to providing lesson-specific supports for reading, writing, language, and speaking and listening instruction.
The K–5 Multilingual Learner Resources below include:
- a Multilingual Learner Resource Module Map, which lists the lessons and their supports in module sequence;
- an overview of module learning alignment to World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) and English Language Proficiency (ELP) standards; and
- targeted reading, writing, language, and speaking and listening supports for specific lessons.
Learning to Read While Reading to Learn
Great Minds created Geodes, a new collection of accessible, knowledge-building books for developing readers.
While most early literacy books are quite basic, Geodes are rich with facts and ideas that spark students’ curiosity about the world around them.
Take a look inside Geodes books and access support resources for Levels K–2 below.
Free Program Overview Recording
Inside Geodes Teacher Resource
Anansi and the Pot of Beans
Words by Rachel Zindler
Pictures by Christopher Cyr
Anansi and the Pot of Beans Book Notes
Inside Geodes Teacher Resource
And The Winner Is...
Words by Tami Charles
Pictures by Eva Sánchez Gómez
And the Winner Is... Book Notes
Tools for Teaching Reading
Implementation Support Resources for Educators
Professional Learning
The Wit & Wisdom teacher-writers have developed in-depth professional development and personalized coaching resources to support schools and districts prepare for, and sustain, a successful implementation. Virtual and in-person sessions are available.
Support Blog
The Wit & Wisdom blog written by the curriculum's teacher-writers covers a wide range of topics. From making the shift to a content-focused and preparing students for assessments to social-emotional learning and using complex texts, each blog post provides strategies for success.
Webinar Library
A free library of on-demand webinars led by expert Wit & Wisdom educators that provide implementation strategies and a preview into the in-depth professional development sessions that are available.
Support Resources Families & Caregivers
In addition to the free Family Tip Sheets available in the student materials above, these Wit & Wisdom videos provide families with an overview of the ELA curriculum their students will be learning.
English Resources
Spanish Resources
