WELCOME TO Okapi Educational PublishingTM

Flexible literacy solutions built on best-practice instruction

Dear Valued Educator,

Welcome back to the 2023-2024 school year. We hope the weeks and months ahead are fulfilling and productive ones for you. As always, Okapi Educational Publishing™ remains poised to provide you with exceptional learning resources to ignite the literacy (and biliteracy) of your students.

Are you a dual language educator in search of fundamentally equitable curricula? Be sure to take note of our new Dual Language Resources section (pages 58-63). Okapi has made your job simpler by combining our English and Spanish packages into comprehensive bundles of both languages, where every title in English is matched with its counterpart in Spanish.

Okapi Digital Literacy™ is a digital platform offering subscription-based licenses for more than 1100 student books with full instructional support. And— new for this school year—buyers of print editions can access the full complement of Biliteracy para todos™ downloadable instructional components, the Investigations/Investigaciones templates that expand the learning for WorldWise: Content-based Learning™ and ExploraMundos™ at Grades 3-5, as well as the National and TEKS lesson plans for all student books. Registration is required for access. Create your personal login by going to: https://myokapi.com/customer/ account/create/

Your local Okapi Representative would be happy to provide you with more information and physical samples of any of our materials. Consider a conversation about your instructional goals/needs with one of our friendly and knowledgeable representatives. Find the one in your area by going to https://myokapi.com/find-a-rep/

Thank you for the work you do and for considering our company!

Sincerely,

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• the use of multiple strategies to integrate phonological awareness, orthography, and morphology.

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Okapi Digital Literacy™ provides access to over 1100 books and supportive instruction from all levels of Okapi’s flagship programs: Flying Start to Literacy™ • Despegando hacia la lectura ® • WorldWise: Content-based Learning™ • ExploraMundos™• Biliteracy para todos™

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Biliteracy para todos™: Teaching for Language Connections is carefully crafted to deliver simultaneous biliteracy instruction targeting language, content, and translanguaging objectives. Thoughtfully selected texts will engage and inform your emergent bilinguals.

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Lift Off to Literacy™: Using a Shared Reading Approach seamlessly transitions young readers into core literacy programs with shared reading. Develop early literacy skills through rhyme, rhythm, repetition, and highly predictable texts!

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Flying Start to Literacy™ is an award-winning program that supports the systematic development of reading strategies and skills in young students. Experience The Power of the Pair ® with paired informational and narrative texts connected by the big idea that unites them.

WorldWise: Content-based Learning™ presents core content fully aligned by grade level to the Next Generation Science Standards and C3 Social Studies Outcomes. Encourage students to approach science and social studies topics using their natural sense of inquiry.

Just Dual It!® is an easy-to-follow guide to the exciting, equitable, dual-language packages in both English and Spanish from Flying Start to Literacy™, Despegando hacia Ia lectura™, WorldWise: Content-based Learning™, and ExploraMundos™

Despegando hacia la lectura®: Un enfoque de lectura compartida launches young readers into literacy through shared reading in Spanish. Revisit familiar books again and again while students develop a love of reading that can last a lifetime.

Despegando hacia Ia lectura® is a comprehensive, Spanish-language literacy resource reinforced by The Power of the Pair ®. It may be fully implemented as a stand-alone program or used with Flying Start to Literacy™ for rigorous dual-language instruction.

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ExploraMundos™: Aprendizaje a través del contenido, the Spanish-language counterpart to WorldWise: Content-based Learning™, encourages inquiry and questioning while extending knowledge in science, social studies, and STEM topics. 104

Leveled Bookroom Collections are pre-selected with books drawn from our flagship programs. Okapi Bookrooms offer a wealth of leveled texts for small-group instruction, economically packaged to fit your budget. ALSO: Bookroom Collections for Spanish-language instruction or dual literacy!

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