Rigby JillE Literacy is a balanced literacy experience that offers resources to engage readers, spark critical thinking, and inspire curiosity. JillE Literacy Student Books include delightful stories for K–3 students with authentic learning opportunities. The embedded professional development within the instructional tools helps teachers gain the time to focus on their teaching and supports them in easily introducing balanced literacy into their classrooms.
Student Experience
Texts that captivate students and inspire curiosity in reading make achievement accessible at every level and ensure growth for all students.
- The multiple text forms and genres include compelling language, visuals, and humor
- Students have partner and small-group discussions with explicit support for decoding and comprehension
- Social-emotional learning opportunities are woven into the program’s design
- Response and genre writing activities work to nurture skill building
- JillE Literacy Read Aloud Books, Poetry Cards, and Shared Books feature rhythmical, musical language and engaging stories that help teachers model and share the joy of reading.
- JillE Literacy Leveled Books are specially designed to engage young readers with high-interest nonfiction and thought-provoking stories while systematically building their decoding, comprehension, and critical-thinking skills.
Teacher Experience
Jill Eggleton understands how demanding it is to provide “just-right” balanced literacy instruction to a classroom of students with different reading levels and instructional needs. With JillE Literacy, teachers will spend less time planning and more time teaching with this simple, effective approach.
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Increase valuable instructional time by significantly reducing the planning and preparation time needed to create effective and differentiated balanced literacy lessons.
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Professional development supports are built into every page of the Teacher’s Books
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Prompts and guiding questions on the page support in developing comprehension skills and strategies for students