Literacy for ME 2.0 is Maine's statewide approach to advancing literacy for all learners. Grounded in the belief that literacy is essential for lifelong learning, educational equity, and a thriving society, this initiative provides guidance, tools, and resources to support high-quality, culturally responsive literacy instruction across all grade levels. Explore Maine's comprehensive state literacy plan, Literacy for ME 2.0 to inform your practice, strengthen collaboration, and drive meaningful literacy growth in your community.

• Literacy for ME 2.0

The Maine Department of Education (DOE) is seeking feedback from educators, school leaders, and partners across the field on the draft Literacy Playbook.

This playbook is designed to support schools and school administrative units (SAUs) in strengthening numeracy instruction and systems in alignment with Maine’s State Literacy Action Plan, and your perspective is essential to making it as clear, useful, and practical as possible. Because the playbook is a large, comprehensive document, the feedback survey is structured so that you do not need to review the entire playbook to participate.

We invite you to provide feedback on the sections most relevant to your role, experience, and context.

The feedback window will remain open through the week of February 23. Broad field input will help ensure the playbook reflects the realities, strengths, and needs of literacy work happening across Maine.

We also want to be clear about how your feedback will be used. To ensure we thoughtfully process and synthesize input, our team will review feedback in two-week cycles. This approach allows us to look for patterns, themes, and areas of alignment across responses, rather than reacting to individual comments in isolation.

While we may not be able to incorporate every individual suggestion, all feedback will be read, considered, and used to inform our revision decisions as we work toward a final, field-informed version of the playbook.

Your input will help us improve clarity and usability across sections, ensure the guidance and tools are grounded in the realities of Maine classrooms and schools, and strengthen alignment with evidence-based literacy practices and statewide priorities.

We know your time is valuable, and we deeply appreciate your willingness to share your insights. This playbook is intended to be a practical, supportive resource for the field, and your feedback plays a critical role in shaping its final form.

Thank you for the important work you do every day to support Maine learners.

Literacy Playbook

Literacy Playbook Feedback Survey

Building Literacy

Strong, versatile readers are the key to a bright future. Discover how integrated and foundational literacy skills lay the groundwork for lifelong learning and success!

• Early Learning Foundational Skills - Young brains are wired for language! Discover how early interactions and instruction from parents & caregivers build strong literacy foundations!
• Integrated Literacy - Want to boost learning across subjects? Discover how integrated literacy weaves reading, writing, and communication into every lesson for deeper understanding!

• High-Quality, Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction - Guidance document for Maine school administrative units that outlines the tenets to which high-quality early literacy programming (Pre-k to Grade 3) should be aligned.

Structured Supports

Striving & emerging readers need more than practice—discover how evidence-based, structured literacy builds strong skills in phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension!”

• Dyslexia & Reading Difficulty - Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities.
• Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) - Curious how to support every readers success? Learn how a Multi-tiered System of Supports (MTSS) ensures all students have timely and relevant access to evidence-based literacy instruction and intervention!
• Multilingual Learners - Multilingual learners bring valuable assets to our classrooms! Learn how integrating literacy instruction with culturally responsive teaching builds on strengths, for long-term success.

An overview of professional terminology and basic instructional strategies to support elementary instruction connecting the alphabet to sound, coding, and decoding words.

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Learn essential terminology and basic instructional strategies to support elementary students in being able to read a text quickly, accurately, and with expression, and to make sense of the information

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Explore how to support students in developing a rich, robust vocabulary and becoming proficient in spelling.

 

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Literacy in Action

See how you can use literacy to make a difference!

• At the Library - Check in with the Maine State Library for books, research, and so much more.
• The Pine Project: Everyone is Welcome - The Welcoming Library modules are designed for your professional development and guided by the CASEL framework. [Contact Hours Opportunity]

Learning & Professional Development

Striving readers need more than practice—discover how evidence-based, structured literacy builds strong skills in phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension!”

1. EnGiNE - Maine DOE's community forums and learning management system. [Note: You do need an EnGiNE account to engage]
   • What We are Reading, Watching, Listening to, & Thinking About - Join the community forum to discuss favorite books and the latest thinking on literacy.

• Office Hours - Connect with us to speak in-depth on all things literacy
  • Integrated literacy topical discussions
    Every Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.
  • Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Office Hours
    First Friday of the month
  • Early Learning Office Hours
    Every 3rd Thursday of the month