Welcome to LDC!

Please join us in welcoming Chad Vignola, our Founding Director.

The Literacy Design Collaborative is a loosely affiliated group of teachers and other partners building out a template-based approach to the literacy demands of college and the workplace, as defined by the Common Core State Standards.

Visit our Intro page to learn more about LDC basics and our Info page to see recent LDC coverage. Plus, check out our quickly growing collection of exemplar tasks and modules.

LDC Basics

The 1.0 Guidebook to LDC is the core resource document explaining the LDC approach and early classroom accounts of LDC at work for students.

New Template Tasks: Send us your thoughts!

The Literacy Design Collaborative invites all teachers to review and provide feedback for three sets of new template tasks:

LDC Template Task Collection II: A revised version of the original 29 template tasks

CCSS LDC Template Tasks: Three examples of template tasks using specific CCSS language, including history/social studies, ELA, and informational texts

K-2 Elementary LDC Template Tasks: Created by our colleagues at the NYC Department of Education, also includes K-2 scoring rubrics

Visit the full page for more information and to submit your feedback!

LDC Letter!

May 2013 Stories: How One DC Elementary School Puts LDC into Practice; Refining the Jurying System: A Letter from Executive Director Chad Vignola; Common Core Lab Develops Innovative Template Tasks for Elementary Students

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LDC template tasks are fill-in-the-blank “shells” built off the Common Core standards. They allow teachers to insert the texts to be read, writing to be produced, and content to be addressed. When filled in, template tasks create high-quality student assignments that develop reading, writing, and thinking skills in the context of learning science, history, English, and other subjects.

LDC Template Task Collection 1
Educurious Science Template Tasks
LDC Elementary Template Tasks
K-2 Template Tasks (NEW)
LDC Template Task Collection 2 (NEW)

LDC Modules help teachers teach students to succeed on assignments created using LDC Template Tasks. Modules are built on a common “chassis” so instruction can be shared across a wide variety of grades, content areas, and instructional approaches.

Anatomy of a Module is a print-ready handout that gives an overview of the LDC module. Versions of color and black and white are available.

Sample Modules from teachers participating in LDC implementation across many states are one of the best illustrations of how LDC design can work. Click below to see sample modules in:
English Language Arts
Science & Technical Subjects
History & Social Studies