The Science of Reading Resources

The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child was a landmark essential resource for parents, offering accessible information on child development based on a deep understanding of brain research and psychology. Now that knowledge has been distilled in The Educator's Guide to Understanding Child Development, which is designed to inform educators' practice with a solid grounding in child development.

Eric Litwin and Gina Pepin give you what you need to transform your classroom into a “reading playground” — a space in which children read along to, sing to, dance to, and celebrate words and texts. A space in which they experience the power of joyful reading. 

Written for early childhood educators, this exciting new book from the authors of Raising a Rock-Star Reader features lots of fun, developmentally appropriate activities that build oral language and early reading and writing skills.

Leading phonics expert Wiley Blevins has updated his best-selling classic to include the latest in phonics instruction and the science of reading, as well as current research on handwriting and on phonemic awareness. 

Dr. Julia B. Lindsey’s evidence-based routines help young readers decode words efficiently so they can spend more energy on comprehending-and enjoying-what they read!

In this no-nonsense guide, primary reading expert and classroom teacher Lindsay Kemeny shares seven ways K-3 teachers can modify what they are currently doing to transform their reading instruction. 

Each box contains laminated cards that target and teach must-know concepts including short vowels, long vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. 

Each phoneme card features a large photo of a child demonstrating the correct position of the tongue, teeth, and mouth when making one of the 44 sounds in the English language. 

Give children the tools they need to soar as readers with this irresistible set of highly decodable stories!

Set children on the road to literacy success with these playful, highly decodable stories!

The fun, easy-to-read stories in this collection give your child practice with must-know phonics skills, such as short vowels, long vowels, consonant blends, digraphs, and more.

Wildly Inventive Introduction to the Alphabet, Careers, and Playful Peas!

Make way for another laugh-out-loud adventure in the Very Impatient Caterpillar series! Perfect for fans of Mo Willems' Pigeon series.

Dave the bear lives in the shadow of his brother, Clarence. Clarence is tall, handsome, bold, and brave. Dave...isn't. Dave wonders if he'll ever live up to his brother's example, until he finds a special talent that's all his own.

With themes of self-acceptance, identity, and home, this powerful, lyrical picture book will resonate with readers young and old, from all backgrounds and of all colors-especially anyone who ever felt that they don't belong.

Joe and Ravi don't think they have anything in common, but soon enough they have a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and a common mission: to take control of their lives over the course of a single crazy week.

A lyrical love letter to Black and brown children everywhere: reminding them how much they matter, that they have always mattered, and they always will.

Organized into color-coded levels, these short, compelling stories will have both emergent and more advanced readers entertained and engaged as they explore new stories with their favorite characters.

How many ways are there to be an engineer? In this story that blends narrative and nonfiction elements, readers meet a wide variety of engineers that support our communities.

With comic speech bubbles and full-color artwork throughout, Geisel Award Honoree Jonathan Fenske's early reader series is sure to be a hit with new readers!