It’s vital that we support young children’s reading in ways that nurture healthy reading identities, that foster an attraction to books and a love of reading, and that teach them how make meaning in any text they choose, whether or not they can read the words.
—Kathy Collins and Matt Glover

What do we see when young children interact... more

“I don’t know.”
Is there a more frustrating answer when we ask students what they think about the texts they’re reading?  More often than not, they DO know; or at least, they have something to say but are afraid to say it.

Marilyn Pryle argues that we can help students find their voices and deeply understand texts when we invite them to write and share short... more

In The Book in Question, Carol Jago issues a call to action. Reading is in crisis. Too often, too many students are choosing not to read. “There is urgency to our work,” She argues. “We are living in an increasingly polarized world. Books offer access to lives and stories outside the boundaries of our limited first-hand experience. Without those stories it can be difficult... more

• 10 original titles (6 copies of each title) at text level A on the F&P Text Level Gradient™: My Lunch; Picnic Lunch; Making Things; The Kite; Lunch for Monkey; Food for Birds; Ready to Go; My Dad the Baker; My Grandma the Beekeeper; Animal Band

• 10 original titles (6 copies of each title) at text level S on the F&P Text Level Gradient™: Watch Out! Animals with Surprising Defenses; Nature's Recycling Team; A Time to Remember; A Village on Stilts / Growing Up in the Amazon (two-way

• 5 original titles (6 copies of each title) at text level W on the F&P Text Level Gradient™: Today's Special: Fake Meat; Wriggling, Squirming, and Starving: A Farm of Flies; Turn Down the Volume: Solving the Problem of Noise Pollution / The Dark

• 10 original titles (6 copies of each title) at text level I on the F&P Text Level Gradient™: Dinner with a Python; A Peeper Sings; Making a Pencil; Nina's Rainbow: A Tale from the Ojibwe Nation; The Fox and the Grapes; New Kinds of Animals; A House

• 10 original titles (6 copies of each title) at text level M on the F&P Text Level Gradient™: Frank and Bean; Thumbs Tompkins and the Long Mile; Trevor's Big Adventure / Red-Eyed Tree Frog (two-way book); Nature's Pockets; Knock-knock Fever;

• 10 original titles (6 copies of each title) at text level O on the F&P Text Level Gradient™: Creepers in the Corn; Ants for Lunch; Woolly Bear of the North; The Fuzzy Robot; Shells, Spikes, and Scales; Weddell Seals: Diving Champions; The Ice Cream