Analyze your district's current literacy practices. 

The Tar Heel Reader website is one of the easiest, most accessible free libraries for emergent and beginning readers. The collection of books can be read online, on tablets, smart phones, or downloaded in a variety of formats depending on student needs. 

Access instructional routines and materials for designing foundational reading skills lessons.  The routines are designed for students in first grade who are learning to read and students in first, second, and third grades who need additional instructional support.  This lesson set includes routines and enough materials for the entire school year including: 

• the top 500 sight words,

• approximately 4,000 decodable words,

• more than 200 image cards for phonological awareness,

• more than 80 sound-spellings ordered by frequency, and

• more than 40 sound-spelling cards for the most common phonograms.

Decodable Passages, Center Activities, Lessons

Classroom-proven resources including favorite books, reading passages, vocabulary lessons, word pictures, literacy lists & forms. Texts are available for beginning readers to middle-school students who need support in automaticity and vocabulary.