Science of Reading Brochure

Grades PreK–12

The Science of Reading Meets the Love of Reading

What Does It Take to Become a Skilled Reader? As the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, Scholastic has an unwavering commitment to children learning and loving to read. We believe research and evidence-based practices should inform all reading instruction.

Background Knowledge (facts, concepts, cultural information, etc.)

Vocabulary (breadth, precision, links, etc.)

Language Structures (syntax, semantics, etc.)

Verbal Reasoning (inference, metaphor, etc.)

Literacy Knowledge (genres, print concepts, text features, etc.)

Phonological Awareness (syllables, phonemic awareness, etc.)

Decoding (and Spelling) (alphabetic principle, spelling-sound correspondence, writing, etc.)

Sight Recognition (automatic, accurate word reading)

More than four decades of peer-reviewed research from educational psychology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, implementation science, and neuroscience informs our understanding of reading development and instruction. This large body of scientific evidence is known as the Science of Reading . While researchers have proposed several models of how students learn to read, they all agree that effective instruction requires systematic, explicit teaching of two types of skills— code-focused (phonological awareness, decoding and spelling, and sight recognition) and meaning-focused (background knowledge, vocabulary, language structures, verbal reasoning, and literacy knowledge).

Skilled Reading

Fluent execution and coordination of word recognition and text comprehension.

*Adapted from Scarborough, H. (2001). Connecting early language and literacy to later reading (dis)abilities: Evidence, theory, and practice, pp. 97–110 in S. B. Neuman & D. K. Dickinson (Eds.) Handbook of Early Literacy Research . NY: Guilford Press.

Code-Focused Programs and Resources Before students can comprehend what they’re reading, they need to learn how to connect letters with their sounds. Scholastic Education Solutions’ phonics and decoding resources give teachers what they need to deliver systematic and explicit instruction in phonics, decoding, and sight recognition.

Scholastic Literacy Specialists are ready to help you get the most out of your programs with professional development sessions and coaching. See page 14 to learn more!

Discover how you can further enhance your literacy block with Our Stories

Decodables. See page 6.

Grades K–3 | Curriculum

Systematic Phonics Instruction Built on the Science of Reading

Ready4Reading is a complete systematic phonics program grounded in the latest Science of Reading research. It combines explicit phonics instruction with knowledge- building decodables to truly get kids ready for reading. But what makes it so special are the high-interest instructional routines and engaging texts that spark a love of reading right from an early age.

Support all students with high-interest phonics instruction and knowledge-building decodables. Systematically build phonics skills with an evidence- based framework. Optimize instruction for every child with two powerful assessments that provide data-driven insights. Seamlessly integrate knowledge, vocabulary, and other language-comprehension skills into phonics instruction.

Ready4Reading features multiple modules that work together as a comprehensive phonics program or can be purchased separately to support your existing program.

Highly engaging, highly decodable text cards provide opportunities for students to practice and strengthen phonics skills tied to specific sound-spellings.

Build background knowledge and phonics skills with connected text sets and background-building videos to support the transition from decodables to natural-language texts.

CODE-FOCUSED PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES

Grades K–3 | Summer Give Phonics a Boost This Summer

Improve phonics skills with Ready4Reading Phonics Booster Kits. Grounded in the latest Science of Reading research, these kits work seamlessly with your summer curriculum to provide explicit phonics instruction and prepare students for next school year. Each kit provides: Short Reads Decodables: Highly decodable informational and fictional texts on two-sided cards to practice and solidify sound-spellings. Read to Know Text Sets: Engaging videos and multiple decodable texts on a common topic to build knowledge and improve decoding skills. Teacher’s Guide: Lessons for each text and skills-specific planning and pacing for flexible implementation. Digital Materials: Student resources for Read to Know Text Sets that include Watch & Learn videos and Respond & Write activities.

Choose from 4 skill-specific kits:

Kit 1: Short Vowels and Consonant Blend Review

Kit 2: Short Vowels and Consonant Blend Review, Consonant Digraphs, Contractions, Long Vowels

Challenge Words

TEACHING PHONICS WILEY BLEVINS

by Jill Korey O’Sullivan

SHORT READS DECODABLES

READ TO KNOW T E X T S E T S

TEXT SET 12

>> Kitchen Science Informational: Retelling Just Add Water Informational: Expand Knowledge Pawprint Soup Based on the Folktale “Stone Soup” Adapted Folktale

Shared Content-Area Vocabulary boil change science Shared High-Frequency Words every our want (review) what (review) where

by Joseph De Guzman

KITCHEN SCIENCE

Phonics Focus and Other Targets

Challenge Words

Variant Vowel Digraphs /oo/ oo, u; /oo/ u, u_e, oo, ue, ew; /ŏ/ al, aw, au

Contractions With would (-’d) and have (-’ve)

bread chocolate dough

all cause chew clues

food foods good launch look pull put

raw rule spoon straw super tool

sauce water

you’d you’ve

cooked cooking cool

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Kit 4: Advanced Phonics and Word Study Review

Kit 3: Long Vowel Spellings, Syllables, Inflectional Endings, r-Controlled and Variant Vowels

CODE-FOCUSED PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES

TEACHING PHONICS WILEY BLEVINS

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READ TO KNOW T E X T S E T S

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Oral Reading Rubric

Using an Oral Reading Rubric for Formative Assessment

Formative assessment involves monitoring children’s progress during the course of learning so that you can identify their level of skills mastery. Regular formative assessment of foundational skills can be highly useful as a means of evaluating children’s facility with the specific skills they’ve been learning and practicing so that you can assess mastery and determine needs for additional support. Formative assessment may be implemented both in person and as a digital tool. When used as part of Scholastic’s Ready4Reading system, teacher observations using this rubric may be used in conjunction with reports data collected through the system’s digital activities that use voice technology to monitor children’s performance. Procedures for Formative Assessment Identify Texts Read to Know Review Texts are good choices for use as formative assessments as they offer a consolidated review of the targeted phonic elements from the three prior text sets. Though, as time allows, you may also use other Read to Know decodable texts that align with your phonics instruction and children’s progress. Set Expectations Let the child know that he or she will be reading aloud to you. Explain that the child can ask for help as needed and that you will give clues to help as needed. Follow a Consistent Routine Use this Oral Reading Rubric to guide you as you record observations. • Provide access to the Watch & Learn video associated with the given text before reading. (This is not essential for Review Texts, as they are designed to stand alone, but the videos for regular text sets build children’s background knowledge and success with reading related texts.) • Provide the child with time to preview the book and pre-read it on his or her own as time allows. • If you want to time children’s reading, begin the timing after they read the title. To calculate words correct per minute (WCPM), subtract the number of errors from the total number of words read, then divide by the total time in minutes. • Ask the child to read aloud to you at his or her own pace. If the child asks for help, provide strategic guidance such as asking him or her to try sounding out a word or to notice familiar word parts. • Give reminders as needed for content-area words, high-frequency words, and any challenge words. • Once the child is decoding with general proficiency, you may further coach him or her to try using expression and natural phrasing to read with fluency. • If the child struggles, consider reading the text together, noting the child’s specific needs for additional instruction and practice (e.g., sound-spellings that are not mastered, lack of fluency in reading connected text, or other specifics). Book 11

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Grades K–5 | Literacy Instruction Celebrate Diverse Voices and Elevate Foundational Skills

These culturally relevant decodable texts support structured literacy instruction with targeted phonics practice and evidence-based teacher support materials. Written by creators from diverse backgrounds, many of whom are from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Our Stories Decodables allow all students to see their experiences reflected and celebrated as they learn to read.

Each grade-level collection includes: 24 decodable texts (6 copies of each)

Teacher’s Guide Welcome letter Scholastic bins and labels

Digital resources including printable take-home books, Respond & Write resources, and assessment rubrics

Grades PreK–2 | Literacy Instruction

Personalize Each Student’s Path to Fluency

Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. ® is a highly adaptive reading program that secures the foundational reading skills students need to become automatic, fluent readers. Ensure strong learning outcomes with a robust scope and sequence, grounded in research and trusted by educators. Develop foundational reading skills with 24 levels of phonemic and phonetic activities and 85 ebooks. Personalize each student’s pathway to reading proficiency with highly adaptive technology and continuous formative assessments.

Grades K–2 | Literacy Instruction

Develop Foundational Spanish Skills with Decodable Texts Short, enjoyable stories provide Spanish-speaking children with early reading access through independent, sound-controlled reading materials and systematic phonics instruction. Sets of books focus on a selected group of consonants and short vowels with frequent opportunities to practice them. Each book builds upon lessons taught in the previous book, ensuring that the majority of words in each story are decodable.

Grades K–2 | Literacy Instruction

Develop Foundational Skills with Decodable Texts

Phonics Readers are a fun and engaging way for children to consistently apply their developing phonics skills while reading short, enjoyable stories. Provide children with early reading access through independent, sound- controlled reading materials and systematic phonics instruction. Phonics Readers help children: Develop phonemic awareness, make connections between sounds and letters, blend sounds to make words, and write words. Recognize high-frequency words commonly found in early reading while developing fluency and increasing their reading rate.

CODE-FOCUSED PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES

Grades K–2 | Classroom Resource

Laugh-a-Lot! Phonics These engaging and highly decodable book collections provide loads of practice with must-know phonics concepts. Build essential phonics skills including short vowels, long vowels, and blends and digraphs. Make great reading gains with highly decodable texts that

Cub and Pug hug in the mud. Mud, mud!

Cub and Pug dig in the mud. Mud, mud!

Cub and Pug tug in the mud. Mud, mud!

will have your students laughing out loud! Includes a Family Guide and mini-workbook.

Grades K–2 | Classroom Resource

Nonfiction Phonics Readers Give your child the tools to become a successful reader with this big collection of titles that target must-know concepts: short vowels, blends, plurals, and more. Each title features clear photos, just-right decodable text, and lively real-world topics such as pets, frogs, bugs,

friendship, trucks, weather, and so many more. Includes a caregiver guide and mini-workbook to reinforce learning.

Jen Hen sat on eggs in the pen.

Peck, peck, peck! POP, POP, POP!

Grades K–3 | Classroom Resource

Decodable Cards Improve phonics skills in just minutes a day with decodable passages that target must-know concepts. Supplement phonics instruction with this innovative resource from reading expert Rhonda Graff. Each box contains laminated cards that introduce a key skill on the front and feature a decodable story on the back. Skills covered include short vowels, long vowels, blends, and more.

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Boat Trip Joan and Stan were on Mike’s oak boat. They wanted to soak up the rays of the sun. All of a sudden, they felt raindrops. So they put on their raincoats. Big drops of rain hit the floating boat. Joan could see foaming waves on the coast. Then just as fast as it came, the rain stopped. “Hooray!” say Joan and Stan. They soaked up a bit more sun on the oak boat. “Thanks for a fine day, Mike!” say Jane and Stan.

Grades 1–3 | Classroom Resource

Articulation Cards Created in partnership with speech pathologists, Articulation Cards help students make connections between spoken and written words—so they can sound out new words on their own! Demonstrate the correct position of the tongue, teeth, and mouth for all 44 sounds of English with large, full-color photos. QR codes on each card take you to video demonstrations of each sound. Create sound walls that students can reference when spelling and reading words—an included guide shows you how!

Grades K–2 | Classroom Resource

Phonics Bingo! Long & Complex Vowels Set children up for reading success with these fun and motivating games that build a strong foundation in phonics. These 10 bingo games give children practice with long- and complex-vowel sounds, including r-controlled vowels, while also building listening and phonemic awareness skills. Each illustrated game set includes caller's cards and eight different bingo cards.

Grades PreK–2 | Classroom Resource

Phonics Puzzles & Games Discover the fun side of phonics! This playful collection of puzzles, mazes, and games engages kids while nurturing their phonics skills. Reproduce these pages to boost letter recognition, sight words, and more. Perfect for homework or independent work, these activities reinforce key phonics skills including consonants, short and long vowels, blends and digraphs, complex vowels, word study, and more. Motivate and engage children toward reading success!

Grades K–5 | Classroom Resource

PHONICS WORD LISTS FOR GRADES K–1 Word, Phrase, and Sentence Lists Plus Games for Reading, Writing, and Word Study AT E B

AT E B PHONICS WORD LISTS FOR GRADES 3–5 Word, Phrase, and Sentence Lists Plus Games for Reading, Writing, and Word Study

The Ultimate Book of Phonics Word Lists This collection of decodable words, phrases, and sentences is the perfect supplement to your phonics instruction. Differentiated lists feature long-vowel spelling patterns, complex vowels, prefixes, suffixes, inflectional endings, compound words, and more. Use these words to customize reproducible games and activities that give children a fun way to practice their phonics skills. This book also includes assessments to check children's decoding, spelling, and vocabulary skills.

AT E B PHONICS WORD LISTS FOR GRADES 1–2 Word, Phrase, and Sentence Lists Plus Games for Reading, Writing, and Word Study

LAURIE COUSSEAU AND RHONDA GRAFF

Meaning-Focused Programs and Resources Skilled reading takes more than phonics and decoding. Students must also understand the words they’re reading. That’s where building background knowledge and vocabulary come in. With Scholastic Education Solutions’ resources, you can support every student as they make the critical transition from decoding to comprehension.

Grades 1–6 | Classroom Magazines

Build Background Knowledge, Vocabulary, and Decoding Skills with Timely Content

Classroom magazines give students the opportunity to close-read relevant and current fiction and nonfiction texts, building background knowledge and growing vocabulary. And when your educators use magazines in class, they give students a chance to practice decoding. Select titles include: Scholastic News (Grades 1–6) brings the world into your classroom with engaging nonfiction texts. Students explore science, social studies, and social development topics from a kid’s perspective—making lessons relevant and exciting for students.

Storyworks (Grades 1–6) empowers all students to become confident, successful readers with unforgettable texts across genres and rich ELA activities for skill mastery. Every text is packaged with multimodal support tools. SuperSTEM (Grades 3–6) provides a hands-on approach to building STEM knowledge and skills, encouraging students to problem-solve and investigate phenomena through real- world interdisciplinary texts, easy-to-prepare activities, and demonstration videos.

Grades K–5 | Word Study

Grades K–8 | Supplemental Literacy

Supercharge Vocabulary and Knowledge Development Promote vocabulary acquisition and deepen comprehension by teaching words in context across 10 content areas. Focus on the 2,500 word families in English that make up 90% of the text that students will encounter in school. Introduce students to words and their meanings within context, leading to richer interactions with text. Inform instruction with actionable data at the student, class, school, and district levels.

Track Reading Progress and Support Language Comprehension

Scholastic Literacy Pro ® is a blended independent reading management platform and ebook library that gives educators everything they need to motivate readers, track progress, and monitor comprehension—all in one place. Give students the power of choice with access to 2,800+ ebooks and a personalized digital bookshelf. Improve comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary with daily opportunities for independent reading. Monitor students' comprehension, skills, and progress with built-in assessments and data to inform instruction.

MEANING-FOCUSED PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES

Grades K–12 | Instructional Libraries and Collections Expertly Curated Collections to Engage All Students

Making the leap from decoding to comprehension doesn’t happen overnight. Education researchers agree that students must be provided with daily opportunities to read texts of various types and lengths while practicing strategies that improve comprehension. Rich and diverse classroom libraries are the key to helping students become joyful and successful readers. By infusing your libraries with the best authors, series, and instructional content, you’re helping every child learn to read and love to read.

Create Your Own Customized Classroom Libraries!

How it works: Step 1. Identify Gaps in Your Classroom Step 2. Select Your Books Step 3. Customize Your Book List Step 4. Add Resources for the Teacher’s Bookshelf Step 5. Order Book Labels and Bins Step 6. Request Special Packing and Shipping To learn more, visit scholastic.com/classroomlibraries

Our expert team of educators will work with you to build classroom libraries that contain a wide variety of texts at all reading levels while also choosing books that reflect the diverse backgrounds of your school community. We can also analyze your current classroom libraries and school data to determine your needs and correlate books to state academic standards with a personalized consultation from your local Scholastic partner.

Grades K–5 | Instructional Library

Rising Voices Classroom Libraries In our diverse and interconnected world, children of all backgrounds need cultural awareness to succeed in school and in life. The Rising Voices Library is here to help you shift the balance with culturally relevant book collections, materials, and digital resources that celebrate the academic, social, and linguistic backgrounds of all children. Available collections: Celebrating Black and Latino Boys

Empowering Girls in STEAM Celebrating Girls of Color Elevating Latino Stories

Grades K–5 | Teaching Collection

Grades PreK–5 | Instructional Library

Core Knowledge Sequence Collections The Core Knowledge Sequence is a blueprint of knowledge- based schooling designed to advance excellence and equity in education. These content-rich collections support the principles of Core Knowledge by cumulatively building students’ knowledge and cultivating academic progress across the curriculum.

Byron V. Garrett Life and Literacy Skills Library

They may not be assessed on standardized tests, but life skills have the power to dramatically improve student attitudes and achievement. This library combines life skills and literacy into one outstanding resource that’s packed with authentic literature, structured conversations, and resources to help students overcome challenges, navigate emotions, and achieve great things—in school and life.

Grades K–5 | Teaching Collection

Scholastic Text Sets Deepen students’ content-area knowledge and improve their informational text reading skills with Scholastic Text Sets. Each set provides students with a range of texts on a single science, social studies, or math topic and encourages them to deepen their understanding by making connections between texts and perspectives.

C3 Framework for Social Studies Collections

Strengthen your social studies and reading programs with fresh, factual titles on history, geography, civics, and current affairs. Packed with informational texts and fiction books, these collections build the knowledge that young people need to thrive as students today and citizens tomorrow.

Grades K–5 | Teaching Collection

Next Generation Science Standards Collections

STEAM Collections Reading deeply in science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math introduces students to the vocabulary and information they’ll need to prepare for their futures. The books in these STEAM collections present a variety of topics that inspire critical thinking, curiosity, questioning, and enthusiasm for knowledge.

Looking for books on the scientific concepts and topics identified by the NGSS? These collections have you covered with books on science and engineering practices and evidence-based concepts in life, Earth, and physical sciences. You also get a booklist with standards alignments for each title.

Professional Learning Your Vision. Our Guidance. Better Outcomes for All.

Inspire and equip your educators with code- and meaning-focused strategies to support the literacy growth of all students.

K–5 Educators | Code-Focused

Individualizing Literacy Instruction with the Science of Reading Discover and develop the essential principles of effective reading instruction. Three 60-Minute Sessions

Building Phonological Awareness Analyze concepts of print and phonological awareness with instruction for whole-class and small-group settings.

Three-Hour Session Virtual or In-Person Up to 30 Participants

Virtual or In-Person Up to 30 Participants

K–5 Educators | Code-Focused

Supporting Fluency Development Discover high-impact, do-tomorrow strategies for increasing a student’s ability to read texts fluently—with accuracy, automaticity, and prosody—leading to greater comprehension.

Phonics Instruction Leads to Orthographic Mapping

Find out how you can take students beyond letter-sound connections to orthographic mapping which requires making connections between the pronunciation, spelling, and meaning of words.

Three-Hour Session Virtual or In-Person Up to 30 Participants

K–5 Educators | Meaning-Focused

Instructing for Text Comprehension Examine research-based strategies for text comprehension such as self-monitoring, using graphic organizers, generating and answering questions, recognizing text structure, and summarizing.

Expanding Oral Vocabulary and Creating Vocabulary Consciousness Discover the connections between oral language, vocabulary, and knowledge, and explore instructional strategies for developing them .

Three-Hour Session Virtual or In-Person Up to 30 Participants

K–5 Educators | C ode- and Meaning-Focused

Data-Driven Text Selection and Grouping Planning effective small-group instruction requires flexibility and a focus on students’ individual needs. When armed with student data and varied instructional approaches, teachers can effectively differentiate instruction.

How inspiring that we teachers can have such an impact on our students’ lives. When we teach our students to read, we open windows of opportunity for them. But that can only happen if we consider the needs of all students, keep our expectations high, and provide them with the skills to become literate members of society.

Three-Hour Session Virtual or In-Person Up to 30 Participants

—Lindsay Kemeny, 7 Mighty Moves

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING SERVICES SESSIONS, COACHING, AND BOOKS

Professional Books

With professional books, your educators will discover evidence-based strategies and activities to support the development of literacy skills.

Grades K–8

The Megabook of Fluency, 2nd Edition by Timothy V. Rasinski and Melissa Cheesman Smith

Fluency is the bridge between word recognition and comprehension. If students don’t develop it, they will struggle to read proficiently. In this eagerly anticipated new edition, Rasinski and Smith discuss fluency’s connection to the Science of Reading. They provide dozens of ready-to-use, science-backed teaching strategies and student practice pages, updated to include more diverse authors.

The Science of Reading in Practice Series

Grades K–2

Grades K–3

Grades PreK–1

Reading Above the Fray by Dr. Julia B. Lindsey These evidence-based routines help young readers decode words efficiently so they can spend more energy on comprehending—and enjoying—what they read!

7 Mighty Moves by Lindsay Kemeny

Strive-for-Five Conversations

by Tricia A. Zucker and Sonia Q. Cabell PreK–1 teachers learn how to accelerate kids’ language development by using a purposeful conversation framework based on the Science of Reading.

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

Grades K–3

Phonics from A to Z, 4th Edition by Wiley Blevins

Leading phonics expert Wiley Blevins has revised his best-selling book to include the latest in phonics instruction, the Science of Reading, handwriting research, and phonemic awareness. This edition offers practical tips for sound walls, decoding routines, differentiation strategies, and more, maximizing your teaching effectiveness in a concise format.

Grades 3–8

Teaching Phonics & Word Study in the Intermediate Grades, 3rd Edition by Wiley Blevins This updated companion to Wiley Blevins’s best seller, Phonics from A to Z , is a strategy book for upper elementary. It includes the latest in phonics instruction, the Science of Reading, and a model weekly schedule with high-impact routines for older students.

Grades K–2

Choosing and Using Decodable Texts by Wiley Blevins

In the follow-up to his landmark best-seller, Phonics from A to Z , Wiley Blevins explains why quality decodable texts are an essential early learning tool, how to distinguish the good from the bad, and how you can use them to build essential phonics and fluency skills.

Grades K–5

Grades K–8

Big Words for Young Readers by Heidi Anne Mesmer

Know Better, Do Better: Comprehension by David and Meredith Liben In this companion to their best-selling first book, Meredith and David Liben move beyond foundational skills to explore how the mind comprehends texts.

The Literacy 50 by Melissa Loftus and Lori Sappington Written in colleague-to-colleague style, well-known literacy leaders and podcasters, Loftus and Sappington, help teachers address burning questions about how children learn to read.

K—5 educators discover research- backed strategies for teaching words with multiple syllables and morphemes.

Scholastic Education Solutions provides research-based print and digital literacy solutions that support both whole-class and small-group instruction as well as independent learning. Our ultimate goal is to help every student become a lifelong reader, writer, and thinker.

Ready to enhance your Science of Reading curriculum?

Contact your Scholastic Education Solutions partner to sample or order. To learn more, visit scholastic.com/sor .

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