Created for young readers, this playful poetry collection and accompanying materials help children progress to broad-based fluency. Joyful rhythms and rhymes engage students in close reading, building comprehension and confidence.
Instructional Bundles
Tortoise Teaches Rabbit to Read lifts early literacy from memorization into a sky high journey of discovery. You will love how this approach makes unlocking the reading code delightful for you and your students.
The work that Heart Bright Learning is doing to support a balanced approach to reading has helped me understand how the fundamental elements of reading work together, with and beyond phonics.
Early Literacy
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Poetry for Fluency: Building Phonics Skills Through the Joy of Verse
About the Instructional Package
Poetry for Fluency playfully builds natural scaffolds to show children how the code works. It gives kids the thrills of learning to read by exploring good writing.
Heart Bright Learning brings a rare and powerful integration of social-emotional development and instructional design, creating learning experiences that honor the whole child.
Social Emotional Learning
I've been immersed in the literacy world for over 30 years, and this is the first time I have seen something focused on the inner world of the child as they are learning to read.
Tortoise Teaches Rabbit to Read uses a structured story to help early readers discover the sounds in words. It is a program well worth exploring for early readers.