Flexible Use: The front cover design is consistent and does not display grade levels, allowing teachers to use the books across multiple grades to best match students’ abilities.

Engaging Illustrations: Beautiful, inclusive illustrations encourage readers to connect with the characters and see themselves within a diverse community.

Relatable Stories: Each series follows a group of characters through familiar, meaningful experiences, making the stories engaging and relevant for young readers.

Direct Instructional Support: Previews the target skill and demonstrates effective teaching strategies for educators to follow.

Apply and Asses: Provides students with practice opportunities and allows teachers to conduct on-the-spot assessment.

Kindergarten: Uses a dot and arrow system to support one-to-one correspondence, directionality and build a strong phoneme-grapheme understanding.

First and Second Grade: Continues use of arrows to promote fluency and accuracy, and introduces new vocabulary words.

Eight pages of decodable texts:  Aligned with systematic phonics instruction.

Stories designed to build early reading skills:  Allow children to practice decoding words that follow predictable patterns, and no phonics skills are introduced before being taught.

Text complexity: Increases from Kindergarten to 2nd grade, building reading stamina, fluency and accuracy as students progress.

Discussion questions: Encourage students to think back to the text and share what they learned.

Open-ended questions: Allow the students to infer and connect their own experience and knowledge.

Language development: Provides an opportunity to build language and oracy while supporting transfer of vocabulary and knowledge in purposeful ways.

Engaging non-fiction text: Builds knowledge and vocabulary by exploring a variety of real-life topics connected to the text.

Dive Deeper: Use this section for a class read aloud, group discussion, or home connection to purposefully build background knowledge.

2nd Grade Step Up:  Gradual release from adult lead reading to student lead reading with fully decodable nonfiction text and  follow up question to encourage higher level thinking.

Book summary: Provides a sneak-peek of the story as additional reading practice.

Phonics focus box: Highlight targeted skills 

Easy-to-read tag: Lists series and book information with no call-out to grade level to allow teachers to use the books at any grade level as needed.

Character illustration: Meet one of the book’s main characters from the pages of the text. Students can revisit the reading pages to find the match!