Keep reading, talking, listening, and learning all summer long!

Complete each square as you go and see how many literacy adventures you can cross off before summer ends. Challenge yourself to try something new each week, you might discover your next favorite book, podcast, or conversation starter!

Join Our 30-Day Reading Challenge

Track your reading journey with our printable challenge tracker. Set a goal, mark off each day as you read, and celebrate your progress throughout the month. Perfect for building a consistent reading habit!

Understanding how letters and letter combinations represent sounds is at the heart of strong reading and spelling skills.

This resource includes the 75 basic phonograms commonly taught in structured literacy approaches. These phonograms represent the most essential sound-symbol relationships in English and form the foundation for decoding and encoding words.

Get the sheet here!!

At every stage, from birth to 10 years old, children are developing key literacy skills. We’ve done the research (so you don’t have to) to keep you informed.

In this podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work.

Science of Reading: The Podcast delivers the latest insights from researchers and practitioners in early reading. Each episode takes a conversational approach and explores a timely topic related to the Science of Reading.

Melissa and Lori Love Literacy is a podcast for educators interested in learning more about the science of reading, knowledge building, and high quality instructional materials!

A group of teachers, researchers, and activists committed to the pursuit of equity through literacy.

Timothy Shanahan is one of the world’s premier literacy educators. He studies the teaching of reading and writing across all ages and abilities.

Podcast and website dedicated to helping dyslexics with the day-to-day management of dyslexia, helping their greatness shine!

The 2000 National Reading Panel

"Hard Words" by Emily Hanford

"Why Not Phonics and Whole Language" by Marilyn Jager Adams

"Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition from Novice to Expert" by Anne Castles, Kathleen Rastle, and Kate Nation

"At a Loss for Words" by Emily Hanford

"Inside the Massive Effort to Change the Way Kids Are Taught to Read" by Belinda Luscombe

"Hard to Read" by Emily Hanford

"This Is Why We Don't Have Better Readers: Response to Lucy Calkins" by Mark Seidenberg

"Letting the Text Take Center Stage" by Timothy Shanahan

"Whole-Language High Jinks" by Louisa Moats

"Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science" by AFT Teachers

"Using Research and Reason in Education" by Paula J. Stanovich and Keith E. Stanovich

"A Conversation About Instructional Equity with Zaretta Hammond, Part 1" by Zaretta Hammond

"Culturally Responsive Teaching Puts Rigor at the Center" by Zaretta Hammond

"Language Skills of Bidialectal and Bilingual Children" by Ryan Lee-James and Julie A. Washington

"Why Knowledge is Important" by Daniel Willingham

"A movement rises to change the teaching of reading" by Karen D'Souza