This guide is intended to support teacher's ongoing efforts to build students' reading skills. It provides teachers with information on foundational early reading skills, an understanding of how these skills develop in young children, and examples of evidence-based systematic and explicit instructional strategies to support students in becoming proficient and fluent readers.

Instructional guide contains QR code to access digital version.

Alma and how she got her name -- The sharing circle -- Effective early reading instruction: a teacher's guide -- Color-coded letter tiles -- Forms to record student responses (inventory log) -- Instructional strategies to support teaching and learning in reading -- Phonological Awareness Inventory --Roadmap to Reading poster -- Sound board -- Strategies to support word reading and writing skills based on the results of the Phonemic Awareness Inventory and the Decoding Inventory.