Structured Literacy with E.A.S.E Getting Started Guide
Phonological Awareness with E.A.S.E.
Bridge the Gap from Learning to Read to Reading to Learn
Looking to implement a Structured Literacy approach aligned to the Science of Reading?
That’s why we created Guided Readers; to help you quickly implement best practices in reading instruction aligned to the Science of Reading using our explicit and systematic scope and sequence, decodable readers, standards-based lesson plans, resources, and easy-to-use digital interactive tools -- all designed to Successfully Guide your Students from Learning the Code to Reading for Meaning
Here's why teachers love Guided Readers:
Backed by research and created by a 2nd grade teacher with 23 years in the field, Guided Readers is a structured approach designed for today’s real classrooms.
Our comprehensive program fosters true learning through 15-20 minute small group differentiated, instructional lessons, and empowers teachers with effective, streamlined lesson plans and activities. Plus: students love it!
What's inside your Guided Readers program?
Every effective tool you'll need to take your students from
"learning the code" to "reading for meaning."
Teaching Tools
- Structured Literacy with E.A.S.E. Program (SOR Aligned)
- Instructional tri-folds for teaching specific skills/strategies
- Phonological Awareness Curriculum
- Over 300 Decodable Books
- Reading Strategies Instruction Tri-fold
- High-Frequency Word & Vocabulary Instruction Tri-fold
- Word Chains Instruction Tri-fold (Make-Its)
- Analogy Charts Instruction Tri-fold (Match-Its)
- Sound Boxes Instruction Tri-fold (Box-Its)
- Sound Sorts Instruction Tri-fold (Sort-Its)
- Decoding Strategy Fans for student use and teacher modeling
- High-Frequency Word cards for each lesson
- Decodable Readers, Fiction, and Nonfiction books
Printable Resources
- Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping
- HFW Mapping Cards
- Syllable Division Fans & Posters
- Professionally Leveled Books
- Single-sided printable books
- Double-sided printable books
- Close Reading Passages
- Lesson plans
- High-Frequency Words
- Text-Dependent Questions
- Writing Extension Activities
- Google Classroom options available
- Workmats for Word Work
- Analogies
- Making Words
- Sound Boxes
- Sound Sorts
- Text-Dependent Questions
- Thinking About, Within, & Beyond the Text
Interactive Digital Reader
- 36 Student Accounts allowed for each license
- Teacher Portal for student logins and data
- Picture Passwords for easy student logins
- Engaging leveled readers with captivating illustrations/photographs
- Students can read the story independently
- Students can listen to the story as the words are highlighted
- Students can record the story aloud and listen back to their reading
- Students can take a comprehension quiz based on the story
- Student quiz grades and oral recordings saved in the Teacher’s Portal
Guided Readers integrates Social Emotional Learning Core Competencies directly into instructional practices.
Real Teachers. Real Results!
Student Data Tracking Software
- track student fluency data benchmarks
- track student reading level benchmarks
- track how many minutes students have read
- track quiz results and percentage of correct and incorrect answers
- track number of books read
- track number of books recorded
- share PDFs of Student Data with admins and parents
PROGRAM PLANS
Join Guided Readers Today!
It’s time to take your small group reading instruction to the next level.
Get instant access inside your annual membership!
ANNUAL Bloom Plan
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION {Most Popular}
Includes:
- access to Structured Literacy with E.A.S.E. (SOR)
- Decodable Books with Explicit & Systematic Scope & Sequence
- hundreds of DECODABLE READERS
- Phonological Awareness with E.A.S.E. Program
- fiction and nonfiction books
- access to the entire library
- lesson plans
- comprehension resources
- word worked resources
- instructional materials
- Google Classroom options
- Thousands of books to choose from
- digital leveled readers (all levels)
- 36 student accounts permitted for each license purchased
- students listen to the story while words are highlighted
- students record their reading & listen back
- students take comp quiz
- teacher & student PORTAL (Great for centers & 1-1 classrooms)
And...
Phonological Awareness Assessment, Sight Word Assessment, Word Knowledge Assessment, and Reading Inventory Assessments
School District Purchase Orders ACCEPTED
MONTHLY Bloom Plan
MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION
Includes:
- access to 20 books/month
- access to 15 passages/month
- credits roll over
- cancel at any time
- printable decodable readers
- printable fiction and nonfiction books
- lesson plans
- comprehension resources
- word worked resources
- instructional materials
- Google Classroom options
- HUNDREDS of books to choose from
- digital decodable readers and fiction & nonfiction books
- 36 student accounts permitted for each license purchased
- students listen to the story while words are highlighted
- students record their reading & listen back
- students take comp quiz
- teacher & student PORTAL (Great for centers & 1-1 classrooms)
* Purchase Orders NOT ACCEPTED for the monthly plan.
Guided Readers is a 2020 CODiE Award finalist for the Best Reading/Writing/Literature Instructional Solution for Grades PreK-8!
FAQ's
Guided Readers has been developed by a veteran classroom teacher with more than 23-years of experience in reading instruction, to provide you with the most effective and rigorous resources to help you teach your students to become fluent, confident readers AND love to read in the process.
We have been deeply engrained in learning about the research behind the Science of Reading and how to effectively incorporate it within our program.
We are extremely proud to announce that we have officially launched our Structured Literacy with E.A.S.E. program that is based on all of the scientific research behind the Science of Reading and implementing a Structured Literacy approach to teach reading.
Guided Readers mission is Successfully Guiding Readers from Learning the Code to Reading for Meaning. We will be accomplishing this task, through our new Structured Literacy with E.A.S.E. program and begin the process of aligning all of our resources with the research behind the Science of Reading.
We are committed to providing teachers with research-based curriculum resources that will help them easily implement the scientific research within their teaching methodologies and helping children bridge the gap between Learning to Reading and Reading to Learn!
You won’t find any boring theories or ideas that don’t actually work in practice. This program is based on scientific research, and best practices in literacy instruction and development! Implementing Guided Readers in your classroom will ensure exponential growth in your students’ reading skills as they travel down the "Reading Road" from Learning to Read to Reading to Learn!
Guided Readers allows 36 student accounts for each licence that is purchased on an account.
At this time if you need additional student accounts, you will have to purchase an additional license under your profile.
YES! Guided Readers will provide you with a range of research-based resources to help reach all of our learners.
We strongly suggest that teachers begin using our Structured Literacy with E.A.S.E. program that is aligned to the Science of Reading and follows an explicit and systematic scope and sequence with decodable books that scaffold in skill development.
Each lesson within the program spirals and continues to reinforce previously taught phonics skills, high-frequency words, spelling rules, and syllable types to ensure MASTERY, and not merely exposure.
Part of Guided Readers mission is to help teachers build lifelong readers in their students by providing them the foundational skills and superior decoding instruction through phoneme-grapheme mapping activities and helping student build their orthographic lexicon.
Guided Readers is a membership site that focuses SOLEY on helping teachers successfully guide their students from learning the English code to becoming critical, fluent readers. Guided Readers provides an explicit and systematic scope and sequence, detailed lesson plans based on the Science of Reading, decodable books, and resources for teachers to download, print, and be ready to teach their students HOW to read! Once students have master the code, they can begin their journey on Reading for Meaning using or fiction and nonfiction books that focus on higher-level comprehension skills, vocabulary development, syllabication, and morphology.
The resources on Guided Readers WILL NOT be accessible in my Teachers Pay Teachers shop.
Teachers have consistently told us that implementing small group reading instruction felt overwhelming and difficult, especially now with all of the Science of Reading research beginning to make its way into the public school systems— and Guided Readers is here to give you a framework and a clear roadmap to helping your students successfully learn to read and love reading in the process.
This program gives you the step-by-step system you need to create a rigorous, consistent plan of action to get your students reading with confidence.
YES! Guided Readers is the perfect companion to most curriculums, and will assist you in following state standards with the rigorous, effective and streamlined approach to help your students learn to read.
Guided Readers makes it easy for teachers to implement the Science of Reading research into their teaching methodologies, without the overwhelm that goes with learning and implementing a new curriculum.
CANCELLING YOUR MEMBERSHIP
You have 3 days to peruse the site, print out a few resources, and use the Digital Interactive Reader to see what is offered on Guided Readers. If after 3 days you feel that it is not a good fit for you, you may ask for a refund and cancel your membership.
However, if you DOWNLOAD 3 or More resources from the site, you will NOT BE ELIGIBLE for a refund due to the instant and irrevocable access you gain to the materials.
Cancellations are immediate and you will lose all access to all of the resources in Guided Readers.
RENEWING YOUR MEMBERSHIP
All memberships will renew automatically unless you go into your account settings and cancel your subscription.
Want to hear the BEST PART? When you join, you are GRANDFATHERED IN to the price you joined at! So, your annual membership fee will never increase even when the price of the membership increases as long as you are a current member!
YES! Absolutely! We would LOVE to have you in our Guided Readers Community! Please CLICK HERE to request to join!
We have an ever-growing library of Decodable Books on Guided Readers.
Our Structured Literacy with E.A.S.E. program incorporates a decodable reader within each lesson that was specifically written for that phonics skill and set of high-frequency words that will be taught during the lesson.
We also have a robust library of decodable readers that can be used as supplemental books for students who need additional practice with specific phonics skills.
When students have mastered learning the code, they will begin their journey to Reading for Meaning. We are currently editing all of our 2,000 fiction and nonfiction books and lessons to align with the research behind the Science of Reading and to address the language comprehension strands of Scarborough's Reading Rope.