Instructional Bundles

Instructional bundles are designed to deepen learning and expression in classrooms and at home through observation, reflection, and creative activities. Each story-based bundle includes a guide for structured learning and practice flow, built around guided practice, discussion prompts, and activities to support exploration.

Poetry for Fluency: Building Phonics Skills Through the Joy of Verse

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Poetry for Fluency: Building Phonics Skills Through the Joy of Verse

About the Instructional Package

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.

Julie Ikenberry

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.

Julie Ikenberry Founder, Little Oaks Montessori School, White Salmon, WA
Paul Teske, PhD

Heart Bright Learning brings a rare and powerful integration of social-emotional development and instructional design, creating learning experiences that honor the whole child.

Paul Teske, PhD Founder Peopling.me and Education Impact Exchange
Chuck Peters

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.

Chuck Peters Board Chair, Foundations in Learning Chicago, Ilinois
Dr. Steve Truch

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.

Dr. Steve Truch Psychologist/Director, The Reading Foundation Calgary, Alberta