Alphakids Digital

Leveled readers for guided and extensive reading for both classroom and home use from Eleanor Curtain Publishing, the specialist in early literacy reading programs and teacher resources. The Alphakids Digital Library is a guided reading program focusing on levels K–3. Right at the levels where young readers need even more material for extensive reading. There are 10 free student books at each reading stage with audio, instructional support and a printable reading activity for every book to add an extra facet to the extensive reading. The Alphakids Digital Library; contains a wide variety of text types displaying a full range of language and text features, provides texts that are carefully graded to create steady reading progress by drawing the reader’s attention to increasingly complex print features, introduces vocabulary gradually, uses a high rate of repetition of high frequency words for practice and to maintain reader confidence, provides strong visual support, has an even mix of fiction and non-fiction texts, features topics that focus on social experiences children find familiar and appealing, incorporates talking, writing and reading activities through the support materials, uses photographs, illustrations and diagrams to engage and inform readers, uses humour extensively throughout the levels, provides extensive instructional support, is designed to sustain and extend the literacy learning of all children.