{"id":62,"date":"2016-06-28T22:23:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T22:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryruthbooks.com\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2025-01-03T18:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T23:36:26","slug":"books-for-early-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.maryruthbooks.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young children everywhere love MaryRuth Books titles. Carefully crafted to engage developing readers, our books have been successfully used by early literacy educators for almost 20 years. Reading specialists love our books because they can often reach students that other books can&#8217;t. Our titles have helped many struggling and reluctant readers become happy and successful readers! See our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryruthbooks.com\/testimonials\/\">testimonials<\/a>\u00a0section for first-hand endorsements from students and teachers alike.<\/p>\n<h3>MaryRuth Books has stories that inspire successful reading in every classroom.<\/h3>\n<p>Our titles feature appealing characters, beautiful illustrations, original photography, and engaging stories with decodable words. The major literacy organizations: <a href=\"https:\/\/readingrecovery.org\">Reading Recovery\u00ae Council of North America<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.renaissance.com\/products\/practice\/accelerated-reader-360\/\">Accelerated Reader\u00ae<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fountasandpinnell.com\">Fountas &amp; Pinnell<\/a> have independently evaluated and leveled each of our titles. Leveling helps teachers and parents find the &#8220;right&#8221; book for each individual reader.<\/p>\n<h4>RTI and Reading Recovery\u00ae Books<\/h4>\n<p>We have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryruthbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MRB-Reading-Recovery-Approved-List-176-061623.pdf\">a special set of books<\/a> selected and approved by the <a href=\"https:\/\/readingrecovery.org\/reading-recovery\/\">Reading Recovery\u00ae Council of North America.<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>The Accelerated Reader\u00ae Computer-Based Program<\/h4>\n<p>If your school participates in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.understood.org\/en\/school-learning\/partnering-with-childs-school\/tests-standards\/accelerated-reader-what-you-need-to-know\">Accelerated Reader\u00ae Program<\/a>, we also have titles evaluated by AR. MaryRuth Books has three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryruthbooks.com\/product-category\/for-the-classroom\/accelerated-reader-sets\/\">Accelerated Reader\u00ae Book Sets<\/a>, organized into AR ranges. Titles include fiction and nonfiction\/informational books insuring that every young reader will be able to find plenty of books they want to read.<\/p>\n<h4>Guided Reading Texts<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fpblog.fountasandpinnell.com\/what-is-guided-reading\">Guided reading<\/a> is an early literacy educational approach where a small group of students,\u00a0\u00a0supported by a teacher, consistently builds a system of strategic word skills by reading texts that are increasingly challenging. MaryRuth Books has four guided reading sets. The books range from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryruthbooks.com\/teaching-resources\/glossary\/early-emergent-readers\/\">Early Emergent Readers<\/a> to books challenging enough for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryruthbooks.com\/teaching-resources\/glossary\/early-fluent-readers\/\">Early Fluent Readers<\/a>. All of our titles have been independently evaluated and leveled by <a href=\"https:\/\/fpblog.fountasandpinnell.com\/tag\/home\">Fountas &amp; Pinnell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Getting Ready to Read<\/h4>\n<p>We also offer resources for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryruthbooks.com\/product\/critical-thinking-conversation-cards\/\">roaming around the known<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryruthbooks.com\/product-category\/early-childhood-kits\/\">ready to read,<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryruthbooks.com\/product\/favorite-nursery-rhymes-from-danny\/\">reading readiness.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young children everywhere love MaryRuth Books titles. Carefully crafted to engage developing readers, our books have been successfully used by early literacy educators for almost 20 years. Reading specialists love our books because they can often reach students that other books can&#8217;t. 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