Benchmark Education’s Take-Home Decodables make it easy and cost-effective to ensure all students — including those experiencing homelessness or mobility — have quality, evidence-based reading materials to take home and practice key skills.

Benchmark Education Company's decodable take-home readers are an excellent resource for Missouri school districts looking to support the early literacy development of their students. These resources empower educators, parents, and students to collaborate in cultivating strong literacy skills and nurturing a love for reading that extends far beyond the school walls.
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The EdUCater Team is ready to help you place your order for decodable resources today. Contact Carla directly, or you may complete the form below to request samples!

The FLEx (Focus Area: FLEx Early Literacy Resources) initiative provides funding to Missouri school districts to purchase early literacy resources for students and families. These resources include take-home decodable books!
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Check out these creative Home Book Boxes from Hopewell Elementary School in Park Hill School District. Ms. Katie and Ms. Laura developed an inexpensive tool for their classroom to deepen students’ engagement and ownership of the texts.

Benchmark Education Company is a top provider of decodable take-home readers available for purchase by Missouri school districts to match with the FLEx Early Literacy Resources initiative (more on funding available below). These take-home readers are specifically designed to support early literacy development and can be used by parents and guardians to reinforce the skills that their children are learning in school.

Decodable books are specifically designed to help beginning readers develop their phonemic awareness and phonics skills. They use simple, predictable text and a limited number of sight words to help students practice decoding words and building their reading fluency. Decodable books are an essential component of any evidence-based reading instruction program, including Benchmark Phonics and Benchmark Advance ©2022, as they provide students with the opportunity to practice their decoding skills in a meaningful context.

The FLEx Early Literacy Resources initiative provides reimbursement for the purchase of early literacy resources, including Benchmark Education Company's decodable take-home readers. Missouri school districts can purchase decodable resources at NO COST, since they will be reimbursed by the state.

This funding is only available through the end of May!

To receive state reimbursement for your school or district’s decodable resources, be sure to contact Carla by May 30 to place your order in time!

Benchmark Education Company's decodable take-home readers are an excellent resource for Missouri school districts looking to support the early literacy development of their students. When purchased in conjunction with the FLEx Early Literacy Resources initiative, they can help ensure that Missouri students have access to the resources they need to develop the foundational literacy skills that are essential for future academic success.
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The EdUCater Team is ready to help you place your order for decodable resources today. Contact Carla directly, or you may complete the form below to get your order started immediately!

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​Books have always been important to me. As a child, reading wasn’t debated or encouraged: it was just something the whole family did. We read because nothing else provided the fantastic experiences we found in our books. Books took us on extraordinary adventures—all over the world, under the sea, back in time, and sometimes into outer space. We went everywhere in our books.
 
I knew that when I grew up and became a mom, I’d want my kids to have these experiences too. When a friend told me about a tradition she started with her children when they were just toddlers, I couldn’t wait to adopt it for my own family.

​In the beginning, when we couldn’t afford to buy new books, I would scour library sales, yard sales, and consignment stores looking for great children’s books in good condition. I even asked my friends and family to give me the ones their kids had outgrown. Every year, I would slowly collect the 23 I needed, wrap them in bright paper, and place them under the tree.
 
The children would open one of the 23 books each night leading up to Christmas Eve. Our family would gather around as I read it out loud, and at the end, the child who chose the book would get to keep it for their own. These weren’t just Christmas books we were reading. They were adventure stories and books on science, history, and famous people. Some were just fun books that put a smile on everyone’s face.

The 24th book every year was always the same: The Night Before Christmas. 

​Even now, with my younger children who are 11 and 17 and the oldest is already out on her own, we keep with this tradition. It's a special time we all look forward to. My kids find as much joy in their simple children’s books now as they did when they were little. They talk about how they want to continue this tradition with their own children someday. 
 
For my children, as for me, reading is an adventure. They love any book that takes them to far-away places and shows them something new. I’m happy to know that The 24 Books of Christmas will be part of their lives for years to come.