This month’s free book is a student favorite and a great resource for small-group reading. Uncle Al is a humorous story that tells what happens when a boy and his father go on an overnight fishing trip with Uncle Al, a character who doesn’t always think before he acts but who always makes them laugh. Teaching panels for every page are your “guide on the side,” showing exactly how to use the book to teach essential skills, including phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, vocabulary, comprehension strategies, high-frequency words, sound and spelling patterns, and, of course, social-emotional learning.

JillE Literacy is a unique collection of K-3 resources created to empower teachers with engaging texts and science-based literacy instruction that together make learning to read easy, effective, and fun. JillE Literacy supports teachers with built-in tools and strategies that show how to teach essential literacy skills in the context of vibrant, engaging, humorous texts that children actually want to read. With guidance from educator, author, and international literacy consultant Jill Eggleton built into every page, it’s like having a master teacher and literacy coach beside you every step of the way.