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Support the CEDeR Mission
CEDeR Books was born out of the need to develop books for beginning readers; our decodable books are strategically designed to support children to learn to read using phonics. CEDeR Books center characters, stories, and themes that highlight everyone. We so believe in our books and how they will transform early literacy in this country.
Phase 1: Research
Phase one was research and development and during that time we wrote a ton of books, 46 books to be exact, putting all the research on early literacy and our expertise as educators into action.
Phase 2: Pre-Revenue
We’re now in the pre-revenue stage asking for your investment in CEDeR Books to fund Phase 2 of our work: publishing each of our seven sets of books.
Phase 3: Scale
Investing in CEDeR Books is an investment in generations of readers and critical thinkers. At CEDeR Books, every child deserves a rich reading experience.
Mini Books, Huge Possibilities!
Our children’s books are decodable, allowing children to sound out the words in the text. CEDeR Books are mini books, small enough to fit in a child’s hands, and short enough, with just 8-10 pages per book, to allow children to focus on learning to read using the phonics relationship between letters and sounds.
Phonics Progression
CEDeR Books are seven sets of sequential, decodable readers that utilize the science of reading (phonics) to practice letter-sound correspondence that is essential to teaching young learners to read.
CEDeR Books Are Tools for Reading.
Sights & Sounds™ instructional page with target vowel sound(s).
Target Vocabulary™
Comprehension questions to check for understanding.
Lexile measurement and word count provided.
CEDeR Books was born out of the need to develop developmentally appropriate books for beginning readers. Our decodable books are strategically designed to support children to learn to read using phonics.
Representative Literature
CEDeR is grounded in the work of leading experts in the field of education.
Geneva Gay
Culturally responsive teaching is "using the cultural characteristics, experiences, & perspectives of ethnically diverse students..."
James Bank
“We should educate students to be effective citizens of both the nation and the world”
Gloria Ladson Billings
"The attack on anything that allows more participation and moves us toward equity is going full force"
Zaretta Hammond
“Culture, it turns out, is the way that every brain makes sense of the world. That is why everyone, regardless of race or ethnicity, has a culture.”Translation missing: en.general.search.loading
