ADAMS LITERACY JOURNEY COMING SOON

PRACTICAL LITERACY RESOURCES WITH HEART

See the child.
Guide the journey.

Every reader has strengths. Every reader has a next step. Adams Literacy Journey creates supportive tools that help teachers, tutors, and parents understand where a child is today—and where instruction should begin.

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Reading Journey — Ready for Second Grade slim workbook by Rebecca Adams, M.Ed., NBCT, with an open book and a winding path on its cover

FIRST IN THE READING JOURNEY SERIES

Ready for Second Grade

A Readiness Assessment and Coaching Guide for Foundational Reading Skills

2
resource books in 1Assessment + Literacy Coaching Guide64-page paperback workbook
Back cover of the Reading Journey Ready for Second Grade slim 64-page workbook

DESIGNED FOR REAL-WORLD USE

Made easier to copy and use.

The Student Assessment Pages and Assessment Recording Forms are printed one-sided on right-hand pages. Teachers, tutors, and parents can copy the pages they need without sacrificing content printed on the reverse.

  • 64-page paperback workbook
  • One-sided Student Assessment Pages
  • One-sided Assessment Recording Forms
  • Double-sided Literacy Coaching Guide

WHAT YOU'RE GETTING

A complete path from assessment to instruction.

Reading Journey does more than identify reading needs. It gives adults the recording tools, teaching guidance, and planning support needed to decide what comes next.

Student Assessment Pages

Welcoming, child-friendly pages printed one-sided for easier copying and use.

Matching Recording Forms

One-sided forms with clear spaces to document responses, notice patterns, and preserve meaningful observations.

Running Records

Literary and informational passages with word counts, fluency notes, and comprehension records.

Literacy Coaching Guide

Sixteen focused topics that turn assessment evidence into practical teaching moves.

Readiness Snapshot

A simple way to see strengths, developing skills, and areas needing instruction.

Instructional Planning Tools

Guided next steps for choosing priorities and creating a focused plan for growth.

Two resource books in one: a readiness assessment plus a literacy coaching guide.

SEE INSIDE

See how assessment becomes instruction.

These sample pages show how the student assessment, matching recording forms, coaching guidance, and planning tools work together.

Amazing Axolotls student assessment page with an informational passage and comprehension questions
Student AssessmentA welcoming page lets the child read, respond, and show what they know.
Assessment Recording Form 6A running record for Amazing Axolotls with word count and response lines
Matching Recording FormThe corresponding running record captures accuracy, fluency, reading behaviors, and observations.
Literacy Coaching Guide page titled From Evidence to Instruction
Literacy Coaching GuidePractical guidance helps the adult interpret the evidence and choose where instruction begins.
Second Grade Reading Readiness Snapshot for summarizing strengths and instructional priorities
Readiness SnapshotBring the evidence together in one strengths-based picture and identify the next instructional priority.

Select any page for a closer look. The complete book contains the full assessment and all coaching guidance.

WHO IT'S FOR

Built for the adults beside the reader.

Whether you teach a classroom, tutor one child at a time, or support your own young reader, Reading Journey helps you begin with understanding.

Teachers

See patterns across skills, identify foundational gaps, and choose focused instructional priorities.

Tutors

Begin with clear evidence, plan targeted lessons, and show families meaningful growth over time.

Parents

Understand what a child knows, where support is needed, and how to guide the next step with confidence.

Created by a literacy specialist to support every adult beside the reader. The guidance makes assessment evidence easier to understand and use.

ASSESS. TEACH. CELEBRATE. GROW.

More than a score.
A starting point.

Reading Journey helps adults identify the foundational skills a child already possesses, notice the places that need support, and turn that evidence into focused instruction.

01

Understand

See where the reader is today.

02

Celebrate

Name the strengths already in place.

03

Guide

Choose the next instructional step.

Rebecca Adams, author of Reading Journey

MEET THE AUTHOR

Meet Rebecca.

Rebecca Adams, M.Ed., NBCTNational Board Certified Teacher in Literacy28 Years of Literacy Experience

Rebecca's path to teaching was not a traditional one. After five years of substitute teaching, she discovered that the classroom was where she belonged. At age 30, while raising a family and working part time, she began college and built the career she had never imagined for herself.

Her experience spans preschool through adulthood, including 21 years of ESL instruction, curriculum development, mentoring new teachers, and standardized assessment work.

Retirement did not end Rebecca's work with readers—or her passion for teaching reading. Creating Reading Journey allowed her to bring together a lifetime of experience and a long-held dream of writing a book. What began as one book soon sparked a vision for an entire series of heart-centered resources designed to help adults understand each reader, identify the next step, and guide meaningful growth.

“Assessment should do more than produce a score. It should help us understand the reader.”