Skip to content
  • Shop Online
  • Log In
  • Product Support
eps-logo-vertical eps-logo-vertical
  • Explore all products by grade, tier, or reading pillar, or select from popular products below:
    • SPIRE Products
      • SPIRE
      • SPIRE 4th Edition
      • SPIRE 3rd Edition Conversion
      • SPIRE Decodable Readers
      • iSPIRE
      • SPIRE Foundations: Sounds Sensible
      • SPIRE Next
    • Coach Products
      • Coach Digital Compass
      • Common Core Clinics
      • Instruction Coach
      • Performance Coach
      • Practice Coach PLUS
      • Coach State-Specific
    • Featured Products
      • Reading Accelerator
      • Reading Assistant
      • Readfetti Decodable Readers
      • Megawords
      • Vocabulary From Classical Roots
      • Wordly Wise
      • Explode The Code
      • Primary Phonics
      • Recipe for Reading
      • View Additional Supplemental Products >
    • Explore Solutions
      • Dyslexia
      • Decodable Readers
      • Summer Learning
      • Professional Learning
    • Resources
      • Insights
      • Events & Webinars
      • Research & Efficacy
      • State Approvals
      • Funding Sources
      • 2025 Solution Guide
      • 2025 Pricing Guide
    • Learn About EPS
      • News
      • About Us
      • Careers
    • Contact Us
      • Let's Connect
      • 800-225-5750
      • Email Us
  • Let's Connect
eps-logo-vertical
    • Explore all products by grade, tier, or reading pillar, or select from popular products below:
    • SPIRE Products
      • SPIRE
      • SPIRE 4th Edition
      • SPIRE 3rd Edition Conversion
      • SPIRE Decodable Readers
      • iSPIRE
      • SPIRE Foundations: Sounds Sensible
      • SPIRE Next
    • Coach Products
      • Coach Digital Compass
      • Common Core Clinics
      • Instruction Coach
      • Performance Coach
      • Practice Coach PLUS
      • Coach State-Specific
    • Featured Products
      • Reading Accelerator
      • Reading Assistant
      • Readfetti Decodable Readers
      • Megawords
      • Vocabulary From Classical Roots
      • Wordly Wise
      • Explode The Code
      • Primary Phonics
      • Recipe for Reading
      • View Additional Supplemental Products >
    • Explore Solutions
      • Dyslexia
      • Decodable Readers
      • Summer Learning
      • Professional Learning
    • Resources
      • Insights
      • Events & Webinars
      • Research & Efficacy
      • State Approvals
      • Funding Sources
      • 2025 Solution Guide
      • 2025 Pricing Guide
    • Learn About EPS
      • News
      • About Us
      • Careers
    • Contact Us
      • Let's Connect
      • 800-225-5750
      • Email Us
  • Let's Connect
  • Shop Online
  • Log In
  • Product Support

Recipe for Reading Phonics Program A Phonics-Based Reading Program Structured for Beginning and Striving Reader Success

Recipe for Reading® teaches every phonics skill in a flexible format that allows educators to differentiate instruction and build essential literacy skills for every child.

  • Reading Intervention
  • Grades K–6
  • Tiers 2 & 3
Connect with an Expert
recipe-for-reading-hero
  • Overview
  • Teacher's Manual
  • Workbooks
  • Alphabet Series
  • Cards
  • Sequence Charts
  • Highlights
  • Resources
students-paying-attention-in-class

Intervention Strategies for Striving Readers

This comprehensive, multisensory, phonics-based reading program presents a skill sequence and lesson structure designed for beginning, at-risk, or striving readers. Recipe for Reading can be a successful intervention for students in Tiers 2 and 3 who have not been successful with other reading interventions. The Recipe for Reading® curriculum is ideal for differentiated instruction in a variety of settings— inclusion, one-on-one, or whole class. It can be used as a core phonics program or as focused, supplemental phonics instruction for striving readers. The carefully structured scope and sequence allows you to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all students.

Teacher’s Manual Provides Teachers with a Wealth of Resources

  • Contains a series of structured lessons beginning with initial consonants and progressing on to consonant and vowel digraphs, diphthongs, spelling generalizations, and syllable patterns.
  • The material is presented in a flexible format, allowing you to differentiate instruction.
  • Kinesthetic instructions are provided for handwriting instruction.
  • Mnemonic sentences are also included for phonological awareness as well as words, phrases, and sentences for reading and dictation.
  • Offered in a teacher-friendly format.
recipe-for-reading-teacher-manual
recipe-for-reading-workbooks

Workbooks Present Extended Practice for Handwriting and Phonics Skills

  • Students are provided multiple practice opportunities for each Recipe for Reading lesson.
  • Includes an array of reinforcement opportunities for each new skill.
  • Offered in a student-friendly format.

The Alphabet Series Helps Beginning and Striving Readers Build Fluency

  • The Alphabet Series of illustrated decodable readers allows students to apply phonics skills to text and develop fluency and comprehension.
  • Stories for Step 7 are cited at point-of-use and provide students with controlled text to strengthen new reading skills.
alphabet-series-interiors
recipe-for-reading-sound-cards

Sound Cards

  • Two-sided cards present letter(s) and their key words.

Affix and Root Cards

  • Reinforce Student Decoding and Vocabulary Knowledge.
  • Present a prefix, root, or suffix on one side and definition on the other.
  • Use color to indicate origin (green: Anglo-Saxon, orange: Latin, blue: Greek).
group-of-kids-reading-book
students-in-classroom-writing

Writing Paper

  • Students work at their own level of fine-motor development with specially designed paper that comes in four sizes and has red and blue guidelines.

Sequence Charts

  • Designed to track and report individual students’ progress as they move through the Recipe for Reading curriculum.
kids-outside-with-books
girl-turning-around-at-desk

Recipe for Reading Highlights

  • Strategies for teaching every skill
  • Detailed procedures and explanations for every lesson step
  • Review tests that determine advancement to next skill
  • Phonetic games and review activities
  • Detailed lessons for syllables, spelling, and affixes
  • The at-a-glance format of each lesson is perfect for today’s busy classroom

Resources

Program Overviews

  • Recipe for Reading Program Overview

Sample Lessons

  • Recipe for Reading Table of Contents
  • Recipe for Reading Sample Lesson
  • The Alphabet Series Sample Storybook

Research Papers

  • Recipe for Reading Research Paper

Connect with an Expert

Learn more, schedule a demo, or get a quote!

Connect Now
PDF is generating... make sure popups aren't blocked.
EPS Logo

4800 Hampden Lane, Suite 560
Bethesda, MD 20814

800-225-5750
  • Sign Up for Literacy Insights

    • linkedin
    • facebook
  • Products
    • SPIRE
    • Reading Accelerator
    • Coach
    • Explore All Products
  • Resources
    • Insights
    • Funding
    • Events & Webinars
    • Professional Learning
  • Contact Us
    • Sales
    • Support
    • Careers
  • ©2025 EPS Operations, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
  • Privacy Policy