Meet the teacher behind the press

Hi — I’m Maya.

I teach second grade, and The Learning Press is my little publishing desk: the place where the practice pages I make for my own students get polished up and shared with other teachers. If you’ve ever rebuilt a practice page at 9pm because the one in the box didn’t match how your students actually learn, this shop is for you.

Grounded in the science of reading

Decades of research are clear about how children learn to read: through explicit, systematic instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Every resource here is built on those principles — sounds before letters, decoding before guessing, cumulative review before moving on — and designed to slot straight into a structured literacy block like Fundations®.

Classroom-tested before published

Nothing is published until it has been used with my real students, revised after real lessons, and shown to work. When you download a Learning Press resource, it has already earned its place in a working classroom.

— Maya, The Learning Press