Hola Books

📚 We’re opening our calendar!

Starting September, we’re hosting Hola Books Office Hours — a live, monthly space to bring your questions, no matter where you are in your journey with us.

🗓️ Every second Tuesday
🕓 4:00–5:00 PM PST
💻 Virtual, open to all

Whether you’re a longtime partner, just piloting our materials, or still exploring — this time is for you.

Bring anything: scope and sequence questions, assessment and progress monitoring, ideas for using our Spanish decodables alongside your current curriculum, or just curiosity about what makes Hola Books different.

Our programs are created originally in Spanish, never translated, and grounded in the five pillars of literacy. We built this because bilingual children deserve instruction that honors their language, culture, and identity — and we want to keep showing up for the educators doing that work.

First session: September 8 at 4 PM PST. Link in bio. 🔗

Nos vemos pronto. 💛

Confiésalo: ¿alguna vez mezclas la evaluación de detección, la diagnóstica, la formativa y la sumativa?

No eres único — pero cada una responde una pregunta distinta, y confundirlas puede llevar a la instrucción equivocada. Aquí va el resumen rápido:

Detección — ¿Quién necesita una mirada más de cerca? (otoño, invierno, primavera — a todos)
Diagnóstica — ¿Por qué tiene dificultades? (después del screener, solo a quien lo necesita)
Formativa — ¿Está aprendiendo esto hoy? (todos los días, dentro de tu instrucción)
Sumativa — ¿Lo aprendió? (al final de cada unidad)

Desliza para verlas explicadas una por una 👉

“El objetivo nunca fue evaluar más. Fue guiar la enseñanza con más claridad — evaluación hecha para los estudiantes, no a ellos.”

Guarda esto para tu próxima reunión de datos — te va a servir. 📌

Confess: do you ever mix these up? Here’s the quick-reference version — swipe for the full breakdown.

Back-to-school season has us thinking about one question: what helps kids fall in love with reading in Spanish? 💛 Explicit phonics gives them the tools to decode. Real books give them a reason to keep going. As the only company developing literacy resources built entirely around the Science of Reading for Spanish, our decodable libraries are designed to do both, seamlessly extending phonics instruction while building confidence, fluency, and a genuine love of reading.

¿Por qué nuestros libros están organizados por colores? 🌈📚
El color no indica un “nivel” para el estudiante. Representa un camino cuidadosamente diseñado para que cada lector pueda avanzar, paso a paso, con confianza.

En Hola Books, nada está organizado al azar. Cada serie sigue una progresión creada específicamente para enseñar a leer en español—nunca traducida del inglés. Las habilidades se presentan de forma explícita, sistemática y acumulativa, y cada libro prepara al lector para el siguiente.

🟢 Serie Verde: Construimos las bases.
🟡 Serie Amarilla: Ampliamos el código.
🟣 Serie Morada: Descubrimos nuevos patrones ortográficos.
🔵 Serie Azul: Fortalecemos la precisión y la automaticidad.
🔴 Serie Roja: Integramos y consolidamos lo aprendido.

Así, los colores ayudan a docentes y estudiantes a ver cómo crecen las habilidades sin ponerles etiquetas a los niños.
Porque cuando la enseñanza sigue una secuencia intencional, los estudiantes no solo aprenden a leer. Descubren algo que puede transformar su vida:

“Sí puedo. Soy lector.” 💛

¿En qué color se encuentran tus lectores? Cuéntanos en los comentarios y guarda esta publicación para consultarla al planificar tu instrucción. 📖✨

We’re at the Title III Symposium! So many meaningful conversations. ❤️

One thing has stood out above everything else: The incredible dedication of the directors, school leaders, instructional coaches, and teachers we’ve met at the Title III Conference.

Every conversation has come back to the same goal: How do we better serve our multilingual learners?

Your commitment is unmistakable. It shines through in the questions you ask, the ideas you share, and the passion you have for ensuring every multilingual learner receives the high-quality instruction they deserve.

As former educators, these conversations are our favorite part of every conference. They remind us why we started Hola Books and why we continue this work every day.

If you’re in San Antonio, there’s still time to come say ¡hola! 👋

Let’s chat about our favorite topic:
📚 Foundational skills for K–2 en español—what the research says, what works in classrooms, and how we can help every child become a confident reader.

We’d love to meet you. See you tomorrow! 💛

9,000.

It’s just a number… until you stop and think about the people behind it.

9,000 educators, school leaders, researchers, librarians, families, and advocates who believe that every child deserves the opportunity to become a successful reader.

When we started Hola Books, we weren’t trying to build a social media following. We were trying to solve a problem we had experienced firsthand as bilingual educators. We knew our students deserved instructional materials that were created for Spanish—not translated into Spanish—and grounded in the research on how children learn to read.

Today, this community reminds us that we’re not doing this work alone.

Thank you for believing in evidence-based instruction. Thank you for asking hard questions, challenging the status quo, sharing your classrooms with us, and trusting Hola Books to be part of your students’ literacy journey.

Every follow, every comment, every conversation, every classroom, and every child matters.

And we’re just getting started.

We have so many exciting things ahead—new tools, new programs, new partnerships, and new ways to support teachers and multilingual learners across the country.

From the bottom of our heart, thank you for believing in this mission and for walking alongside us.

Here’s to the next chapter. 💙

El español tiene una forma preciosa de guardar cariño dentro de una sola palabra. 💛

A veces, con solo cambiar una sílaba, cambia todo.
Por eso en Hola Books construimos materiales de lectura auténticos — nunca traducidos — que honran el español tal como es.

¿Cuál es una palabra que a ti te encanta? Cuéntanos abajo. ☀️

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🇨🇱✈️ Texas, here we come!

Hola Books is heading to San Antonio for the 2026 Title III Symposium, and we can’t wait to connect with educators who are passionate about multilingual learners!

Will you be there? 👋 Stop by our booth, say ¡hola!, and discover why districts across the country are choosing Hola Books for high-quality Spanish literacy instruction.

Come see:
📚 Our one-of-a-kind Spanish foundational literacy solution—created originally in Spanish, not translated.

🌟 Decodable books, structured literacy resources, classroom libraries, and intervention materials designed specifically for bilingual and dual language classrooms.

💬 Practical ideas, research-based instruction, and a chance to talk with our team about supporting multilingual learners with confidence.

Whether you’re looking for Tier 1, intervention, or authentic Spanish literacy resources, we’d love to meet you!

📍 Title III Symposium
📍 San Antonio, TX

Will we see you there? Stop by our booth and say ¡Hola! 💙❤️

The Science of Reading isn’t about memorizing a new set of strategies. It’s about deepening our understanding of how children learn to read so that every instructional decision is intentional.

For those of us teaching reading in Spanish, that learning matters even more.

Spanish readers deserve instruction grounded in both the science of reading and the research on how literacy develops in a transparent orthography. While there is much we can learn from English literacy research, Spanish has its own linguistic features that deserve to be understood on their own terms.

That’s why we’re proud to offer professional learning books by two of the leading voices in literacy research:

📚 Dr. Beatriz Diuk, whose work has transformed our understanding of early literacy development in Spanish.

📚 Dr. Stanislas Dehaene, whose groundbreaking research in cognitive neuroscience has helped educators around the world better understand how the brain learns to read.

At Hola Books, our mission has always been bigger than creating instructional materials. We want to help build a community of educators who are curious, reflective, and committed to continually growing their practice.

Because when teachers continue learning, students benefit.

Which professional book has most influenced your teaching? Share it in the comments—we’re always looking to grow our reading list together. 💛