you can read is created by Judith Steedman,
an Australian-Canadian book designer, storyteller, illustrator, and videographer. 

Watching her two daughters learn to read, Judith was inspired to train as a reading tutor and took a deep dive into the Science of Reading and the history of the way we teach reading. Encouraged by the outstanding results of evidence-based reading approaches such as structured literacy and synthetic phonics, and hoping to help facilitate bringing these approaches into every classroom, her goal was to create a comprehensive set of resources to help set up readers (and teachers) to succeed. 

Taking her artistic cues from her heroes, such as French film-maker Jacques Tati and Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson, and coupling them with a love for the plants and animals of the Pacific Northwest, the videos and decodable stories aim to entertain as much as to educate.

The VIDEOS teach sound/letter (phoneme/grapheme) correspondences by reinforcing key-words in live-action vignettes (suitable for speech to print or print to speech).

The DECODABLE STORIES practice the targeted sound/letter(s) as we get to know a cast of animal characters on their small, remote island. The goal is to create engaging stories involving expressive characters who inhabit beautiful worlds, all in the pursuit of building confident and eager young readers. (Decodable readers coming soon)

Judith lives with her family in Vancouver, Canada, on the unceded ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, or Tsleil-Waututh Nations and hopes you will enjoy you can read.