Cambridge, Mass., November 10, 2003 — Educators Publishing Service (EPS), a highly respected literacy developer for grades K-12, recently received top honors from Practical Homeschooling® magazine.

In the Vocabulary category, Vocabulary from Classical Roots received first place and Wordly Wise tied for second place, beating nine other competitors for the top honors.   Explode the Code also received first place in the Phonics category, competing against national publishers such as Pearson Learning and Simon & Schuster.

“We are very pleased with these honors,” stated Daniel Bane, Key Accounts Manager, EPS. “The home school market has been a valued customer for us and we take pride knowing that the individuals using our products consider them to be of such high quality.   It inspires us in what we do.”

The honors recognized both new and classic products from the EPS line. “Vocabulary from Classical Roots was introduced in 1998 and right away became a popular product for us,” noted Nick Gaehde, President, EPS. “Vocabulary from Classical Roots supplies the explanations and modeling that students need, and it employs direct instruction and the categorizing of words in a source-based approach.”

Vocabulary from Classical Roots is also valuable because it provides materials to help students cope with vocabulary on state and national tests. A recent white paper noted that an estimated “60% of English words have meanings that can be determined from their parts. Vocabulary from Classical Roots gives students direct instruction to help them spot meaningful parts & build familiarity with groups of words related to the same root."

Explode the Code and Wordly Wise have both been staples of the home school and general school markets for over 20 years. “These products are exceptional because they maintain the integrity of their original copyrights, while improving as the knowledge of children's learning abilities and styles improve,” observed Gaehde.

The “2003 Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards” invite the readership of Practical Homeschooling (over 100,000 people according to their Web site) to cast their ballots using a pre-printed ballot included in the magazine. In addition to recognizing the efforts of publishers, these awards help homeschoolers sort through the myriad of educational products in the marketplace.

EPS (www.epsbooks.com), based in Cambridge, Mass., is a division of Delta Education, LLC, provides trusted literacy solutions for every child. Their K-12 reading and language arts materials support the diverse abilities in today's classroom offering reading, phonics, comprehension, and vocabulary programs for the general classroom, as well as programs designed to support at-risk and struggling readers in specialized settings and inclusion classrooms. EPS has long been a leader in providing materials for dyslexic students and those with other specific learning differences. Their leading products include Explode the Code, Worldly Wise 3000, Words I Use and S.P.I.R.E.

Delta Education, LLC (www.delta-education.com), a New Hampshire-based company, has been serving educators for more than 30 years by providing the best in K-12 inquiry-based science and math materials and language arts products. Delta Education produces research-based products, including the most used elementary school hands-on science program FOSS® (Full Option Science System®), developed under a National Science Foundation grant at the University of California, Berkeley.

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