The Third Edition of The Stieglitz Informal Reading Inventory, known as the SIRI, continues to offer a simple and clear approach to reading assessment. This inventory can be used in a variety of educational settings allowing teachers with limited or no experience with informal reading inventories can easily administer this instrument. Those with more skill can take advantage of the SIRI's numerous diagnostic options to examine specific reading behaviors in word recognition and comprehension. Section One provides an introduction to the SIRI. Section Two describes procedures for initial administration and scoring of the SIRI. The diagnostic options of the SIRI are presented in Section Three for the examiner who wishes to go beyond the initial administration and obtain additional information on students' reading behaviors. Section Four contains a collection of student test materials, and Section Five includes copies of forms needed to record the results. Finally, Section Six presents information and technical data on the development and validation of the SIRI. Language Arts teachers at the elementary and secondary levels.

A collection of nursery rhymes for babies.

An award-winning author and her son present, in their second collaboration, different and humorous perspectives on how people can be mean. Reader's Guide available.

An award-winning author and her son present, in their second collaboration, different and humorous perspectives on how people can be mean. Reprint.

As Pig works diligently on his writing masterpiece, he begs his audience for quiet and privacy so he can finish his work, but readers will not be able to control themselves as each turn of the page proves to be a comical disruption. 25,000 first printing.

After bumping his knee one morning, Ted decides to become a doctor, but he has only one problem--he has no patients!

A friendly, helpful giraffe enjoys her trip abroad, but she is glad to return home to Africa

This new Beginner Book about manic skiing squirrels—by J. Hamilton Ray with illustrations by Pascal Lemaitre—has the feeling of an old classic read-aloud. "Nobody knew how the mania grew. First there was one, and then there were two. Three more came gliding from under the trees. LOOK! On the hill. Those are squirrels on skis! Below lay the town, snow-covered and still. Not a sound could be heard. All was silent, until . . . Swwwishhhh swooped the skiers, all dressed for play. Eighty-five squirrels and more on the way!" As you can imagine, the townsfolk are NOT amused. Can intrepid reporter Sally Sue Breeze find out where the squirrels are getting their skis-and make them stop skiing long enough to eat lunch-before pest-control guy Stanley Powers sucks them up in his vacuum device? (Don't worry—Sally triumphs in a most unexpected way.) With delightfully understated, funny illustrations by Pascal Lemaitre, this is the perfect book for beginning readers to curl up and chill out with on a snow day—or any day!Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning.From the Hardcover edition.

Riding the Cow who Jumped over the Moon, Supercat and Super Mouse leave the Milky Way to come to the rescue of animal babies who have lost their blankets, will not put on their pajamas, or are crying for no known reason.

Supercat and Super Mouse come to earth to help young children deal with various traumas, including eating vegetables and going to bed in the dark.

Packaged together in a single volume featuring easy-to-read type, a trio of fables follows themes of empowerment and triumph in the face of adversity, in a collection of stories in which familiar characters overcome adversity by tapping into inner strengths. 20,000 first printing.