Product Description: Keep your students literacy strong across the learning seasons of the school year. This book s core is literacy strategy lessons that spiral across the year, focused on reaching various learning styles in today s diverse classrooms...read more

Our proven Spectrum Phonics grade K workbook features 144 pages of age-appropriate activities for reinforcing vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension. Recently updated to current national testing standards, including nonfiction activities and a revised sequence for smooth transitioning between skills. This workbook for children ages 5 to 6 emphasizes phonics and word study as building blocks in reading proficiency. Phonics skills include: •Beginning and ending consonant sounds •Same and different •Short vowel sounds •Recognizing letters •ABC order •Matching letters Our best-selling Spectrum Phonics series features age-appropriate workbooks for Kindergarten to grade 6. Developed with the latest standards-based teaching methods that provide targeted practice in fundamentals to ensure successful learning!

Product Description: Students whose first language is not English are the fastest-growing group in public schools in all regions of the United States. Almost 10 million children between the ages of five and 17 live in the homes and communities in which a language other than English in spoken and presently most schools in the U...read more

A practical series designed to assist parents in preparing young children for the competitive world of today's classroom offers a detailed overview of what children should learn and review at home to get and stay ahead in elementary school, accompanied by advice on tutoring and drills and exercises to help youngsters practice and understand important concepts.

Product Description: This book is about effective literacy instruction for students in grades K-4 who use the language variety that many linguists call African American English, but which, as explained in the Introduction, the author calls Black Communications (BC)...read more

Product Description: This highly practical guide is grounded in the authors' experience setting up and running a successful professional development program to improve K-3 reading instruction. The book systematically describes how professional development works: how sessions are organized, what they contain, routines and procedures, and the roles of each participant...read more

Product Description: Our proven Spectrum Phonics grade 2 workbook features 160 pages of age-appropriate activities for reinforcing vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension. Recently updated to current national testing standards, including nonfiction activities and a revised sequence for smooth transitioning between skills...read more

Product Description: Our proven Spectrum Phonics grade 3 workbook features 168 pages of age-appropriate activities for reinforcing vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension. Recently updated to current national testing standards, including nonfiction activities and a revised sequence for a smooth transition between skills...read more

Product Description: Our proven Spectrum Phonics grade 1 workbook features 160 pages of age-appropriate activities for reinforcing vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension. Recently updated to current national testing standards, including nonfiction activities and a revised sequence for smooth transitioning between skills...read more

Provides information on creating and managing a classroom learning center.

Product Description: Packed with enriching ideas for all educators, this guide summarizes the key areas of the Reading First program to provide a comprehensive understanding of its components.

Product Description: What does research tell us about how teachers can most effectively help young students learn to read? In Research-Based Methods of Reading Instruction, Grades K-3, Sharon Vaughn and Sylvia Linan-Thompson explore the research on reading, providing a comprehensive overview of the five core instructional areas and how each affects student achievement: * Phonemic awareness * Phonics and Word Study * Fluency * Vocabulary * Comprehension The authors include dozens of reading activities and lesson plans that teachers can use immediately, all of which have worked in actual classrooms and are grounded in solid research...read more

Product Description: Go above and beyond basic story-time! These terrific teaching tools turn stories into fun, exciting reading and writing activities that can be used throughout the day. Clearly stated learning objectives meet NCTE standards to help make story-time an integral part of your reading and writing curriculum...read more

Product Description: In past years, whole language philosophy and direct instruction in basic literacy skills have often been presented as mutually exclusive approaches to instruction. In reality, many of the best teachers have responded to the individual needs of their students and have "struck a balance," combining the best practices from both approaches in their classrooms...read more

Provides a variety of lessons and activities that follow the Working with Words component of the Four-Blocks Literacy Model to help students become better readers and writers.

Provides a variety of lessons and activities that follow the Working with Words component of the Four-Blocks Literacy Model to help students become better readers and writers.

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Product Description: Striking a Balance: Positive Practices for Early Literacy is written to help prepare pre-service and practicing teachers to meet the challenge of today's diverse student population and create a comprehensive program that places direct skills instruction within the context of rich and varied reading and writing experiences...read more

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Product Description: More than 200 reproducibles that meet the needs of students who have a wide range of functional levels. Activities can be adapted for use with regular students and are preceded by a general discussion of the learning objectives and prerequisites; rationale; and extension activities...read more