Provides students with an engaging way to practice mechanics and usage of grade-level language arts skills. The reproducible format and additional teacher resources give you everything you need to help students master and retain basic skills. Can be used to support the instruction in a basal or core writing program. 176 pages.
Engage students in complex literary strategies as they dive into exploring rich pairs of fiction and nonfiction texts. Authored by Lori Oczkus and Timothy Rasinski, this resource includes 12 units across the four content areas of language arts, science, social studies, and mathematics. Each unit incorporates close reading, paired fiction and nonfiction text passages, text-dependent questions, comparing and contrasting text, and hands-on activities to unify each week's worth of lessons. Differentiation and reciprocal teaching strategies and assessment options are also included within each unit to tailor to multiple intelligences and monitor students' progress. Aligned to McREL and Common Core State Standards, this essential resource prepares middle school students for college and career.
Each kit is designed in a format for kids to have fun while also obtaining important hands-on practice. Convenient storage-system keeps everything organized and together. 70 picture tiles, 26 mats.
WhisperPhone Duet is an acoustical telephone that enhances student-to-student and teacher-to-student reading activities. Duet keeps classrooms quieter by creating an acoustically-clear connection between two readers. Duet also helps develop reading skills and encourages expressive reading teachers want. Kids will love Duet for the fun and adventure!
The perfect classroom resource to strengthen comprehension and vocabulary skills! Supplement your core reading program with texts leveled according to guided reading or Lexile® leveling criteria. Each selection is accompanied by follow-up activities for comprehension, vocabulary, and other reading skills, making it an easy and effective way to provide extra reading practice and test preparation. 160 pages.
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Start with 150 nonfiction passages about people, places and events related to science, sports, history and social studies. Follow them with multiple-choice questions designed to reinforce reading comprehension skills ranging from basic recall to critical thinking. With daily practice, students will become confident readers who can demonstrate their comprehension skills on standardized tests. 176 pages.
Help students improve foundational reading skills at every level with Guided Reading for first and second grades.
The Guided Reading: Synthesize resource book for first and second grades features 36 readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. Filled with photos and charts, this nonfiction resource features informational text about caves, soccer, Hawaii, and more.
Ready to Go Guided Reading: Synthesize is an effective guided reading resource for first and second grades. This reading comprehension resource book includes:
discussion guides
prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features
leveled readers with high-interest topics
graphic organizers and an observation sheet
The readers are separated into below-, on-, and above-level reading skills. This reading comprehension resource contains callout boxes to direct students to apply guided reading strategies to the texts, such as scanning for meaning or word work. Each reader concludes with a writing prompt so students can show what they learned.
The Ready to Go: Guided Reading series for first to sixth grades includes everything you need for guided reading organization. Each 80-page book is essentially a guided reading set, containing 36 total readers, six discussion guides, and three reproducible pages. Each grade span includes 8 books, focusing on the following reading comprehension strategies:
Connect
Infer
Question
Summarize
Analyze
Determine Importance
Synthesize
Visualize
Each nonfiction reader contains short nonfiction texts, vocabulary banks, photographs, charts, and maps.
Fantails are a collection of book-banded books. They have carefully controlled levels according to a students reading age. Each collection of books is set at foundation, emergent, early or fluency levels and can be used alongside other popular reading schemes. Children at Green band level will be reading more fluently and paying more attention to varied punctuation. Children's comprehension skills at this level will also be increasing and able to handle more complex plots. Includes 8 books at each band, 16 pages. Both fiction and non-fiction strands are available.
Easy-to-see 3" x 3" cards are great for classroom use and fit nicely into standard-size pocket charts or any other similar wall charts. Each card set includes 118-130 double-sided cards and comes in a convenient storage box with an activity guide.
This bestselling 36-week program provides frequent, focused practice of essential language skills and has been completely updated to support the Common Core State Standards. Activities include increased vocabulary practice, editing, writing and applying language conventions of grammar, usage and mechanics. Scope and sequence chart, progress chart and answer key included. 136 pages.