Write a Super Sentence offers a classroom-tested method for improving basic sentence writing skills. Through step-by-step guided lessons students brainstorm adjectives, nouns, verbs, and where and when phrases, and use them to expand a simple sentence. Each of the 15 lessons contains: - a teacher resource page - a reproducible form on which students write their "super sentences." Suggested sentence topics range from: - kites - pizzas - spaceships - elephants - dinosaurs - bees - many more Additional features include: - directions for a super sentence writing center - directions for a ""silly...

Draw...Then Write, Grades 1-3 is a fun hands-on way for students to make the connection between pictures and text. Students follow step-by-step drawing lessons and write about the completed pictures. Writing exercises take students from simple to more complex writing tasks. A few of the topics covered include: - caterpillar - bird - mouse - turtle - frog - snail - elephant - puppy - lion - pickup truck - koala - robot - clown - helicopter - duck - hippo - race car - and more

Provide explicit, systematic phonics instruction and practice in just 15 to 20 minutes a day Daily Phonics, Grade 1 helps students in first grade--including students learning English--develop the phonics skills necessary to become proficient, on-grade-level readers.

Common Core Top Pick for Reading - Foundational Skills

• Phonological Awareness
• Phonics and Word Recognition

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Provide explicit, systematic phonics instruction and practice in just 15 to 20 minutes a day Daily Phonics, Grade 2 helps students in second grade--including students learning English--develop the phonics skills necessary to become proficient, on-grade-level readers.

The 32 weekly units in grade 2 cover:

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