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Everything parents need to help their kids succeed in social studies

The only comprehensive social studies skill-building series available, the Get Ready For Social Studies series equips proactive parents with the tools they need to help their children develop the core skills required to perform at grade level in social studies-related subjects.

Book Reports, Essays, and Research Papers provides step-by-step instruction, models, and practice exercises to help parents guide their children through the writing and research process.

For teachers, reading specialists and special educators in grades 4-12, this practical resource is packed with hundreds of strategies and activities for evaluating and improving students' reading, writing, study, and test-taking skills in all content areas. It first provides several ways to categorize the skills needed and lists of specialized vocabulary and skills required for effective reading/writing/study skill in each subject area. It then provides a multitude of ready-to-use methods and over 100 reproducible activities to help assess and improve the ability of all students. Special...

Classroom reading teachers and specialists will find hundreds of stimulating hands-on activities for developing children's knowledge of the alphabet and letter-sound relationships, plus scores of reproducible book and word lists that can be used to tailor almost any of the activities in the book to a specific phonics skill. Hands-On Phonics activities for Elementary Children is organized into four sections:
Hands-On Phonics Activities for Pre-Readers (Grades K-1)
Hands-On Phonics Activities for Emerging Readers (Grades 1-2)
Hands-On Phonics Activities for Developing...

This book of activities gives children practice in learning the various sounds of the alphabet, helping them decode new words as well as build on their knowledge of previously learned words. The activities cover a wide array of topics, including consonant blends and digraphs, vowels, rhyming words, homophones, silent letters, prefixes, suffixes, root works, plurals, syllables, and more.

Many of the worksheets engage children in thinking out new words and putting tem in sentence context. Others ask students to select a correct answer form several choices. Some have students...

This practical resource helps elementary classroom, remedial reading, and LD teachers make the best possible informal assessment of a child's specific reading, writing, and spelling strengths and weaknesses and attitudes toward reading.

Written in easy-to-follow nontechnical language, it provides a multitude of tested informal assessment strategies and devices, such as "kid watching," retellings, journals, IRIs, writing surveys, portfolios, think alouds and more-- including more than 200 reproducible assessment devices ready for immediate use

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The strategies and materials presented here provide the best of whole language and phonics instruction for setting up an appropriate, well-paced reading program that meets the needs of individual students, small groups, or the entire class, grades K-8. For quick and easy access, the Kit is organized into eight sections and includes such practical information as:
* Over 80 stimulating hands-on games and activity sheets to build students skills in letter-name knowledge, sight word recognition, word structure, and more.
* Up-to-date information and materials for teaching reading to...

All of this material is conveniently organized into 12 monthly sections plus an introduction and is printed in a big 8-1/4" x 11" format for easy photocopying. Each of the monthly teaching ideas includes all of the details and directions you need to use it effectively in your own instruction. Ready-to-Use Reading Activities for the Elementary Classroom gives you a comprehensive store of fun-filled games and activities that will catch and hold your students interests while building specific reading skills throughout the year.

This resource gives classroom teachers and reading specialists 80 stimulating illustrated two-page animal stories and 80 illustrated two-page activity sheets for building students' vocabulary, reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. The stories and activities are organized into four equal sections focusing on reading levels 3, 4, 5 and 6 and accompanied by "New Vocabulary" to introduce the pronunciation and meaning of new words and "Questions to Ask" to spark students' curiosity and recall prior knowledge. Each section concludes with ten reproducible enrichment activities to...

For all reading teachers and specialists, grades K-12, this resource provides over 230 tested, easy-to-use exercises, games, and activities to correct individual reading skills deficiencies in the areas of phonic analysis, structural analysis, comprehension and oral reading skills ... plus a reproducible "Individual Pupil Checklist of Reading Skills " for easy recordkeeping.

This resource provides over 70 ready-to-use informal diagnostic tests and other evaluative aids to help reading specialists and classroom teachers identify students' individual reading problems in order to prescribe effective corrective or remedial instructions. These diagnostic aids cover the basic skill areas of phonic analysis, structural analysis, and comprehension at primary and intermediate levels, as well as survival reading skills at the intermediate and upper levels.

Having trouble interesting your students in history or the history textbook? Concerned about the ability of your students to actually read the textbook? Learn ways to tie reading strategies to the learning of history, and discover sources that will help history come alive for your students.
Nationally known literacy advocate Janet Allen discusses strategies for teaching nonfiction reading using Joy Hakim's award winning A History of US series as the center of a blossoming campaign among educators to integrate literacy and history. Classroom tested at a variety of grade levels, real...

Provides evidence-based practices for teachers to use as they work to meet standards associated with comprehending complex literature and informational texts. The authors offer a practical model, with classroom applications drawing on the Construction-Integration (CI) model of text comprehension.

Provides evidence-based practices for teachers to use as they work to meet standards associated with comprehending complex literature and informational texts. The authors offer a practical model, with classroom applications drawing on the Construction-Integration (CI) model of text comprehension.

Understanding what students do when they read, and then helping them take the next step, can be easy for an informed teacher. For Sandra Wilde, the key is to focus on the strengths students bring to the process and build from there. With Miscue Analysis Made Easy, Wilde leads the way, offering a lucid, commonsense explanation of what exactly reading is and how it works.

Beginning with a series of lively, interactive exercises Miscue Analysis Made Easy leads us through the thinking processes and linguistic systems that readers use to build their understanding of text....

Book study groups and professional learning communities, click here to save 15% when you order 15 copies of Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K-8.

Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K-8 is the next new breakthrough from Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. Offering a complete picture of how to skillfully teach meaning making and fluency within any instructional context, Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K-8, supports you with frameworks for high-quality instruction that describe appropriate expectations for comprehending,...

Marie Clay, in her foreword, says that this important book will help raise the profile for what is needed to get all children off to a good start in education. And a good place to start is with Carol Lyons.

Lyons does a masterful job of introducing teachers to the concepts, categories, language, and arguments pertaining to the brain's control of what readers do. She offers a new way of thinking about learning, about how the mind develops, and about what teachers can do to reach struggling readers. She draws on examples from interactions with her son and her own teaching, from...

Harvey Daniels' Literature Circles introduced tens of thousands of teachers to the power of student-led book discussions. Nancy Steineke's Reading and Writing Together showed how a teacher can nurture friendship and collaboration among young readers. Now, Daniels and Steineke team up to focus on one crucial element of the Literature Circle model; the short, teacher-directed lessons that begin, guide and follow-up every successful book club meeting.

Mini-lessons are the secret to book clubs that click. Each of these forty-five short, focused, and practical lessons...

Maria Nichols offers not possible lessons but full descriptions of actual lessons. Here you'll find no ivory-tower examples of what might be, but examples of what is already available in many classrooms. These are classrooms of the sort that we hope our children and grandchildren are lucky enough to encounter - not once in a while but routinely.
- Richard L. Allington

To say this is an exceptional book about teaching comprehension would be to trivialize it. With superb examples and flawless logic Nichols demonstrates how to orchestrate conversations that build...

Frank Serafini has written extensively on the reading workshop, and in talks around the country, he's answered the tough questions about teaching through this powerful medium. Now in Around the Reading Workshop in 180 Days, his most practical book to date, Serafini answers your most frequently asked questions and shows you the daily ins and outs of the workshop.

Picking up where his bestselling titles The Reading Workshop and Lessons in Comprehension left off, Serafini gives you month-by-month strategies for running a reading workshop across an entire school...

Breakthrough to Meaning is exactly what teachers are looking for: a resource full of new, thoughtful strategies that help children interact with texts in deeper, more authentic ways.
- Donald H. Graves

I especially liked the emphasis on teacher demonstration and how teachers challenged children to broaden their perspectives and to develop an understanding of other points of view.
- Carol Avery

What if there were a single literacy strategy that helped learners of all ages across all contexts read critically, write reflectively, think deeply -...