Activities

Improve sight word recognition and early literacy with tactile bean bags and hands-on activities. Set includes 25 double-sided bean bags (50 sight words from a research-based list), drawstring bag, and parent activity guide.Key Features : i : SPARK MORE...

Learn to create and tell stories with touch-and-feel bean bags that highlight key story elements. 15 color-coded, double-sided bean bags feature ten characters, ten settings, and ten events. Includes drawstring bag and parent activity guide.Key Features...

Running records point the way to responsive instruction, particularly when informed teachers are able to mine them for patterns that reveal the problem-solving strategies children are using as they process text. Running records are windows on each...

Engaging, Ready-to-Use Learning Centers for Review of Standards-Based ELA/Reading Skills! This complete, easy-to-use learning center is perfect for learning essential grade appropriate ELA/Reading skills. Designed for either teacher directed instruction...

Give students a place to keep track of the titles and authors of books they have read at home or school. On each of the 30 pages of these Reading Journals, students write about a book, draw a picture of it, and even give it a rating. Each pack includes...

Give a thoughtful gift that's fun for kids and parent-approved! This Early Reading activity set arrives bundled in tissue, simply wrap or drop into a festive bag – perfect for a present or reward for any occasion. Charming characters and hands-on...

Guided reading experts Jan Richardson and Michele Dufresne provide teachers with clear, concise, and practical instructions and resources for planning and teaching developmentally appropriate word study and phonics lessons. Learn how students solve...

Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Happiness is the first professional title dedicated to addressing a school's reading culture with a focus on the needs of immigrant and refugee students and families—including learning their target language, English. Dr...

Espinosa and Ascenzi-Moreno demonstrate how our emergent bilingual students who speak two or more languages in their daily lives— thrive when they are able to use "translanguaging" to tap the power of their entire linguistic and sociocultural repertoires...

Making inferences is a key comprehension skill that requires students to read between the lines and extract the meaning of a text, even when that meaning is not explicitly stated. Hone students’ inferencing skill with this collection of ready-to-use task...

Using context clues to figure out the meaning of unknown words in texts can be very tricky. Teach students this critical skill with this collection of ready-to-use task cards that feature engaging mini-passages. Key questions give students lots of...

Figurative language can leave students so bewildered, you could knock them over with a feather. This collection of ready-to-use task cards can help! Each card features a highly engaging mini-passage with key questions related to idioms, similes,...

Designed for either teacher-directed instruction or independent use by groups of up to 4 students, the Learning Center covers Non-Fiction Text Features. Includes four Visual Learning Guides – all focused on this key topic – for direct instruction through...

Engaging, Ready-to-Use Learning Centers for Review of Standards-Based ELA/Reading Skills! This complete, easy-to-use learning center is perfect for learning essential grade appropriate ELA/Reading skills. Designed for either teacher directed instruction...

Junior Sequence Cards are simple and basic picture cards that when placed in the correct order, they tell a short story. These picture cards include 1-2 characters per story and can easily be trimmed to a lower level by using 2-3 cards instead of all 6...

Spark Sequence Cards #2 are picture cards that when placed in the correct order, they tell a short story. They are a sequel to set #1 with additional story sets. There is no reading required and children are prompted to examine picture details to figure...

Spark Sequence Cards are picture cards that when placed in the correct order, they tell a short story. There is no reading required and children are prompted to examine picture details to figure out the correct order of the cards. Once the cards are in...

This book expands the research, theory, and practice showcased in From Striving to Thriving, tackles the "over-labeling" inherent in RTI, and builds a case for voluminous independent reading as the best intervention for all children. Before children are...

Running records point the way to responsive instruction, particularly when informed teachers are able to mine them for patterns that reveal the problem-solving strategies children are using as they process text. Running records are windows on each...

Give students a place to keep track of the titles and authors of books they have read at home or school. On each of the 30 pages of these Reading Journals, students write about a book, draw a picture of it, and even give it a rating. Each pack includes...