**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Teachers and Students "Sharing the Pen" to Create Meaningful Text Interactive writing is a dynamic process by which teachers and students create meaningful text together. This cutting-edge resource provides background information, student writing samples, and simple guidelines for implementing this powerful strategy in the classroom. In addition, Interactive Writing includes over 30 creative and unique...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Using Word Patterns to Build Beginning Reading Skills Improve students' decoding and comprehension skills by including games that use spinners, dice, and word cards, and whole-group and learning-center activities. Great for ESL/ELL! Includes a 16 3/4" x 21 9/16" colorful pull-out poster.

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Children jump, gallop, wiggle, and leap as they count, measure, estimate, create patterns, skip-count, add, subtract, name shapes, tell time, and work with money. This resource includes over 40 math-and-movement activities, a variety of reproducibles, an assessment checklist, playful chants, and a list of recommended music and literature links.

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Here's the blueprint you need to help early-childhood and ESL students build a strong foundation in each of the four areas of language?listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This resource includes over 60 fun, hands-on games and activities. Each activity encourages students to respond to verbal directions through movement and speech, pronounce, and build new vocabulary...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Getting Sidelined Readers Off the Bench and Back in the Game This resource helps teachers identify "sidelined" readers and offers a strategic plan to help students find success as well as enjoyment in the "game" of reading. Specific lessons are presented to target three key skill areas--phonemic awareness, phonics, and decoding; vocabulary development; and comprehension...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Using Student Interaction to Improve Reading Comprehension This resource provides all you need to introduce, implement, and manage literature circle groups in your classroom. It's all here: step-by-step directions for teacher preparation, sample daily schedules, daily task questions, lesson ideas with coordinating reproducibles, teacher and student assessment ideas with reproducible evaluation forms, and synopses of...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Make-and-Take Mini-Units from A to Z This resource gives you dozens of ideas for organizing 26 thematic mini-units from A-Z. Each letter of the alphabet is presented as a mini-unit designed to give children practice with fundamental language, math, science, social studies, writing, and thinking skills. Developmentally appropriate games and activities, as well as books,...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Using Nonfiction to Teach Writing in the Primary Classroom   This resource is designed to teach children to recognize and use text features such as captions, time lines, labels, and more. Every activity provides a helpful list of reading selections from an array of curricular areas. Introduce children to the world of nonfiction with Unwrapping...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Fun, Interactive Reading Selections for Fluency Practice Reaserch has confirmed that the more children practice reading, the more fluent they become. Jingle Jangles features 32 interactive scripts and minibooks based on familiar songs and chants that provide this necessary element of repeated reading practice in a fun and interactive way. This motivating format keeps children's...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Develop Reading Fluency and Text Comprehension Skills   This series of Reader's Theater books provides high-interest scripts featuring everything from amusing fables and fairy tales to inspiring inventors and historical heroes. Each script comes with explicit fluency instruction, a list of key vocabulary, and engaging comprehension activities. Each book describes in simple terms how to...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Develop Reading Fluency and Text Comprehension Skills   This series of Reader's Theater books provides high-interest scripts featuring everything from amusing fables and fairy tales to inspiring inventors and historical heroes. Each script comes with explicit fluency instruction, a list of key vocabulary, and engaging comprehension activities. Each book describes in simple terms how to...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** This resource consists of over 250 full-color letter and picture cards that can be arranged quickly into more than 45 engaging activities that reinforce skills such as letter, number, and color recognition; letter, number, and shape formation; alphabetical and numerical order; and beginning sounds. Please note: In the eBook version of this title, letter and...