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Reading Support
Reading Instruction Desk Planner
For the first time a desk-sized pad designed to help plan balanced reading instruction every week. Each of the forty-two planner pages features guidelines for planning a week’s worth of Read Aloud, Shared and Guided Reading lessons, and Independent Practice.
Comprehension Strategies Flip Chart This essential resource contains large-format, laminated graphic organizers for use in small-group comprehension instruction. Predicting, summarizing, connecting, questioning, inferring, and imaging lesson guides are included on the flip side of each comprehension strategy organizer.
Comprehension Rubric Rings An invaluable resource for Guided and Shared reading instruction. Each rubric ring consists of laminated strategy specific, color-coded cards to guide comprehension instruction and assessment. Each card features a curriculum continuum for instruction as well as corresponding questions for guided discussion. The reverse side of each card provides a rubric for assessing each comprehension strategy.
Guided Reading Placemats: Set of 6
A must for every guided reading table. These durable, two-sided placemats provide students with graphic cues for fix-up strategies and all areas of comprehension instruction.
Story Drama: A Literature Experience for Young Children Grades: PreK-3 Literature comes to life as students act out the children's poems and stories they love. Step-by-step directions for staging 28 story dramas including a section on how to create your own story drama response are features in this unique resource. Acting out stories helps children examine literary elements, imagery, and explore feelings as they interact with the text.
Story Drama: A New Literature Experience Grades: 4-6 Story Drama is an innovative approach for exploring children's literature - poetry, fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, and nonfiction! In a story drama, students become the characters in the stories, text, and poems they hear and read. Literacture and content areas spring to life as students participate in dramatizing text.
Nonfiction Literacy This teacher resource was specifically developed to promote nonfiction literacy. It addressed all areas of language arts: reading, comprehension, speaking, listening, and writing. A multitude of ready-to-use ideas, strategies, and activities to enhance learning for all abilities and grade levels 3–8 are included.
