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 Phonemic Awareness
Playing with Sounds to
Strengthen Beginning Reading Skills
Jo Fitzpatrick (Grades PreK–2)
Help your primary students learn to read by teaching them how to "listen to language." Before children can understand printed words, they need to hear and manipulate letter sounds. Includes over 90 activities, reproducible manipulatives, picture cards, and word lists to help children connect oral language to written text. 128 pages. DFPA • $17 |
 Coaching Struggling Readers
Getting Sidelined Readers Off
the Bench and Back in the Game
Dr. Margaret Allen (Grades 3–5)
Identify "sidelined" readers and create a strategic plan to help students find success as well as enjoyment in the "game" of reading. Your students will enjoy and learn from specific lessons targeting three key skill areas—phonemic awareness, phonics, and decoding; vocabulary development; and comprehension and critical thinking. Lesson activities include a warm-up to reinforce background skills, a game plan featuring the target skill, and a huddle-up idea for additional practice. Use this comprehensive resource to move sidelined readers off the bench and back into action. 112 pages. DACSR • $16 |
 Literacy Centers
What Your Other Kids Do
During Guided-Reading Groups
Irene Allen & Susan Peery (Grades 3–5)
How do you keep the class productively learning while you work one-on-one with a student or with a reading group? Use these 19 literacy centers. You'll find imaginative center ideas to integrate reading and writing in all content areas. Centers such as Write around the Room, Poetry, Buddy Reading, and Drama will make center time fun and meaningful while freeing you up to work with individuals or small groups. 144 pages. DASLC • $20 |
 
StorySwitcher Combo
Jackie Scott (Grades K–6)
Create higher-level thinking with students' favorite fairy tales. First you lead the class through the original story with illustrated story cards. Then there is a "Switch." The seven dwarfs become seven giants or the ugly duckling becomes the ugly caterpillar! The Switch changes every aspect of the story. It is up to students to come up with the new story. Includes illustrated English/Spanish story cards with the Switch story illustrated on the back of each card; over 50 K–2 and 3–6 cooperative activities for the original story and the switch; and student cards for hands-on activities. Students love it—the Switch stimulates fantasy and creativity. Combo includes all 4 sets. Regular price $32. Combo price $24 • CSSW
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 The Teacher’s Book of Lists
Sheila Madsen & Bette Gould (Grades 1–6)
Save time with this comprehensive collection of teacher lists. You'll find lists and related activities for spelling, math, writing, communication, literature, science, social studies, art and music, words, and the environment. There is a list and activity for every occasion. 400 pages. DMGL • $30 |
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Cooperative ReadingBoards
Teach young students to read with their favorite nursery rhymes. Students manipulate gamepieces as they sing along to well known songs. Includes step-by-step instructions and ready-to-use activities to bring students from the concrete (pictures only) to the symbolic (words only) level with 100% success! Enough gameboards and gamepieces for 9 teams. $12 each.
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 The Absolutely Essential Writing Guide
Nancy Atlee (Grades 3–12)
The essentials of writing and literature are at your students' fingertips with this style guide. It includes important elements of writing and editing, definition of terms, common usage errors, and helpful references. With examples for most entries, students have a concrete illustration for hundreds of strategies, terms, and definitions. 96 pages. DAWG • $14 |
 The Absolutely Essential Grammar Guide
Nancy Atlee (Grades 3–12)
This is a great reference manual for teachers and students alike. Master the correct use of punctuation, rules for capitalization, definitions and uses of the parts of speech, definitions and examples of parts and types of sentences, and identify common usage errors. Includes simple student examples with correct grammar usage. 88 pages. DAGG • $14 |
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