Discover strategies for incorporating fluency instruction into your daily reading routines and easily incorporate it into instruction. This resource provides teachers with step-by-step processes for teaching fluency, a continuum of lessons that gradually release responsibility from the teacher to the student, tips for parental involvement, and ideas for community-building with other classrooms. Incorporate this research- and standards-based resource into instruction today and help students at any reading level become fluent.
Go Figure! Exploring Figurative Language highlights a variety of common idioms and proverbs for students in grades 5-8. Students will deepen their skills in writing, understanding word meanings, and using context clues with this engaging classroom resource. Based on today's standards, this resource includes 20 content-based lessons in the areas of science, social studies, and mathematics. Teacher overview pages, student activities, and digital resources are included.
Go Figure! Exploring Figurative Language highlights a variety of common idioms for learners in grades 24. Students will deepen their skills in writing, understanding word meanings, and using context clues with this engaging classroom resource. Based on today's standards, this resource includes 20 content-based lessons in the areas of science, social studies, and mathematics. Teacher overview pages, student activities, and digital resources are included.
Dive into prefixes and suffixes where students in grades 2–4 will expand their vocabularies and improve their word knowledge. Starting with Prefixes and Suffixes is a standards-based resource that introduces common Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes and presents them in ways that are easy to understand and apply. Each lesson provides necessary content explanations, instructional guidelines, and activities to help students decipher meaning by analyzing work parts and word groups. Additional resources are offered to assist teachers facilitate learning with an appendix offering more activities, extensions, and flashcards. This resource is correlated to College and Career Readiness and other state standards.
This series, The Poet and the Professor. Poems for Building Reading Skills, brings poetry into a whole new light for students in grades 1-8. Each book includes playful, original content that will engage both reluctant and skilled readers. The easy-to-use, standards-based lessons and purposeful activity pages address key literacy skills. Each book includes an Audio CD of the poems that can be used to support fluency and comprehension. Also included is an interactive whiteboard-compatible Resource CD that can be used to further support literacy skills.
Make poetry fun for 4th grade readers with poems presented in a whole new light! Coauthored by well-known fluency expert, Timothy Rasinski, this incredible book for Grade 4 encourages students to read and perform playful, original content written in student voices that will engage both reluctant and skilled readers. The easy-to-use, standards-based lessons and purposeful activity pages help readers build fluency, comprehension, and poetry skills. Each book also includes an Audio CD that can be used to support fluency and comprehension, as well as an interactive whiteboard-compatible Teacher Resource CD that can be used to support literacy skills. 144pp. plus 2 CDs
Spark the interest of 5th grade readers with poetry presented in a whole new light! Coauthored by well-known fluency expert, Timothy Rasinski, this incredible book for Grade 5 encourages students to read and perform playful, original content written in student voices that will engage both reluctant and skilled readers. The easy-to-use, standards-based lessons and purposeful activity pages help readers build fluency, comprehension, and poetry skills. Each book also includes an Audio CD that can be used to support fluency and comprehension, as well as an interactive whiteboard-compatible Teacher Resource CD that can be used to support literacy skills. 144pp. plus 2 CDs
Capture the interest of 3rd grade readers with poetry that is fun to read and perform! Coauthored by well-known fluency expert, Timothy Rasinski, this incredible book for Grade 3 students encourages fluency and word study through playful, original content that will engage both reluctant and skilled readers. The easy-to-use, standards-based lessons and purposeful activity pages address key literacy skills. Each book also includes an Audio CD that can be used to support fluency and comprehension, as well as an interactive whiteboard-compatible Teacher Resource CD that can be used to support literacy skills. 144pp. plus 2 CDs
This series, The Poet and the Professor: Poems for Building Reading Skills, brings poetry into a whole new light for students in grades 1-8. Each book includes playful, original content that will engage both reluctant and skilled readers. The easy-to-use, standards-based lessons and purposeful activity pages address key literacy skills. Each book includes an Audio CD of the poems that can be used to support fluency and comprehension. Also included is an interactive whiteboard-compatible Resource CD that can be used to further support literacy skills.
Develop student’s vocabulary with weekly lessons and activities on word roots. These 52 short lessons are based on holidays and special days throughout the year and will support building vocabulary by helping students see the power of Latin and Greek word roots for word learning. The vocabulary ranges from everyday words that come readily to mind to more challenging academic vocabulary that students must master for academic success.
This fun resource features a game-like format to help students build words from overlapping word parts--one step at a time! Each Word Steps activity is based on a crossword puzzle-type design and provides a focus on specific letters in words and meaning clues. The activities help learners with spelling and vocabulary skills. 136pp. plus Teacher Resource CD.
Practice makes perfect! Build students' oral reading skills with these engaging lessons. Increasing Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrases<\i> offers 20 creative lessons that analyze high frequency practice to gain word recognition, expression, and fluency with comprehension questions to evaluate mastery. A fluency rubric and reference list of oral reading strategies are included to support learning success. Based on Dr. Timothy’s expert fluency research and Dr. Edward Fry’s Instant Words<\i>, this resource is aligned with college and career readiness standards and provides an important reading foundation. An Audio CD with oral readings of phrases and reading selections is included.
Grab the interest of 6th-8th grade readers with poems presented in a fun new light! Coauthored by well-known fluency expert, Timothy Rasinski, this incredible book for Grades 6-8 encourages students to read and perform playful, original content written in student voices that will engage both reluctant and skilled readers. The easy-to-use, standards-based lessons and purposeful activity pages help readers build fluency, comprehension, and poetry skills. Each book also includes an Audio CD that can be used to support fluency and comprehension, as well as an interactive whiteboard-compatible Teacher Resource CD that can be used to support literacy skills. 144pp. plus 2 CDs
100 irresistible word study "ladders." Kids start at the bottom, read clues on each rung, then change and rearrange letters to make words until the reach the top and find the answer! Strengthens decoding and spelling skills, and builds fluency!
Based on Dr. Edward Fry's Instant Words and Dr. Timothy Rasinski's fluency research, this resource helps teach grade 1 students to recognize words, read phrases with expression, improve fluency, and increase comprehension. Includes Audio CD and Teacher Resource CD. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards. 96pp.
Using Dr. Fry's Instant Words and Dr. Rasinski's research, these books provide a powerful tool for building fluency. Each of the books in this series provides a clear direction on how to teach students to recognize words, read phrases with expressions, and ultimately improve comprehension. Each book includes: A fluency assessment rubric and a reference list of oral reading fluency strategies 20 four-page lessons on phrasing plus activities for practicing comprehension and fluency activities Audio CD with oral reading of the phrase list and reading selection from each lesson 96pp. plus Audio CD and Teacher CD
Energize your reading instruction through innovative, engaging reading strategies that will empower you to improve your students' comprehension. Written by Drs. Timothy Rasinski and Danny Brassell, these unique classroom-tested strategies integrate current research with real-life observation of diverse students in action. Learn why these comprehension strategies matter, as well as how to introduce activities to tap into students' multiple intelligences and improve reading instruction across the content areas.
Using Dr. Fry's Instant Words and Dr. Rasinski's research, these books provide a powerful tool for building fluency. Each of the books in this series provides a clear direction on how to teach students to recognize words, read phrases with expressions, and ultimately improve comprehension. Each book includes: A fluency assessment rubric and a reference list of oral reading fluency strategies 20 four-page lessons on phrasing plus activities for practicing comprehension and fluency activities Audio CD with oral reading of the phrase list and reading selection from each lesson 96pp. plus Audio CD and Teacher CD
Did you grow up reciting Little Miss Muffet, Jack Be Nimble, and Mary Had a Little Lamb? Mother Goose nursery rhymes have helped generations of children achieve literacy. This third grade classroom resource will help teachers incorporate rhymes into a standards-based curriculum that is aligned to TESOL, WIDA, and Common Care. Students will master phonological awareness, phonics skills, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and writing while purposefully playing with rhymes. Watch your students light up as they recite these traditional and original rhymes and complete hands-on activities with this invaluable resource.
Discover innovative ways to incorporate fluency practice into reading instruction! This professional resource provides teachers with engaging and practical strategies for bringing fluency instruction into daily reading routines. Written by fluency expert Timothy Rasinski and literacy and reader’s theater expert Chase Young, this book offers instructional strategies to help teachers understand fluency and how to teach it. With step-by-step strategies, detailed lessons, and ideas for improving fluency, this meaningful guide allows teachers to provide purposeful reading opportunities for their students. Help every student become a confident and fluent reader with this professional resource!
Increase student fluency levels through repeated reading of traditional poems, songs, reader's theater, and monologues. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski's important fluency research, these books are ideal for ELL students. Two CD's are included: an Audio CD with recordings of the songs, and a Teacher Resource CD with the songs presented in PowerPoint for whole class participation.
Grab the interest of 6th-8th grade readers with poems presented in a fun new light! Coauthored by well-known fluency expert, Timothy Rasinski, this incredible book for Grades 6-8 encourages students to read and perform playful, original content written in student voices that will engage both reluctant and skilled readers. The easy-to-use, standards-based lessons and purposeful activity pages help readers build fluency, comprehension, and poetry skills. Each book also includes an Audio CD that can be used to support fluency and comprehension, as well as an interactive whiteboard-compatible Teac.
Expand your students' content-area vocabulary and improve their understanding with this roots-based approach! This standards-based resource, geared towards third grade, helps students comprehend informational text on grade-level topics in science, social studies, and mathematics using the most common Greek and Latin roots. Each lesson provides tips on how to introduce the selected roots and offers guided instruction to help easily implement the activities. Students will be able to apply their knowledge of roots associated with specific subject areas into their everyday vocabulary.
Did you grow up reciting Little Miss Muffet, Jack Be Nimble, and Mary Had a Little Lamb? Mother Goose nursery rhymes have helped generations of children achieve literacy. This first grade classroom resource will help teachers incorporate rhymes into a standards-based curriculum that is aligned to TESOL, WIDA, and Common Care. Students will master phonological awareness, phonics skills, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and writing while purposefully playing with rhymes. Watch your students light up as they recite these traditional and original rhymes and complete hands-on activities with this invaluable resource.
Use this resource featuring a game-like format to help students build words from overlapping word parts. Each activity provides a focus on specific letters in words and meaning clues, ultimately helping learners with spelling and vocabulary skills.
Get ready to "hit a homerun" with strategies and suggestions that will "knock your socks off" including how to introduce idioms and incorporate them into your language and writing instruction. The idioms and expressions are provided in context with stories and activities to teach usage and definitions and include hyperboles, metaphors, similes, and personification. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski's research, the idioms are grouped by themes for ease in teaching and learning. Includes a Teacher Resource CD. 96pp.
Teach second grade students close reading strategies that strengthen their fluency and comprehension skills! Students will read and analyze various types of texts to get the most out of the rich content. Their reading skills will improve as they answer text-dependent questions, compare and contrast texts, and learn to use close reading strategies on their own! The lessons are designed to make close reading strategies accessible, interactive, grade appropriate, and fun. The lesson plans are easy to follow, and offer a practical model built on research-based comprehension and fluency strategies.
Increase student fluency levels through repeated reading of traditional poems, songs, reader's theater, and monologues. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski's important fluency research, these books are ideal for ELL students. Two CD's are included: an Audio CD with recordings of the songs, and a Teacher Resource CD with the songs presented in PowerPoint for whole class participation.
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