Retaining what is heard! Short, bright, read-aloud stories about subjects ranging from “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” to “Helping Baby Birds” are at the core of the 30 lessons in this learning unit. After listening closely to each story, students are given independent activities that focus on drawing conclusions, finding the main idea, and remembering details. By getting youngsters involved in the stories, they will gradually learn more thoughtful listening techniques.

From “Armadillos” to “Gliders” and “Amelia Earhart” to “Magnets,” this 26-lesson unit features success-oriented comprehension activities that focus on a controlled vocabulary and utilize high-interest stories. True to its goal of encouraging students to absorb what they read, the exercises in this book follow up informational reading with effective comprehension questions. 32 Pages includes answer key. Reading Level 2-3 | Interest Level 3-12

These 50 nonfiction stories and activities are a sure-fire way to improve fluency and comprehension skills! Simple sentences and short, easy-to-read paragraphs are paired with compelling illustrations for a strong picture-text correspondence. Age-appropriate topics and a controlled vocabulary motivate students and help ensure success. Follow-up activities focus on specific reading skills such as finding the main idea, making inferences, reading for details, locating information, using context clues, and more. The activities featured in this book utilize the direct-approach fluency formula: read and re-read decodable words in connected text. Research shows that repeated readings turn slow, choppy readers into faster, smoother, more fluent readers. By doing the five follow-up activities that accompany each short paragraph, students will read the same paragraph a minimum of four times: 1. Read the paragraph when first presented with it. 2. Look back at the paragraph to respond to the follow-up exercises. 3. Complete the cloze reading activity involving the paragraph. 4. Follow the direction to “Re-read your completed paragraph to make sure it makes sense.” Reading Level 2-3

Reading for comprehension. Packed with informative short stories, comprehension questions, and various research activities, this 23-lesson book provides valuable practice with the reading skills needed to locate specific information in written text. Each fact-based story is followed by questions that require students to locate the information in the story and give precise answers. Subjects covered range from “The Stars in the Sky” and “Amazons,” to “Komodo Dragons” and “Going Bananas.” 28-page book includes an answer key. Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12

What comes next after the letter g? Put these letters in ABC order – pdi. As children move through the 44 lessons in this book, they progress from letter ordering, to word ordering, and on to activities designed to build comfort and use of a dictionary. Once a basic familiarity with locating words is achieved, students are ready to use what they find. Activities follow on parts of speech and use of word meanings. The final exercises touch on multiple meanings - when the same word has two definitions in the dictionary.

Now you can prepare students for standardized tests easily and thoroughly without disrupting your on-going curriculum! Easily incorporated into your daily routine, E-Z Test Readiness offers 112 small units of practice featuring the concepts, format, and response styles of major standardized tests. These “mini-tests” offer repeated practice of sample items in a standardized testing format. The multiple-choice questions and corresponding bubble sheet are sure to add to the realistic experience. Based on the most widely used national standardized tests, E-Z Test Readiness will: reduce test anxiety, build confidence, improve test scores, increase mastery of content, and more!

“Evaluation” is the most abstract and complex level of critical thinking. To evaluate or make judgments, students must accept a given criteria as the standard before being able to come to an accurate conclusion.The 25 lessons in this unit provide practice with personal values, accuracy of facts, recognizing bias, and using reference sources.Example: “You want to go to a summer camp. What makes a good one?”The sequential activities featured here are sure to develop critical thinking skills.

Proofreading is the process of carefully going over a written report, story, or letter before the final copy is made. We proofread to be sure there are no mistakes, and when we find a mistake, we correct it… right? Unfortunately, for many students proofreading is a foreign concept. All too often students turn in a "finished" classroom assignment that is full of careless mistakes! This step-by-step unit was designed to help students learn, practice, and incorporate this vital skill into their written work.

Teach students how to organize and classify information in easy-to-manage steps! These beginning outlining lessons will prepare students for the writing process by introducing titles, main topics, sub-topics, details, using an outline to write a report, and outlining a story. The 24 lessons will give students plenty of practice with all the basic aspects of outlining. With the skills taught in this unit, students will be better equipped to use an outline to help them write a story or report.

Do your students need practice making inferences and drawing conclusions? Are they having trouble reading for details and then determining the main idea? This innovative series highlights 10 essential reading skills/concepts...one skill at a time. Extremely short passages (30 to 100 words) are followed by comprehension questions designed to target and improve specific reading skills. High-interest topics keep students interested, while the short passages keep students from feeling overwhelmed and "giving up." Ideal for students who get intimidated by longer paragraphs, those with short attention spans, and struggling readers of all ages. A controlled vocabulary and simple sentence structure help ensure success. Reading Level 1.0-3.9 | Interest Level 2+ Skills Covered Include: - Details - Cause & Effect - Sequence - Conclusions - Vocabulary - Locating the Answer - Comparison - Inference - Fact or Opinion

Do your students need practice making inferences and drawing conclusions? Are they having trouble reading for details and then determining the main idea? This innovative series highlights 10 essential reading skills/concepts...one skill at a time. Extremely short passages (30 to 100 words) are followed by comprehension questions designed to target and improve specific reading skills. High-interest topics keep students interested, while the short passages keep students from feeling overwhelmed and "giving up." Ideal for students who get intimidated by longer paragraphs, those with short attention spans, and struggling readers of all ages. A controlled vocabulary and simple sentence structure help ensure success. Reading Level 3.4-5.1 | Interest Level 2+ Skills Covered Include: - Details - Cause & Effect - Sequence - Conclusions - Vocabulary - Locating the Answer - Comparison - Inference - Fact or Opinion

These short, high-interest mysteries happening in fascinating locations will grab any struggling reader’s attention! Students follow clues, find facts, make inferences, and solve each caper. To increase fluency, pre-reading exercises introduce vocabulary and help students establish prior knowledge by providing background information. Each reading passage is full of clues to keep even the most reluctant of readers captivated. Following each mystery story, comprehension questions target specific reading skills including main idea, inference, drawing conclusions, sequence, reading for details, and much more! Meet the Detective Become an international globe-trotter while trying to keep up with the world-renowned Inspector Tippington! The Inspector helps his friends discover the truth about “whodunit” in exciting places all over the world! Contents Include: - 12 Mysteries - Before You Read Activities (Predicting, Thinking, & Glossary) - After You Read Skill-Specific, Comprehension Questions Reading Level 3 | Interest Level 3-12

These short, high-interest mysteries happening in fascinating locations will grab any struggling reader’s attention! Students follow clues, find facts, make inferences, and solve each caper. To increase fluency, pre-reading exercises introduce vocabulary and help students establish prior knowledge by providing background information. Each reading passage is full of clues to keep even the most reluctant of readers captivated. Following each mystery story, comprehension questions target specific reading skills including main idea, inference, drawing conclusions, sequence, reading for details, and much more! Meet the Detectives Join teenager Jenna White as she helps her dad, a National Park Ranger, solve perplexing mysteries. Follow them as they travel to different national parks across the U.S. and Canada. Contents Include: - 12 Mysteries - Before You Read Activities (Predicting, Thinking, & Glossary) - After You Read Skill-Specific, Comprehension Questions Reading Level 2 | Interest Level 3-12

Snip. Snip! Color, cut, and paste to improve eye-hand coordination. Students will get loads of practice honing their fine motor skills with the 24 creative cutting activities in this book. Whether using a scissors to divide a picture into pieces before pasting it back together or snipping out images of fish to be pasted into a fishbowl, children are sure to have fun while learning.

Fundamental thinking skills. As students work through the 20 visual exercises in this book, they learn to classify everything from “ocean creatures” to “things that fly.” Matching and coloring activities give students further practice grouping similar and dissimilar objects. The creative illustrations featured make the learning fun.

Exploring similar and opposite meanings. This 21-lesson unit is packed with vocabulary-building activities that introduce children to synonyms and antonyms. Puzzles, word searches, and color coding exercises are all used to teach the fundamentals of identifying and understanding words of like meanings (close/shut) and opposing meanings (over/under). Delightful illustrations keep students enthused while they get plenty of practice. A pre/post test is included.

Learning words by sight takes practice, practice, practice. This book provides children a fun way to do just that. Working from the standard Dolch List this book emphasizes 54 popular sight words - from mother to read and oodles of everyday words in between. All totaled, there are 29 different sight word activities in this book, including exercises to finish writing words, to unscramble words from blocks of letters and even completing sentences.