This series is designed to help children practice and master a variety of skills, including beginning math, penmanship, reading comprehension, and much more. These books can be used to enrich learning, reinforce skills, and provide extra practice. The compact size (7" x 9") allows the books to fit easily in children s hands and backpacks.

Get solid learning results with phonics! Teach students in Grades K-1 the basics of phonemic awareness to increase reading skills. The lessons include playful story hour rhymes and activities to provide direct instruction in phonics and phonemic awareness targeted to get solid learning results. The lessons are easy-to-implement and correlated to national standards. This new resource offers hands-on help with teaching phonics and phonemic awareness. These easy-to-follow lessons on letter and sound recognition will help educators build the foundation for an effective reading program in the classroom and library. Use this book to teach phonics and improve your students' reading scores!

Teach students how to practice listening comprehension skills independently – so learning sticks Simply Stations: Listening and Speaking shows how to ensure that elementary students are purposefully and effectively practicing listening comprehension, accountable talk, phonological awareness, oral language, and vocabulary skills every day. Your students will soon be purposefully engaged and making critical steps to owning their learning. Debbie Diller has been refining literacy stations (sometimes called centers) for more than 40 years, working with thousands of teachers and students. In this book, she guides you step-by-step through planning for instruction that incorporates literacy standards, setting up and launching listening and speaking stations, varying and refreshing content throughout the year, to reflection and ongoing modification. What stands out in this book is the full integration of instruction; Debbie shows how whole-group lessons transfer to stations work so students are practicing key skills independently – and gives you everything needed for success: Recommendations by grade level at every step, including grade-appropriate materials and audio resources for each station; Whole-group lesson plans, differentiated by grade level and based on key literacy standards, to introduce and support partner work; On-the-spot formative assessment ideas and troubleshooting tips; Ideas to improve English Language Learner’s language acquisition, including online Spanish-language materials; 30 time-saving downloadable resources for teachers and students to ensure success; and Dozens of full-color, real-classroom photos so you see the possibilities first-hand. Simply Stations: Listening and Speaking gives you invaluable tips, solutions, and insight that can transform the way your students learn and practice listening and speaking skills. It’s time to boost the impact of your literacy stations!

Use First-Rate Reading Basics: Phonemic Awareness and Phonics to produce first-rate readers with fun, interactive, and original activities that emphasize reading skills for grades K–1. These skills include blending, segmentation, syllables, letter identification, consonant sounds, long and short vowel sounds, and consonant blends and digraphs. This 80-page book includes a reproducible parent letter and student assessments.

Improve reading, especially during the summer months, to connect students from one grade to the next. An assessment test and an incentive contract are included. Topics covered include sequencing, following directions, classification, long and short vowels, synonyms, antonyms, digraphs, main ideas, characters, and much more!