Emergent readers must master twelve essential skills, or concepts of print, before participating in a formal reading program. The hands-on activities encourage children to explore the function of letters, words, sentences, and punctuation and to practice tracking print. Tips for evaluating children's progress and an assessment tool are also included.

The third edition of Building Blocks provides readers with a framework for successful and meaningful inclusion of preschoolers with special needs. Like the first two editions, the third edition offers teachers effective, research-based instructional practices to promote learning in inclusive classrooms. The authors have updated existing content and added new content to reflect current thinking in the field.

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

Building Blocks for Learning Occupational Therapy Approaches is a resource book for educational staff and pediatric occupational therapists, especially those new to the field. It shows how the implications of physical, psychological, social, and learning difficulties impact upon children’s abilities. This highly practical book will help readers recognize when a student’s poor performance within the classroom is a result of a medical condition or underlying motor and perceptual deficits.

Literacy Assessment and Instructional Strategies prepares literacy educators to conduct reading and writing assessments and develop appropriate corrective literacy strategies for use with their grade K–5 students. Connecting Common Core Literacy Learning Standards to effective strategies and creative activities, the book includes authentic literacy assessments and formal evaluations to support reading teaching in the elementary classroom. Initial chapters discuss literacy assessment and evaluation, data-driven instruction, high-stakes testing, and instructional shifts in teaching reading, while later chapters focus on the latest instructional and assessment shifts, including pre-assessing literacy knowledge bases, using informational texts for vocabulary development, and close reading of text. Written by reading practitioners and researchers, this book is a must-have for novices as well as for veteran classroom teachers who want to stay on top of changing literacy trends.

Help kids ages 3 to 5 start reading with simple stories and sight words. Encourage your little one to read with 50 essential sight words. From "up" and "down" to "could" and "it," these simple illustrated stories are the perfect summer activities to help early readers recognize words in sentences and understand their meaning. There's even a pair of fun activities after every story to further reinforce what they've learned! It's the perfect summer workbook to keep kids engaged in learning. Get your young reader learning sight words with the science of reading: 25 stories—Sight words are introduced gradually, with each story increasing slightly in difficulty. As a summer learning workbook, it reinforces what children learn and keeps them interested as they prepare for preschool and kindergarten. Common sight words—Give your child a solid foundation for reading with top sight words like "many," "time," "go," "out," "do," and "know." Educational activities—At the end of each story you'll find two fun reading games where your child can practice identifying the words they've just read, reinforcing the learning. Discover fun preschool and kindergarten learning activities with this top choice in learn-to-read books for kids 3-5.