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Each level unit provides a sequential Reading Skills Checklist of the skills to be mastered at that grade/reading level for easy individual record keeping, plus 40-70 short, reproducible informal Reading Skills Competency Tests for measuring students' mastery of each skill on the Checklist at that level. Each also includes a Group Summary Profile for recording class progress and a separately printed wall chart that maps out the entire reading skills progression from Readiness through Advanced levels. ... Read more

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This revision of the best-selling second edition addresses recent developments in prereading activities and includes a new chapter that addresses the nuances of selecting, combining, and using prereading activities across lessons and units. The wealth of strategies and the expanded reference list offered in this new edition will help teachers make print materials in all content areas understandable and interesting to students. ... Read more

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Good Overall
This book is good overall, it has a lot prereading strategies and little things you can use in a classroom. It's a quick read, but very boring. It follows pretty much the same format throughout and seems repeatative. But, overall it's okay and you'll learn ( or remember) a lot of good prereading activities for all sorts of content areas from this book (except Math and Science) ... Read more

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Summer Time Fun Reading
Our youngest child has very little interest in reading and at times fights with us when it is time to read.When my wife and I showed him what we were ordering he was very excited and could not wait for the book to arrive.At first he was resistant to do school type work during the summer time but as he got into it, he started to really enjoy it.This book will most definitely help him to keep his mind sharp.We also feel this will assist him greatly when he returns to school this fall during the lengthly time off for summer vacation. ... Read more

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This unique resource gives teachers of reading-disabled students structured, sequential, multisensory lessons for teaching basic phonic elements combined with activities and worksheets that allow students to apply newly learned skills to children's books. Activities and worksheets help teach 37 graphophonic elements.AUTHOR BIO: Cynthia has an M.Ed. from the Reading Specialist Program at Lesley College, an M.A.in Special Education/Learning Disabilities from the University of Connecticut, and a BA in English-Honors and Psychology from the University of Massachusetts. She is certified as an elementary teacher (K-8), teacher of children with moderate special needs (N-12), reading 5pecialist'consulting teacher of reading (K-12), and Orton-Gillingham Therapist. She is a registered educational therapist and member of The Learning Disabilities Network (based in New England) and her local TAWL (Teachers Applying Whole Language).

During her more than twenty years of teaching in the areas of reading, language, and learning disabilities, Cynthia has developed and used Developing Independent Readers. She has taught students with diverse special needs from kindergarten age to adult in full inclusion, classroom, clinic, adult literacy program, and resource room settings and in private tutoring practice. Cynthia has made presentations at professional conferences, lectured in graduate-level courses, and conducted in-service workshops and teacher training. Her article "Keys and a Clue" was published in Teaching Exceptional Children.

Currently, Cynthia is a full-time teacher of children with special needs at Shutesbury Elementary School in Massachusetts, where teachers support all children in their classrooms in a full inclusion special education model. In addition, Cynthia tutors children and adults in private practice using Developing Independent Readers, conducts in-service workshops and teacher training, and consults with teachers in elementary schools and adult literacy programs. ... Read more

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Are you keen for your students to develop good reading skills from an early age? Are you constantly looking for suitable texts to use in the classroom? Do you need materials that are simple to use and quick to prepare? Then you need Primary Reading Box to make your lesson preparation easy. It contains over 50 photocopiable reading activities designed especially for the primary classroom.* Material for children at all levels.* Clear step-by-step teaching notes make the activities easy to use.* Students are exposed to a range of different text types including fiction, magazines, comics, short stories, poems, jokes and recipes. * A wide range of activity types ensure pupils are given the opportunity to work in pairs, small groups and the whole class to develop reading confidence.* Many of the activities are suitable for learners preparing for the Cambridge Young Learners English Tests (Cambridge ESOL). ... Read more

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More than 50 activity-oriented lessons help students recognize the vital contributions of various cultures to the advancement of math, science, and technology. Students learn about Maria Agnesi, the Aztecs, Benjamin Banneker, the Ancient Egyptians, the Navajo, Granville T. Woods, and others. An accompanying wall chart provides a large-scale, visual record of multicultural contributions.Grades 7-12 ... Read more