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These classroom-ready lesson plans-complete with literature lists, directions, forms, assessments, and adaptations-connect literacy learning with students’ lives and the community. ... Read more

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Hands-On Word Family Activities for Young Readers is a handy resource that offers you easy-to-use material for guiding children (K-3) in real reading experiences by teaching them word families. While using this book, you will be able to give your students the opportunity to learn and practice the essential phonological skills of onset and rhyme as they read an enticing story or poem. This book offers you a wide variety of engaging methods for teaching word families including art projects, poems, big books, and little take-home books. As you progress through the book's lessons, your students will learn to write the word families fluently and to manipulate magnetic letters and words. In addition, Hands-On Word Family Activities for Young Readers contains easy-to-follow lessons for each word family, helps to build self-esteem, and increases independence as students gain confidence while learning to master the contents.

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First grade teacher
Great resource book! I especially liked how diverse the lessons are- there is word work, as well as stories and poems that give students a chance to practice what they are learning. A must for any teacher in grades 1-3!!! ... Read more

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This book offers practical guidance for teachers using the National Literacy Strategy at Key Stages 1 and 2, based on the six categories of non-fiction outlined in the Strategy. It gives an accessible introduction to the features of each of these text types.

Many teachers now feel confident in working with fiction and poetry, whereas the non-fiction objectives have been more challenging. The book includes new subject knowledge, such as understanding the linguistic features of different text types, and the need to find authentic reading material; practical classroom examples; high-quality photocopiable texts and activity sheets; and detailed guidance on how to work with the material at text, sentence and word level.

Each chapter consists of a description of the genre, a text example, a photocopiable double-page spread giving an annotated version of the text, details of the classroom resources for developing the ideas and activity sheets for each text. The book will appeal to all teachers and student teachers working at Key Stages 1 and 2, English and Literacy advisers in LEAs, and providers of initial and in-service training. ... Read more

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Whatever grade level, content, or texts you teach, yourultimate goal is to develop your students' understanding of what theyread. The 29 articles in this anthology offer you a wealth of ideas tohelp your students comprehend different types of texts and literacies,from technology literacy to visual, theatre, and musicliteracy. You'll find instructional strategies and activities on awide range of topics, including narrative and expository texts, theK-W-L strategy, anticipation guides, graphic organizers, wordlesspicture books, shared books, the Internet as a teaching resource, andintegrating music, reading, and writing at the primary level. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Reading Improvement, published by Project Innovation (Alabama) on December 22, 2004. The length of the article is 2992 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Providing minority parents with relevant literacy activities for their children.
Author: Brenda Gilliam
Publication: Reading Improvement (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2004
Publisher: Project Innovation (Alabama)
Volume: 41Issue: 4Page: 226(9)

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200 Instant Kid-Pleasing Activities That Build Early Reading and Writing Skills for Circle Time, Transition Time--or Any Time!
New ! Super-Fun Skill-Building Activities!
Teach reading, writing, science, and social studies--any time of the day! Kids will have a blast with these super-fun, super-quick activities that help build and reinforce essential skills in the different curriculum areas. Perfect for circle time, transition time, center time, and read-aloud time. ... Read more

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* Uses a wide variety of authentic reading texts from newspapers, magazines, notes, maps etc * Includes lead-in and follow-up activity ideas * Provides extra reading practice linked to communication ... Read more

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Classic nursery rhymes are used to promote literacy skills including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Each rhyme is accompanied by a wide variety of full-color materials to engage students in whole group, center, and individual literacy activities. ... Read more

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Literacy Centers and Activities for Nursery Rhymes Vol. 2
I have actually used this volume more than Volume one so far.Since we start Kindergarten with colors, shapes, names and numbers, I started with Little Boy Blue, Jack Be Nimble (Change the name to each child in the room to get plenty of practice) and 1,2 Buckle my Shoe.I like the full color pages that makes it ready to use.The longer I teach, the more I understand that my time is valuable.When I put a $ value on my time, I realize that I can't "make" activities for less than I can buy them. ... Read more

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This Vocabulary Interactive CD contains hands-on activities for use with interactive whiteboards or a computer and is designed to facilitate vocabulary development. Children can construct and learn concepts for which words become labels. In these fun, engaging, and easy-to-use activities, students can familiarize themselves with words they encounter daily. Students will gain great enthusiasm for words as they experiment and their vocabulary skills progress. Activity topics include weather, community, plants, animals, health, and safety. This CD pack includes a Resource CD with activities and a 16-page Teacher's Guide. ... Read more

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Shannon presents twenty articles on topics of vital importance to today's literacy educators. ... Read more

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This activity book for Year 3 Literacy Hour is one of a series covering the sentence-level objectives in the National Literacy Strategy framework for teaching from Year R to Year 6. It is photocopiable and aims to develop children's grammatical awareness; includes activities which focus on sentence construction; the roles of different kinds of words and punctuation; promotes independent work; has extension activities which reinforce and develop what the children have learned and includes notes for teachers. ... Read more

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Great resource
This is a great resource for Homeschoolers. They obviously understand kids brains, as the cutting, gluing and sorting sentences keeps them engaged. I got a second one for my second kid! ... Read more