reading

Provides a step-by-step guide to implementing reading instruction in the classroom, and contains thirty reproducible short texts along with assessments, reading strategies, and literacy instruction.

Provides reproducible activity sheets to reinforce independent reading skills in third through fifth grade students.

Presents a comprehensive guide for teachers and administrators designed to evaluate students' reading progress, and includes CD-ROM with more than twenty-four forms and charts to assist in assessments.

Presents a guide to teaching reading, focusing on word structure, early literacy, decoding and word recognition and other topics.

Provides hands-on activities and practical strategies designed to help primary school teachers nurture literacy development while teaching essential content material in math, science, and social studies.

". . . provide[s] guidance in planning short, developmentally appropriate word study and phonics lessons as part of guided reading . . . including over 260 lessons for readers at every stage, from pre-A to fluent; assessment tools; and printable books at levels A-C"--Back cover.

Provides step-by-step instructions for using guided oral reading in regular, remedial, and special education classrooms, explains the theory that supports the instructional strategy, and includes examples of literacy centers in which students can work independently or in groups while the teacher in working with other students.

Contains one hundred mini-lessons for teaching phonics to students in second grade, covering letter/sound relationships, spelling patterns, high frequency words, word meaning and structure, and word-solving actions, and includes a rationale for teaching phonics.

When Emily Elizabeth and her family go on vacation, Clifford is left with the neighbors, but he gets lonely and sets out to find the vacationers.

When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.