Use logos, labels, packages, and signs to create meaningful literacy experiences for students in grades PK–1 with Environmental Print Activities. This book is organized along a learning continuum that progresses with students’ literacy skills from matching and identifying environmental print to classifying initial sounds and syllables. It includes ideas for centers, the word wall, parents as partners, and checklists. This 96-page book contains ideas and activities that help students feel like successful readers and writers.

Facilitate a love of language in students in grades PK–1 with Creating Cut-Up Sentence Books! This 96-page book helps students develop successful reading strategies and skills. It includes 18 reproducible cut-up sentence books with popular themes, directions for making large classroom books and individual student books, and stories with high-frequency words from the First 25 Word List. The book supports NCTE and NAEYC standards.

This hands-on guidebook highlights the research that supports environmental print (EP) instruction in Grades PreK–3 and provides a wealth of activities for jump-starting the literacy process.

Play is how young children learn. Use Literacy Play Centers for students in grades PK–K to build understanding of literacy, mathematics, and community. The book includes 15 centers, including Grocery Store, Doctor’s Office, Barbershop/Hair Salon, Post Office, Florist Shop, and Bank. The fun role-playing activities help students develop cooperation, negotiation, and sharing while incorporating phonemic awareness, letters of the alphabet and their sounds, rhyming words, syllables, concepts of print, number and shape recognition, graphing, and estimation. This 160-page book includes detailed procedures, goals, objectives, a list of theme-related children’s literature, skills indexes for math and language arts, and information on embedding assessment throughout the year.

For decades early childhood educators in high-quality programs have understood that the transition into reading and writing occurs naturally when young children are surrounded by opportunities to interact with print in ways that are meaningful to them. The original edition of More Than Letters, first published in 2001, showed teachers how to intentionally help children develop literacy skills through hands-on, play-based activities. Like the original edition, the Standards Edition is based on theory and research. It contains new chapters that specifically focus on developing the skills needed to decode literature and informational text. Expanded chapters include activities that target specific concepts included in national literacy standards.

Instill a love of language in students in grades PK–K using Building Alphabet Knowledge. This 240-page book boosts early literacy skills with more than 180 fun reproducible activities. Practice pages, mini-books, and games help young students learn to identify and write all 26 letters of the alphabet. The book supports Head Start and NAEYC and NCTE standards.

Boost oral language and early literacy skills through hands-on activities with students in grade PreK using Preschool Theme Boxes. This 160-page resource includes tips and materials lists for building theme boxes, set-up ideas for transforming the classroom, suggested picture books, literacy activities, and reproducible picture sets of scenes to sequence and discuss. The book includes themes such as art gallery, bakery, circus, fire station, princess castle, and spaceship. This book makes it easy to engage young learners and expand their vocabularies while guiding them in problem-solving, reading, and writing skills. The book supports Head Start and NAEYC standards.

Includes tips and materials lists for building theme boxes, set-up ideas for transforming the classroom, suggested picture books, literacy activities, and reproducible picture sets of scenes to sequence and discuss. Includes themes such as art gallery, bakery, circus, fire station, princess castle, and spaceship. Makes it easy to engage young learners and expand their vocabularies while guiding them in problem-solving, reading, and writing skills.

Instill a love of language in students in grades PK–1 using Phonemic Awareness. This 64-page book teaches beginning readers that letters have associated sounds that can be blended and manipulated. It also builds an awareness of rhyme and phonemes. The book includes reproducible pages, teaching suggestions, assessments, activities, games, and a reproducible parent letter. The activities prepare students for more-advanced skill development, and the book is great for whole-group, independent, and center activities. It supports NCTE and NAEYC standards.

Write on! Write with students in grades PK–1 using Writing Experiences for Young Learners. This 64-page book covers writing development from scribbling through first grade. It includes cross-curricular activities and mini-book ideas. The activities can be correlated to the curriculum or used as stand-alone writing experiences. The book supports the early literacy position statements of the NCTE and NAEYC.