Easy-to-follow directions and reproducibles help kids work independently!

Leveled reading-response sheets that give students the opportunity to interact with fiction texts and practice the skills and concepts they have been taught during reading lessons--while you teach small groups!

Help students get more out of books they read with this big collection of tiered, reading-response activities on the topics you teach: plot, character, setting, main idea, dialogue, figurative language, and much more! Each reproducible is written at three levels--easy, medium, challenging--so you can match each child with a reproducible that's just right for them to maximize independent learning. Content meets the Common Core State Standards.

Dozens of skill-building activities and reproducibles to use before, during, and after reading.

From the age of nine, Michael dreams of playing basketball for the United States in the Olympics, and with hard work and his mother's encouragement, he realizes his dream. Full color.

Half of me was thinking, Georgina, don't do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong. The other half of me was thinking, Georgina, you're in a bad fix and you got to do whatever it takes to get yourself out of it. Georgina Hayes is desperate. Ever since her father left and they were evicted from their apartment, her family has been living in their car. With her mama juggling two jobs and trying to make enough money to find a place to live, Georgina is stuck looking after her younger brother, Toby. And she has her heart set on improving their situation. When Georgina spots a missing-dog poster with a reward of five hundred dollars, the solution to all her problems suddenly seems within reach. All she has to do is "borrow" the right dog and its owners are sure to offer a reward. What happens next is the last thing she expected. With unmistakable sympathy, Barbara O'Connor tells the story of a young girl struggling to see what's right when everything else seems wrong. How to Steal a Dog is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. This title has Common Core connections.

These comprehension-boosting graphic organizers are designed for use with fiction and nonfiction books. The simple formats help young readers really think about what they read, then record their thoughts in an organized, meaningful way.--[book cover].

With 110 awesome activities, reading comprehension is all fun and games. Show your third grader how enjoyable--and easy--practicing their reading comprehension can be. The Big Book of Reading Comprehension Activities, Grade 3 is bursting with tons of activities that help young readers develop essential reading skills and have a great time doing it. The lessons inside cover everything from understanding text to gathering information to drawing connections--all abilities that will continue to be important as your child grows. This workbook is perfect for priming your young reader for the new school year or supplementing what they're learning in class with afterschool fun. The Big Book of Reading Comprehension Activities, Grade 3 includes: 100+ engaging activities--Boost your child's reading comprehension in a way they'll enjoy with crosswords, fill-in-the-blanks, matching, and more. Build skills--Encourage your young reader with activities that start out simple and grow more challenging to match their developing skills. Handy labels--Focus on the areas your kid needs to work on thanks to handy labels for every exercise, detailing what they teach. Help keep your child ahead of the learning curve with The Big Book of Reading Comprehension Activities, Grade 3.

In this Caldecott Honor–winning picture book, The Twilight Zone comes to the carrot patch as a rabbit fears his favorite treats are out to get him. Includes audio! Jasper Rabbit loves carrots—especially Crackenhopper Field carrots. He eats them on the way to school. He eats them going to Little League. He eats them walking home. Until the day the carrots start following him...or are they? Celebrated artist Peter Brown’s stylish illustrations pair perfectly with Aaron Reynold’s text in this hilarious picture book that shows it’s all fun and games…until you get too greedy.

Adorable Reproducible Patterns With Engaging Writing Prompts Invite kids to create meaningful responses to literature with these engaging, hands-on art and writing projects. First, children enjoy a well-loved story together, then create their own response page that includes a colorful art activity and ready-to-personalize sentence frame. Later, pages can be bound into a class collaborative book! You'll find discussion questions to use before and fater reading, step-by-step instructions for each project, reproducible patterns, cross-curricular links, related reading, and more.