Encourage reading fluency with activities that emphasize word families. Each unit is composed of three parts: Part 1 introduces students to word families; Part 2 challenges their knowledge of word families through independent work; and Part 3 reviews the lessons to ensure students are able to read, write, and identify the word families.

Teach the top sight words with these entertaining activities young learners can do all by themselves! Kids read and sort must-know words from the Fry List then practice writing those words on companion pages. Along the way, they boost essential reading, classifying, writing, AND fine-motor skills. These playful reproducible pages are no-prep and perfect for seatwork, centers, or send-home.

Review and reinforce essential kindergarten language arts skills with fun and engaging, standards-based flash-cards. Aligned to Common Core Standards, this book features more than 100 flash cards along with activities for each day of the school week! Activities are designed to complete independently or in group instruction. Activities include sorting, categorizing, and memorizing, as well as games and riddles to engage even the most reluctant learners.

Increase vocabulary, sight word recognition and comprehension for beginning readers. Our resource is an essential tool to aid students as they begin to read and understand more about the onset and rhyme connection found in word families. Add onsets like "p" and "st" to rimes like "an" and "op" to form words like "pan" and "stop". Find the best onset, like "c", to finish the rime, like "at", to match the word "cat" with its real-life picture. Match the best rime word, like "rid", to finish the sentence, like "Get rid of the trash". Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, reproducible writing tasks, rime & onset cards, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

10 matching games that reinforce basic skills

Kids will have fun filling up these adorable "word family trees" with words containing more than 50 must-know phonograms. Each reproducible activity page provides repeated practice in building words containing a target word family. Research shows that recognizing and using phonograms helps children develop phonemic awareness of rhyming words and improves decoding, spelling, and writing skills. Gives kids repeated practice with more than 50 different word families Kids practice reading and writing hundreds and hundreds of words Fun and engaging format is a surefire motivator Perfect for in-class use or homework!

"Introduce children to reading with very short, illustrated stories. Two or more words from the same word family are used in each story, and they are underlined as clues for the beginning reader. Following each story are two multiple choice questions that reinforce comprehension as well as a simple writing exercise."--Page 4 of cover.

Encourage reading fluency with activities that emphasize word families. Each unit is composed of three parts: Part 1 introduces students to word families; Part 2 challenges their knowledge of word families through independent work; and Part 3 reviews the lessons to ensure students are able to read, write, and identify the word families.

This popular text, now in its Fourth Edition, introduces pre-service and in-service teachers to the most current theories and methods for teaching literacy to children in elementary schools. The methods presented are based on scientific findings that have been tested in many classrooms. A wealth of examples, hands-on activities, and classroom vignettes--including lesson plans, assessments, lists of children's literature books to fiction and nonfiction texts, and more--illustrate the methods and bring them to life.The text highlights the importance of teaching EVERY child to become competent in all of the nuances and complexities of reading, writing, and speaking. The value of reflection and peer discussion in learning to expand their students' literacies is emphasized. Readers are encouraged to reflect on their own experiences with reading and teaching throughout their lifetimes--experiences that will serve well in learning to teach reading. "Your Turn" boxes invite readers to think about their views of the material presented, and to talk with colleagues and teachers about their "best ways" of learning this new information. "Did You Notice?" boxes engage readers in observation and analysis of methods and classroom situations discussed in the text. Teachers' stories serve as models of successful teaching and to draw readers into professional dialogue about the ideas and questions raised. End-of-chapter questions and activities provide additional opportunities for reflection and discussion. All of these pedagogical features help readers expand and refine their knowledge in the most positive ways. Topics covered in Teaching Reading to Every Child, Fourth Edition: *Getting to Know Your Students as Literacy Learners; *Looking Inside Classrooms: Organizing Instruction; *Assessing Reading Achievement; *The Importance of Oral Language in Developing Literacy; *Word Identification Strategies: Pathways to Comprehension; *Vocabulary Development; *Comprehension Instruction: Strategies At Work; *Content Area Learning; *What the Teacher Needs to Know to Enable Students' Text Comprehension; *Writing: Teaching Students to Encode and Compose; *Discovering the World Through Literature; *Technology and Media in Reading; *Teaching Reading to Students Who Are Learning English; *All Students are Special: Some Need Supplemental Supports and Services to Be Successful; and *Historical Perspectives on Reading and Reading Instruction. New in the Fourth Edition: *A new chapter on technology with state-of-the-art applications; *A new chapter with the most up-to-date information on how vocabulary is learned and on how it is best taught, responding to the national renewed interest in vocabulary instruction; *A new section on Readers/Writer's workshop with a focus on supporting student inquiry and exploration of multiple genres; *A more comprehensive chapter on literature instruction and the role of literature in the reading program with examples that support students' multigenre responses; *A discussion of literary theories with examples for classroom implementation; *Broader coverage of the phases of reading development from the pre-alphabetic stage to the full alphabetic stage; *A more inclusive chapter on writing instruction; and *A thoroughly revised chapter on teaching reading to students who are learning English, including extensive information on assessment and evaluation.