Strengthen your grade 3 students' comprehension and vocabulary skills!

The 25 engaging reading selections in Read and Understand with Leveled Texts, Grade 3 are leveled according to Lexile® criteria, so you can easily match texts to students' abilities. Reading selections cover reading levels 330—480 and are accompanied by follow-up activities for comprehension, vocabulary, and other reading skills.

Skills covered in grade 3 include:

- Inferring/Drawing Conclusions
- Synonyms
- Recalling Information
- Critical Thinking
- Writing Complete Sentences
- Using Picture Clues
- Organizing Information
... and more!

• Strengthen your grade 3 students' comprehension and vocabulary skills!
• The 25 engaging reading selections in Read and Understand with Leveled Texts, Grade 3 are leveled according to Lexile criteria, so you can easily match texts to students' abilities
• Reading selections cover reading levels 330 - 480 and are accompanied by follow-up activities for comprehension, vocabulary, and other reading skills
• 160 pages

Strengthen your grade 6+ students' comprehension and vocabulary skills!

The 25 engaging reading selections in Read & Understand with Leveled Texts, Grade 6 are leveled according to Lexile® criteria, so you can easily match texts to students' abilities. Reading selections cover reading levels 800-1090 and are accompanied by follow-up activities for comprehension, vocabulary, and other reading skills.

Skills covered in grade 6+ include:

Inferring/Drawing Conclusions
Synonyms
Recalling Information
Critical Thinking
Writing Complete Sentences
Using Picture Clues
Organizing Information
... and more!

• Strengthen your grade 6+ students' comprehension and vocabulary skills!
• The 25 engaging reading selections in Read & Understand with Leveled Texts, Grade 6 are leveled according to Lexile® criteria, so you can easily match texts to students' abilities
• Reading selections cover reading levels 800-1090 and are accompanied by follow-up activities for comprehension, vocabulary, and other reading skills
• 160 pages

Strengthen your grade 4 students' comprehension and vocabulary skills!

The 25 engaging reading selections in Read and Understand with Leveled Texts, Grade 4 are leveled according to Lexile® criteria, so you can easily match texts to students' abilities. Reading selections cover reading levels 570-860 and are accompanied by follow-up activities for comprehension, vocabulary, and other reading skills.

Skills covered in grade 4 include:

Recalling Information
Inferring/Drawing Conclusions
Critical/Creative Thinking
Organizing Information
Synonyms/Antonyms
Writing/Personal Narrative
... and more!

• Strengthen your grade 4 students' comprehension and vocabulary skills!
• The 25 engaging reading selections in Read and Understand with Leveled Texts, Grade 4 are leveled according to Lexile® criteria, so you can easily match texts to students' abilities
• Reading selections cover reading levels 570-860 and are accompanied by follow-up activities for comprehension, vocabulary, and other reading skills
• 160 pages

Strengthen your grade 5 students' comprehension and vocabulary skills!

Help your grade 5 students develop comprehension and vocabulary skills! Leveled reading selections and follow-up comprehension and vocabulary activities cover important skills and concepts.

The 25 engaging reading selections in Read and Understand with Leveled Texts, Grade 5 are leveled according to Lexile® criteria, so you can easily match texts to students' abilities. Reading selections are accompanied by follow-up activities for comprehension, vocabulary, and other reading skills.

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.

• Strengthen your grade 5 students' comprehension and vocabulary skills!
• The 25 engaging reading selections in Read and Understand with Leveled Texts, Grade 5 are leveled according to Lexile® criteria, so you can easily match texts to students' abilities
• Reading selections cover reading levels 720-970 and are accompanied by follow-up activities for comprehension, vocabulary, and other reading skills
• 160 pages

Strengthen your grade K students' comprehension and vocabulary skills!

The 25 short and fun reading selections in Read and Understand with Leveled Texts, Grade K are leveled according to guided reading criteria so you can easily match texts to students' abilities. Reading selections cover reading levels A—C and are accompanied by follow-up activities for comprehension, vocabulary, and other reading skills.

Skills covered in grade K include:

- Letter/Sound Association
- Visual Discrimination
- Rhyming Words
- Word Families
- Following Directions
- Retelling a Story
- Recalling Story Details
- Distinguishing Between Real and Make-Believe
- Color and Number Words
- Small Motor Skills
- Matching Text to Pictures
... and more!

• Strengthen your grade K students' comprehension and vocabulary skills!
• The 25 short and fun reading selections in Read and Understand with Leveled Texts, Grade K are leveled according to guided reading criteria so you can easily match texts to students' abilities
• Reading selections cover reading levels A - C and are accompanied by follow-up activities for comprehension, vocabulary, and other reading skills
• 160 pages

Research shows that literacy—the ability to listen, speak, read, and write - begins developing long before children enter elementary school. This book helps early childhood educators nurture that development. It begins with an argument for offering children literacy-rich activities and creating an environment for carrying out those activities. It then focuses on enjoyable and effective ways to build essential skills, such as oral language and phonemic awareness, and create dramatic play areas, book nooks, writing centers, and other literacy-rich spaces. Includes photographs, student work, and straight talk about kids and learning, Literacy and the Youngest Learner is destined to become a classic.

• Research-based practices, birth to five.
• Strategies that work for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
• The hows and whys of teaching literacy from birth.

Provide your third grade students with rigorous reading comprehension practice! Close reading, academic vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities support Common Core learning paths. The informational texts cover grade-level content-area topics and a range of nonfiction text structures, such as compare and contrast, cause and effect, and time order.

Each of the 10 units presents a grade-appropriate nonfiction article and supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including the following:
• dictionary page with content and academic vocabulary
• close reading activity
• reading comprehension activity
• vocabulary activity
• text structure activity

The unit culminates in a text-based writing assignment that can be used as an informal assessment.

Additional teacher support includes:
• Common Core State Standards correlations provided for every unit for easy reference
• Downloadable home-school connection activities and projects to extend learning at home
• Guided reading level to help identify appropriate texts for students

• Provides rigorous reading, writing & vocabulary activities
• Rigorous lessons support students on the Common Core learning path
• Analyze nonfiction text structures & access complex text.
• Write about the informational text using opinion, argument, informative, and explanatory forms

In their hit books Notice and Note and Reading Nonfiction, Kylene Beers and Bob Probst showed teachers how to help students become close readers. Now, in Disrupting Thinking they take teachers a step further and discuss an on-going problem: lack of engagement with reading. They explain that all too often, no matter the strategy shared with students, too many students remain disengaged and reluctant readers. The problem, they suggest, is that we have misrepresented to students why we read and how we ought to approach any text - fiction or nonfiction.

With their hallmark humor and their appreciated practicality, Beers and Probst present a vision of what reading and what education across all the grades could be. Hands-on-strategies make it applicable right away for the classroom teacher, and turn-and-talk discussion points make it a guidebook for school-wide conversations. In particular, they share new strategies and ideas for helping classroom teachers:

—Create engagement and relevance
—Encourage responsive and responsible reading
—Deepen comprehension
—Develop lifelong reading habits

We think it's time we finally do become a nation of readers, and we know it's time students learn to tell fake news from real news. It's time we help students understand why how they read is so important, explain Beers and Probst. Disrupting Thinking is, at its heart, an exploration of how we help students become the reader who does so much more than decode, recall, or choose the correct answer from a multiple-choice list. This book shows us how to help students become the critical thinkers our nation needs them to be.

• This book includes strategies for: creating engagement, encouraging thoughtfulness and solving confusions
• Beers and Probst present a vision of what reading and what education across all the grades could be
• By Robert E. Probst, Kylene Beers

This comprehensive teaching resource helps first grade students master the conventions of standard English and boosts their vocabulary acquisition. Easy-to-scaffold lessons are clearly organized by language skills and standards to help teachers target instruction.

Language Fundamentals has 204 pages of skill-based activities, including 29 review pages with multiple choice, constructed response, and open-ended questions to assess students' understanding and application of the focus skill.

Format: The teacher's edition includes reproducible student pages, teacher support pages, and an answer key.

First grade skill practice covers:
• Print Alphabet
• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Adjectives
• Verbs
• Adverbs
• Prepositions
• Sentences
• Capitalization
• Punctuation
• Usage
• Vocabulary

This new edition features:
• Rules and examples for each language skill followed by targeted application activities and unit reviews
• Vocabulary and word study strategies and practice for challenging skills such as shades of meaning and real-life connections between words and their use
• Common Core Language Standards cited on activity pages for easy reference
• Review activities that ask students to apply skills in context and demonstrate higher-level thinking
• An easy-to-read answer key

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.

• Rules and examples for each language skill followed by targeted application activities and unit reviews
• Vocabulary and word study strategies and practice for challenging skills such as shades of meaning and real-life connections between words and their use
• Common Core Language Standards cited on activity pages for easy reference
• Review activities that ask students to apply skills in context and demonstrate higher-level thinking
• Features an easy-to-read answer key

This comprehensive teaching resource helps second grade students master the conventions of standard English and boosts their vocabulary acquisition. Easy-to-scaffold lessons are clearly organized by language skills and standards to help teachers target instruction.

Language Fundamentals has 207 pages of skill-based activities, including 21 review pages with multiple choice, constructed response, and open-ended questions to assess students' understanding and application of the focus skill.

Format: The teacher's edition includes reproducible student pages, teacher support pages, and an answer key.

Second grade skill practice covers:
• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Adjectives
• Verbs
• Adverbs
• Prepositions
• Sentences
• Capitalization
• Abbreviations
• Punctuation
• Usage
• Vocabulary
• Spelling

This new edition features:
• Rules and examples for each language skill followed by targeted application activities and unit reviews
• Vocabulary and word study strategies and practice for challenging skills such as shades of meaning and real-life connections between words and their use
• Common Core Language Standards cited on activity pages for easy reference
• Review activities that ask students to apply skills in context and demonstrate higher-level thinking
• An easy-to-read answer key

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.

• Rules and examples for each language skill followed by targeted application activities and unit reviews
• Vocabulary and word study strategies and practice for challenging skills such as shades of meaning and real-life connections between words and their use
• Common Core Language Standards cited on activity pages for easy reference
• Review activities that ask students to apply skills in context and demonstrate higher-level thinking
• Features an easy-to-read answer key