Literacy advocates with a deep passion for books bestselling author Donalyn Miller and 5th grade teacher Colby Sharp showcase the power of children s access to books, providing teachers and administrators with the tools and information they need to increase children s meaningful interaction with books and to launch or sustain book access initiatives in their communities. Through research and testimonials from voices in the field and their own classroom experiences, Miller and Sharp provide practical and resourceful information on a range of topics and areas, (including successful school and classroom libraries, the power of book ownership, the importance of cultural and social access to books, and meaningful family-community reading engagement) designed to help dramatically increase children s access to and life-changing engagement with books.

• Brings years of independent reading classroom program know-how and research plus power-library building to educators at every level. Offers the most essential, practical tips on ways to accelerate readers' growth and help them build a lasting reading-identity—from a diverse range of educators across the states.
• Provides connections for meaningful family-community reading engagement
• Routines, rituals, tips, and lessons for developing a community of readers in your classroom—and beyond
• Helps educators build kids' book muscles for life-long learning
• Provides ways to engage students with the least interest books—and make purposeful reading an essential part of their lives.

Students will be proud to have their very own books, and teachers will love watching their progress! Ready-to-color covers! Books measure 8-1/2 x 7. Each book includes 32 pages. Each pack includes 10 books.

• Ready-to-color covers!
• Books measure 8-1/2 x 7
• Each book includes 32 pages

Students will be proud to have their very own books, and teachers will love watching their progress! Ready-to-color covers! Books measure 8-1/2 x 7. Each book includes 32 pages. Each pack includes 25 books.

• Ready-to-color covers!
• Books measure 8-1/2 x 7
• Each book includes 32 pages

Motivate growing readers with these entertaining 16-page storybooks correlated with guided reading levels I & J! Inside this sturdy storage box, you'll find 80 books (5 copies of 16 titles) plus a big teaching guide packed with lessons, tips, and reproducibles. Each book features a just-right tale with strong picture cues and three to six lines of text per page to help ensure all learners successfully step up to the next level.

• This set of 80 books (5 x 16 titles) is value priced and provides a critical mass of levels I and J books to ensure every student can master this important level.
• The stories include kid-friendly topics and easy text to motivate new readers to succeed
• All the stories have been leveled by a reading expert
• Each book features a just-right tale with strong picture cues
• 16 pages

Motivate your growing reader with these entertaining 16-page tales correlated with guided reading levels I & J! Inside this sturdy storage box, you'll find 16 original titles plus a tip-filled parent guide. Each book features a just-right tale with strong picture cues and three to six lines of text per page to promote reading confidence and success.

• This set of 16 books is value priced and provides a critical mass of levels I and J books to ensure children can master this important level.
• The stories include kid-friendly topics and easy text to motivate new readers to succeed
• All the stories have been leveled by a reading expert.
• Each book features a just-right tale with strong picture cues
• 16 pages

You're sure to find the reading activities in this 9-book set useful for the older student whose skills are below grade level. Topics include locating information, fact and opinion, making inferences, reading for details, finding the main idea, reading to understand, and comparing. High-interest reading passages are followed by comprehension and logic activities designed to strengthen students' reading skills.

• You're sure to find the reading activities in this 9-book set useful for the older student whose skills are below grade level
• Comprehension and logic activities designed to strengthen students' reading skills
• Reading activities based on topics such as locating information, fact and opinion, making inferences, reading for details and more

Offer young readers the opportunity to share their thoughts about their literary experiences. Our resource provides an easy-to-use breakdown of a novel to ensure student comprehension. Identify different describing words to show what you remember from the story. Draw your favorite character based on what you understood from the reading. Apply what you know by comparing a character from the book to yourself. Dissect the cover and title of the book to analyze how the story will unfold. Evaluate a character's behavior by writing up a report card. Become a set designer and create a movie from the events in the story. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, reproducible and hands-on activities, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

• Aligned to your state standards
• Reproducible and hands-on activites including cross words, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key included
• Highlights: Describing words, story main idea, story setting, cause & effect chart, character report card, predicting story outcomes and story pantomime
• Written to Bloom's Taxonomy initiative

When young children are immersed in joyful and engaging shared reading experiences throughout the day, something wonderful happens. They learn to love books, enjoy reading, and see themselves as readers. They also gain basic reading skills and knowledge, which prepares them for successful reading instruction. Eric Litwin and Gina Pepin provide practical tools and strategies to transform your classroom into a reading playground - a space in which children read along to, sing to, dance to, and celebrate words and text. A space in which they experience the power of joyful reading.

• Children gain basic reading skills and knowledge, which prepares them for successful reading instruction
• Features a range of studies across oral and written language development, early reading and writing, joyful engagement, and effective instruction for beginning reading
• The book is written for teachers but with clear information and actions for families, daycare providers, physicians, and all who care about the healthy literacy development of children

Maximize your students reading experience by providing activities that foster comprehension and reinforce understanding of literary elements. Activities for each section allow students to process portions of the novel through individual and collaborative exercises that encourage close reading.

• Great way to maximize your students reading experience
• Students have the opporunity to synthesize their ideas through a variety of post-reading activities.
• 80 pages per book.
• Provides activities that foster comprehension and reinforce understanding of literary elements

Maximize your students' reading experience by providing activities that foster comprehension and reinforce understanding of literary elements. Activities for each section allow students to process portions of the novel through individual and collaborative exercises that encourage close reading. Suggestions for maintaining Interactive Novel Logs provide students with additional ways to reflect and connect personally with the novel. Students have the opportunity to synthesize their ideas through a variety of post-reading activities. Correlated to the Common Core State Standards.

• Maximize your students' reading experience
• Includes post-reading activities
• Reinforce understanding of literary elements