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

The Language Arts 4 Today book for third grade aligns with current state standards. Language Arts 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice for third grade provides 40 weeks of learning activities for each day of the week. This language arts workbook for students only requires 10 minutes of review and practice each day, and it includes fluency activities, reproducible activities, and writing prompts. An assessment of the skills covered for the week is provided for the fifth day to help teachers easily monitor progress.

The 4 Today series is a comprehensive, quick, and easy-to-use language arts workbook. The reproducible activities review essential skills during a four-day period. On the fifth day, an assessment with related skills is provided. Each week begins with a Fluency Blast section to provide students with repeated, daily practice for essential skills. The format and style of the 4 Today books provide excellent practice for standardized tests. The series also includes a fluency-tracking reproducible, a standards alignment chart, tips for fostering a school-to-home connection, and an answer key.

Language Arts 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice for third grade contains reproducible activities designed to help students learn these skills and concepts:
•vocabulary
•comprehension
•conventions
•writing

• Language Arts 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice for third grade provides learning activities for each day of the week and a fifth day assessment to help students master essential concepts such as vocabulary, comprehension, conventions, and writing.
• Journal section provides writing prompts to allow students to practice state writing standards
• Weekly high-interest reading passage to allow students to practice reading fluently
• Easy-to-follow format allows students to work independently

The Language Arts 4 Today book for second grade aligns with current state standards. Language Arts 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice for second grade provides 40 weeks of learning activities for each day of the week. This language arts workbook for students only requires 10 minutes of review and practice each day, and it includes fluency activities, reproducible activities, and writing prompts. An assessment of the skills covered for the week is provided for the fifth day to help teachers easily monitor progress.

The 4 Today series is a comprehensive, quick, and easy-to-use language arts workbook. The reproducible activities review essential skills during a four-day period. On the fifth day, an assessment with related skills is provided. Each week begins with a Fluency Blast section to provide students with repeated, daily practice for essential skills. The format and style of the 4 Today books provide excellent practice for standardized tests. The series also includes a fluency-tracking reproducible, a standards alignment chart, tips for fostering a school-to-home connection, and an answer key.

Language Arts 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice for second grade contains reproducible activities designed to help students learn these skills and concepts:
•fluency
•writing comprehension
•phonics

• Provides learning activities for each day of the week and a fifth day assessment to help students master essential concepts
• Journal section provides writing prompts to allow students to practice state writing standards
• Weekly high-interest reading passage to allow students to practice reading fluently
• Easy-to-follow format allows students to work independently
• A full 40 weeks of activities

The Language Arts 4 Today book for fifth grade aligns with current state standards. Language Arts 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice for fifth grade provides 40 weeks of learning activities for each day of the week. This language arts workbook for students only requires 10 minutes of review and practice each day, and it includes fluency activities, reproducible activities, and writing prompts. An assessment of the skills covered for the week is provided for the fifth day to help teachers easily monitor progress.

The 4 Today series is a comprehensive, quick, and easy-to-use language arts workbook. The reproducible activities review essential skills during a four-day period. On the fifth day, an assessment with related skills is provided. Each week begins with a Fluency Blast section to provide students with repeated, daily practice for essential skills. The format and style of the 4 Today books provide excellent practice for standardized tests. The series also includes a fluency-tracking reproducible, a standards alignment chart, tips for fostering a school-to-home connection, and an answer key.

Language Arts 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice for fifth grade contains reproducible activities designed to help students learn these skills and concepts:
•writing
•vocabulary
•comprehension
•fluency-grammar

• Language Arts 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice for fifth grade provides learning activities for each day of the week and a fifth day assessment to help students master essential concepts such as writing, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and grammar.
• Journal section provides writing prompts to allow students to practice state writing standards
• Weekly high-interest reading passage to allow students to practice reading fluently
• Easy-to-follow format allows students to work independently