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B 94423B 94423 ABCs of O-G: The Flynn System
Grade Lvl: T Author: Flynn, Emi
Length: 528 Copyright: 2005

Teacher's guide to the Orton-Gillingham approach for reading and spelling. Lesson plans are sequential and cumulative. Explicitly teaches the association between written symbols and their sounds. Lesson plans are written at two levels and pages are color-coded (cream pages are for Basic Level students; blue pages for Intermediate Level; and white for both levels). This multisensory, alphabetic-phonetic approach to teaching reading, spelling, and writing is used for teaching children who haven't been successful learning by conventional classroom practices and is best used by teachers trained in Orton-Gillingham.
ABCs of O-G: The Flynn System T  
KM 7106KM 7106 ALPHABET SORTING SET
Grade Lvl: KP Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2003

Designed to develop letter recognition, alphabet sequencing and encourage word and sentence building. Contents: two plastic trays (11.25"x13.5"x1.25" each); four large letter cards that fit in the bottom of the trays to label the compartments (two upper and two lower case letters); instruction guide; picture cards; word cards; 26 uppercase and 52 lowercase tactile letters.
ALPHABET SORTING SET KP  
B 73667B 73667 Alphabet Soup
Grade Lvl: KP Author: Banks, Kate
Length: 20 Copyright: 1988

A boy's ability to spell words with his alphabet soup comes in handy during the magical journey he takes in his mind with a friendly bear. AR 2.0.
Alphabet Soup KP  
B 122668B 122668 Beatrice Spells Some Lulus and Learns to Write a Letter
Grade Lvl: KP Author: Best, Cari
Length: 32 Copyright: 2013

Beatrice enjoys learning to spell, and gets really excited about it after some encouragement from her grandmother, but she has trouble convincing her classmates that spelling is not boring. AR 4.0 RC 2.2 Lexile 560 IL K-3.
Beatrice Spells Some Lulus and Learns to Write a Letter KP  
B 113308B 113308 Bee In Your Ear
Grade Lvl: PI Author: Wishinsky, Frieda
Length: 64 Copyright: 2004

Kate wants to win a fiercely competitive spelling bee, but she does not want to lose her best friend in the process. From the series Orca Echoes. AR 3.5. GR level L. IL 2-4.
Bee In Your Ear PI  
KM 7107KM 7107 Beginning Sounds Word Building Kit
Grade Lvl: KP Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2000

Hands-on kit designed to boost phonics skills. Contains word cards with the initial letter missing. Children can fill in the blank with a plastic letter. Card has completed word on the reverse side, so it's self-correcting. Contents: instruction sheet, 75 word cards, and plastic lowercase letters.
Beginning Sounds Word Building Kit KP  
KM 9646KM 9646 Beginning Word Families Pocket Chart (BB)
Grade Lvl: KP Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2005

Pocket Chart kit is a hands-on learning center for small group or individual use. Introduces 26 different word families. Teacher places a starter tile in each of the ten clear pockets, ten students find the starter tile's corresponding three matches. Pocket chart allows a child to work on ten rhyming sounds at a time. Contents: activity guide, tabletop stand, small tabletop chart (18"x13"), two large tiles (word & families), 26 word family starter tiles (photo and word ending), and word family photo-tiles (photo and beginning letter/s of rhyming word).
Beginning Word Families Pocket Chart (BB) KP  
B 99901B 99901 Big Book of Phonics Fun, Grades K-3
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 352 Copyright: 1994

Phonics for children with a global reading style. Book combines basic reading skills with familiar children's melodies. Each unit includes lesson plan, word lists, song page, activity suggestions, and worksheets. For grades K-3.
Big Book of Phonics Fun, Grades K-3 T  
B 124071B 124071 Big Words for Little Geniuses
Grade Lvl: KP Author: Patterson, Susan / Patterson, James
Length: 32 Copyright: 2017

There's no "gobbledygook" in this book. Each letter of the alphabet provides a sophisticated word and definition for "Lilliputian" children to learn. Adults will appreciate the "juxtaposition" of young kids properly using impressive words that many grownups may not have heard of before! Includes a list of extra words in the back for further learning. Vocabulary and spelling. Letters of the alphabet. Juvenile nonfiction. IL K-3.
Big Words for Little Geniuses KP  
B 96271B 96271 Blast Off to Reading!: 50 Orton-Gillingham Based Lessons for Struggling Readers and Those with Dyslexia
Grade Lvl: T Author: Orlassino, Cheryl
Length: 257 Copyright: 2014

Program for students (ages 7-13) who are dyslexic or who struggle to read. Contains 50 lessons, plus 5 review lessons, which are designed to teach a student to decode and spell words using phonics, rules and memory cues. Each lesson is created to include a new sound, or rule, with a reading task followed by several exercises, which review concepts taught in that lesson as well as those taught previously. A review section follows every ten lessons. Includes a section on how to combat letter & number reversals; supplemental lists in the back of the book for older students who have larger vocabularies. Provides access to online dictations as well as word lists.
Blast Off to Reading!: 50 Orton-Gillingham Based Lessons for Struggling Rea T  
B 91071B 91071 Brain Teasers
Grade Lvl: T Author: Null, Kathleen
Length: 304 Copyright: 1999

Reproducible pages have activities and puzzles designed to help students develop logic and other critical thinking skills plus skills in the following areas: research, vocabulary, memory, spelling, creative thinking, math, and geography. All ages.
Brain Teasers T  
B 92230B 92230 Brain Teasers 6th Grade
Grade Lvl: T Author: Eichel, Carol
Length: 80 Copyright: 1995

Cover title: Sixth Grade Brain Teasers. Collection of reproducible activiites: famous people, geography, groups and pairs, logic, numbers, trivia, word chains and games, word completion, word puzzles and codes, and more. Critical Thinking Activities.
Brain Teasers 6th Grade T  
B 92227B 92227 Brain Teasers Grade 3
Grade Lvl: T Author: Eichel, Carol
Length: 80 Copyright: 1995

Cover title: Third Grade Brain Teasers. Collection of reproducible activities: groups and pairs, logic, mazes and word finds, numbers, word chains and games, word puzzles, and more. Critical Thinking Activities.
Brain Teasers Grade 3 T  
B 92228B 92228 Brain Teasers Grade 4
Grade Lvl: T Author: Eichel, Carol
Length: 80 Copyright: 1995

Cover title: Fourth Grade Brain Teasers. Collection of reproducible activities: groups and pairs, logic, mazes and word finds, numbers, trivia, word chains and games, word puzzles and codes, geography and more. Critical Thinking Activities.
Brain Teasers Grade 4 T  
B 92229B 92229 Brain Teasers Grade 5
Grade Lvl: T Author: Eichel, Carol
Length: 80 Copyright: 1995

Cover title: Fifth Grade Brain Teasers. Collection of reproducible activities: logic, mazes and word find, numbers, trivia, word chains, puzzles and codes, and more. Critical Thinking Activities.
Brain Teasers Grade 5 T  
B 94753B 94753 Building Spelling Skills, Grade 2
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 160 Copyright: 2007

Provides 30 spelling units for grade 2. Includes word lists, practice activities, dictation sentences, spelling strategies, and teaching ideas. Reproducible pages.
Building Spelling Skills, Grade 2 T  
B 94754B 94754 Building Spelling Skills, Grade 3
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 160 Copyright: 2007

Provides 30 spelling units for grade 3. Includes word lists, practice activities, dictation sentences, spelling strategies, and teaching ideas. Reproducible pages.
Building Spelling Skills, Grade 3 T  
B 91560B 91560 Caught'Ya! Grammer With a Giggle
Grade Lvl: T Author: Kiester, Jane
Length: 222 Copyright: 2001

Author Jane Kiester suggests using her Caught'ya method for teaching English skills to make learning enjoyable for students. This approach has proven effective and uses short periods of time to teach grammar, usage, and mechanics. Provides soap opera plots to be presented one sentence at a time. One story each for elementary, middle, and high school. Includes 100 sample caught'yas for each level: grades 3-4, 6-8, 9-11.
Caught'Ya! Grammer With a Giggle T  
B 115452B 115452 Cinderella Smith: The More the Merrier
Grade Lvl: PI Author: Barden, Stephanie
Length: 137 Copyright: 2012

Cinderella Smith loses more shoes and competes in a spelling bee. Sequel to Cinderella Smith (112919) Lost and found possessions Fiction. Spelling bees Fiction. Family life Fiction. Stepsisters Fiction. Seattle (Wash.) Fiction. AR 4.3 RC 4.3 Lexile 690 IL 2-5.
Cinderella Smith: The More the Merrier PI  
B 93033B 93033 Classrooms That Work : They Can All Read and Write (5th Edition)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia / Allington, Richard
Length: 278 Copyright: 2011

Chapters: Creating Classrooms That Work; Creating Enthusiastic, Independent Readers; Building the Literacy Foundation; Fostering Fluency; Teaching Phonics and Spelling Patterns; Building Vivid, Vital, and Valuable Vocabularies; Developing Thoughtful Comprehenders; Developing Ready, Willing, and Able Writers; Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum; Assessment; Differentiating Instruction for Diverse Learners; and Inside Classrooms That Work. Describes a day in a kindergarten classroom, a day in a primary classroom, and a day in an intermediate classroom.
Classrooms That Work : They Can All Read and Write (5th Edition) T  
B 94765B 94765 Continuum of Literacy Learning (PK-8)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Pinnell, Gay Su
Length: 404 Copyright: 2011

A curriculum document and assessment tool that may be used by teachers to understand the literacy learning of students from prekindergarten through eighth grade in the areas of interactive read-alouds and literature discussion, writing, writing about reading, shared and performance reading, guided reading, phonics and spelling, and oral, visual, and technological communication. Authors: Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas.
Continuum of Literacy Learning (PK-8) T  
B 96191B 96191 Daily Oral Language Plus, Level 1
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 18 Copyright: 1993

Introduces students to basic skills in the areas of spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and usage. Provides lessons to maintain it through regular practice and reinforcement. Gives students repeated opportunities to develop and practice oral language and proofreading skills. Manual for grade one provides 18 weekly lessons.
Daily Oral Language Plus, Level 1 T  
B 96197B 96197 Daily Oral Language Plus, Level 4
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 36 Copyright: 1993

Grade 4 Teacher's Manual. Reviews and reinforces skills in the areasof spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and usage. Gives students repeated opportunities to develop and practice oral language and proofreading skills.
Daily Oral Language Plus, Level 4 T  
B 96198B 96198 Daily Oral Language Plus, Level 5
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 36 Copyright: 1993

Grade 5 Teacher's Manual. Reviews and reinforces basic skills in theareas of spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and usage. Gives students repeated opportunities to develop and practice oral language and proofreading skills.
Daily Oral Language Plus, Level 5 T  
B 96199B 96199 Daily Oral Language Plus, Level 6
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 36 Copyright: 1993

Grade 6 Teacher's Manual. Reviews and reinforces basic skills in theareas of spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and usage. Gives students repeated opportunities to develop and practice oral language and proofreading skills.
Daily Oral Language Plus, Level 6 T  
KM 11715KM 11715 Decoding Solution: Rime Magic & Fast Success for Struggling Readers
Grade Lvl: T Author: Zinke, Sharon
Length: 112 Copyright: 2013

Guide draws together several pivotal onset rime decoding strategies that, for one reason or another, struggling readers often fail to learn, and, yet, need in order to overcome their reading challenges. The strategies work for students of all ages to bring low word recognition skills up to grade level. For use with Grades 1-12. Kit contains the book by Sharon Zinke and DVD that demonstrates the various techniques in action and features ready-to-print word cards for strategy lessons. Also provides answers to frequently asked questions and research that validates the use of the strategies. Word recognition Study and teaching. Reading intervention.
Decoding Solution: Rime Magic & Fast Success for Struggling Readers T  
B 97608B 97608 Dyslexia Outside-the-Box (2nd Edition)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Nash, Beth Ellen
Length: 236 Copyright: 2023

Subtitle: Equipping Dyslexic Kids to Not Just Survive but Thrive. Text offers readers a balanced perspective showing how a dyslexic child’s challenges are directly connected to the flip-side strengths of their brain’s unique wiring: Using evidenced-based information about dyslexia, the book is organized in an easy-to-understand format for anyone who knows and wants to support someone with dyslexia. It breaks down the many aspects of dyslexia and offers solutions that have the “whole person” in mind, showing how these children whose brains are delightfully wired differently can thrive, not just survive. Text is filled with fun and easy suggestions, tips, teaching ideas, and, best of all, encouragement for parents and teachers of dyslexic students.
Dyslexia Outside-the-Box (2nd Edition) T  
B 97609B 97609 Dyslexia: A Complete Guide for Parents and Those Who Help Them (2nd Edition)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Reid, Gavin
Length: 267 Copyright: 2011

The new edition of Dyslexia is written for parents of dyslexic children and the professionals who work with them, and provides information on the role parents can play in supporting their dyslexic child. This updated edition contains new material and up-to-date discussions of current research and programs. Empowers parents by providing them with strategies for dealing with a wide range of concerns including dyspraxia and dyscalculia New sections cover post-school issues, the emotional needs of young people with dyslexia and information on how parents can help at home Features information on some of the more popular interventions for dyslexia, and critical evaluations of ‘alternative treatments’ Includes first–hand accounts of parents’ hopes, successes and setbacks, and extensive lists of organizations and resources
Dyslexia: A Complete Guide for Parents and Those Who Help Them (2nd Edition T  
B 114942B 114942 E-mergency!
Grade Lvl: P Author: Lichtenheld, Tom
Length: 34 Copyright: 2011

The letter "e," injured in a fall, can only recover if everyone will stop using her, but things are just not the same when "o" offers to fill in. Lexile 480 IL 1-3.
E-mergency! P  
B 96500B 96500 Essentials of Dyslexia Assessment and Intervention
Grade Lvl: T Author: Mather, Nancy / Wendling, Barbara J.
Length: 396 Copyright: 2011

Provides practical, step-by-step information on accurately identifying, assessing, and using evidence-based interventions with individuals with dyslexia.
Essentials of Dyslexia Assessment and Intervention T  
B 113596B 113596 Fancy Nancy: Splendid Speller
Grade Lvl: KP Author: O'Connor, Jane
Length: 32 Copyright: 2011

Nancy, who loves to use fancy words, and her friend Bree are proud to be the best spellers in their class, but when a spelling quiz proves tougher than Nancy thought, Nancy is faced with a difficult decision. Cheating. I Can Read book, level 1. AR 2.1. IL K-1.
Fancy Nancy: Splendid Speller KP  
B 92296B 92296 File Folder Games Reading & Math Gr. 3-4
Grade Lvl: T Author: Finch, Karen
Length: 381 Copyright: 1992

Reproducible pages provide art and instructions for making more than 40 manipulative games. Topics: consonant and vowel practice; parts of speech; whole number operations; fractions; decimals; and more. Games adapted for grades 3-4 by Pat Ling.
File Folder Games Reading & Math Gr. 3-4 T  
B 94621B 94621 Foldables, Notebook Foldables, and VKVs for Spelling and Vocabulary: Test Prep, Academic Vocabulary, and ESL Strategies
Grade Lvl: T Author: Zike, Dinah
Length: 423 Copyright: 2009

Intermediate to Advanced 4th-12th Grades. At head of title: Dinah Zike's Photographic Reference Guide to Kinesthetic Graphic Organizers. Contains over 1,600 color photos of Foldables, Notebook Foldables and VKVs (Visual Kinesthetic Vocabulary). Organized alphabetically with sections including abbreviations, acronyms, analogies, antonyms, clipped words, root words, synonyms, and more with word lists in each section. Spelling rules are noted in red within the word lists and throughout the book. Special word lists are presented in Venn diagram format to graphically illustrate relationships between sounds and different spellings. Includes Foldables instructions and VKV folding instructions.
Foldables, Notebook Foldables, and VKVs for Spelling and Vocabulary: Test P T  
B 96748B 96748 Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum: A Tool for Assessment, Planning, and Teaching, PreK-8 Expanded Ed.
Grade Lvl: T Author: Fountas, Irene / Pinnell, Gay Su
Length: 668 Copyright: 2017

This expanded edition enables teachers to construct a common vision for student achievement that effectively and efficiently engages all students in the robust, authentic and meaningful literacy learning every child deserves. The Literacy Continuum provides a way to look for specific evidence of learning from prekindergarten through grade eight, and across eight instructional contexts. Each instructional context contributes substantially, in different but complementary ways, to students' development of the literacy process. The continuum describes text characteristics and behavioral goals for prekindergarten through middle school, across the areas pertinent to the language arts. Expanded Edition is designed to: -elevate language and literacy expertise; -develop an understanding of the demands of texts on readers; -build an understanding of the reading and writing process and how it changes over time; -hone the observation of students' literacy behaviors; -teach toward student integration of the Systems of Strategic Actions; -articulate the literacy curriculum within and across grade levels -activate the responsive teaching that meets students where they are and brings them forward with intention and precision; -build professional learning opportunities with colleagues; -create a common vision and common language for literacy. Fountas & Pinnell include eight different continua. Each focuses on a different aspect of their language and literacy instructional framework (Guided Reading: Responsive Teaching Across the Grades #96748) and each contributes to students' development of reading, writing, and language processes. The Literacy Continuum includes: 1.Interactive Read-Aloud and Literature Discussion 2.Shared & Performance Reading 3.Writing About Reading 4.Writing 5.Oral & Visual Communication 6.Technological Communication 7.Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study 8.Guided Reading
Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum: A Tool for Assessment, Planning, and T  
B 90326B 90326 From Phonics to Fluency (2nd Edition)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Rasinski, Timothy V.
Length: 317 Copyright: 2008

Subtitle: Effective Teaching of Decoding and Reading Fluency in the Elementary School by Timothy V. Rasinski and Nancy D. Padak. Presents instructional strategies and examples of fluency practices that have been successful in real classrooms. Focus is on phonemic awareness, fluency, and phonics and word study. Some topics: onsets, rimes, and basic phonic patterns, advanced word patterns, word walls, word banks and word sorts, contextual word recognition, word games, spelling, fluency, instructional routines, assessing word recognition, involving parents in word study, etc. Adds a new chapter to the first edition: Phonics and Fluency: Concerns, Caveats, and Critical Consumerism. Appendices: Common Rimes, Fry Instant Word List, Prefixes, Suffixes, Greek and Latin Word Patterns, and Websites for Word Study.
From Phonics to Fluency (2nd Edition) T  
B 96622B 96622 Handbook of Reading Interventions
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 436 Copyright: 2011

Handbook presents evidence-based approaches for helping struggling readers and those at risk for literacy difficulties or delays. Leading experts explain how research on all aspects of literacy translates into innovative classroom practices. Chapters include descriptions of effective interventions for word recognition, spelling, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing, complete with concrete examples and teaching scripts. Coverage also encompasses preschool literacy instruction and interventions for older readers, English language learners, and students with learning disabilities, as well as peer-mediated and tutoring approaches. Edited by Rollanda E. O'Connor and Patricia F.Vadasy.
Handbook of Reading Interventions T  
B 81559B 81559 Hippopotamus Hunt
Grade Lvl: KP Author: Most, Bernard
Length: 34 Copyright: 1994

Children on a word hunt romp through the jungle with a hippo. They find words that have been formed from the letters in the word hippopotamus. Follett RL 1.7.
Hippopotamus Hunt KP  
B 91994B 91994 How to Reach & Teach Children & Teens with Dyslexia
Grade Lvl: T Author: Stowe, Cynthia
Length: 337 Copyright: 2000

Resource for parents and teachers describes characteristics of this learning style and issues associated with it. Discusses diagnostic testing, special education services, intervention, instruction (reading, spelling, writing, math, etc), life skills, transitions, tips for parents, and talents. Includes reproducible activity sheets.
How to Reach & Teach Children & Teens with Dyslexia T  
KM 9614KM 9614 I Can Spell Alphabet Puzzle (BB)
Grade Lvl: KP Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2001

Wooden alphabet letters and word cards (with illustration) for spelling. Designed to improve letter-recognition and prereading skills. Letters fit into spaces in a tray so kit can be used as a puzzle. Also includes instruction sheet.
I Can Spell Alphabet Puzzle (BB) KP  
B 98272B 98272 Ideas for Spelling
Grade Lvl: T Author: Bolton, Faye
Length: 128 Copyright: 1993

Detailed strategies and activities are provided for helping childrenat all stages of spelling development to become more competent spellers, from beginners to the intermediate grades. Also discussedare the development of word lists, the evaluation of spelling progress, and considerations for English as a Second Language. Will assist the teacher in implementing an effective spelling program, working with individuals, small groups and the whole class.
Ideas for Spelling T  
B 120627B 120627 If You're So Smart, How Come You Can't Spell Mississippi? (A Story About Dyslexia)
Grade Lvl: PI Author: Esham, Barbara
Length: 29 Copyright: 2008

Katie is very surprised when her father--one of the smartest people she knows--was unable to help her study for her third grade spelling test because he admitted to not knowing how to spell Mississippi. Katie is keen observer and a curious third grader. So when her dad explains why he finds spelling difficult, Katie wants to investigate. She learns that her very intelligent dad, a lawyer, has dyslexia probably like a couple of Katie's classmates. From the series The Adventures of Everyday Geniuses. IL 2-4.
If You're So Smart, How Come You Can't Spell Mississippi? (A Story About Dy PI  
KM 9588KM 9588 Jumbo Magnetic Letters & Numbers
Grade Lvl: K Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2006

Set of 116 colorful plastic letters and numbers (2.5" tall) with magnetic board (12"x16"). Number set includes six operations. For ages 3+.
Jumbo Magnetic Letters & Numbers K  
KM 7943KM 7943 Letter Perfect Playboard
Grade Lvl: K Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 1985

Durable 1" plastic upper case letters to be placed on see-through tray over any of the eight game/activity cards to match letters and develop reading skills: letter recognition, sight words, phonograms, spelling, simple vocabulary. A blank card is provided for customized lessons. Title III Reading and English Acquisition Development Center (READ). Contents: instruction sheet, eight underlay cards, plastic game board, and bag of plastic letters.
Letter Perfect Playboard K  
B 111335B 111335 Little Wolf's Haunted Hall for Small Horrors
Grade Lvl: PI Author: Whybrow, Ian
Length: 126 Copyright: 2000

In a series of letters to his parents, Little Wolf describes his attempts to create "the scariest school in the world" and convince his ghostly Uncle Bigbad to teach a magic class. Letters contain misspellings. AR 4.4. Follett RL 4.1. RC 3.6. Lexile 720. IL 2-4.
Little Wolf's Haunted Hall for Small Horrors PI  
KM 8728KM 8728 Magnetic Poetry--ABC123
Grade Lvl: KP Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2004

Over 130 colorful alphabet and number magnets, including uppercase and lowercase letters and the number 0-9. Each is over an inch tall. For ages 3+. Fridgedoor.
Magnetic Poetry--ABC123 KP  
B 90711B 90711 Making & Writing Words (K-1)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Rasinski, Timothy
Length: 137 Copyright: 2005

Subtitle: 40 Sequenced Word-Building Lessons by Timothy Rasinski and Roger Heym. Helps students improve their phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, and vocablary skills. Contains 40 word-building lessons, each with a ready-to-use transparency.
Making & Writing Words (K-1) T  
B 99624B 99624 Making Big Words, Grades 3-6
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia
Length: 146 Copyright: 1994

Subtitle: Multilevel, Hands-On Spelling and Phonics Activities. Provides word family/phonogram/spelling pattern instruction. Reproducible lessons.
Making Big Words, Grades 3-6 T  
B 99716B 99716 Making More Big Words, Grades 3-6
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia
Length: 224 Copyright: 1997

Subtitle: Multilevel, Hands-On Phonics and Spelling Activities. Sequel to Making Big Words has 150 reproducible lessons. Includes guidelines for creating lessons.
Making More Big Words, Grades 3-6 T  
B 99715B 99715 Making More Words, Grades 1-3
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricvia
Length: 208 Copyright: 1997

Subtitle: Multilevel, Hands-On Phonics and Spelling Activities. Sequel to Making Words has 140 reproducible lessons. Includes guidelines for creating lessons.
Making More Words, Grades 1-3 T  
B 94808B 94808 Making Words, Fourth Grade
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia
Length: 86 Copyright: 2009

Subtitle: 50 Hands-On Lessons for Teaching Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots by Patricia M. Cunningham and Dorothy P. Hall. Each lesson has three parts: making words using a spelling approach; sorting words according to related words and rhyming patterns; and finally by transferring what was learned to reading and spelling new words. A lesson includes 15-20 words including a secret word that can be made with all the letters.
Making Words, Fourth Grade T  
B 99623B 99623 Making Words, Grades 1-3
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia
Length: 178 Copyright: 1994

Subtitle: Multilevel, Hands-On, Developmentally Appropriate Spelling and Phonics Activities. Provides word family/phonogram/ spelling pattern instruction, Reproducible lessons.
Making Words, Grades 1-3 T  
B 94807B 94807 Making Words, Third Grade
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia
Length: 80 Copyright: 2009

Subtitle: 70 Hands-On Lessons for Teaching Prefixes, Suffixes, and Homophones by Patricia M. Cunningham and Dorothy P. Hall. Every lesson has three parts: make words using a spelling approach; sort words according to related words and rhyming patterns; and then transfer what was learned to reading and spelling new words.
Making Words, Third Grade T  
B 90468B 90468 Making Words: First Grade: 100 Hands-on Lessons for Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Spelling
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cummingham, Patricia
Length: 157 Copyright: 2009

Book by Patricia M. Cunningham and Dorothy P. Hall has lessons that teach all the phonics, spelling, and phonemic awareness skills included in most first grade curriculums. Each Making Words activity leads children through a systematic and sequential phonics curriculum. All lessons include practice with the phonemic awareness skills of segmenting and blending as children stretch out words they are making and blend the letters to make new words.
Making Words: First Grade: 100 Hands-on Lessons for Phonemic Awareness, Pho T  
B 90530B 90530 Mastering the Mechanics, Grades 4-5
Grade Lvl: T Author: Hoyt, Linda
Length: 192 Copyright: 2008

Contains lesson plans for fourth through fifth grade that teach the mechanics of writing and include suggestions for modeling, guided pracice and independent practice. Editing process; capitalization; punctuation; grammar; spelling; putting it all together lessons (students apply multiple skills as part of authentic writing). Offers templates including a "Skills I Can Use" sheet for students to use in charting their progress. Authors: Linda Hoyt and Teresa Therriault.
Mastering the Mechanics, Grades 4-5 T  
B 90547B 90547 Mind Joggers!
Grade Lvl: T Author: Petreshene, Susan
Length: 207 Copyright: 1985

Subtitle: 5- to 15-Minute Activities that Make Kids Think. A collection of activities which take from five to fifteen minutes which are designed to help students improve their thinking and comprehension skills. Includes whole group, partner, and individual activities for elementary children organized into four major subject and skill areas: Thinking and Reasoning; Math; Language and Writing; and Listening and Remembering. All are oral activities or require only pencil and paper, or chalkboard and chalk. Brainstorming.
Mind Joggers! T  
B 106201B 106201 Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster
Grade Lvl: PI Author: Frasier, Debra
Length: 34 Copyright: 2000

When Sage's spelling and definition of a word reveal her misunderstanding of it to her classmates, she is at first embarrassed, but then uses her mistake as inspiration for the vocabulary parade. AR 5.3. RC 4.7. Lexile 690. Follett RL 4.6. Picture book for older readers.
Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster PI  
B 99872B 99872 Month-by-Month Phonics for First Grade
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia
Length: 126 Copyright: 1997

Explains how to help children learn to read through systematic, multilevel instructions. Provides activities to help children with decoding and spelling using patterns and develop a store of sight words.
Month-by-Month Phonics for First Grade T  
B 99740B 99740 Month-by-Month Phonics for Upper Grades: A Second Chance For Struggling Readers and Students Learning English
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia
Length: 158 Copyright: 1998

Explains how to help students become fluent decoders and spellers.
Month-by-Month Phonics for Upper Grades: A Second Chance For Struggling Rea T  
B 122671B 122671 Ms. Spell
Grade Lvl: KP Author: Long, Ethan
Length: 38 Copyright: 2015

Mrs Spell gives a fun-filled lesson in spelling, pointing out some common mistakes and confusions and giving tips for remembering how to spell certain words. AR 2.5 RC 1.8 Lexile 300 IL K-3.
Ms. Spell KP  
B 91191B 91191 Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 563 Copyright: 2000

Explains how and why multisensory methods work and how to use these methods with specific teaching approaches that promote alphabet skills, spelling, reading comprehension, phonological awareness, composition, math skills, organization, and study skills. Edited by Judith R. Birsh. Dyslexia.
Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills T  
B 126786B 126786 No Reading Allowed: The WORST Read-Aloud Book Ever: A Confusing Collection of Hilarious Homonyms and Sound-Alike Sentences
Grade Lvl: KPI Author: Haldar, Raj / Carpenter, Chris
Length: 48 Copyright: 2020

Introduction to homonyms. Shows how words that sound the same can mean different things. Humor. Literature. Rhyming. English language. Homonyms. Juvenile nonfiction. IL Pres-3. Lexile 320.
No Reading Allowed: The WORST Read-Aloud Book Ever: A Confusing Collection KPI  
B 116340B 116340 Noah Webster & His Words
Grade Lvl: PI Author: Ferris, Jeri
Length: 32 Copyright: 2012

An illustrated account of the life of Noah Webster, a Connecticut farm boy who spent twenty years writing what became the first American dictionary ever to be published. Webster, Noah, 1758-1843. Lexicographers. Notable Social Studies Trade Book- 2013. AR 5.2 RC 5.4 Lexile 820. IL 1-4.
Noah Webster & His Words PI  
KM 12263KM 12263 Osmo - Set of 5 (2 Parts)
Grade Lvl: KPI Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2016

Osmo is a unique gaming accessory for the iPad that comes with games that will change the way your child plays. Each game gives kids an opportunity to learn social skills and practice creative thinking. The games can be downloaded free from the Apple store. These games include: Masterpiece, Words, Tangram and Newton. Kit contains five copies of Osmo. IL Pres-5. Two-week loan period.
Osmo - Set of 5 (2 Parts) KPI  
KM 10203KM 10203 Phonics Dominoes--Blend and Digraphs
Grade Lvl: P Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2007

Colorful dominoes printed with high-utility blend and digraphs (dr, ch, st, the, etc.) and important phonograms (word families) so kids can put together hundreds of words. Includes 84 dominoes (14 each of six bright colors) with an activity guide. Good for word formation games and learning centers.
Phonics Dominoes--Blend and Digraphs P  
KM 10205KM 10205 Phonics Dominoes--Long Vowels
Grade Lvl: KP Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2007

Colorful dominoes printed with high-utility consonants (s, m, t, etc.) and important long-vowel phonograms (word families) so kids can put together hundreds of words. Includes a variety of dominoes with differentiation of six bright colors with an activity guide. Good for word formation games and learning centers. IL K-2.
Phonics Dominoes--Long Vowels KP  
KM 10204KM 10204 Phonics Dominoes--Short Vowels
Grade Lvl: KP Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2007

Colorful dominoes printed with high-utility consonants (s, m, t, etc.) and important short-vowel phonograms (word families) so kids can put together hundreds of words. Includes a variety of dominoes with differentiation of six bright colors with an activity guide. Good for word formation games and learning centers. IL K-2.
Phonics Dominoes--Short Vowels KP  
KM 7474KM 7474 Phonics Lessons: Grade 1
Grade Lvl: T Author: PINNELL, GAY SU
Length: 0 Copyright: 2003

Subtitle: Letters, Words, and How They Work by Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas. Collection of 100 minilessons designed to help first graders attend to, learn about, and use information about letters, sounds, and words. Authors stress that phonics instruction is only one part of a complete reading program. Minilessons are based on their word study continuum (nine categories of learning) which includes: early literacy concepts, phonological awareness (and phonemic awareness), letter knowledge, letter sound relationships, spelling patterns, high frequency words, word meaning, word structure, and word-solving actions. Volume 2 Teaching Resources contains assessment guide, materials and routines, games, templates, picture cards, letter/word cards, and bibliographies. Two-week loan period.
Phonics Lessons: Grade 1 T  
KM 7462KM 7462 Phonics Lessons: Grade 2
Grade Lvl: T Author: PINNELL, GAY SU
Length: 0 Copyright: 2002

Subtitle: Letters, Words, and How They Work by Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas. Collection of 100 minilessons designed to help children attend to, learn about, and use information about letters, sounds, and words. Lessons, which are based on the authors' word, study continuum combine direct teaching of language principles and elements of discovery and inquiry. The nine categories of learning in the continuum are early literacy concepts, phonological awareness (and phonemic awareness), letter knowledge, letter/sound relationships, spelling patterns, high frequency words, word meaning, word structure, and word-solving actions. Volume 2 Teaching Resources contains assessment guide, materials and routines, games, templates, lesson words cards, category word cards, and bibliographies. Two-week loan period.
Phonics Lessons: Grade 2 T  
B 95811B 95811 Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writing (6th Edition)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia
Length: 249 Copyright: 2013

Describes activities teachers may use to help children who are having difficulty reading and writing, with methods for learning to decode and spell regular and highly frequent irregular one-syllable words, and strategies for dealing with the special problems of poly-syllabic words. Part One: Building the Foundation for Phonics They Can Use. Part Two: Fluency. Part Three: Using Phonics and Spelling Patterns. Part Four: Research, and Terminology. Includes suggestions for adapting activities for English language learners and phonics interventions for older struggling readers.
Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writing (6th Edition) T  
B 80080B 80080 Pinky and Rex and the Spelling Bee
Grade Lvl: P Author: Howe, James
Length: 40 Copyright: 1991

Excited about holding on to his position as the best speller in the second grade, Pinky has an embarrassing accident but is cheered up by his best friend, Rex. AR 3.2. RC 3.1. Lexile 480. GR level L.
Pinky and Rex and the Spelling Bee P  
KM 8689KM 8689 Quick Phonics Screener, 3rd Edition
Grade Lvl: T Author: Renaissance Learning / Read Naturally Inc.
Length: 0 Copyright: 2017

Add Quick Phonics Screener (QPS) Third Edition (2017) to your reading assessment toolkit. The third edition of this proven diagnostic phonics assessment includes the new Quick Spelling Survey (QSS)—a time-saving spelling assessment you can administer to a group or to a whole class. Use QSS results to determine which students may need to be assessed with Quick Phonics Screener (QPS), a one-to-one assessment. QPS and QSS identify each student's strengths and instructional needs in phonics—decoding and encoding. Multiple forms allow you to monitor progress throughout the year. Includes an assessment overview card, the examiner's manual, and the assessment book. Examiner scoring sheets (QPS), student response forms (QSS), and summary score sheets are reproducible. Restricted to AEA Staff.
Quick Phonics Screener, 3rd Edition T  
GM 153GM 153 Rattled
Grade Lvl: PI Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2006

A fast-paced, self-contained word game that has kids shakin' and makin' words! Grab the handle, shake it up, then put it down. Both players (or both teams) try to make the longest word possible from the 8 scrambled letters. The player who thinks they've found the longest word shouts it out and starts the timer. The second player has 30 seconds to find a longer word. Don't get rattled--there are thousands of possible word combinations! With built-in Score Slider and no loose parts, Rattled is completely self-contained and classroom durable. Includes 30-second timer that conveniently stores in the handle and guide. For 2-4 players. Grades 1 and up.
Rattled PI  
KM 9535KM 9535 Reading Rods Initial Consonants & Word Families
Grade Lvl: KP Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2003

Reading Group Kits includes Teacher's Resource Guide, five activity trays, five student kits (each contains guide, flipbook, and rods), overhead materials, and pocket chart with activity guide and cards).Multisensory materials.
Reading Rods Initial Consonants & Word Families KP  
KM 7208KM 7208 Reading Rods Initial Consonants/Student
Grade Lvl: KP Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2003

Individual Student Kit provides hands-on activities to explore consonants at the beginning of words. A child can use the kits to build high-frequency words, identify initial consonants, blend initial consonant sounds with word families to make words, substitute onsets to build new words, explore repeated sounds (alliteration), etc. Contents: instructional guide, activity flipbook, and reading rods. Good for independent practice in a learning center. Multisensory materials.
Reading Rods Initial Consonants/Student KP  
KM 7144KM 7144 Reading Rods Making Words (10 Student Kits)
Grade Lvl: PI Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2001

Skills for grades 1 and up: CVC word construction; CVCe words; build, analyze and sort words to identify rhymes, common sounds, and spelling patterns. (Subset of Reading Rods Phonics Word-Building kit). Contents: instructional guide, ten individual student kits (each with 63 rods), and pocket chart with activity guide and cards. Multisensory materials.
Reading Rods Making Words (10 Student Kits) PI  
KM 7209KM 7209 Reading Rods Making Words/Student
Grade Lvl: PI Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2001

Individual Student Kit provides hands-on activities for word-study based on Patricia Cunningham and Dorothy Hall's "Making Words" methodology. Explores short vowel sounds and long vowel sounds (including y) in a meaningful context. Offers opportunities for analyzing letter patterns found in rimes. Decoded CVC and CVCe words. Analyze and pronounce words ending in y. Contents: instructional guide and reading rods. Multisensory materials.
Reading Rods Making Words/Student PI  
KM 9537KM 9537 Reading Rods Phonics Word-Building
Grade Lvl: PI Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2000

Reading Group Kits includes Teacher's Resource Guide, five activity trays, five student kits (each contains guide, two flipbooks, and rods), overhead materials, and pocket chart with activity guide and cards. Student kit can be used by one or two students (grades 1 and up). Rods can be used to review short vowel word patterns; construct CVCe words; build words with other long vowels and spelling patterns; make words using consonant blends and digraphs; vowel combinations; and common rimes. Multisensory materials. Also includes Word Families/Rhyming Words Activity Cards and Word-Building Activity Cards.
Reading Rods Phonics Word-Building PI  
KM 7210KM 7210 Reading Rods Phonics Word-Building/Student
Grade Lvl: PI Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2000

Individual Student Kit provides hands-on activities to help a child explore letter patterns. Activities support a word-analysis approach to phonics instruction. A student can use the kit materials to decode words with short and long vowel sounds, analyze and pronounce words ending with y, construct words, spell words, examine complex letter patterns, etc. Contents: instructional guide, two activity flipbooks, and reading rods. Digraphs. Diphthongs. Rimes. Good for independent practice in learning center. Multisensory materials.
Reading Rods Phonics Word-Building/Student PI  
KM 7211KM 7211 Reading Rods Prefixes, Suffixes, & Root/Student
Grade Lvl: PI Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2000

Individual Student Kit provides hands-on activities for constructing and deconstructing common words to learn vocabulary skills and spelling conventions. Contents: instructional guide, activity flipbook, and reading rods (different colors for prefix, suffix, Greek and Latin root words, English base words and consonants). Good for independent practice in a learning center. Multisensory materials.
Reading Rods Prefixes, Suffixes, & Root/Student PI  
KM 9538KM 9538 Reading Rods Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words
Grade Lvl: PI Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2000

Reading Group Kit includes Teacher's Resource Guide, five activity trays, five student kits (each contains guide, flipbook, and rods), overhead materials, and pocket chart with activity guide and cards. Designed to help students in grades 2 and up build and study plural nouns and inflected verbs; practice adding prefixes and suffixes to English base words; form complex words by adding to Greek/Latin roots; and decode unfamiliar words. Multisensory materials.
Reading Rods Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words PI  
KM 9534KM 9534 Reading Rods Short Vowel Word Families
Grade Lvl: KP Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2000

Reading Group Kit includes Teacher's Resource Guide, five activity trays, five student kits (each contains guide, flipbook, and rods), overhead materials, and pocket chart with activity guide and cards. Student kit can be used by one or two students (Grades K-1) to make three-letter words (cvc). Multisensory materials.
Reading Rods Short Vowel Word Families KP  
KM 7213KM 7213 Reading Rods Short Vowel Word Families/Student
Grade Lvl: KP Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2001

Individual Student Kit provides hands-on activities to explore rimes or spelling patterns. Supports a word-building approach to phonics instruction. Reinforces both letter-sound relationships and patterns in words. Contents: instructional guide, activity flipbook, and reading rods. Allows independent practice in a language arts center. Multisensory materials.
Reading Rods Short Vowel Word Families/Student KP  
B 94377B 94377 Reading Teacher's Book of Lists (4th Edition)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Fry, Edward
Length: 391 Copyright: 2000

Reference for reading teachers includes lists for developing instructional materials and planning lessons for elementary and secondary students. Includes word lists such as homophones, collection nouns, daily living, words, math vocabulary; word origins; phonics, comprehension skills; study skills; writing aids, enrichment activities; symbols such as braille alphabet, morse code, diacritical markings, Roman Numerals, signs; handwriting charts; terms defined, etc.
Reading Teacher's Book of Lists (4th Edition) T  
KM 8715KM 8715 See & Spell
Grade Lvl: K Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2006

Place colorful wooden letters in their proper places to spell words on the cutout two-sided wooden boards. Sixteen playful pictures with three and four letter words: fish, bear, bus, cake, sock, frog, bird, duck, boat, car, pig, cow, hen, sun, cat, dog. For ages 4+. Contents: eight two-sided spelling boards and over 50 wooden lower case letters.
See & Spell K  
B 93303B 93303 Shoe Box Learning Centers Word Families (K-2)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Chanko, Pamela
Length: 80 Copyright: 2006

Provides reproducible templates and activities for thirty word family learning centers for kindergarten through second grade, designed to be held in shoe boxes.
Shoe Box Learning Centers Word Families (K-2) T  
KM 12289KM 12289 Silent Letters Loud and Clear (Book & Audio CD)
Grade Lvl: P Author: Pulver, Robin
Length: 0 Copyright: 2013

When Mr. Wright's students express a dislike for silent letters, the offended letters decide to teach them a lesson by going on strike. Kit contains one audio CD read-along (13 min.) and picture book (32 pages, AR 2.8) by Robin Pulver. IL 1-3.
Silent Letters Loud and Clear (Book & Audio CD) P  
B 91691B 91691 Source for Dyslexia and Dysgraphia
Grade Lvl: T Author: Richards, Regina
Length: 308 Copyright: 1999

Describes the processing styles inherent in dyslexia and dysgraphia and the strategies and compensations for students who struggle with academic skills. Part 2 includes bypass strategies, interventions at breakdown points, phonological awareness, auditory levels, sound/symbal correspondence, decoding and encoding, spelling, written expression, and strategies for recall.
Source for Dyslexia and Dysgraphia T  
KM 11877KM 11877 Spell It! Puzzles
Grade Lvl: KP Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2013

Contains 20 self-correcting puzzle sets. Each puzzle has three pieces (image & 3-letter word.
Spell It! Puzzles KP  
GM 119GM 119 Spell Time Game
Grade Lvl: KP Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2003

Colored plastic letter tiles that fit onto any one of the 15 notched picture cards provided. Allows students to learn simple words independently. The intuitive, self-correcting hands-on game only allows student to place a letter tile correctly. The 90 base words have a maximum of five letters. Alphabet cards help students learn their ABCs, parts of the body, things around the house, animals, and more. For one or more players. Duration: 10-20 minutes. Title III Reading and English Acquisition Development Center (READ). Contents: instruction sheet, 15 picture cards, and letter tiles.
Spell Time Game KP  
KM 12333KM 12333 SPELL-Links to Reading & Writing Word Study Curriculum, Second Edition
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2015

SPELL-Links to Reading & Writing can be used as a performance-based instructional program, as a supplemental instructional program, or as a stand-alone word study curriculum. Curriculum has spelling, reading, and writing activities that explicitly & systematically teach critical word study knowledge, skills, and strategies. It explicitly targets more than 70 spelling patterns and teaches spelling and reading together at multiple levels of instruction and practice using research-based methods. Develops and strengthens cognitive connections among all five linguistic properties of words: phonological, orthographic, semantic, morphological, and mental images of words. Kit includes three spiral-bound books of lessons & activities; companion CD (containing lesson planning/scheduling worksheets, word cards, pattern-loaded writing & reading materials, activity worksheets, activity support materials, progress monitoring materials, mastery measurement tools, Home Link activities, Word Study Journal pages); mouse pad; and letter manipulatives. Restricted checkout to AEA Staff only.
SPELL-Links to Reading & Writing Word Study Curriculum, Second Edition T  
KM 12673KM 12673 Spelling Fun Match and Learn (Puzzles)
Grade Lvl: KP Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2016

Kit has 20 puzzles (69 pieces). Contains 11 three-letter and 9 four-letter self-correcting jigsaw cards and a 16 page Spelling booklet. Each puzzle piece has only one letter. IL Pres-1.
Spelling Fun Match and Learn (Puzzles) KP  
KM 7255KM 7255 Spelling Through Morphographs
Grade Lvl: IJST Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2001

Remedial program design to give older students (grade 4-adult) the tools they need to learn to spell. Teaches a variety of morphographs--prefixes, suffixes, and word bases--and a small set of rules for combining them so that students learn a spelling strategy that can apply to thousands of words. Contents: teacher's guide, booklet of blackline masters (student workbook), and two teacher presentation books. Authors: Robert Dixon and Siegfried Engelmann.
Spelling Through Morphographs IJST  
B 95479B 95479 Strategies for Test-Taking Success: Writing
Grade Lvl: IJST Author: Newman, Christy
Length: 217 Copyright: 2006

Strategies for Test-Taking Success is a test preparation series designed to help all students develop effective test-taking skills and strategies, regardless of their English language proficiency or academic level. Each book in the Strategies series focuses on a major testing discipline. Workbook is designed to help students who need to review writing skills. It may also serve as a test-preparation book for students who are new to taking writing tests. Offers instruction and test practice in four major skill areas of writing: sentence & paragraph writing; essay writing; grammar; spelling & mechanics.
Strategies for Test-Taking Success: Writing IJST  
KM 6624KM 6624 TEACHING BEGINNING READERS
Grade Lvl: T Author: JOHNS, JERRY
Length: 0 Copyright: 2002

Book subtitle: Linking Assessment and Instruction (2nd edition). Title of first edition: Early Literacy Assessments and Teaching Strategies by Jerry Johns, Susan Davis Lenski, and Laurie Elish-Piper. Chapters: Attitudes, Interests, and Oral Language; Literacy Knowledge; Letter and Sounds; Fluency and Automaticity; Vocabulary and Comprehension; and Writing and Spelling. Each of the six chapters begin with a series of questions and answers, followed by series of teaching strategies, activities, and assessments. Includes tips for English Language Learners; ideas for how parents can help their children improve their early literacy skills, and resource pages (lists books and web sites). Contents: book and dual platform CD-ROM that contains all the pages that can be reproduced. Requires 20MB RAM, 20MB free on hard drive, CD-ROM or DVD drive. Two-week loan period.
TEACHING BEGINNING READERS T  
B 95520B 95520 Teaching Phonics Today: Word Study Strategies Through the Grades, Second Edition
Grade Lvl: T Author: Strickland, Dorothy
Length: 112 Copyright: 2011

Examines the ways in which phonics instruction has evolved over time, offers suggestions for differentiating instruction to prevent reading difficulties, provides practical ideas for word study and conventional spelling instruction, and includes advice on curriculum development and assessment.
Teaching Phonics Today: Word Study Strategies Through the Grades, Second E T  
B 91990B 91990 Teaching Students With Learning Problems (6th Ed)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Mercer, Cecil
Length: 641 Copyright: 2001

Resource to help teachers (special education, resource room, remedial and general education teachers) design individualized programming for students with learning or behavioral problems. Provides interventions, instructional activities, materials, assessments, commercial programs, and scope and sequence skills lists. Part I deals with learning environments; planning, organizing and managing instruction; assessing students; and promoting social, emotional, and behavioral development. Part II deals with teaching and assessing academic skills. Topics include assessing and teaching reading, spelling, handwriting, written expression, math, language skills, study skills, and transitions.
Teaching Students With Learning Problems (6th Ed) T  
KM 8109KM 8109 TOWL 4: Test of Written Language
Grade Lvl: T Author: Hammill, Donald
Length: 0 Copyright: 2009

TOWL-4 is a test of written composition for ages 9 years 0 months through 17 years 11 months and can be administered to individuals or small groups. Examiners can use two equivalent forms, Form A and Form B to evaluate student growth in writing using pretesting and posttesting that is not contaminated by memory. The seven subtests for each form of the TOWL-4 measure a student's writing competence through both essay-analysis (spontaneous) formats and traditional test (contrived) formats. The subtests are: Vocabulary; Spelling; Punctuation; Logical Sentences; Sentence Combining; Contextual Conventions; and Story Composition. Testing time is 60-90 minutes. Contents: Examiner's Manual; Supplemental Practice Scoring Booklet; three colored Picture Cards; Record/Story Scoring Form; Student Response Booklet A; and Student Response Booklet B. Circulation restricted to Keystone AEA Special Education staff.
TOWL 4: Test of Written Language T  
GM 133GM 133 Two-Way Word Builder Game
Grade Lvl: PI Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 1997

In this word building game for 2-4 players, students try to build two three-letter words that are connected (using one letter in common). Game has 16 "two-way" cards, each with spaces for two three-letter words plus plastic letter tiles. Each player draws a card and then players take turns drawing tiles and adding them to the card to build words. When a card is completed, a player takes a new card from the pack. The player with the most cards completed when all the tiles have been turned up is the winner. Contents: instruction card, 16 playing boards, and plastic tiles.
Two-Way Word Builder Game PI  
B 97598B 97598 UFLI Foundations
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 372 Copyright: 2022

Subtitle: An Explicit and Systematic Phonics Program. The UFLI Foundations manual is full of detailed, easy-to-follow lesson plans that include everything you need to implement each and every step. The lessons align with our continuous scope and sequence, designed to ensure that students systematically acquire each skill needed and learn to apply each skill with automaticity and confidence. The manual offers, essential background knowledge for teachers, 10 getting ready lessons, 128 concept lessons and 10 review lessons, concept-based spelling assessments to use for progress monitoring and detailed descriptions of each step and how to implement.
UFLI Foundations T  
B 95786B 95786 Unlocking Literacy: Effective Decoding and Spelling Instruction, Second Edition
Grade Lvl: T Author:
Length: 326 Copyright: 2010

Presents strategies to help students improve literacy skills with a focus on decoding and spelling; providing a review of the history and structure of English words; discussing reading fundamentals and lesson concepts, format, and procedures; and including forty-six classroom activities, lesson plans, samples of student work, and additional resources.
Unlocking Literacy: Effective Decoding and Spelling Instruction, Second Edi T  
KM 7659KM 7659 VersaTiles Reading/Language Arts Level 2 Lab
Grade Lvl: P Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2000

Self-paced program for second grade is designed to provide practice with basic skills (phonics, word attack, vocabulary, comprehension, spelling, study skills, grammar, usage, mechanics). Students work independently or in a small group. VersaTiles can be used in a center, as a supplement, as a resource for students who need individualized help, as enrichment, for ESL programs, etc. VersaTiles provide immediate feedback. If the answers are correct, the tiles form a pattern that matches the pattern in the activity book. Contents: teacher's resource guide, ten self-correcting answer cases with 12 tiles in each, five activity books for each title: Fun With Phonics; More Fun With Phonics; Ready! Set! Spell!; Read for Meaning; Read to Understand; Reading for Everyday; Fun With Language; and Language in Action.
VersaTiles Reading/Language Arts Level 2 Lab P  
KM 7757KM 7757 VersaTiles Reading/Language Arts Level 2 Starter
Grade Lvl: P Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2000

Starter set is a self-paced program for second grade designed to provide practice with basic skills (phonics, word attack, vocabulary, comprehension, and study skills). VersaTiles can be used for enrichment, remediation, learning centers, for ESL programs, etc. VersaTiles provide immediate feedback. If the answers are correct, the tiles form a pattern that matches the pattern in the activity book. Contents: teacher's resource guide, self-correcting answer case with 12 tiles in it, and eight activity books: Fun With Phonics; More Fun With Phonics; Ready! Set! Spell!; Read for Meaning; Read to Understand; Reading for Every Day; Fun With Language; and Language in Action.
VersaTiles Reading/Language Arts Level 2 Starter P  
KM 7758KM 7758 VersaTiles Reading/Language Arts Level 3 Starter
Grade Lvl: P Author:
Length: 0 Copyright: 2000

Starter set is a self-paced program for third grade designed to provide practice with basic skills (phonics, word attack, vocabulary, comprehension, and study skills). VersaTiles can be used for enrichment, remediation, learning centers, for ESL programs, etc. VersaTiles provide immediate feedback. If the answers are correct, the tiles form a pattern that matches the pattern in the activity book. Contents: teacher's resource guide, self-correcting answer case with 12 tiles in it, and eight activity books: Unlock Words; Keys to Words; Keys to Spelling; Keys to Reading; Unlock Meaning; Keys to Everyday Reading; Unlock Language; and Keys to Language.
VersaTiles Reading/Language Arts Level 3 Starter P  
B 122814B 122814 Very Witchy Spelling Bee
Grade Lvl: P Author: Shannon, George
Length: 32 Copyright: 2013

Little witch Cordelia loves to spell, but can she beat the long-time champion in the Witchy Spelling Bee? AR 3.3 RC 2.3 Lexile 590 IL 1-3.
Very Witchy Spelling Bee P  
B 122280B 122280 W is for Webster: Noah Webster and his American Dictionary
Grade Lvl: PI Author: Fern, Tracey E
Length: 40 Copyright: 2015

A picture book biography of Noah Webster provides insight into his early years, his eccentricities, and his quest to compile a comprehensive dictionary of American English words. 2016 Orbis Pictus recommended book. IL 1-5.
W is for Webster: Noah Webster and his American Dictionary PI  
B 95005B 95005 What Really Matters in Writing
Grade Lvl: T Author: Cunningham, Patricia
Length: 228 Copyright: 2010

Subtitle: Research-Based Practices Across the Elementary Curriculum by Patricia M. Cunningham and James W. Cunningham. Explains how to get students started writing and what to do once they are. Dedicated chapters for spelling, editing, and revising help teachers introduce these skills as critical parts of the writing process. Explains how to extend writing, editing, and revising across the curricuulum, to bring the benefits of writing and critical thinking to all content areas. Includes examples, sample lessons, and activities.
What Really Matters in Writing T  
B 93002B 93002 Word Chunks (K-2)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Martin, Carol
Length: 96 Copyright: 2003

Cover title: Word Chunks Activities for Learning Word Families by Carol Kirkham Martin. Contains visual cues, reference materials, and hands-on manipulative activities that may be used to help students in kindergarten through second grade recognize word chunks--common groupings of letters that have specific sounds. Reproducible pages.
Word Chunks (K-2) T  
B 96638B 96638 Word Detective : Discovering the History of the English Language
Grade Lvl: T Author: Carreker, Suzanne
Length: 80 Copyright: 2010

Word Detective presents five- to ten-minute lessons that teach students to identify the origins of English words derived from Anglo-Saxon-Old English, Latin, and Greek. An understanding of word origins gives strong clues to the spelling and pronunciation of words and generates interest in solving the mysteries of the English language. Contents: The Three Periods of English, Introduction of Anglo-Saxon/Old English Words, Introduction of Latin Words, Introduction of Greek Words, Words from Other Languages, Words from Names of People or Places, Sharing Common Roots, Worksheets and Answer Keys.
Word Detective : Discovering the History of the English Language T  
B 99729B 99729 Word Matters: Teaching Phonics and Spelling In the Reading/Writing Classroom
Grade Lvl: T Author: Pinnell, Gay Su
Length: 401 Copyright: 1998

Companion volume to Guided Reading by Fountas and Pinnell. Section 1 focuses on how children learn about letters and words and presents contexts for learning. Section 2 explores oral language. Section 3 discusses word study. Section 4 explores word learning and word solving within writing and reading. Section 5 explores developmental shifts over time and suggests that teachers work together to develop a word-solving program that spans grade levels.
Word Matters: Teaching Phonics and Spelling In the Reading/Writing Classroo T  
B 90420B 90420 Word Sorts and More: Sound, Pattern, and Meaning Explorations K-3
Grade Lvl: T Author: Ganske, Kathy
Length: 404 Copyright: 2006

Offers descriptions and materials for over 200 word sort activities at a variety of developmental levels, and includes lists of suggested children's books to connect the activities to authentic text. Teachers can integrate these reseach-based tasks into an existing curriculum to help their students develop a better understanding of how words work. Reproducible pages.
Word Sorts and More: Sound, Pattern, and Meaning Explorations K-3 T  
DVD 2730DVD 2730 Word Study
Grade Lvl: T Author: Pinnell, Gay Su
Length: 90 Copyright: 2005

Presents the essentials of learning about letters, sounds, and words. In Part 1, Phonics and Spelling Lessons, teachers help children develop phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, and letter-sound relationships. Part 2, Buddy Study System, shows how to meet the spelling needs of childen and teach them to connect spelling to their writing. From the Primarily Literacy DVD Collection. Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas. To access the DVD Guide, go to Keystone's webpage (www.aea1.k12.ia.us), click on the Media Library link, & then click on the Teacher Guides link and follow the directions provided.
Word Study T  
KM 7594KM 7594 Word Study Lessons Grade 3
Grade Lvl: T Author: FOUNTAS, IRENE
Length: 0 Copyright: 2004

Complete book title: Word Study Lessons: Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary. Extends Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell's Word Study Continuum (Phonics Lessons) to third grade teachers. Collection of 100 minilessons which are divided into six (of the nine categories) of learning: letter/sound relationships, spelling patterns, high frequency words, word meanings/vocabulary, word structure, and word-solving actions. Also contains Teaching Resources which includes assessment guide, materials and routines (consonant cluster linking chart, cursive letter formation, homophone sentence strips, etc), games, templates, category word cards, lessons word cards and lists, and bibliographies (Read Aloud, Alphabet, Alliteration, Language and Word Play, Onomatopoeia, Phonemic Manipulation, Poetry, Rhymes, Songs, Word Meaning/Vocabulary). Fountas and Pinnell, authors. Two-week loan period.
Word Study Lessons Grade 3 T  
B 95890B 95890 Words Their Way with English Learners: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling (2nd Edition)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Helman, Lori.
Length: 364 Copyright: 2012

Provides guidance and activities for using word study to teach phonics, vocabulary, and spelling to the young English learners in one's classroom, covering each stage from emergent to derivational relations as well as classroom organization and assessment and including examples of students' work. Appendix consists of eight sections: Assessment Materials (Primary Spelling, Elementary Spelling, & Picture Spelling Inventories); Sound Boards & Alphabets; Pictures for Sorts & Games; Sample Picture & Word Sorts; Word Lists of Pictures in Book with Translations (English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Vietnamese); Templates for Sorts & Games; Game Boards; Media Guide. Has reproducible pages.
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B 96380B 96380 Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Syllables and Affixes Spellers (2nd Edition)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Johnston, Francine / Invernizzi, Marcia
Length: 137 Copyright: 2009

Contains reproducible pages of word sorts and instructional strategies aimed at helping students excel in the syllables and affixes stages of spelling; and includes teacher's notes and assessments. Orthography & spelling. Suffixes & prefixes. Syllabication. Grades 3-8.
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B 96381B 96381 Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Derivational Relations Spellers, 2nd Edition
Grade Lvl: T Author: Templeton, Shane / Johnston, Francine
Length: 164 Copyright: 2009

Contains reproducible pages of word sorts and instructional strategies aimed at helping students excel in the derivational relations stage of spelling; and includes teacher's notes and assessments. English language Spelling Problems, exercises, etc. Orthography. Etymology. Grades 5-12.
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B 96437B 96437 Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, 6th Edition
Grade Lvl: T Author: Bear, Donald R. / Invernizzi, Marcia
Length: 438 Copyright: 2015

Hands-on, developmentally-driven approach to word study that illustrates how to integrate and teach children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills. Common Core State Standards are listed for each activity.
Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instructi T  
KM 11342KM 11342 Words Their Way: Word Study in Action A
Grade Lvl: T Author: Bear, Donald
Length: 0 Copyright: 2005

This is a curriculum preview kit only - does not include the Teacher Resource CD and "Words Their Way" Library, those can be purchased from - www.pearsonschool.com.It contains ready-to-use support material for Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. Contents: teacher resource guide (lesson plans, explanation of how to use the program, and tips for progress monitoring and classroom management); word study notebook (student workbook with a lesson for each sort); and big book of rhymes (poem for each lesson). A is Grade 1. Two-week loan period.
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KM 11343KM 11343 Words Their Way: Word Study in Action B
Grade Lvl: T Author: Bear, Donald
Length: 0 Copyright: 2005

This is a curriculum preview kit only - does not include the Teacher Resource CD and "Words Their Way" Library, those can be purchased from - www.pearsonschool.com. It contains ready-to-use support material for Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. Contents: teacher resource guide (lesson plans, explanation of how to use the program, and tips for progress monitoring and classroom management); word study notebook (student workbook with a lesson for each sort); and big book of rhymes (poem for each lesson). B is Grade 2. Two-week loan period.
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KM 11344KM 11344 Words Their Way: Word Study in Action C
Grade Lvl: T Author: Bear, Donald
Length: 0 Copyright: 2005

This is a curriculum preview kit only - does not include the Teacher Resource CD and "Words Their Way" Library, those can be purchased from - www.pearsonschool.com.It contains ready-to-use support material for Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. Contents: teacher resource guide (lesson plans, explanation of how to use the program, and tips for progress monitoring and classroom management) and word study notebook (student workbook with a lesson for each sort). C is Grade 3. Two-week loan period.
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KM 11345KM 11345 Words Their Way: Word Study in Action D
Grade Lvl: T Author: Bear, Donald
Length: 0 Copyright: 2006

This is a curriculum preview kit only - does not include the Teacher Resource CD and "Words Their Way" Library, those can be purchased from - www.pearsonschool.com.It contains ready-to-use support material for Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. Contents: teacher resource guide (lesson plans, explanation of how to use the program, and tips for progress monitoring and classroom management) and word study notebook (student workbook with a lesson for each sort). D is Grade 4. Two-week loan period.
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KM 11346KM 11346 Words Their Way: Word Study in Action E
Grade Lvl: T Author: Bear, Donald
Length: 0 Copyright: 2006

This is a curriculum preview kit only - does not include the Teacher Resource CD and "Words Their Way" Library, those can be purchased from - www.pearsonschool.com.It contains ready-to-use support material for Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. Contents: teacher resource guide (lesson plans, explanation of how to use the program, and tips for progress monitoring and classroom management) and word study notebook (student workbook with a lesson for each sort). E is Grade 5. Two-week loan period.
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KM 11341KM 11341 Words Their Way: Word Study in Action K
Grade Lvl: T Author: Bear, Donald
Length: 0 Copyright: 2005

This is a curriculum preview kit only - does not include the Teacher Resource CD and "Words Their Way" Library, those can be purchased from - www.pearsonschool.com. It contains ready-to-use support material for Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. Contents: teacher resource guide (lesson plans, explanation of how to use the program, and tips for progress monitoring and classroom management); word study notebook (student workbook with a lesson for each sort); and big book of rhymes (poem for each lesson). Two-week loan period.
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