Comprehension
Discounts on eBooks
05/20/08 19:40
Just-Right Comprehension
Mini-Lessons (Grade 1)
from Scholastic
SCH0439870259 (Primary)
This resource includes more than 50 research-based comprehension mini-lessons that will engage children and help teachers meet the standards. Each mini-lesson is linked to a National Reading Panel strategy, such as monitoring comprehension, generating and answering questions, creating and using images, summarizing, and more. Includes lessons for fiction and nonfiction, plus ready-to-use graphic organizers and checklists.
Grades: 1
Ocean Adventures! Early Childhood Thematic Books
from Scholastic
SCH0439500087 (Early Childhood, Primary)
Reinforce essential emergent reading, writing and math skills with these clever early childhood thematic books. Skill-based activities and patterns coded to the Early Childhood Interest Centers! Each book contains fun, reproducible, thematic activities, easy-to-make patterns and crafts, suggestions for children's literature, thematic poems, songs and fingerplays, simple recipes and much more! Developmentally appropriate for preschoolers and kindergarteners.
Grades: PK - 1
Science Question of the Day
from Scholastic
SCH0439754631 (Intermediate, Middle School)
A few minutes a day is all it takes to get students ready for the science tests! Use this collection of short, thought-provoking questions to introduce or review key topics, such as animal adaptation, ecosystems, weather, the solar system, matter, and energy. Students also get practice in critical thinking, reading charts and graphs, using models, and more. Great for starting the day or engaging fast finishers.
Grades: 3 - 6
Teaching With State Quarters
from Scholastic
SCH0439513723 (Primary, Intermediate)
Tap into children's natural interest in coin collecting with cross-curricular projects and games such as State Symbols, Coin a Phrase, and State 1/4s - designed especially for the popular state quarters program. You'll also find reproducible templates for kids to design their own state quarters, fun facts for each state, a schedule of quarters' release dates, and more.
Grades: 2 - 5
from Scholastic
SCH0439870259 (Primary)
This resource includes more than 50 research-based comprehension mini-lessons that will engage children and help teachers meet the standards. Each mini-lesson is linked to a National Reading Panel strategy, such as monitoring comprehension, generating and answering questions, creating and using images, summarizing, and more. Includes lessons for fiction and nonfiction, plus ready-to-use graphic organizers and checklists.
Grades: 1
Ocean Adventures! Early Childhood Thematic Books
from Scholastic
SCH0439500087 (Early Childhood, Primary)
Reinforce essential emergent reading, writing and math skills with these clever early childhood thematic books. Skill-based activities and patterns coded to the Early Childhood Interest Centers! Each book contains fun, reproducible, thematic activities, easy-to-make patterns and crafts, suggestions for children's literature, thematic poems, songs and fingerplays, simple recipes and much more! Developmentally appropriate for preschoolers and kindergarteners.
Grades: PK - 1
Science Question of the Day
from Scholastic
SCH0439754631 (Intermediate, Middle School)
A few minutes a day is all it takes to get students ready for the science tests! Use this collection of short, thought-provoking questions to introduce or review key topics, such as animal adaptation, ecosystems, weather, the solar system, matter, and energy. Students also get practice in critical thinking, reading charts and graphs, using models, and more. Great for starting the day or engaging fast finishers.
Grades: 3 - 6
Teaching With State Quarters
from Scholastic
SCH0439513723 (Primary, Intermediate)
Tap into children's natural interest in coin collecting with cross-curricular projects and games such as State Symbols, Coin a Phrase, and State 1/4s - designed especially for the popular state quarters program. You'll also find reproducible templates for kids to design their own state quarters, fun facts for each state, a schedule of quarters' release dates, and more.
Grades: 2 - 5
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Reading Resources
04/09/08 22:27
Moving On With
Reading
from Curriculum Concepts
CURUS0148 (Primary)
This resource provides a sequence of lessons that a teacher can use to assist students learn and retain 100 basic sight words that many find difficult to remember. This resource follows on from Getting Started In Reading where the first 20 most basic sight words are covered. Excellent for all young learners but particularly useful for: a) students who have made limited progress in the first year at school; b) students who are non-english speaking; and c) students with a short attention span. The 100 basic sight words are divided into 10 graded groups and exercises practice and repractice the words in each group. The exercises cover a range of modes and include active learning methods (games etc) to give students frequent exposure to the words so that they begin to recognize these very important words instantly.
Grades: K - 1
Developing Reading Confidence - Book 1
from Curriculum Concepts
CURUS0362 (Primary)
An important part of the role of developing and reinforcing early reading skills is to ensure that students clock up lots of reading mileage - do a lot of reading to practice the skills over and over again just like a sports person. Rhyme is a great way to achieve this with young readers. Developing Reading Confidence - Book 1 is the first in a series of 2 books each with 30 delightful rhymes covering a mix of poem types, topics and interest areas. The rhymes can be used to develop a broader language base and can be used with a theme study or specifically as a supplement to a reading program to give reading practice. For each poem there are clear teacher instruction notes, which give ideas on how the poem can be introduced and extending the skills and language of the children as they read and enjoy.
Grades: K - 1
More reading, comprehension, and early learning resources
from Curriculum Concepts
CURUS0148 (Primary)
This resource provides a sequence of lessons that a teacher can use to assist students learn and retain 100 basic sight words that many find difficult to remember. This resource follows on from Getting Started In Reading where the first 20 most basic sight words are covered. Excellent for all young learners but particularly useful for: a) students who have made limited progress in the first year at school; b) students who are non-english speaking; and c) students with a short attention span. The 100 basic sight words are divided into 10 graded groups and exercises practice and repractice the words in each group. The exercises cover a range of modes and include active learning methods (games etc) to give students frequent exposure to the words so that they begin to recognize these very important words instantly.
Grades: K - 1
Developing Reading Confidence - Book 1
from Curriculum Concepts
CURUS0362 (Primary)
An important part of the role of developing and reinforcing early reading skills is to ensure that students clock up lots of reading mileage - do a lot of reading to practice the skills over and over again just like a sports person. Rhyme is a great way to achieve this with young readers. Developing Reading Confidence - Book 1 is the first in a series of 2 books each with 30 delightful rhymes covering a mix of poem types, topics and interest areas. The rhymes can be used to develop a broader language base and can be used with a theme study or specifically as a supplement to a reading program to give reading practice. For each poem there are clear teacher instruction notes, which give ideas on how the poem can be introduced and extending the skills and language of the children as they read and enjoy.
Grades: K - 1
More reading, comprehension, and early learning resources