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Kindergarten Literacy / Reading Skills

Graphic Organizers Teacher / Teaching Book and Education MaterialsGraphic Organizers

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $14.95
Product #: 2061124
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  • Over 90 easy-to-adapt reproducible organizers
  • Build core skills covered in state standards
  • Help students organize and comprehend information
  • Easily adapt the multiuse organizers to fit your lesson plans

Seeing how ideas in a reading selection are organized is a challenging task for young children. So is organizing their own ideas for a writing assignment. You can help your students build these critical skills and more with the easy-to-use tools in this teaching resource book.

Inside this big collection of reproducible graphic organizers-designed especially for kindergartners and first-grade students-you'll find over 90 fun and engaging organizers.

The book starts with "beginner organizers", a unique grouping of cut-and-paste pages that give beginners practice visually organizing information. This section is followed by other types of organizers including:

  • cause-and-effect charts
  • KWL charts
  • topic webs
  • prediction charts
  • sensory detail webs
  • sequence maps
  • story maps
  • retelling maps
  • T charts
  • Venn diagrams

Each section features easy-to-scan directions and suggestions for use, plus a few holiday and seasonal organizers to tie in to special times of the year. A handy "Time-of-the-Year Table" helps you quickly locate just the organizer you need.

No matter what you're teaching tomorrow, there's a graphic organizer inside that can make your lesson even more effective. So put this teacher resource book to work for you and your students today!

Almost Ready to Read Literacy Teaching BookAlmost Ready to Read

Grade Level: Preschool-Kindergarten
Price: $16.95
Product #: 2061177
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Help students hear sounds in language, recognize letters, and develop early reading skills. Patterns, cards, practice pages, and informal assessment tools make this a valuable resource in any early childhood classroom.

The early childhood classroom is all about teaching literacy! To fill your students' day with early literacy skill practice, try the more than 80 activities in this teaching resource book.

These simple and fun ideas cover rhymes, sounds, syllables, concepts of print, environmental print, book awareness, letter recognition, letter identification, letter formation, and more-key skills that prepare your little ones to become readers.

Add these activities to your lessons all day long to help students learn to hear the sounds in language, learn to recognize letters, and understand how books work.

Before you know it, your students will have the skills they need and truly will be almost ready to read!

96 pages.
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Our entire collection of Reading teaching materials

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How to Teach Reading Teaching MaterialsDr. Fry's How to Teach Reading for Teachers, Parents and Tutors (5th edition)

Grade Level: Preschool - Adult
Price: $16.99
Product #: 1002766
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This easy to use 6 step teaching strategy really works with young children, older children who are remedial, and even illiterate adults. The student can have no reading ability at all or some mix of elementary school abilities.

The book has been used by thousands of parents, adult literacy tutors, volunteers in programs for the disadvantaged, teachers' aides, and even classroom teachers who want a rapid overview of some proven methods of teaching reading. It has also been used by college students in laboratory and clinic-type teacher training courses.

This up-to-date version includes more emphasis on writing, fluency, and phonemic awareness. This new edition also has longer lists of phonic words, high-frequency words, and lists of reading materials. But basically, the 6 steps given in this manual have stood the test of time and have helped many thousands of students read better.

6 steps:

  • Find present reading ability
  • Select the right reading material
  • Stress comprehension and variety
  • Teach vocabulary
  • Teach phonics
  • Develop writing

This books also includes:

  • Sample Lessons
  • Phonics Charts
  • Reading Tests
  • Teaching Games
  • Instant Word Lists
  • Book Section Ideas

Pages: 144
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teaching materials - rhyming , sight wordsFull-Color Literacy Activities: Rhyming & Sight Words

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $23.99
Product #: 1003236
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Wow! Full-color, ready-to-use art PLUS activities that are based on the latest research on literacy. Just cut out the pieces needed to create great-looking learning centers or fun-filled games. Follow the step-by-step directions, and watch the learning take place!

This resource includes many quick, easy, colorful and fun literacy activities and games for you to use with your students. Whether you are a first-year teacher or a seasoned veteran, you will be overjoyed at the wealth of materials included in this book to supplement your literacy program.

This book provides a variety of unique hands-on activities and games that encourage language exploration. Students will participate in activities that focus on rhyming and sight words. As a result, students develop literacy skills in ways that meet individual learning needs.

Each lesson defines the literacy skill and the different ways of student grouping. The lesson states clear and simple directions to allow you to quickly assemble the learning activities for your students, and/or take-home activities. Most of the materials needed for the activities are included in the book.

This book offers new and creative ideas and a fresh twist on commonly-used activities to help teachers save time and assist children in being successful literacy students.

176 full-color pages.
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Full Color Literacy Activities: Science
Full Color Literacy Activities: Social Studies
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teaching supplies - reading, artBuilding Literacy Skills Through Art

Grade Level: Preschool - First Grade
Price: $15.99
Product #: 1003377
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An exciting approach for developing literacy skills in young learners! Develop letter recognition, vocabulary, rhyming skills, story event recollection, math skills, and fine and gross motor coordination creating and using easy art projects.

The use of arts and crafts helps children build literacy skills in a fun, hands-on, relaxed environment.

Each activity includes:

  • An objective - Each project addresses a specific literacy objective.
  • Links to literacy - This section gives suggestions on how to achieve the objective stated and how to build literacy skills through the art project.
  • Materials - This section clearly outlines what is needed to complete each art activity.
  • Art project instructions - This section offers you step-by-step directions to easily complete the craft to be used in the Links to Literacy section. These steps are illustrated, when necessary, to clarify what needs to be done.

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Literacy Through Dramatic Play Centers
Our complete line of Kindergarten Arts and Crafts teacher resource books
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learning to read! words with blends game
Learning to Read! Words with Blends Game

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First, Second, Third Grade
Price: $9.99
Product #: 3003117

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Two games to play!

Encourage beginning readers to make the connection between sounds and letter combinations by assembling colorful puzzles. Only the right pieces will fit together as players build 14 words by matching the pictures and word sounds.

For word recognition practice, flip over the pieces, assemble the words, and then match them with pictures.

The set includes 14 puzzles, 42 durable puzzle pieces and an activity guide.

Beginning blends: bl, cl, cr, dr, fr, gl,sc, sk, sl, sn, sp,st, sw,tr.

Educational value: Strengthen visual discrimination and word recognition skills.
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Our complete collection of Kindergarten Learning Games
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First Words Beginning Reading Learning Game

Learning to Read! First Words Game (CD3116)

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First, Second, Third Grade
Price: $9.99
Product #: 3003116

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Two Games to Play!

Entice beginning readers to make connections between sounds and letters. Challenge growing skills by flipping over the pieces to build the words without pictures. Included are (14) 3-piece puzzles and activity directions.

What fun it is to build words! Join the puzzle pieces together to make the charming pictures. To do this, you must look for clues. The picture starts on the left piece. When you find the middle and right pieces to finish the picture, you are ready to read the word.

For even more fun, flip over the pieces and build the words without pictures! Only the right pieces will fit together to make 14 simple words.

Educational value: Strengthen visual discrimination and word recognition skills.

42 puzzle pieces.
You may also like:
Learning to Read! Words With Blends Game
Read and Rhyme: Short Vowels Game
Read and Rhyme: Long Vowels Game
Our complete collection of Kindergarten Learning Games
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My son needed some additional work with his fine motor skills to prepare him for Kindergarten next year. We work out of the books I ordered. He does his "homework" when my older son is completing his after school. He loves it! It makes him feel like a big boy. I was amazed that my order arrived two days after I placed it, especially because it was the Holiday season. - Dawn M.

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