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Literacy Skills and Literacy Learning Centers Teacher Resources, Teaching and Classroom Supplies, Books and Educational Materials (15 products)

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Reading Instruction / Comprehension
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Literacy Skills & Literacy Learning Centers (15 products)

beginning reading skills activities and worksheetsSkill Builders for Young Learners: Beginning Reading

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade
Price: $12.99
Product #: 1003688
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This teaching resource is designed to facilitate the teaching of basic pre-reading skills through the use of activity-based worksheets. The pre-reading skills addressed include fine motor skill development, matching, patterning, left-to-right directionality, sequencing, letter recognition and formation, consonant and vowel sound usage, visual discrimination, and phonemic awareness.

Activity pages can be completed easily using crayons, pencils, scissors, and glue. Each activity is designed to give students practice with a specific reading-readiness skill while simultaneously enhancing fine motor skill development through coloring, tracing, cutting, and pasting.

Award certificates are included to recognize achievement. Praise and recognition of skill mastery encourage students to be self-motivated and gain confidence necessary to attempt new skills.

Activities in this book have been placed in a sequence that scaffolds the learning process but may be used in whatever manner best matches your curricular scope and sequence.

Pages: 96
You may also like:
Skill Builders For Young Learners: Math
Our entire collection of Reading teaching materials

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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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Almost Ready to Write
Day-by-Day Preschool Plans
Day-by-Day Kindergarten Plans
Our entire collection of Reading teaching materials

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Storytime A to ZStorytime From A to Z

Grade Level: Preschool - Kindergarten
Price: $14.95
Product #: 2060878
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Young children are naturally curious and absorb information quickly. With Storytime From A to Z, learning the alphabet can be fun and easy!

Each unit in this resource is based on a favorite children's book and a letter of the alphabet. Inside the units you'll find creative activities that build phonemic awareness, letter recognition, letter-sound relationships, listening and reading comprehension, writing skills, and other important early literacy skills.

You'll also find crafts, songs, reproducible activities, patterns, classroom displays, and much more.

From alligator to zoo, this resource will lead students to love books and to love learning.

Includes:

  • 26 units, each based on a different popular children's book and letter of the alphabet
  • book summaries
  • activities to use before, during, and after reading
  • letter-based activities
  • theme-based activities
  • craft and music activities
  • patterns and reproducibles
  • send-home book notes to involve parents in their children's learning

112 pages
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Literacy for Little Learners: Stories and Language Skills
Literacy for Little Learners: Letters and Sounds
Alphabet Puppets from A to Z
Now I Know My ABCs and a Whole Lot More
Our entire collection of Reading teaching materials
Our entire collection of Alphabet/Phonics teaching materials

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Literacy Skills Teacher ResourceLiteracy for Little Learners: Stories and Language Skills

Grade Level: Preschool / Kindergarten
Price: $12.95
Product #: 2060888
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Develop essential early literacy skills using traditional tales you have on hand, such as Goldilocks and The Three Bears, and Henny Penny. This teaching resource pairs familiar stories that children love with fun, easy-to-do literacy activities designed specifically for little learners.

Written by Jean Warren, nationally respected early childhood author and educator, this adorable and valuable resource helps you begin building your students' basic phonemic awareness, rhyming skills, and letter-sound associations. Ready-to-use patterns complement the activities of each story while keeping preparation time to a minimum.

Here's a sampling of what you'll find:

  • The Little Red Hen introduces action words, new vocabulary, and the letter H with whole-group activities, clever booklets, and student-created classroom displays.
  • The Three Little Pigs teaches rhyming, phonemic awareness, and the letter P with riddles, ready-to-use reproducible picture cards, and art activities.
  • The Elves and the Shoemaker introduces sequencing, writing, and the letter E with take-home booklets, cute thank-you notes, and an assortment of shoemaker learning centers.

You'll find dozens more fun, literacy-based activities to pair with other favorite stories. Grab a story and start building literacy success!

first grade, second grade, third grade language arts teaching resourceBest of The Mailbox - Language Arts

Grade Level: First Grade - Third Grade
Price: $17.95
Product #: 2001459
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Make language arts fun with hundreds of creative ideas, now in one extensive volume for grades 1-3. This compilation of teaching units will energize your language arts lessons and strengthen students' skills. From vocabulary enrichment to reading motivation, to letter writing and poetry, and more, these quality and teacher-tested ideas will get results.

Includes the following:

  • Using the Dictionary and the Newspaper
  • Vowels
  • Main Idea
  • Vocabulary Enrichment
  • Antonyms & Synonyms
  • Response to Literature
  • Reading Motivation
  • Parts of Speech
  • Writing Mechanics
  • Journal Ideas
  • Spelling
  • Writing Letters, Poetry, and Reports
  • Handwriting
  • Dictionary Skills

Pages: 160
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Practice Galore Language Arts
Language Arts Independent Practice Gr. 1, Gr. 2, and Gr. 3
Daily Journal Prompts (Gr. K-1 and Gr. 1-3)
Prompt, Plan, and Write Gr. 1, Gr. 2, and Gr. 3
Our complete collection of Language Arts teacher resource books
Our complete collection of The Best of The Mailbox series of books

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reading and writing skills activitiesFull-Color Literacy Activities: Reading and Writing

Grade Level: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Grade
Price: $21.99
Product #: 1003237
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This book has ready-to-use pieces needed to implement great reading and writing activities! From story starters to reading a menu, students are sure to learn while having a lot of fun. Includes easy, step-by-step directions.

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 reading and writing. 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, substitute teachers, and/or take-home activities. Most of the materials needed for the activities are included in the book. Since many of the activities are generic, they can be adapted to meet a variety of individual needs.

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.

Pages: 176
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Full Color Language Arts Literacy Activities
Full Color Literacy Activities: Rhyming and Sight Words
Full Color Literacy Activities: Sounds and Letters
Full Color Literacy Activities: Math
Full Color Literacy Activities: Science
Full Color Literacy Activities: Social Studies

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Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $21.99
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.
You may also like:
Full Color Language Arts Literacy Activities
Full Color Literacy Activities: Reading and Writing
Full Color Literacy Activities: Sounds and Letters
Full Color Literacy Activities: Math
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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I am a stay at home mom who values education very much, and these resources have been able to help me start my child's education early in order to give her a head start before she even enters into school. - Heather L.

The resources I received will help me tremendously with reading skills. I was amazed at how quickly I received my order. - Annette H.

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.

I purchased the full color Kindergarten file folder games, and my students love them. We use them daily during our literacy groups. Your service was great! - Cindy M.

They provide a variety of ways to reach different students and allow me to vary my activities year-to-year. - Staci M.

I have used all the materials with my Kdg. class and found them to be so appropriate. The children enjoy them. - Jennifer C.
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