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Preschool Beginning Reading / Literacy Skills (8 products)

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

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
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Skill Builders For Young Learners: Math
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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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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!

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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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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Computer Keyboarding by Dr. Fry
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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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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.
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Learning to Read! Words With Blends Game
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Read and Rhyme: Long Vowels Game
Our complete collection of Preschool Learning Games
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