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Reading Instruction / Reading Comprehension Teaching Supplies (17 products)

     

reading skills activitiesReading First Activities, Level K

Grade Level: Kindergarten
Price: $17.99 $16.20
Product #: 1003020
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Teacher-directed lessons and independent student activities focus on the five key elements of reading as identified by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

This book has been designed to assist the classroom teacher with activities and teaching strategies appropriate for teaching the elements of reading identified by the National Reading Panel. The book is divided into five sections appropriately named after each of the elements of reading instruction.

Within each section, you will find a definition of the element of reading, as well as a variety of ways to implement this key for effective reading instruction in your classroom. Some of the activities are teacher-directed activities, while others are games which students can use for practice, A variety of student activity sheets are provided as well. When appropriate, these activity sheets can be copied and distributed for the student to complete.

The activities included in this book are not meant to be a complete reading program. They are to be used in conjunction with your school's adopted reading program. These activities are meant to provide you with ideas for ways to make teaching the elements of reading more fun.

Pages: 176
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reading activities and skillsReading First Activities, Grade 1

Grade Level: First Grade
Price: $17.99 $16.20
Product #: 1003021
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Teacher-directed lessons and independent student activities focus on the five key elements of reading as identified by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

This book has been designed to assist the classroom teacher with activities and teaching strategies appropriate for teaching the elements of reading identified by the National Reading Panel. The book is divided into five sections appropriately named after each of the elements of reading instruction.

Within each section, you will find a definition of the element of reading, as well as a variety of ways to implement this key for effective reading instruction in your classroom. Some of the activities are teacher-directed activities, while others are games which students can use for practice, A variety of student activity sheets are provided as well. When appropriate, these activity sheets can be copied and distributed for the student to complete.

The activities included in this book are not meant to be a complete reading program. They are to be used in conjunction with your school's adopted reading program. These activities are meant to provide you with ideas for ways to make teaching the elements of reading more fun.

Pages: 176
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reading activities and skillsReading First Activities, Grade 2

Grade Level: Second Grade
Price: $17.99 $16.20
Product #: 1003022
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Teacher-directed lessons and independent student activities focus on the five key elements of reading as identified by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

This book has been designed to assist the classroom teacher with activities and teaching strategies appropriate for teaching the elements of reading identified by the National Reading Panel. The book is divided into five sections appropriately named after each of the elements of reading instruction.

Within each section, you will find a definition of the element of reading, as well as a variety of ways to implement this key for effective reading instruction in your classroom. Some of the activities are teacher-directed activities, while others are games which students can use for practice, A variety of student activity sheets are provided as well. When appropriate, these activity sheets can be copied and distributed for the student to complete.

The activities included in this book are not meant to be a complete reading program. They are to be used in conjunction with your school's adopted reading program. These activities are meant to provide you with ideas for ways to make teaching the elements of reading more fun.

Pages: 176
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reading skills and activitiesReading First Activities, Grade 3

Grade Level: Third Grade
Price: $17.99 $16.20
Product #: 1003023
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Teacher-directed lessons and independent student activities focus on the five key elements of reading as identified by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

This book has been designed to assist the classroom teacher with activities and teaching strategies appropriate for teaching the elements of reading identified by the National Reading Panel. The book is divided into five sections appropriately named after each of the elements of reading instruction.

Within each section, you will find a definition of the element of reading, as well as a variety of ways to implement this key for effective reading instruction in your classroom. Some of the activities are teacher-directed activities, while others are games which students can use for practice, A variety of student activity sheets are provided as well. When appropriate, these activity sheets can be copied and distributed for the student to complete.

The activities included in this book are not meant to be a complete reading program. They are to be used in conjunction with your school's adopted reading program. These activities are meant to provide you with ideas for ways to make teaching the elements of reading more fun.

Pages: 176
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Reading Instruction Teaching Materials Step Up to Reading: Primary

Grade Level: First, Second, Third Grade
Price: $18.99 $17.10
Product #: 3104261
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3 Levels of Learning!
Supports NCTE Standards

Perfect for:

  • Differentiated Instruction
  • Review & Reinforcement
  • Enrichment
  • Mixed-Ability Classrooms

Reach each student in your classroom with the differentiated instruction offered in this teaching resource. Reproducible activity sheets cover core reading skills at three ability levels—basic, intermediate, and challenging. They provide the practice and instruction needed for your mixed-ability classroom. Simply choose a level based on the readiness of each student.

Topics include word analysis, vocabulary, reference skills, story elements and comprehension.

Motivate students by offering multiple approaches to content, instruction, and assessment. Help each student demonstrate individual strengths and "step up" to the next level of learning with the support, motivation, and challenges available with tiered instruction!

Pages: 160
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Step Up to Language Arts
Step Up to Math
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Reading and Vocabulary Educational Supplies and MaterialsFor Every Learner: Reading and Vocabulary (Grade 2)

Grade Level: Second Grade
Price: $16.95
Product #: 2061186
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  • Exactly what you need to tailor instruction to students' varying abilities
  • 3 differentiated, reproducible activities for every skill (formats and level of difficulty vary)-just choose the right page for each learner!
  • Practice for different ability levels
  • Simple preparation for differentiated instruction
  • Fun formats and friendly characters
  • Covers 18 key skills, including comparing and contrasting, context clues, homonyms, main idea and details, and more.
  • Flexible and easy to manage
  • Reproducible activities include sorting, cut and glue, games, matching, and more.
  • Individual and partner activities.

Finally...a resource that gives you exactly what you need for differentiation! It takes a variety of activities to keep second graders engaged. No two learners are the same! Grade-specific reproducible activities address a variety of learning styles and abilities. The activities are flexible and easy to manage—just choose the right page for every learner.

80 pages.
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For Every Learner: Writing & Grammar Gr. 2
For Every Learner: Math Gr. 2
Word Skills Fun Gr. 2-3
Super Simple Independent Practice: Language Arts Gr. 2
Daily Journal Prompts Gr. 1-3
Our entire collection of Second Grade Reading teaching materials
Our entire collection of Second Grade Vocabulary teaching materials
Second Grade Home Page
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Reading and Vocabulary Education Resource BookFor Every Learner: Reading and Vocabulary (Grade 3)

Grade Level: Third Grade
Price: $16.95
Product #: 2061187
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  • Exactly what you need to tailor instruction to students' varying abilities
  • 3 differentiated, reproducible activities for every skill (formats and level of difficulty vary)-just choose the right page for each learner!
  • Practice for different ability levels
  • Simple preparation for differentiated instruction
  • Fun formats and friendly characters
  • Covers 18 key skills, including cause and effect, main idea and details, summarizing, possesive nouns, and more.
  • Flexible and easy to manage
  • Reproducible activities include sorting, cut and glue, games, matching, and more.
  • Individual and partner activities.

Finally...a resource that gives you exactly what you need for differentiation! It takes a variety of activities to keep third graders engaged. No two learners are the same! Grade-specific reproducible activities address a variety of learning styles and abilities. The activities are flexible and easy to manage—just choose the right page for every learner.

80 pages.
You may also like:
For Every Learner: Writing & Grammar Gr. 3
For Every Learner: Math Gr. 3
Word Skills Fun Gr. 2-3
Super Simple Independent Practice: Language Arts Gr. 3
Daily Journal Prompts Gr. 1-3
Our entire collection of Third Grade Reading teaching materials
Our entire collection of Third Grade Vocabulary teaching materials
Third Grade Home Page
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Educational Songs for Reading Comprehension Reading Comprehension Test Taking Strategies DVD

Grade Level: Second, Third, Fourth Grade
Price: $19.99
Product #: RL00200
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Nobody’s sharper than Marko the Pencil when it comes to helping students learn to read for meaning and prepare for tests. His tips are super effective and his outrageous antics keep students on task. With Marko’s guidance, students ace a practice test by learning how to read passages, find key words, and determine the best answers. Students stay calm and relaxed knowing they have the tools they need to succeed!

A team of teachers—who consistently get superior performance from their students on standardized tests—helped create this DVD. They carefully examined reading tests in several states to identify winning strategies for boosting scores and reducing anxiety.

Let’s face it: preparing for state-mandated tests is not a favorite activity of teachers and students. But there’s no reason it can’t be fun when you have an entertaining character—one who knows exactly how to connect with kids. That’s why we’re so pleased to have Vic Mignogna playing the voice of Marko the Pencil. Vic is well known for his award-winning acting in anime cartoons and video games. Vic won Best Actor, 2007 American Anime Awards.

As a special reward at the end of Reading Comprehension, Marko makes an appearance at the Golden Stylus Comedy room to show just how sharp he can be! His kid-friendly jokes will have everyone laughing. Kids love telling jokes to others, and Marko has some of the best school-related jokes on the planet.

Included with Reading Comprehension, you get Marko’s cool website where you can download a practice test and answer key, learn more tips for doing well on standardized tests, and check out other helpful tools for scoring high on a reading test.

Reading Comprehension includes:

• Reading Comprehension
• Identifying the Main Idea
• Using Context Clues
• Making Inferences
• Recalling Details and Sequencing
• Drawing Conclusions
• Following Directions
• Mastering Standardized Tests
• Bonus: Marko’s Jokes at the Golden Stylus Comedy Room

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Multiplication Rap DVD / Multiplication Rap CD and Book
Addition & Subtraction Rock DVD / Addition & Subtraction Rock CD & Book
Spanish Vols. l & ll DVD
Our entire collection of Test Prep 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 $15.30
Product #: 1002766
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This classic best-seller is a practical guide for bringing children or adults with no reading skills up to 5th grade reading ability.

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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Reading Instruction / Sight Words Education MaterialsReading Pals Sight Words

Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Price: $7.99 $7.20
Product #: 4001035
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A Hands-on Approach to Sight Words Practice

Students will enjoy practicing phonics skills with the whimsical Reading Pals characters included in this book. This teaching resource provides opportunities for repeated reading practice that leads to fluent and confident readers. Each book includes:

  • 12 full-color Reading Pals with punch-out text frames designed to isolate letters, sounds, and words
  • Multilevel activity pages
  • Reproducibles of Reading Pals and suggested activities


This book targets recognition of basic high frequency words that children need to recognize "on sight" at automatic levels. The multilevel text pages support phonics knowledge, sight word practice and reading fluency at the K and 1st grade levels.

The text moves gradually from single word phrases to phrases and sentences to increase children's ability to phrase or "chunk" text into meaningful units.

This book includes both one-window and two-window text frames in the shape of delightful animal characters, which are used to reinforce concepts about print and to stress left-to-right and top-to-bottom reading practice.

Each Reading Pal contains pop-out features, which form windows that allow children to confine their text view to one or two words or sentence chunks at a time. This Reading Pal approach is supported by research indicating that the human brain embraces knowledge presented in novel ways. The 12 clever Reading Pals included in this book will stimulate young readers' desire to practice their newly learned skills in a fun way!

Pages: 47
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Sight Words Bingo Game
Full-Color Literacy Activities: Rhyming & Sight Words
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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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Learning to Read! First Words Game
Read and Rhyme: Long Vowels Game
Read and Rhyme: Short Vowels Game
Our complete collection of 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.
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Learning to Read! Words With Blends Game
Read and Rhyme: Short Vowels Game
Read and Rhyme: Long Vowels Game
Our complete collection of Learning Games
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sight words bingo game
Sight Words Bingo Game

Grade Level: First, Second, Third Grade
Price: $9.99
Product #: 3008923

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Includes 100 popular basic sight words

36 game cards

Bingo chips, calling cards and answer mat included

Comprehensive game guide
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Our full line of educational bingo games
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Reading Comprehension Teaching MaterialsIncreasing Comprehension

Grade Level: Second - Third Grade
Price: $12.95 $11.65
Product #: 2060910
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Any text, any time-activities to improve comprehension

Easy-to-do, engaging activities that grab students' attention

Standards-based work to build their comprehension skills

Skills grid helps you find what you need in a flash

Practice every day with any text

Use these reading and response activities with any fiction or nonfiction text to improve reading comprehension.

Students need comprehension practice every day. And now finding simple activities to give them that practice just got easier. This teaching resource features easy-to-do reading comprehension and response activities you can use with any text your students read, including:

realistic fiction

nonfiction

historical fiction

legends

tall tales

fables

fairy tales

folktales

biographies

fantasy

A handy skills grid helps you find an activity to fit your needs in a flash. Whether students are reading a story from a basal reader, a chapter from a class novel, or a selection from a science or social studies textbook, you'll find an engaging reproducible or easy-to-do activity that will grab their attention, increase their comprehension, and help them meet your state's standards.

To help you meet the diverse needs of your students, a wide variety of activities and reproducibles have been included.

80 pages
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Real-World Comprehension Practice
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Practice Galore: Language Arts
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Language Arts Independent Practice: Grade 3
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reading comprehension teaching suppliesReal-World Comprehension Practice

Grade Level: Second - Third Grade
Price: $14.95 $13.45
Product #: 2060916
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Build comprehension skills needed in everyday life.
Connect reading to your students' lives.
Increase confidence about reading nonfiction texts.

Nonfiction text is all around us and it can challenge even the best readers. Give your students the confidence they need to successfully read real-world text with this teaching resource book.

Inside this easy-to-use reading resource you'll find 24 reproducible examples of real-world texts, such as game rules, a drive-through menuboard, an advertisement for a cool new product, and an internet search screen.

Each real-world reproducible is followed by two comprehension practice pages: one using a standardized test format and the other featuring a creative, fun format. Use these activities for independent practice, centers, homework, or small-group lessons. Whether you're looking for year-round practice or targeted reinforcement in the weeks before testing, this teaching resource is the right tool for building nonfiction reading success.

Skill-building activities include:

Making Inferences
Drawing Conclusions
Determining Cause and Effect
Comparing and Contrasting
Identifying Main Idea
Finding Supporting Details
Determining Purpose
Using Text Features

Pages: 80
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Increasing Comprehension
The Best of The Mailbox: Language Arts
Practice Galore: Language Arts
Language Arts Independent Practice: Grade 2
Language Arts Independent Practice: Grade 3
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reading comprehension teaching resourceReading Comprehension: Grade 2

Grade Level: Second Grade
Price: $4.99
Product #: 1003332
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Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this book helps students master skills in reading. This book provides activities that are great for independent work in class, homework assignments, or extra practice to get ahead. Test practice pages for standardized tests are included!

This resource gives practice in reading and answering questions to help fully comprehend what is read. The exercises in this book can be done sequentially or can be taken out of order, as needed.

After reading the story the questions can be answered either by circling the answers or by reproducing and using the fill-in answer sheets found in the book. The practice tests, one for each of the areas of reading, can be bubbled in on the answer pages that are provided for each test.

The following standards or objectives will be met or reinforced by completing the practice pages included in this book. These standards and objectives are similar to the ones required by your state and school district. These standards and objectives are appropriate for the second grade.

The student will demonstrate competence in reading for understanding.
The student will demonstrate competence in understanding how print is organized.
The student will demonstrate competence in using various reading strategies to read the stories and answer the questions.
The student will demonstrate competence in finding the main idea in a story, making inferences and making predictions.
The student will demonstrate competence in beginning to recognize different types of reading (fiction, nonfiction, informational).

Pages: 48
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Parts of Speech: Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives
Punctuate and Capitalize
Sequencing
Cursive Writing
Modern Cursive
Time
Money
Addition & Subtraction
Math Review
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reading comprehension teaching materialReading Comprehension: Grade 3

Grade Level: Third Grade
Price: $4.99
Product #: 1003333
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Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this book helps students master skills in reading. This book provides activities that are great for independent work in class, homework assignments, or extra practice to get ahead. Test practice pages for standardized tests are included!

This resource gives practice in reading and answering questions to help fully comprehend what is read. The exercises in this book can be done sequentially or can be taken out of order, as needed.

After reading the story the questions can be answered either by circling the answers or by reproducing and using the fill-in answer sheets found in the book. The practice tests, one for each of the areas of reading, can be bubbled in on the answer pages that are provided for each test.

The following standards or objectives will be met or reinforced by completing the practice pages included in this book. These standards and objectives are similar to the ones required by your state and school district. These standards and objectives are appropriate for the third grade.

The student will demonstrate competence in what is read.
The student will demonstrate competence in understanding how print is organized.
The student will demonstrate competence in using various reading strategies to read the stories and answer the questions.
The student will demonstrate competence in finding the main idea in a story, making inferences and making predictions.
The student will demonstrate competence in beginning to recognize different types of reading (fiction, nonfiction, informational).





 



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