Activities

Making inferences is a key comprehension skill that requires students to read between the lines and extract the meaning of a text, even when that meaning is not explicitly stated. Hone students’ inferencing skill with this collection of ready-to-use task...

Figurative language can leave students so bewildered, you could knock them over with a feather. This collection of ready-to-use task cards can help! Each card features a highly engaging mini-passage with key questions related to idioms, similes,...

Bring language arts learning to life for 2nd grade students with Carson Dellosa's 2nd Grade Reading Bundle, packed full of engaging manipulatives and reading and phonics activities. The 29-piece kit includes Spectrum Grade 2 Reading and Phonics...

Improve sight word recognition and early literacy with tactile bean bags and hands-on activities. Set includes 25 double-sided bean bags (50 sight words from a research-based list), drawstring bag, and parent activity guide.

Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Happiness is the first professional title dedicated to addressing a school's reading culture with a focus on the needs of immigrant and refugee students and families—including learning their target language, English. Dr...

Spark Sequence Cards are picture cards that when placed in the correct order, they tell a short story. There is no reading required and children are prompted to examine picture details to figure out the correct order of the cards. Once the cards are in...

Engaging, Ready-to-Use Learning Centers for Review of Standards-Based ELA/Reading Skills! This complete, easy-to-use learning center is perfect for learning essential grade appropriate ELA/Reading skills. Designed for either teacher directed instruction...

Engaging, Ready-to-Use Learning Centers for Review of Standards-Based ELA/Reading Skills! This complete, easy-to-use learning center is perfect for learning essential grade appropriate ELA/Reading skills. Designed for either teacher directed instruction...

Espinosa and Ascenzi-Moreno demonstrate how our emergent bilingual students who speak two or more languages in their daily lives— thrive when they are able to use "translanguaging" to tap the power of their entire linguistic and sociocultural repertoires...

To support the Beanstalk Book range of decodable readers, we offer comprehensive Teacher Books. Teacher Book for HiLo Diversity includes: overview of Letters & Sounds program; phonics scope and sequence, individual teacher lesson plans for each decodable...

To support the Beanstalk Book range of decodable readers, we offer comprehensive Teacher Books. Teacher Book for Set 2 Non-Fiction includes: overview of Letters & Sounds program; phonics scope and sequence, individual teacher lesson plans for each...

Guided reading experts Jan Richardson and Michele Dufresne provide teachers with clear, concise, and practical instructions and resources for planning and teaching developmentally appropriate word study and phonics lessons. Learn how students solve...

To support the Beanstalk Book range of decodable readers, we offer comprehensive Teacher Books. Teacher Book for Set 1 Non- Fiction includes: overview of Letters & Sounds program; phonics scope and sequence, individual teacher lesson plans for each...

Running records point the way to responsive instruction, particularly when informed teachers are able to mine them for patterns that reveal the problem-solving strategies children are using as they process text. Running records are windows on each...

To support the Beanstalk Book range of decodable readers, we offer comprehensive Teacher Books. Teacher Book for Set 2 Fiction includes: overview of Letters & Sounds program; phonics scope and sequence, individual teacher lesson plans for each decodable...

To support the Beanstalk Book range of decodable readers, we offer comprehensive Teacher Books. Teacher Book for Science includes: overview of Letters & Sounds program; phonics scope and sequence, individual teacher lesson plans for each decodable reader...