WORD RECOGNITION: Decoding
With these books students practice phonics skills—search by skill or browse by genre or title, they learn phonics, master the sound/symbol code, enabling them to read and spell.
What are Decodable Books?
These books help students practice the sound and symbol relationships with simple pictures with labels.
What are Sound/Symbol Books?
The goal of these resources is to work with words so as to guide students to become more fluent readers and writers.
What are Word Work resources?
These engaging books help improve the vocabulary of students of all ages and skill levels. Using a words-in-context approach, these themed books and their accompanying activities provide ample opportunity to master the words students need to know.
What are Vocabulary & Idiom Books?
This is a reading strategy where teachers elicit from students what they already know and build initial knowledge that they need in order to access upcoming content.
What is Connect to prior knowledge?
This is a 32-week resource of standards-based grammar and word work instruction, practice, and application that target key skills.
What is Daily Language Practice?
These texts consistently, accurately and progressively increase in difficulty to help students improve comprehension and fluency.
What are Grade Level Texts?
These resources help students to analyze and respond to arguments. They support students as they identify and explain claims, reasons, evidence, point of view, and much more.
What are Argumentation Skill Packs?
These fun and amusing one-page alliterative rhymes for each letter of the alphabet help students with letter naming, letter sounds, and learning the alphabetic principle.
What are Alphabet Chants?
They focus on the sounds of language. These aid students in developing phonological awareness through activities surrounding words, rhyme, onset and rime, syllable, and phoneme practice.
What are Phonological Awareness Lessons/Centers?
These are resources with the most commonly used sight words in printed text
What are High-Frequency Word Books/Cards?
These help to fine-tune K-5 students' higher-level thinking skills by having them cut out and sort words into categories.
What are Word Sorts?
These resources give prompts and elicit from students what they already know and build knowledge that they need talk about content or to participate in a speaking activity about what they have learnt.
What are Discussion Cards?
These sheets help students learn letter and number shapes while also improving fine motor skills.
What are Print letter/Numbers printables?
These texts model fluency and expression as well as close reading strategies, such as asking and answering questions and citing evidence, and a variety of literary and foundational skills
What are Shared Reading Texts?
These books promote higher-order thinking, such as making comparisons among texts, which features three types of pairings: fiction-nonfiction, fiction-fiction, and nonfiction-nonfiction.
What are Paired Books?