Reading

Sight words are the most frequently used words in the English language. Knowing these words provides a beginning reader with a strong base for fluency and understanding. This resource provides students with a variety of fun puzzle formats to reinforce 165 Dolch sight words. From crossword puzzles to word searches and scrambled sentences, students will enjoy the fun formats while improving their reading skills. 96 pages.

245 Colorful Flash Cards & Activities

Skills:

• Phonemic awareness
• Recognize vowel sounds
• Decoding blends and r-controlled words

This jumbo classroom pack contains 220 sight words from the Dolch list plus 25 colorful photo noun cards.  This combination allows students to make phrases and sentences, laying the foundation for fluency in reading.  This research-based set is divided into 5 color-coded lists, making it easy for readers to tackle essential words in small, manageable doses.  Contains 245 3” x 6” flash cards and an activity booklet with ideas for classroom use.

Interest Level 2-12, Reading Level 2

Visual Activities to Teach 144 Sight Words

Skills:

• Builds fluency & comprehension
• Expands vocabulary
• Classifying information
• Using visual cues to derive meaning

This fun, hands-on book was created to help early readers identify sight words and build reading fluency. Children need to develop a growing core of sight words, which will help them become more fluent readers. Since sight words are meant to be identified instantly, pictures are a great way to aid the student in immediate recognition of several high-frequency words. Includes crossword puzzles, word searches, configuration fill-ins and riddles. A great stepping stone for writing sentences and categorizing! 96 pages.

Interest Level 2-8, Reading Level 1-2

Ssssssssshhhhhh ... this book is full of sounds, such as spaghetti being sucked in, a train roaring down the tracks, a thunderstorm, even the sound made by the great yak. Be careful when you open this book, it can be very NOISY! This book lends itself to phonemic awareness activities, oral reading and creative writing. 32 pages.

Grades K-8

Maxx poems are a compilation of imaginative poems, written in a carefully sequenced phonetic manner providing the student with practice with every phoneme, syllable type and linguistic structure, thus enhancing the student’s enjoyment and skills. Additionally, MAXX is a perfect tool for fluency drills and real-alouds for children in grades 1-5.

 Maxx effectively supplements any language-structured material, such as any Orton-Gillingham-based programs. Created with extensive attention to the language needs of the young reader, Maxx follows the prescribed recommendations of all NRP (National Reading Panel) research, indicating that direct, sequential instruction of language benefits all early readers and is particularly essential to the struggling reader. Secondly, because it is poetry, its short, precise and fun-filled content is perfect for fluency drills, another important practice for the at-risk reader.

A Balanced Approach to Reading and Writing Instruction

This comprehensive resource explains guided, independent, modeled, shared and interactive reading and writing, and then provides manageable ways to implement those components into your literacy program.  128 pages.

Grades 3-5