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In this easy-to-read and research-based text, Regie Routman provides clarity, support, specific demonstrations, and confidence to teachers so they can teach reading well and get high test scores too – regardless of the reading program they use. Detailed lessons, immediately doable ideas, teaching tips, and lots of practical suggestions make this an essential text for excellent and enjoyable teaching and learning.

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* Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read? * Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading? * Are you worried that your child will become lost in overcrowded classrooms? * Did you know that early readers hold an advantage over their peers throughout school? * Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you’ll do something wrong? SRAs DISTAR® is the most successful beginning reading program available to schools across the country. R (more…)

Open a new chapter in budding readers’ lives with this captivating collection of programs that introduce basic reading and writing skills, and bring beloved storybooks to life. These delightful short films employ live-action and animation to enhance letter and word comprehension, and spelling skills, and will motivate children to read and write creatively. Teachers rely on these films in classrooms and now families can add them to their home library to refer to throughout the schoo (more…)

Quick, critical reading is an essential skill that is used in standardized tests, jobs, schools, and more. Be it literature, essays, tech writing, or articles, this fully updated edition of Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day provides a complete close-reading tutorial in an easy 20-step program. The book’s self-paced guide includes: ? lessons on diction, perspective, cause and effect, drawing conclusions, and more ? questions with easy-access answer keys featuri (more…)

Long an advocate of frequent, voluminous reading in schools, the author draws on evidence gathered in twenty years of classroom teaching to make the case for reading workshop more powerful than ever. The book establishes the top ten conditions for making engaged classroom reading possible for students at all levels and provides the practical support and structures necessary for achieving them. 144 pages.

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Reading Rainbow is one of the longest running and best loved children’s series on PBS. Reading Rainbow is designed to inspire a love of reading and build lasting connections between children and books. As a half hour magazine-style series, Reading Rainbow mixes live action, music and illustrations. Reading Rainbows’ target audience is children 4-8 years old. Included in this collection is Family Matters, Man’s Best Friend, Music, Music, Everywhere, and Ocean Life. 4-disc col (more…)

A previous National Director of Education for Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics presents his do-it-yourself program for increasing reading speed and boosting comprehension. “Speed reading is one of the truly useful educational ideas of the last few years, and this book can be the least expensive and most efficient way you can learn it.” –William Proxmire, United States Senator The perfect answer to today’s information explosion, Peter Kump’s rapid reading method has already helped th (more…)

If you have ever wondered how to teach comprehension strategies to primary-age children, read on.First, imagine a primary-grade classroom where all the children are engaged and motivated; where the buzz of excited, emerging readers fills the air; where simultaneously words are sounded out and connections are made between the books of their choice and the experiences of their lives. Then, open these pages. Welcome to Debbie Miller’s real classroom where real students are learning to lo (more…)