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Ladders to Literacy is an innovative supplemental classroom curriculum that allows educators to address the needs of children who are at risk for reading failure - without giving up their current language programming. ... Read more

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An especially recommended, 'user friendly', and core curriculum supplement
Now in a fully updated and significantly expanded second edition, "Ladders To Literacy" is the collaborative work of Angela Notari-Syverson (Senior Researcher, Washington Research Institute, Washington), Rollanda E. O'Conner Professor of Education, School of Education, University of California, Riverside), and Patricia F. Vadasy Senior Research, Washington Research Institute, Seattle). "Ladders To Literacy" is spiral bound, single volume, early childhood oriented language and arts literacy program that provides classroom teachers with more than sixty culturally sensitive, developmentally appropriate student activities which have been successfully tested for a decade under research and practical conditions alike. Organized into three major sections (Print/Book Awareness Skills; Metalinguistic Awareness Skills; Oral Language Skills), "Ladders To Literacy" provides the foundation for children to master key elements of the reading process successfully. Enhanced with field-tested games, crafts, role plays, etc., this newly revised edition also incorporates links between the activities and Head Start Recommended Outcomes; a scope-and-sequence chart for teachers to utilize in selecting which activities to employ each month; eleven new and creative activities; 'Tips for Teachers' reflecting advances in classroom education practices; activities strengthening the home-school link (including photocopiable handouts for parents enabling them to assist their children at home); and modifications for children with various disabilities. Of special note are the informal observation guidelines, structured performance samples, and literacy checklist. "Ladders To Literacy" is an especially recommended, 'user friendly', and core curriculum supplement for preschool, Headstart, elementary school, and homes-schooling language and arts literacy instructional programs.

A great resource!
This is a wonderful resource for teachers.A variety of activities are given for each goal.Ladders to Literacy provides activities that parents can do with their children at home, including parents who are on the go. ... Read more

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Improving Early Literacy offers teachers an arsenal of reading strategies for helping struggling emergent readers develop letter-name knowledge, sight word knowledge, phonics, and reading fluency skills. This book provides a comprehensive listing of various strategies incorporated into activities and worksheets and offers

• a practical introduction to early literacy instruction
• informal assessment devices based on proven research concepts
• approaches, strategies, and materials for teaching early literacy skills
• techniques for developing listening and oral language skills
• ways to assess and implement letter-name knowledge and sight word knowledge
• strategies for improving phonic analysis
• enhancement of structural and contextual analysis
• ways to expand vocabulary and comprehension
• techniques for teaching emergent literacy to children with special needs

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Through 50 activities using fiction, non-fiction and poetry, this book intends to help Year 5 children achieve the text-level learning objectives outlined in the National Literacy Strategy. It aims to develop children's reading skills and ability and to plan and structure their writing. The activities are designed for use with texts already in schools therefore no new text resources are required. The other two graded Developing Literacy" activity books in this series cover "Word" and "Sentence" ... Read more

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Help young children develop their reading fluency, word recognition, and overall comprehension with this easy-to-use early intervention program that takes only ten minutes each night! Parents and children engage in repeated reading of poems, and then they complete a quick, skill-building activity. This ready-to-use, research-proven resource includes more than 100 poems and companion activities, 30 motivational stickers, plus reproducible family letters, certificates, bookmarks, and reading logs. For use with Grades PreKÐK. ... Read more

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Fast Start review
I bought the Fast Start:Getting Ready to Read for my preschool class.I use it in large and small group and then send the poem and instructions home for the parents to do their part.I have had a good response from the parents and the kids seem to like the poems.The only thing I would change would be to use a few more traditional nursery rhymes. ... Read more

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From the best-selling author of The Reading Teacher’s Book of Lists comes this hands-on reference containing 180 challenging and engaging lessons—one for each day of the school year. The book is designed to expand the vocabularies of students in grades 6-12 and help them become excited about the life-long process of learning new words. It can be used equally well for in-class activities, self-study, tutoring, or homeschooling. The lessons contained in this book are perfect for “sponge activities”—five-minute lessons to start off or end each class period—or for a supplementary vocabulary lesson.   ... Read more

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great book
This is a wonderful resource to use with students who need help with word attacking skills
(roots, prefixes and suffixes)

The Reading Teacher's Word-A-Day
Definitely recommend. I checked out this book for my middle school daughter from the library and she liked it enough that I bought our own copy. The book presents vocabulary with word roots in a way that doesn't bore a teenager to death. My hope is to improve her language skills on assessment tests. Hey, any help she can get, the better. ... Read more

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100 Literacy Homework Activities is a series of six photocopiable teachers' resource books that draws upon the 100 Literacy Hours books. Each book provides varied and enjoyable homework activities for years 1 to 6. ... Read more

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Now you can implement the groundbreaking ideas and research findings of Jean Casey's Early Literacy to help students become successful readers and writers. The almost 90 flexible, engaging activities can be used across the grade levels to motivate students to design their own projects, create their own written products, and above all, be in control of their learning. ... Read more

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BUY THIS BOOK
Every teacher or parent should own a copy of this book.It is very helpful and full of great ideas.

Convert Your Primary Classroom to the 21st Century
Dr. Jean Casey's book is a handbook for converting elementary language arts curriculum into an interactive learning experience for the students. This book displays many examples of student work and it is an easy read for any busy teacher. Dr. Casey teaches how to use technology as a tool to bring writing alive for all level learners. One of my favorite activities that I have used in my classroom has been the Readers' Theatre. The students can write and illustrate their own stories on the computer, print the stories then let the students read and perform in class. Another level of integration with their stories is to convert the documents into a (.jpeg) file to import into the software application Photo Story 3 so they can record their voices reading their stories and create a digital story to video format. Students are so motivated to read and write because they want to use the technology tools to be producers and publishers.
Dr. Casey book will give teachers new ideas and inspire their creativity to come alive in themselves and in the lives of the students. This book also contains many valuable website resources. I would like to mention one such as, Assistive Technologies closes the gap on learning difficulties, [...]
Digital Literacy is a necessity in 21st century teaching!

I would like to thank Dr. Jean Casey for inspiring me in my teaching career.
Genevieve Kahlweiss




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A photocopiable literacy activity book for Key Stage 3 students in Year 7. It seeks to cover the key objectives of the Sentence Level" strand of the National Literacy Strategy framework. There are over 50 pages of photocopiable activities, and minimal teacher preparation is required. Each topic section includes a "lesson starter" to use with the whole class (an OHP sheet, a handout or cards), a consolidation activity to reinforce the skill, and an extension activity to challenge more able pupils. There are notes for teachers. The text is part of a series in which there is one book for each year group at Key Stage 3, from Year 7 to Year 9." ... Read more

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Help the children in your school or district become successful early readers with the second edition of this field-tested, activity-based curriculum, an effective way to supplement children’s instruction without giving up current language arts programming. This book gives teachers more than 60 culturally sensitive, developmentally appropriate activities that were tested for 10 years under research and practical conditions. Activities are organized into three sections emphasizing key elements of reading success: print awareness, metalinguistic skills, and oral language skills. Modifications are included for children with disabilities, and the early literacy activities for children and parents help strengthen the home–school literacy link.

With the fun, proven activities in this book, kindergarten teachers will equip children with the emergent literacy skills they’ll need to succeed in school. ... Read more

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100 LITERACY HOMEWORK ACTIVITIES is a series of 6 photocopiable teachers' resource books, one for each Year 1 to 6. Each book draws on the 100 hours in the associated '100 Literacy Hours' book to provide varied and enjoyable homework activities that build on the classroom work and that can be used by both customers of '100 Literacy Hours' and non-customers. The activities cover the appropriate range of word, sentence and text level skills and each photocopiable page includes a note to the parent/helper about the purpose of the activity and how to help the child if he/she gets stuck. The activities are accompanied by brief teachers' notes advising on: the objective of the work, the classroom lesson context to which it is appropriate (for teachers using the book as a stand-alone resource), setting the homework and what to do with it when the children bring it back. 100 LITERACY HOMEWORK ACTIVITIES FOR YEAR 2 provide term-by-term homework activities relevant to the National Literacy Framework for Year 2 and appropriate to the units in '100 Literacy Hours forYear 2'.* Linked to 100 lessons of the highly successful '100 Literacy Hours' (but will stand alone) - a ready market * Supports key word-, sentence- and text-level skills * Grids matching activities to Literacy Framework and to '100 Literacy Hours' * Encourages parental involvement by providing parental support * Excellent way of developing home/school links. ... Read more

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This is a photocopiable activity book, which is one of a series intended to promote independent work during the literacy hour. The activities help children to achieve the word level learning objectives in the National Literacy Strategy, by developing essential skills in sound-spelling relationships, focusing on phonics, spelling, word recognition and vocabulary. Notes for teachers are included. ... Read more

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100 LITERACY HOMEWORK ACTIVITIES is a series of 6 photocopiable teachers' resource books, one for each Years 1 to 6. Each book draws on the 100 hours in the associated '100 Literacy Hours' book to provide varied and enjoyable homework activities that build on classroom work and that can be used by both customers of '100 Literacy Hours' and non-customers. The activities cover the appropriate range of word, sentence and text level skills and each photocopiable page includes a note to the parent/helper about the purpose of the activity and how to help the child if he/she gets stuck. The activities are accompanied by brief teachers' notes advising on: the objective of the work, the classroom lesson context to which it is appropriate (for teachers using the book as a stand-alone resource), setting the homework and what to do with it when the children bring it back. 100 LITERACY HOMEWORK ACTIVITIES FOR YEAR 1 provides term-by-term homework activities relevant to the National Literacy Framework for year 1 and appropriate to the units in '100 Literacy Hours for Year 1'.* Linked to 100 lessons of the highly successful '100 Literacy Hours' series (but will stand alone) - a ready market * Supports key word-, sentence- and text- level skills * Grids matching activities to Literacy Framework and to '100 Literacy Hours' * Encourages parental involvement by providing parental support * Excellent way of developing home/school links ... Read more

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"100 Literacy Homework Activities" is a series of six photocopiable teachers' resource books that draws upon the 100 Literacy Hours books. Each book provides varied and enjoyable homework activities for years 1 to 6. The activities cover the appropriate range of word-, sentence-, and text-level skills and each photocopiable page includes a note to the parent/helper about the purpose of the activity and how to help the child if she/he gets stuck. This title in the series for Year 6 provides term-by-term homework activities relevant to the National Literacy Framework for Year 6 and appropriate to the units in "100 Literacy Hours for Year 6". ... Read more

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This work provides practical guidelines for teachers who are beginning to implement the National Literacy Strategy at Key Stage 1 and 2. Using familiar picture books, the contributors show how learning objectives can be achieved through meaningful activities related to text. The picture books used are chosen to help teachers provide a range of interesting and attractive reading material for the literacy hour. They include popular stories, rhymes, myths and legends that represent a variety of different cultural traditions. Each title is outlined and a detailed description of activities at text, sentence and word level is provided, accompanied by photocopiable activity sheets. ... Read more

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100 LITERACY HOMEWORK ACTIVITIES is a series of 6 photocopiable teachers' resource books, one for each Years 1 to 6. Each book draws on the 100 hours in the associated '100 Literacy Hours' book to provide varied and enjoyable homework activities that build on classroom work and that can be used by both customers of '100 Literacy Hours' and non-customers. The activities cover the appropriate range of word-, sentence- and text level skills and each photocopiable page includes a note to the parent/helper about the purpose of the activity and how to help the child if he/she gets stuck. The activities are accompanied by brief teachers' notes advising on: the objective of the work, the classroom lesson context to which it is appropriate (for teachers using the book as a stand-alone resource), setting the homework and what to do with it when the children bring it back. 100 LITERACY HOMEWORK ACTIVITIES FOR YEAR 3 provides term-by-term homework activities relevant to the National Literacy Framework for Year 3 and appropriate to the units in 100 Literacy Hours for Year 3.* Linked to 100 lessons of the highly successful '100 Literacy Hours' series (but will stand alone) - a ready market * Supports key word-, sentence- and text-level skills * Grids matching activities to Literacy Framework and to '100 Literacy Hours' * Encourages parental involvement by providing parental support * Excellent way of developing home/school links ... Read more

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Absolutely Wonderful!
Being a new preschool teacher, I am trying to build my curriculum and this book really added alot! I will use it over and over!
Nice to look through and gather additional ideas!

good resource for grandma
I am grandma to 3 little people and we love to play together.This book gives me lots of ideas and suggestions to make our time together more fun for me and for them.

It gives a couple of good ideas.
I really enjoyed the songs in the book. ... Read more

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