Phonics & Reading

Head for Home Reading Advanced Grade 3 The series provides students with three levels of instruction: Novice, intermediate, and Advanced. The Novice level is designed for struggling readers. Each Novice workbook includes eight lessons with guided reading selections to provide extra support and independent practice to build fundamental reading and literary skills. The Intermediate level is designed for on-level students. Each Intermediate workbook includes 12 lessons with high-interest reading selections and independent practice items that allow students to demostrate understanding of the skill. The Advanced level is designed for students who are ready to go beyond grade-level skills. Each Advanced workbook includes 12 lessons with engaging reading selections and independent practice items that challenge students to think critically. Each lesson in the Head for Home Reading series addresses one key literary skill and provides: *An introduction that explains the skill in student-friendly language. *Step-by-step instruction on how to apply the skill *Engaging fiction and nonfiction selections. *Independent practice with multiple-choice and/or open-ended reading comprehension questions that allow students to practice the skill. Learn More

Head for Home Reading Advanced Grade 2 The series provides students with three levels of instruction: Novice, intermediate, and Advanced. The Novice level is designed for struggling readers. Each Novice workbook includes eight lessons with guided reading selections to provide extra support and independent practice to build fundamental reading and literary skills. The Intermediate level is designed for on-level students. Each Intermediate workbook includes 12 lessons with high-interest reading selections and independent practice items that allow students to demostrate understanding of the skill. The Advanced level is designed for students who are ready to go beyond grade-level skills. Each Advanced workbook includes 12 lessons with engaging reading selections and independent practice items that challenge students to think critically. Each lesson in the Head for Home Reading series addresses one key literary skill and provides: *An introduction that explains the skill in student-friendly language. *Step-by-step instruction on how to apply the skill *Engaging fiction and nonfiction selections. *Independent practice with multiple-choice and/or open-ended reading comprehension questions that allow students to practice the skill. Learn More

Head for Home Reading Advanced Grade 1 The series provides students with three levels of instruction: Novice, intermediate, and Advanced. The Novice level is designed for struggling readers. Each Novice workbook includes eight lessons with guided reading selections to provide extra support and independent practice to build fundamental reading and literary skills. The Intermediate level is designed for on-level students. Each Intermediate workbook includes 12 lessons with high-interest reading selections and independent practice items that allow students to demostrate understanding of the skill. The Advanced level is designed for students who are ready to go beyond grade-level skills. Each Advanced workbook includes 12 lessons with engaging reading selections and independent practice items that challenge students to think critically. Each lesson in the Head for Home Reading series addresses one key literary skill and provides: *An introduction that explains the skill in student-friendly language. *Step-by-step instruction on how to apply the skill *Engaging fiction and nonfiction selections. *Independent practice with multiple-choice and/or open-ended reading comprehension questions that allow students to practice the skill. Learn More

Handprints D Storybooks Set 3. Gr. K-1 A Comprehensive Leveled Libray for Early Readers This classroom-tested collection of storybooks and workbooks helps children develop emergent reading skills. Covering both fiction and nonfiction, this collection engages beginning readers as they develop sight word recognition and build fluency and comprehension skills. Benefits include: *Readers in various levels *Sentence structure, word choice, and pictures to encourage strategic reading *Use of repeated high-frequency words to build strong sight word vocabulary *Gradual progression from natural language to book language *Diverse and contemporary characters and themes *Recurring characters across the levels. From EPS. Learn More

Handprints C Storybooks Set 3. Gr. K-1 A Comprehensive Leveled Libray for Early Readers This classroom-tested collection of storybooks and workbooks helps children develop emergent reading skills. Covering both fiction and nonfiction, this collection engages beginning readers as they develop sight word recognition and build fluency and comprehension skills. Benefits include: *Readers in various levels *Sentence structure, word choice, and pictures to encourage strategic reading *Use of repeated high-frequency words to build strong sight word vocabulary *Gradual progression from natural language to book language *Diverse and contemporary characters and themes *Recurring characters across the levels. From EPS. Learn More

Handprints B Storybooks Set 3. Gr. K-1 A Comprehensive Leveled Libray for Early Readers This classroom-tested collection of storybooks and workbooks helps children develop emergent reading skills. Covering both fiction and nonfiction, this collection engages beginning readers as they develop sight word recognition and build fluency and comprehension skills. Benefits include: *Readers in various levels *Sentence structure, word choice, and pictures to encourage strategic reading *Use of repeated high-frequency words to build strong sight word vocabulary *Gradual progression from natural language to book language *Diverse and contemporary characters and themes *Recurring characters across the levels. From EPS. Learn More

Handprints A Storybooks Set 3. Gr. K-1 A Comprehensive Leveled Libray for Early Readers This classroom-tested collection of storybooks and workbooks helps children develop emergent reading skills. Covering both fiction and nonfiction, this collection engages beginning readers as they develop sight word recognition and build fluency and comprehension skills. Benefits include: *Readers in various levels *Sentence structure, word choice, and pictures to encourage strategic reading *Use of repeated high-frequency words to build strong sight word vocabulary *Gradual progression from natural language to book language *Diverse and contemporary characters and themes *Recurring characters across the levels. From EPS. Learn More

Set your child on the path to reading success with this exciting collection of little books on favorite science topics: sea turtles, ladybugs, chicks, ice cream, sea turtles, and many more. These level D books feature engaging photos paired with simple text and are just right for readers who can sound out some words. Includes a mini-activity book, motivating stickers, and parent tips. A great way to help children step up to the next reading level with ease. Learn More

Set your child on the path to reading success with this exciting collection of little books on favorite science topics: bears, birds, rain forest, seeds, spring, and many more. These level C books feature engaging photos paired with simple text and are just right for readers who can sound out a few words. Includes a mini-activity book, motivating stickers, and parent tips. A great way to help children step up to the next reading level with ease. Learn More

Set your child on the path to reading success with this exciting collection of little books on favorite science topics: frogs, baby animals, mammals, snow, seasons, and many more. These level B books feature engaging photos paired with simple text and are just right for readers with just a little bit of experience. Includes a mini-activity book, motivating stickers, and parent tips. A great way to help children step up to the next reading level with ease. Learn More

Set your child on the path to reading success with this exciting collection of little books on favorite science topics: penguins, bats, whales, apples, leaves, pumpkins, and many more. These level A books feature engaging photos paired with VERY simple text to boost your child?s reading confidence. Includes a mini-activity book, motivating stickers, and parent tips. A great starting place for brand-new readers! For use with Grades PreKPre-K. Learn More

Who Is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here on Mouse Island, my books are all best-sellers! What's that? You've never read one? Well, my books are full of fun. They are whisker-licking good stories, and that's a promise!

I was lost in a dark, spooky forest, until I stumbled upon Curlypaw Cannycat's Castle. The castle was completely empty, or so I thought. But I quickly discovered that it was haunted - by cats! Let me tell you, this was one case where curiosity almost killed the mouse!

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Finally, a fun, colorful, easy-to-use phonics program that is comprehension centered!

This 320-page book is based on the scientific findings of the National Reading Commission. It emphasizes sound/spelling patterns, vocabulary, and comprehension, not memorization.

The colorful game-like activities engage students through listening, thinking, speaking, and reading.

Fun-Time Phonics! teaches students that spoken words are composed of individual sounds (phonemes), and those sounds are written with letters.

Armed with this understanding of how print works as a code, reading becomes much easier than other more complicated approaches.

This program ensures complete phonemic awareness mastery by focusing on vowel isolation, which is often the most challenging–but most important–part of learning to read.

Once students grasp how vowels influence the sound of the consonants and control the meaning of the words, they are only a step away from fluency.

Fun-time phonics! teaches students that spoken words are composed of individual sounds (phonemes), and those sounds are written with letters.

Armed with this understanding of how print works as a code, reading becomes much easier than other more complicated approaches.

This program ensures complete phonemic awareness mastery by focusing on vowel isolation, which is often the most challenging–but most important–part of learning to read.

recommended ages 4 and up.

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15 Classic Stories That Are “Just Right” for Young Readers By Liza Charlesworth

Help children soar in reading with these “just right” books they can read all by themselves! Include The Three Little Pigs, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Ugly Duckling, The Little Red Hen, Cinderella, and 10 more beloved classics. Each tale features simple text, supportive pictures, and a helpful glossary to help developing readers build skills and confidence. Storybooks correlate with Guiding Reading levels E-I.

Books include: Cinderella, Goldilocks And The Three Bears, Martina, The Cockroach Stone Soup ,The City Mouse And The Country Mouse, The Elves And The Shoemaker, The Gingerbread Man, The Little Red Hen, The Nightingale, The Princess And The Pea, The Spider And The Beehive, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Three Little Pigs, The Tortoise And The Hare,  and The Ugly Duckling

Includes 15 16-page storybooks

• 4-page parent guide

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 First Start Reading Book E completes the program First Start Reading A-D( #1927), by covering long vowel teams, soft c and g, and the three sounds of y.

Once the student has mastered the basic phonics in the FSR series, he is ready to continue his reading progress with real literature.

The First Start Reading Book E Teacher Guide ( #2490, sold separrately) provides valuable assistance as it leads you through the program and provides helpful assessments and teaching tips.

Recommended for 1st Grade.

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Jumpstart reading success with this big collection motivating storybooks correlated with Guided Reading Level C. Most pages of these full-color storybooks feature just two or three lines of simple, repetitive text to help children learn to read with ease and confidence. Includes a tip-filled parent guide. A great value! Learn More

Jumpstart reading success with this big collection of motivating storybooks correlated with Guided Reading Level B. Most pages of these full-color storybooks feature just one or two lines of simple, repetitive text to help children learn to read with ease and confidence. Includes a tip-filled parent guide. A great value! Learn More

Jumpstart reading success with this big collection of motivating storybooks correlated with Guided Reading Level A. Most pages of these full-color storybooks feature just one line of simple, repetitive text to help children learn to read with ease and confidence. Includes a tip-filled parent guide. A great value! Learn More

By Katie Daynes, Illustrated by Christyan Fox

What do firefighters learn at fire school? How do they rescue people from all kinds of emergencies? How do they put out forest fires? What do they wear to protect themselves from smoke and flames? This book has all the answers, and more, with photographs, step-by-step illustrations, informative text and links to websites with fun activities and fascinating facts.

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When successful readers encounter unfamiliar words, they utilize strategies- for example, identifying word parts such as syllables and suffixes-to help them figure out pronunciation and meaning. This resource offers dozens of practice pages that give older struggling readers multiple opportunities to review and apply these word-study skills, recognize common spelling patterns, boost their word recognition and vocabulary development, and gain confidence as they read and encounter new words. As a result, students become more fluent readers.

Format: Activity Book

Pages: 80

Grades: 3 - 6

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While phonics instruction is important for all readers, it is essential for older students whose underdeveloped reading skills impede content-area learning. This resource offers dozens of practice pages that give struggling readers multiple opportunities to recognize, review, and reinforce must-know phonics elements, such as consonants, long and short vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. With this practice, students dramatically improve their ability to recognize sound-spelling relationships and use these skills to accurately and efficiently decode words, which in turn boosts fluency and comprehension.

Format: Activity Book

Pages: 80

Grades: 3 - 6

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Often called “sight words” because readers need to know them at a glance, high-frequency words can prove challenging for students. This resource offers dozens of practice pages that give older struggling readers multiple opportunities to review and really learn common tricky words-such as which, listen, enough, and answer-that aren"t easily decodable and don"t follow the usual sound-spelling relationships. When students can identify high-frequency words quickly and accurately, their reading fluency increases, and their reading comprehension improves. With repeated practice, students develop automatic recognition of dozens and dozens of words and become more fluent readers.

Pages: 80

Grades: 3 - 6

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The 60 Picture-Letter Cards, designed for use with Get Ready, Get Set, and Go for The Code, may be used for supplementary visual and auditory work. There are three types of cards, allowing for flexibility and a creation of a variety of games and activities. Picture cards provide a visual cue and match the key words in the Explode The Code student books. Letter cards allow students to practice letter identification and recognition. Picture-letter combination cards help students map sounds to symbols. Cards must be cut apart prior to use. Skills Addressed • Letter identification and recognition • Sound-symbol relationships • The alphabetic principle • Phonetic awareness. From EPS/School Specialty. Learn More

This set of 54 illustrated cards can be used to reinforce or extend the sounds taught in Explode The Code Books 1 - 3. In addition to the 26 letters of the alphabet, this set also includes consonant digraphs, blends, vowel digraphs, and diphthongs. The cards can be used by students individually, in small groups, or as a whole class game or activity. Skills Addressed • Consonant sounds • Vowel sounds • Silent-e • Consonant digraphs • Consonant blends • Vowel digraphs • Diphthongs. From EPS/School Specialty. Learn More