All teachers recognize how crucial the acquisition of good reading skills is. This book will help teachers understand how pupils learn and help them to meet those pupils' different needs through appropriate intervention.

The book includes: clear explanations of different learning difficulties; guidelines on types of assessment; advice on how to select the best type of intervention and support.

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. The stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and characters. They also support children's transition from fully decodable readers, such as Floppy's Phonics, to a richer, wider reading experience with high-interest vocabulary. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

If you were an antonym, you would mean the opposite of another word. You could be FAST or SLOW, HOT or COLD, or RIGHT or WRONG. What else could you be if you were an antonym?

Literacy work can provide a therapeutic context in which to support children with emotional and behavioural difficulties in mainstream schools. This text provides a clear theoretical rationale for therapeutic storywriting.

Just like the real thing - only shorter! Help your child prepare for the SATS with these bite-sized National test papers. This book offers ten complete mini-reading tests which include fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts. Question types and mark schemes match the format of the National tests and offer an authentic SATs experience, though the flexible format allows them to be used at any time of the day. A progress chart is also supplied to give you some indication of the scores your child is likely to attain, while a handy breakdown of all of the different question types in the Reading SATs tests will help you to identify your child's strengths and weaknesses.

The Level 4 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A, More Stories B and More Stories C help children to progress from teacher-supported reading at the early Levels to more independent reading. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

Do your students often struggle with difficult novels and other challenging texts? Do they think one reading of a work is more than enough? Do they primarily comprehend at a surface-level, and are they frequently unwilling or unable to discover the deeper meaning found in multi-layered works? Do you feel that you are doing more work teaching the novel than they are reading it?

Building on twenty years of teaching language arts, Kelly Gallagher, author of "Reading Reasons," shows how students can be taught to successfully read a broad range of challenging and difficult texts with deeper levels of comprehension. In "Deeper Reading," Kelly shares effective, classroom-tested strategies that enable your students to: accept the challenge of reading difficult books;move beyond a "first draft" understanding of the text into deeper levels of reading; consciously monitor their comprehension as they read;employ effective fix-it strategies when their comprehension begins to falter;use meaningful collaboration to achieve deeper understanding of texts;think metaphorically to deepen their reading comprehension;reach deeper levels of reflection by understanding the relevance the book holds for themselves and their peers;use critical thinking skills to analyze real-world issues.

Kelly also provides guidance on effective lesson planning that incorporates strategies for deeper reading.

Funny, poignant, and packed with practical ideas that work in real classrooms, "Deeper Reading" is a valuable resource for any teacher whose students need new tools to uncover the riches found in complex texts.

TEACHING READING IN TODAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS sets the standard for reading instruction to ensure that you are able to help your students learn mechanics of word recognition, how to comprehend what they read -- and enjoy the process. The book advocates a balanced approach to reading, presenting newer approaches to reading with more traditional approaches that have proven value, such as phonics, vocabulary instruction, and strategies to improve literal and higher-order comprehension. The twelfth edition includes discussion of the latest technology for literacy learning, recent movements in literacy assessment and standards that must be met, and information about guided reading and close reading techniques with appropriate texts. Praxis, CCSS, and edTPA assistance is incorporated throughout.

The Level 2 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B offer a predictable sentence structure to support reading success. First Sentences provide practice of high frequency vocabulary with highly repetitive text to continue to build fluency. Patterned Stories and More Patterned Stories A practise vocabulary in the context of a repeated sentence structure to help develop confidence and fluency. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

My Reading and Writing Kit: Becoming a reader has been specially created to support your child's steps towards becoming an independent reader and writer. Based on Ruth Miskin's trusted and successful Read Write Inc. synthetic phonics programme, it helps your child to read longer sentences and stories and practise writing a growing range of words. This kit develops confidence in learning further sounds and essential handwriting skills, helping your child to progress with phonics at school. This is the third kit in the series, but each kit can also be used on its own. The kit includes: six storybooks with introductions to share with your child; phonics flashcards to help encourage children to learn the next set of sounds that make up words; handwriting book providing practice writing the words featured in the storybooks and flashcards; parent handbook offering practical advice for supporting your child's developing reading and writing skills. Read Write Inc., developed by Ruth Miskin, provides a structured and systematic approach to teaching literacy. It is used by more than a quarter of the UK's primary schools and is designed to create fluent readers, confident speakers and willing writers.

Learn how a sentence is put together with character-based instruction, engaging practice worksheets, dynamic writing prompts and exercises, and quizzes to check comprehension. Based on the revolutionary Grammaropolis approach, this skill-building workbook makes learning grammar fun! The Sentence Factory is hiring! Now that you know the parts of speech and punctuation, we need you to help us build our town's #1 export: grammatically correct sentences. Let the Mayor take you on a tour of the factory, where you'll learn about subjects and predicates, phrases and clauses, types of sentences, direct and indirect objects, subject and object complements, and more! The ultimate goal of learning grammar isn't to do well on worksheets and quizzes, though, which is why we've included sentence and paragraph writing exercises to put every grammatical concept into practice. Aligned to Common Core and state standards.

This set of four single-subject kindergarten workbooks, developed with education experts and curriculum-based, blends Hidden Pictures (R) puzzles, humor, and skills practice to pave the way for school success. Each book is individually focused on a single subject area and is designed to help kindergarteners acquire essential skills and lifelong learning confidence in a way that they'll enjoy. READING contains practice in phonics and rhyming, reading and writing high-frequency sight words, and reading comprehension. MATH CONCEPTS has activities in identifying and writing numbers 0 to 100, skip counting, and basic addition and subtraction. THINKING AND REASONING includes exercises in logical reasoning and problem-solving, visual discrimination, and creative thinking. WRITING will help kids to learn to trace and write letters, identify and write high-frequency sight words, and compose opinion and narrative text.

This book tracks the developmental changes in writing across the schools curriculum, enhancing a key area of research in applied linguistics. Writing development has been a key area of research in applied linguistics for some time, but most work has focused on children's writing at particular ages. Christie and Derewianka draw on extensive research in both primary and secondary years to trace the developmental trajectory from age 5 or 6 through to 18. Using a systemic functional grammar, they outline developmental changes in writing in three major areas of the school curriculum - English, history, and science - as children move from early childhood to late childhood and on to adolescence and adulthood. The book considers the nature of the curriculum at various stages, discussing the interplay of curriculum goals, pedagogy and developmental changes as children grow older. It also explores how emergent control of the different subjects requires control of various subject specific literacies and considers the pedagogical implications of their findings. "School Discourse" will be of interest to anyone involved in the writing performance of children in schools, particularly applied and educational linguists. Discourse is one of the most significant concepts of contemporary thinking in the humanities and social sciences as it concerns the ways language mediates and shapes our interactions with each other and with the social, political and cultural formations of our society. "The Continuum Discourse Series" aims to capture the fast-developing interest in discourse to provide students, new and experienced teachers and researchers in applied linguistics, ELT and English language with an essential bookshelf. Each book deals with a core topic in discourse studies to give an in-depth, structured and readable introduction to an aspect of the way language is used in real life.

Schofield & Sims English Skills provides regular graded practice to develop pupils' literacy skills at Key Stage 2. Fully in line with the requirements of the National Curriculum for English, the series comprises seven pupil books with accompanying answer books, as well as a single teacher's guide. Key areas are constantly revisited, giving pupils the intensive and rigorous practice that is essential to embed learning and prepare for the Key Stage 2 national tests. The English Skills pupil books each contain 36 one-page tests featuring 'Warm-up' exercises, 'Word work' questions covering spelling, word structure and vocabulary and 'Sentence work' questions covering grammar, punctuation and sentence formation. At the end of each section a 'Writing task' encourages children to apply what they have learnt in their own writing, while a 'Proofreading task' further reinforces learning. Additional features include a glossary to support the confident use of literacy terms and a progress chart to allow pupils to monitor their own skills. English Skills 3 acts as a bridge from lower Key Stage 2 to upper Key Stage 2 and is suitable for pupils in Years 4 and 5.Topics covered include: pronouns and possessive pronouns; linking adverbials; correcting misuse of apostrophes; using a dictionary to check spellings and meanings; suffixes to change word class; word families; and spelling rules and exceptions for adding prefixes and suffixes. The accompanying answer book, English Skills 3 Answers (ISBN 9780721714097), contains answers to all the questions in English Skills 3 and the single Teacher's Guide (ISBN 9780721714165) contains further guidance and resources to help children practise and develop literacy skills. A selection of free supporting downloads is also available from the Schofield & Sims website.

This new edition of Nelson English provides an integrated approach to teaching the core literacy skills at primary level; comprehension, writing, grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary. Each unit focuses on a different text from a wide range of genres, including both fiction and non-fiction. The programme provides embedded assessment support and regular opportunities to practise and consolidate learning.

Fantastic strategies for getting high school students excited about writing

This book offers 50 creative writing lesson plans from the imaginative and highly acclaimed 826 National writing labs. Created as a resource to reach all students (even those most resistant to creative writing), the off-beat and attention-grabbing lessons include such gems as "Literary Facebooks," where students create a mock Facebook profile based on their favorite literary character, as well as highly practical lessons like the "College Application Essay Boot Camp." These writing lessons are written by experts--and favorite novelists, actors, and other entertainers pitched in too.Road-tested lessons from a stellar national writing labInventive and unique lessons that will appeal to even the most difficult-to-reach studentsIncludes a chart linking lessons to the Common Core State Standards

826 National is an organization committed to supporting teachers, publishing student work, and offering services for English language learners.

Reinforce your child's second-grade skills with Spectrum Phonics. With the progressive lessons in this workbook, your child will strengthen reading skills involving blends, hard and soft consonants, long and short vowel sounds, and vowel pairs. The Spectrum(R) Phonics series provides your child with skill-building exercises that focus on phonics, structural analysis, and dictionary skills. Phonics for grades K-2 guides students progressively through letter sounds, blends, and pairs and how they combine to form words. Word Study and Phonics for grades 3-6 includes lessons in decoding as well as vocabulary comprehension, spelling, word relationships, figurative language, and even foreign words. Unique exercises will keep children engaged, and complete answer keys will help you gauge their understanding of the way words work. Spectrum, the best-selling workbook series, is proud to provide quality educational materials that support your students' learning achievement and success.

The Schofield & Sims reading record books boost children's pride in their reading skills and help schools to ensure effective home-school communication. They all contain reading vocabulary checklists and structured fill in pages asking parents to note specific points concerning the child's reading at home. Other pages are completed by the teacher and give parents information specific to the child. The inclusive language and the infant typeface used in My reading record for Key Stage 1 will help children to participate as parents and other helpers complete the book with them. The record pages allow ample space for children to place a sticker or a smiley face beside the adult's entry in the record - so that they feel involved and can make the book their own. General notes explain the importance of reading at home, briefly explain the book banding system and outline the priorities for children's reading at Key Stage 1.

Professional poets spend many hours crafting a finished piece of work, yet we expect children in school to sit down and write when they are told to, whether they feel inspired or not. This series of four books is a toolkit to help you build a positive framework for children to read, write, understand and enjoy poetry - to bring a creative spark to the poetry classroom. A combination of featured poems, creative ideas, structured lesson plans and differentiated photocopiable activity sheets gives the series a uniquely flexible approach - which means you can use the materials in any classroom context. If you're wary of poetry, if you think it's boring, or if you're nervous about teaching poetry, then you've chosen the right book. Key themes covered in BOOK 4: Language and Performance are moods and feelings through the use of effective language; nonsense and humorous verse; the continuity and links between ancient and modern, between nursery and playground rhymes and Shakespeare; whatever our ability, there is a place for everyone on the poetry 'ladder'; and performance poetry. Other books in the series are: BOOK 1:Words and Wordplay; BOOK 2: Rhymes, Rhythms and Rattles;and BOOK 3: Style, Shape and Structure.