For use with the Test of Integrated Language & Literacy Skills (R) (TILLS (R)) Examiner's Kit, the TILLS Student Rating Scale can be completed by parents, teachers, and students. It's a simple one page checklist that helps identify students' strengths and weaknesses in language and literacy skills and other non language areas (though it's not a pragmatics checklist). Sold in a pack of 50, this scale is also included in the TILLS Examiner's Kit. The TILLS Student Rating Scale is part of the Test of Integrated Language & Literacy Skills (R) (TILLS (R)) the groundbreaking assessment professionals need to test listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in students ages 6 - 18, and to assess the role of memory in how students perform. Reliable, valid, and comprehensive, TILLS will help you streamline assessment, monitor progress, and reach your ultimate goal: improving students' communication skills so they can succeed in school. TILLS is the only test that assesses both spoken and written language and shows how these skills relate to each other. You'll get a meaningful profile of skills for each learner, so you can be sure you understand a student's strengths and needs and aren't overlooking something crucial. Unlike most other tests, TILLS also provides diagnostic accuracy in "age bands" meaningful to the development of language and literacy skills, so you'll have the evidence base you need to determine if test scores reflect typical or impaired performance. And if you're an experienced clinician, you can finish TILLS in just 90 minutes or less-which means you'll spend less time testing and more time helping students and planning interventions. Here is a link to a video introducing TILLS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJh9qtkkLQs

Teach students how to practice reading skills independently - so learning sticks Simply Stations: Independent Reading shows how to ensure that elementary students are purposefully and effectively practicing reading comprehension, reading fluency, selecting books, decoding, inference, and summarizing every day. Your students will soon be purposefully engaged and making critical steps to owning their learning. Debbie Diller has been refining literacy stations (sometimes called centers) for more than 40 years, working with thousands of teachers and students. In this book, she guides you step-by-step through planning for instruction that incorporates reading standards, setting up and launching independent reading stations, varying and refreshing content, to reflection and ongoing modification. What stands out in this book is the full integration of instruction; Debbie shows how whole-group lessons transfer to stations work so students are practicing key skills independently - and gives you everything needed for success: Recommendations by grade level at every step, including grade-appropriate materials and book choices, fiction and informational texts, for each station; Whole-group lesson plans, differentiated by grade level and based on key reading standards, to introduce and support independent and partner work; On-the-spot formative assessment ideas and troubleshooting tips; Ideas to improve English Language Learners' reading skills, including online Spanish-language materials; 30 time-saving downloadable resources for teachers and students to ensure success; and Dozens, real-classroom photos so you see the possibilities first-hand. Simply Stations: Independent Reading gives you invaluable tips, solutions, and insight that can transform the way your students learn and practice reading skills. It's time to boost the impact of your literacy stations!

Learn to Read Latin helps students acquire an ability to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature as quickly as possible. It not only presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with clear explanations and examples but also offers direct access to unabridged passages drawn from a wide variety of Latin texts. As beginning students learn basic forms and grammar, they also gain familiarity with patterns of Latin word order and other features of style. Learn to Read Latin is designed to be comprehensive and requires no supplementary materials explains English grammar points and provides drills especially for today's students offers sections on Latin metrics includes numerous unaltered examples of ancient Latin prose and poetry incorporates selections by authors such as Caesar, Cicero, Sallust, Catullus, Vergil, and Ovid, presented chronologically with introductions to each author and work offers a comprehensive workbook that provides drills and homework assignments. This enlarged second edition improves upon an already strong foundation by streamlining grammatical explanations, increasing the number of syntax and morphology drills, and offering additional short and longer readings in Latin prose and poetry.