Teacher's Books

15 Reproducible Passages With Comprehension Questions That Guide Students to Infer, Visualize, Summarize, Predict. Each mini mystery comes with clues for the students to analyze character, understand cause and effect, make inferences, and more.

30 exciting story starters that model good writing and help any student! The prompts provide scaffolding through rich characters, imaginative settings, and an edge-of-your-seat cliffhanger. Students put their natural storytelling skills to work.

8 Fluency-Boosting Plays with easy activities that teach key literary elements.

Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

The Nose - Gogol.

Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart

A Christimas Carol - Dickens

Maupassant - The Necklace

Rikki Tiki Tavi - Kipling

O. Henry - The Gift of the Magi

The Open Window - Saki.

Teaches about PLOT, SETTING, CHARACTER, THEME, and more!

Introduce students to Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, and other well-known authors with this collection of plays based on their classic short stories.  These engaging plays will expand students' literary knowledge, while "rehearsing" the parts will encourage the repeated readings they need to build their fluency and comprehension skills.  Also includes discussion prompts designed to help students identify and understand plot, setting, character, and theme.

Designed by a master teacher and organizer, this all-in-one collection of management tips, checklists, and reproducible forms helps teachers lead a successful school year right from the start! Covers all the essentials: organization strategies and tools, routines to build independence, planning to meet student needs and instructional goals, and building positive parent communication that supports students' growth.

Includes CD-Rom with 50 Timesaving Forms.

• Organization
• Routines
• Planning
• Parent Communication

The real-life, classic story of a dyslexic girl and the teacher who would not let her fail. A perfect gift for teachers and for reading students of any age.

Patricia Polacco is now one of America’s most loved children’s book creators, but once upon a time, she was a little girl named Trisha starting school. Trisha could paint and draw beautifully, but when she looked at words on a page, all she could see was jumble. It took a very special teacher to recognize little Trisha’s dyslexia: Mr. Falker, who encouraged her to overcome her reading disability. Patricia Polacco will never forget him, and neither will we.

A Systematic Approach with Comprehension Mini-Lessons, Vocabulary-Building Activities, Management Tips, and More to Help Every Child Become a Confident, Capable Reader.

Help every child become a confident, capable reader with:

• Mini-lessons
• Vocabulary-building activities
• Management tips and more
• Interactive whiteboard lessons & activities
• Strategy songs
• Reading response pages

Includes CD-Rom with material for your Interactive Whiteboard lessons & activities!

Veteran teachers Maria Walther and Katherine Phillips share their comprehensive approach to teaching reading in the K-2 classroom. A menu of mini-lessons for the first 25 days of school help teachers establish routines and introduce reading habits and behaviors. A month-by-month chart organizes a year's worth of mini-lessons in self-monitoring and decoding skills, comprehension strategies, vocabulary development, writing about reading, and genre awareness. Complete with morning message ideas, book lists for read-alouds and genre studies, mini-lessons for every aspect of reading, interactive whiteboard activities, and strategies for supporting struggling readers and challenging more advanced ones, this book is everything teachers need to help children grow into confident readers!