Language Arts

Smart Start Writing Paper (11"x 8-1/2") is truly a "Smart Start" for beginning and experienced writers. Bold graphics in blue, green, and red promote the feeling of success as children simply "Start at the Sky and pull down to the Ground" to form letters correctly. K-1 Writing Paper lines have 1" spacing. Package includes 360 sheets.

Learning domain-specific vocabulary requires more than just memorizing definitions. Students must understand how the various terms connect with one another in order to fully internalize the content they need to know. Concept sorts are the answer! This book details how best to use concept sorts and includes extension activities and reproducible word and picture cards for 15 key topics in science, social studies, and math. A remarkably easy way to expand students' vocabulary and comprehension! For use with Grades 4 & Up.

Ideal for English and Spanish speakers, this bidirectional dictionary defines the core vocabularies of Latin-American Spanish and American English. Over 40,000 entries and 50,000 translations. Includes Spanish-to-English and English-to-Spanish sections, conjugation of Spanish verbs, and irregular English verbs. Paperback. 384 pages. Grades 4–12

Watch comprehension soar as students develop essential reading skills! Each book features a high-interest topic and emphasizes a particular reading skill. Students read to find facts, draw conclusions, distinguish fact from opinion, make inferences, and more! 28-32 pages. Interest Level Grades 4–8; Reading Level 3–4.

The ability to identify opposite concepts such as full/empty and front/back is a valuable comprehension skill.

Students match these 27 colorfully illustrated Antonyms Puzzles to practice and reinforce this skill.

Build word power with these 24 ready-to-reproduce, 3-page lessons. Each lesson is packed with fun, research-based activities that help students to explore roots, prefixes, and suffixes; use students' prior knowledge for greater understanding; and give students multiple encounters with new words so they really remember them. Watch reading skills and test scores soar! 80 pages.

Instant classroom interventions for phonics and comprehension instruction! Each grade-specific volume offers 20+ ready-to-use 5-day units targeting a specific skill of strategy. Includes quick and easy mini-lessons, 100+ fun and engaging practice activities, end-of-week assessments, plus free pre- and post assessments available online. 108-186 pages.

The Little Red Tool Box is a powerful literacy manipulative program based on research about how children learn to read. The quiet easy-grip magnetic foam manipulatives are chunky-sized for young learners and create less noise. Each set comes with an assortment of letter or word tiles that target a specific skill, as well as a teaching guide filled with how-tos and instant activities. 228 letters, 52 pictures, 32-page teaching guide. Ages 4-6.

Is your child ready to read? Launch your little learners in the Start to Read! Early Reading Program. This Level 1 collection is a first step in building the foundation your preschooler or first grader needs to experience reading success in school. With a Read-Along & Songs CD, this super package offers Two Great Ways to Learn®. The set contains: 5 Beginning Readers that present charming stories with beginning vocabulary 1 Read-Along & Songs CD that includes all 5 stories (narrated) and 10 original songs 1 Comprehension Workbook that corresponds to the 5 stories to test and reinforce reading skills 1 Parent Guide that offers tips and ideas for following a 3-step approach: listen, read and review The stories in the readers are fun, easy to follow, and colorfully illustrated. Repetition, rhyming words, and short sentences introduce and reinforce essential language and listening skills. Each story has one track on the CD dedicated to uninterrupted reading and another narrated track, with turn-the-page signals to help your child follow along in the book. The CD also has 10, fun-to-memorize songs that make bedtime, bathtime, or any time more playful. A comprehension workbook provides additional activities and extra practice of newly learned skills, while testing your child's understanding of each story. A Parent Guide offers tips and ideas for you to enhance and support his or her reading progress. Originally developed by educator and School Zone co-founder Dr. James Hoffman, the updated sequence-based series, which consists of storybooks and complementary materials across three progressive reading levels, is designed to build a solid literary foundation for any child while teaching kids that reading is fun. This Level 1 collection makes a great start. Follow this program, and you and your child will celebrate reading success every day! Skills: Level 1 Story Books – beginning sight words; 9-50 new vocabulary words; word recognition; letter recognition; beginning sounds; letter-sound association; problem solving; rhyming; vocabulary building Read-Along & Songs CD – creativity; memorization; sound recognition; reading comprehension; listening; following directions Comprehension Book – reading comprehension; focus; problem solving Fun Features & Big Benefits • Memorable stories and characters • 3-step approach to reading • Whimsical, age-appropriate songs • Pencil-and-paper workbook activities • Story narration on audio CD • An exceptional value!

Help students hone essential reading comprehension skills with this must have resource! Each reproducible page includes informational text, that encourages students to read with a purpose. Follow up questions emphasize making connections, inferences and synthesizing what students have read. Aligned with Common Core Standards. 120 pages.

For many children, developing instant recognition of phonetically irregular sight words can be a real struggle, requiring practice, practice, and more practice. And every student will love getting that practice by creating their own fun sentences with the specially selected manipulatives in these hands-on kits! Just place any of the objects in the blank spots on the sentence cards, and they'll be amazed at the wacky results—and since every word in the sentences is a critically-important Dolch sight word, they'll be mastering those tricky high frequency words in no time! Each set includes 15 real-life miniature objects, 20 sentence cards, and teaching suggestions.