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Increasing fluency with high frequency word phrases. Grade 4 / by Knoblock, Kathleen.(CARDINAL)787692; Fry, Edward,developer.; Rasinski, Timothy V.,developer.(CARDINAL)370959;
Based on Dr. Edward Fry's instant Words and Dr. Timothy Rasinski's fluency research, this resource helps teach students to recognize words, read phrases with expression, improve fluency, and increase comprehension. Includes Audio CD and Teacher Resource CD.
Subjects: Fluency (Language learning) Study and teaching (Primary).; Reading comprehension Study and teaching (Primary).;
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Increasing fluency with high frequency word phrases : Grade 2 / by Kroblock, Kathleen.; Rasinski, Timothy V.,developer.(CARDINAL)370959; Fry, Edward,developer.;
Standard Correlations -- About the Developers -- How to Increase Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrases -- How to use this book -- Techniques for Engaging Students in Oral Reading -- Three-Component Rubric for Assessing Fluency -- Lesson Plans -- Answer key."Build second graders confidence in reading with these engaging lessons! Increasing Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrases offers 20 creative lessons that analyze high frequency practice to gain word recognition, expression, and fluency with comprehension questions to evaluate mastery. A fluency rubric and reference list of oral reading strategies are included to support learning success. Based on Dr. Timothy's expert fluency research and Dr. Edward Fry's Instant Words, this resource is aligned with college and career readiness standards and provides an important reading foundation. An Audio CD with oral readings of phrases and reading selections is included."
Subjects: Reading (Primary); Fluency (Language learning); Reading comprehension Study and teaching (Primary).;
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Bob books. sight words kindergarten / by Kertell, Lynn Maslen,author.(CARDINAL)591379; Container of (work) :Kertell, Lynn Maslen.Mat hid.; Container of (work) :Kertell, Lynn Maslen.Hop.; Container of (work) :Kertell, Lynn Maslen.Jet.; Container of (work) :Kertell, Lynn Maslen.Who?; Container of (work) :Kertell, Lynn Maslen.As big as.; Container of (work) :Kertell, Lynn Maslen.Milk.; Container of (work) :Kertell, Lynn Maslen.She did it.; Container of (work) :Kertell, Lynn Maslen.Frog sat.; Container of (work) :Kertell, Lynn Maslen.Trip.; Container of (work) :Kertell, Lynn Maslen.Sun sets.; Adaptation of (expression) :Maslen, Bobby Lynn.Bob books.(CARDINAL)662992; Hendra, Sue,illustrator.(CARDINAL)393457;
Sight words, also known as high frequency words, are common words that appear again and again in children's reading materials. Knowing these words "by sight" is essential for reading fluency. Kids learn to easily recognize 30 of these words in Bob Books Sight Words - Kindergarten. Each story introduces three new sight words commonly taught in Kindergarten.PK1
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Fiction.; Reading readiness.; English language;
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The art and science of teaching primary reading / by Such, Christopher,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- PART I Reading and its origins -- 1 A brief history of reading and writing -- 2 Useful frameworks for reading comprehension -- 3 The trouble with English -- PART II Decoding -- 4 Phonics -- 5 Fluency -- PART III Language comprehension -- 6 Language comprehension; listening comprehension -- 7 Situation models -- 8 Comprehension monitoring -- 9 Inference -- 10 Text structure -- 11 Vocabulary -- 12 Background knowledge -- 13 How the elements of language comprehension interact -- PART IV Opportunities to enhance reading -- 14 Independent reading/reading for pleasure -- 15 Reading across the curriculum -- 16 Writing -- PART V Addressing reading difficulties -- 17 Dyslexia -- 18 Assessment and data -- 19 Intervention -- PART VI The reading diet -- 20 The current situation -- 21 Finding a balance -- 22 Questioning and discussion -- 23 Choosing texts -- 24 An action plan for classroom teachers -- 25 An action plan for reading coordinators -- Afterword -- Glossary -- Appendix A: The '345 list' of tier two vocabulary for primary schools -- Appendix B: Latin and Greek root words for primary schools -- Appendix C: Example timetables for explicit vocabulary instruction.The essential guide to the science behind reading and its practical implications for classroom teaching in primary schools. Teaching children to read is one of the most important tasks in primary education and classroom practice needs to be underpinned by a secure foundation of knowledge. Teachers need to know what reading entails, how children learn to read and how it can be taught effectively. This book is an essential guide for primary teachers that explores the key technical and practical aspects of how children read with strong links to theory and how to translate this into the classroom. Bite-size chapters offer accessible research-informed ideas across all major key topics including phonics, comprehension, teaching children with reading difficulties and strategies for the classroom.
Subjects: Reading (Elementary); English language;
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Make letters. Make words! [video-enabled device] by Findaway World, LLC.,issuing body.(CARDINAL)345268;
Clever keyboard : ABC learning game -- Windy's lost kite -- Minilobes : WordCrown -- Play 'n' learn letters, numbers -- Kids connect the dots -- Phonics fever -- Montessori words -- Learn to read : rhyme stories -- Arty Mouse tracing -- Sight words games in Candy Land 2.0.In Arty Mouse tracing, Arty Mouse and his colorful friends engage, enthuse, and empower little learners, helping to fast-track them by developing their motor skills and confidence. Covering a selection of tracing-related skills including tracing vertical, horizontal, and curved lines to create pictures, letters, numbers and more!Help your little kids to master typing and alphabet with clever keyboard : ABC learning game! This is a teaching and training tool packed with lots of typing games.Children will enjoy the friendly themes, bright illustrations and the encouraging clues while they practice number and letter recognition skills. Dots are displayed in upper and lower case alphabet letters, and odd or even numbers. Once the dots are connected, the outline is delightfully transformed into a color graphic.Learn to read : rhyme stories contain six fun, interactive, and engaging early learning stories that improve literacy skills, phonics, and fluency. Parents, teachers, and children all love the stories for their rhythm, rhyming, engaging characters, and vibrant illustrations.Help the Minilobes learn new words, collect crystals and obtain the WordCrown!Based upon the Montessori learning method, children will be able to develop reading, writing, and spelling skills by building words from a set of 320 word-image audio phonics. Children will develop phonetic awareness and learn to memorize letters and their sounds in a fun and engaging way!Kids will love learning the alphabet and phonic sounds with the colorful graphics!This cool app allows your child to learn how to draw numbers, shapes and alphabet letters.Dive into a fairy-tale world filled with pink unicorns, candy fruit, and chocolate rivers! Children will master sight words, spelling, and more while exploring all that Candy Land has to offer!Discover a magical world of handcrafted puppetry brought to life in Windy and Friends! Children will be captivated with the touch interactivity as they help Windy solve the mystery of her missing red kite. Meet some of Windy's friends who will help demonstrate cooperation and problem solving skills through this wonderful story experience!"Kids will build confidence as they master everything about letters and words with these literacy-focused games, challenges, and storybooks. - Learn to write letters and make words - Develop phonetic awareness - Learn sight words and vocabulary - Practice spelling"Ages 3+
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Educational games.; Electronic books.; Literacy; Mobile apps.; Reading readiness; Reading; Video games.; Vocabulary;
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How to prevent reading difficulties, grades PreK-3 : proactive practices for teaching young children to read / by Weakland, Mark,author.(CARDINAL)499315;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index.The reading brain. From Lizard to Linnaeus ; Halves and wholes ; Circuits and lobes ; Questions and answers ; The eternal triangle ; The language pathway: linking semantics and phonology ; The lexical pathway: the importance of orthography ; The sublexical pathway: sounding it out -- What are reading difficulties? A range of behaviors ; Terms to describe difficulties ; Two case studies ; The simple view of reading ; To better understand difficulties, graph the simple view ; We can prevent problems -- Highly effective teaching techniques. Use repetition and distributed practice ; Teach directly and explicitly ; Instantly correct errors ; Give wait time ; Activate the senses with a multisensory component -- Building language comprehension. Components of language comprehension ; Practices to build and strengthen language comprehension ; Vocabulary instruction that builds background knowledge ; Bringing it all together: the interactive read-aloud ; Why language comprehension is so important -- Building phonological skills. Phonological, phonemic, and phonics ; Advanced phonological awareness is important ; Activities that teach large chunks of sound: phonological awareness ; Activities that teach the smallest chunks of sound: phonemic awareness ; Phonological foundations -- Building orthographic skills. Review of orthography and the brain dictionary ; Building letter-sound associations ; Noticing and using patterns for reading, spelling, and vocabulary meaning ; Read, read, read -- Reading: guided, repeated, independent. More reading for every student ; Small-group guided reading ; Reading to develop fluency ; Reading poems: shared, guided, and independent ; Supported independent reading -- What's next."This book informs and reminds teachers of instructional best practice for teaching young children how to read, as well as the science behind it. Teachers will learn specific types of instruction to use with K-3 learners that can prevent many reading difficulties"--
Subjects: Reading (Early childhood); Reading (Primary); Reading, Psychology of.; Lecture (Enseignement primaire); Lecture (Première enfance); Lecture;
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Enchanted thinker! [video-enabled device] by Findaway World, LLC.,issuing body.(CARDINAL)345268;
Berenstain Bears get in a fight -- Berenstain Bears in the dark -- The Wizard of Oz part 2: the Emerald City -- Wonster words spelling phonics -- Speakaboos : Frankenstein -- The Wizard of Oz part 1: Dorothy goes to Oz -- The Wizard of Oz part 3: Kansas at last -- Aladdin -- Care Bears fun to learn -- Goodnight Mo ~ 3D interactive pop-up book -- The very hungry caterpillar : first words -- Kids ABC letters -- Learn to read: rhyme stories -- Basic phonics 1 -- Basic phonics 2 -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow -- Tom Sawyer paints the fence -- Phonics playtime -- Pango seek and find : fairytales -- Goldilocks.The is the classic Arabian tale of Aladdin, who with the help of a Genie from a magic lamp, fights evil and wins the hand of a beautiful princess. Speakaboos' parent app, HOMER, is a proven early learning program that builds personalized learning plans for children ages 2-8 - complete with stories like this!Practice phonemic awareness skills with short segments of fun. Choose your language pattern and make pairs, drag and drop letter combinations, tap the words, rhyme words, sound hunt, and make pairs.Practice phonemic awareness skills with short segments of fun. Choose your language pattern and make pairs, drag and drop letter combinations, tap the words, rhyme words, sound hunt, and make pairs.Read and play along with Brother and Sister as a little morning grumpiness turns into an all-day fight. Even a noisy storm can't stop them from arguing and fighting. Do they even remember why they are fighting? Can anything make them stop?Read and play along as Brother Bear reads a spooky story to Sister Bear and keeps her - and eventually the entire family - up all night long. The next day, Papa shows Sister how to take charge of her imagination and in the end, it's Brother who is a little afraid in the dark. This timeless Stan and Jan Berenstain story springs to life on every page.Play and learn with the Care Bears! Choose your favorite Bear and start learning colors, shapes, numbers, letters, math and memory while shaping creativity and much more with over 100 interactive activities and games!A traditional well known fairy tale about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Introducing the coordinating conjunction "for" with highlighted text and independent reading modes. eKidz is an award-winning language learning application that helps kids develop reading skills. Each title features interactive listening and reading practice, simultaneous narration adapted by level, reading comprehension, and much more, while providing the opportunity for children to celebrate culture and heritage through exclusive content.Goodnight Mo is a magically sleepy and comforting bedtime book. As night falls and the moon rises, a cute little monster gets ready for bed. Children will delight in gently sending various animals to the land of nod, popping bubbles in a bath, or brushing Mo's teeth. Emerging readers can listen along with narration, or read independently with word highlighting.Learn ABC letters with Captain Cat! Captain Cat takes children on an enchanting voyage through alphabet waters to learn the names and shapes of letters, and practice letter recognition while finding letters in the context of words. Each portion has a fun activity to earn parts to build a boat, encouraging fun while learning.Learn to read: rhyme stories contain six fun, interactive, and engaging early learning stories that improve literacy skills, phonics, and fluency. Parents, teachers, and children all love the stories for their rhythm, rhyming, engaging characters, and vibrant illustrations.Seek and find characters to advance the story through a series of fairy tales! Children can have fun while practicing motor skills, searching for clues, exploring and discovering.Phonics Playtime is designed to help children understand the different phonetic sounds, rather than the alphabet. By completing exercises and practicing the different phonics groups, Phonics Playtime will improve your child's cognitive skills in a fun and playful way. Including over 2000 unique exercises that were carefully made to learn the different phonics and phonics groups. Children can complete exercises within specific phonics groups or can play totally random exercises within an easy, medium, hard or mixed difficulty level.Victor's experiment was successful in bringing Frankenstein to life. But after his poor treatment of the green creature, who's the real monster? Speakaboos' parent app, HOMER, is a proven early learning program that builds personalized learning plans for children ages 2-8 - complete with this story and others like this!Ichabod Crane has just arrived in Sleepy Hollow. He soon learns that the town is haunted by an evil spirit. Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and a standards-aligned reading level, independently measured using the Lexile framework.An adorable learning app that delights and encourages children to learn new words! Featuring the very hungry caterpillar and other much-loved characters, the app introduces early learners to over 80 words, from farm animals to food. Turn the app into a language learning tool for students of all ages by simply choosing the second language menu!Follow Dorothy down the Yellow Brick Road in this beloved story. After a tornado in Kansas, Dorothy and her dog Toto meet a Good Witch and discover Dorothy's house fell on and accidentally killed a Wicked Witch. Can Dorothy's friends help her find her way to the Emerald City to make her way home?Dorothy and her friends have reached the Emerald City! Will the Wizard of Oz help Dorothy get home to Kansas?After defeating the Wicked Witch of the West, a Flying Monkey takes Dorothy and Toto away from the Castle to meet Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow. Read along in this classic and see if Dorothy meets the Wizard and can get home to Kansas.Aunt Polly wants Tom to paint the fence. But all Tom wants to do is play. Will he find a way out of his chores? Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and a standards-aligned reading level, independently measured using the Lexile framework.Help your children learn phonics and grow his vocabulary! By playing with silly letter ghosts and hilarious wonsters, Wonster Words teaches spelling and "sounding out" new words by learning phonics, word families, digrahs, trigraphs, and more. Kids will have a blast putting together words through interactive spelling puzzles, letter hide-and-seek, and other engaging mini-games."Kids will build a strong literary foundation as they develop vocabulary and spelling skills, practice rhyming, improve reading comprehension, and read along with these classic and well-loved stories. This SuperPack contains 2X as many apps as the standard Launchpad."Grades K - 2.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Electronic books.; English language; Literacy; Mobile apps.; Reading (Primary); Vocabulary;
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Critical links : learning in the arts and student academic and social development / by Deasy, Richard.(CARDINAL)292814; Catterall, James S.(CARDINAL)292813; Hetland, Lois,1953-(CARDINAL)287264; Winner, Ellen.(CARDINAL)292812; Arts Education Partnership (U.S.)(CARDINAL)292811;
Includes bibliographical references.[Part 1.] Dance -- Teaching cognitive skill through dance: evidence for near but not far transfer -- The effects of creative dance instruction on creative and critical thinking of seventh grade female students in Seoul, Korea -- Effects of movement poetry program on creativity of children with behavioral disorders -- Assessment of high school students' creative thinking skills: a comparison of the effects of dance and non-dance classes -- The impact of Whirlwind's Basic Reading Through Dance program on first grade students' basic reading skills: study II -- Art and community: creating knowledge through service in dance -- Motor imagery and athletic expertise: exploring the role of imagery in kinesthetic intelligence -- Informing and reforming dance education research -- [Part 2.] Drama -- The effects of creative drama on the social and oral language skills of children with learning disabilities -- The effectiveness of creative drama as an instructional strategy to enhance the reading comprehension skills of fifth-grade remedial readers -- Role of imaginative play in cognitive development -- A naturalistic study of the relationship between literacy development and dramatic play in five-year-old children -- An exploration into the writing of original scripts by inner-city high school drama students -- A poetic/dramatic approach to facilitate oral communication -- Drama and drawing for narrative writing in primary grades -- Children's story comprehension as a result of storytelling and story dramatization: a study of the child as spectator and as participant -- The impact of Whirlwind's Reading Comprehension Through Drama program on 4th grade students' reading skills and standardized test scores -- The effects of thematic-fantasy play training on the development of children's story comprehension -- Symbolic functioning and children's early writing: relations between kindergarteners' play and isolated word writing fluency -- Identifying causal elements in the thematic-fantasy play paradigm -- The effect of dramatic play on children's generation of cohesive text -- Strengthening verbal skills through the use of classroom drama: a clear link -- "Stand and unfold yourself": a monograph on the Shakespeare & Company research study -- Nadie papers no. 1, drama, language, and learning: reports of the Drama and Language Research Project, Speech and Drama Center, Education Department of Tasmania -- The effects of role playing on written persuasion: an age and channel comparison of fourth and eighth graders -- "You can't be Grandma, you're a boy": events within the thematic fantasy play context that contribute to story comprehension -- The flight of reading: shifts in instruction, orchestration, and attitudes through classroom theatre -- Research on drama and theater in education -- [Part 3]. Multi-Arts -- Using art processes to enhance academic self-regulation -- Learning in and through the arts: the question of transfer -- Involvement in the arts and success in secondary school -- Involvement in the arts and human development: extending an analysis of general associations and introducing the special cases of intensive involvement in music and in theatre arts -- Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE): evaluation summary -- The role of the fine and performing arts in high school dropout prevention -- Arts education secondary schools: effects and effectiveness -- Living the arts through language and learning: a report on community-based youth organizations -- Do extracurricular activities protect against early school dropout? -- Does studying the arts engender creative thinking?: evidence for near but not far transfer -- The arts and education reform: lessons from a four-year evaluation of the A+ Schools Program, 1995-1999 -- Placing A+ in a national context: a comparison to promising practices for comprehensive school reform -- The A+ Schools Program: school, community, teacher, and student effects -- The Arts In the Basic Curriculum Project: looking at the past and preparing for the future -- Mute those claims: no evidence (yet) for a causal link between arts study and academic achievement -- Why the arts matter in education, or Just what do children learn when they create an opera? -- SAT scores of students who study the arts: what we can and cannot conclude about the association -- Promising signs of positive effects: lessons from multi-arts studies -- [Part 4.] Music -- Effects of an integrated reading and music instructional approach on fifth-grade students' reading achievement, reading attitude, music achievement, and music attitude -- The effect of early music training on child cognitive development -- Can music be used to teach reading? -- The effects of three years of piano instruction on children's cognitive development -- Enhanced learning of proportional math through music training and spatial-temporal training -- The effects of background music on studying -- Learning to make music enhances spatial reasoning -- Listening to music enhances spatial-temporal reasoning: evidence for the "Mozart effect" -- An investigation of the effects of music on two emotionally disturbed students' writing motivations and writing skills -- The effects of musical performance, rational emotive therapy and vicarious experience on the self-efficacy and self-esteem of juvenile delinquents and disadvantaged children -- The effect of the incorporation of music learning into the second-language classroom on the mutual reinforcement of music and language -- Music training causes long-term enhancement of preschool children's spatial-temporal reasoning -- Classroom keyboard instruction improves kindergarten children's spatial-temporal performance: a field experiment -- A meta-analysis on the effects of music as reinforcement for education/therapy objectives -- Music and mathematics: modest support for the oft-claimed relationship -- An overview of research on music and learning -- [Part 5.] Visual arts -- Instruction in visual art: can it help children learn to read? -- The arts, language, and knowing: an experimental study of the potential of the visual arts for assessing academic learning by language minority students -- Investigating the educational impact and potential of the Museum of Modern Art's visual thinking curriculum: final report -- Reading is seeing: using visual response to improve the literary reading of reluctant readers -- Reflections on visual arts education studies -- [Part 6.] Overview -- The arts and the transfer of learning.
Subjects: Arts; Art; Academic achievement.; Cognition.;
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