Language Arts

High-interest fiction and nonfiction reading passages and guided practice help struggling readers master foundational reading skills. Scaffolded practice targets specific skills including Main Idea, Predictions, Inferences, Plot, Character, Context Clues, and more. Interactive reader response questions engage students and help build understanding. 128 pages.

Your fifth grade students can learn about the same topic—while reading at their own level! The all-new Nonfiction Reading Practice guides students in reading and understanding nonfiction texts with articles that span the curriculum, helping to boost students' knowledge and comprehension across subject areas.

The leveled reading selections on the same topic and the supporting activities help you accommodate students' varied reading abilities within one class.

Every unit includes:

• 3 levels of nonfiction reading selections on the same topic
• Text-based comprehension questions (multiple choice and open-ended)
• Words to Know lists with vocabulary for each reading selection
• Visual literacy page to enrich learning and support focused discussions
• Text-based writing prompt and a writing form
• Graphic organizers

The 17 units of nonfiction reading selections cover these 5th grade topics:

• Social Studies: The Iroquois Nations; Women in the American Revolution; Art Reflects History; Ways to Earn a Living
• Science: Earth's Water; Matter and Mass; Relationships in Nature; The Sun and Stars
• Mathematics: Extraordinary Food, Ordinary Math; A Business Uses Math; Video Game Development
• Technology: The Field of Prosthetics; Engineers Do Important Work; Inventions Impact Our Lives
• The Arts: Augusta Savage; Art or Garbage?; Ice Hotels 

Nonfiction Reading Practice is a completely revised edition of a long-time favorite. It's sure to be your favorite supplemental reading resource for facilitating reading groups and creating an inclusive reading environment!

Plus, with the help of the writing form, you'll have writing samples for every student to display in your classroom.

This resource can be used to support English language learners, Tier 2, and Tier 3 (content vocabulary).

With pencils, highlighters, or crayons in hand, closely analyze rich pairs of fiction and nonfiction texts to build students' fluency and comprehension skills. Each easy-to-use resource encompasses close reading and reciprocal teaching strategies, text sets, text-dependent questions, and activities to build each student's vocabulary, reading fluency, writing skills, and comprehension skills. Teacher modeling is provided to help guide students as they clarify the meanings of texts. Includes 24 texts across the content areas. 128 pages.

Help your students develop phonics skills in just 15 to 20 minutes a day! Provide explicit, systematic phonics instruction and scaffolded practice, all delivered in the well-loved format of an Evan-Moor “Daily.” Daily Phonics helps young students, English learners, and struggling readers gain the phonemic awareness, decoding, and word-study skills necessary to become confident, proficient readers. Students will appreciate the simple, clear activity formats and supporting illustrations. Correlated to state standards. 208 pages.

It only takes one reading comprehension resource book to help students improve skills at every reading level!

The Guided Reading: Question book for third and fourth grades features 36 readers—six each for below-level, on-level, and above-level reading skills. Filled with charts and maps, it enhances lesson plans with informational text about topics such as the moon, Ben Franklin, carnivorous plants, and more.

Guided Reading: Question provides you with a comprehensive reading program. The resource book includes:

• prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features
• discussion guides
• graphic organizers
• leveled readers with intriguing topics

Separated into three readability levels, the nonfiction readers capture students' attention with appealing topics, colorful photos, graphic charts, and detailed maps. Students are encouraged to apply guided reading strategies to the text and complete writing prompts to prove comprehension.

The Ready to Go: Guided Reading series for first to sixth grades includes everything you need for guided reading organization. Each 80-page book is essentially a guided reading set, containing 36 total readers, six discussion guides, and three reproducible pages. Each grade span includes 8 books, focusing on the following reading comprehension strategies:

• Connect
• Infer
• Question
• Summarize
• Analyze
• Determine Importance
• Synthesize
• Visualize

Each nonfiction reader contains short nonfiction texts, vocabulary banks, photographs, charts, and maps.

Start with 150 nonfiction passages about people, places and events related to science, sports, history and social studies. Follow them with multiple-choice questions designed to reinforce reading comprehension skills ranging from basic recall to critical thinking. With daily practice, students will become confident readers who can demonstrate their comprehension skills on standardized tests. 176 pages.

Give early readers hands-on foundational skills practice with this set of Unfix CVC and Blends letter cubes along with a comprehensive activity book and card set.

Set includes 90 CVC Cubes and 180 Blend cubes as well as Unifix Reading Phonics Activities
book and Phonics Word Building Cards.

Ideal for small-group or station work.

Includes enough materials for 2–3 students.

These books provide teachers with the perfect resource for allowing students to practice a close and careful reading of texts. Various reading and vocabulary skills are covered, and a culminating reflection question for each passage engages students' higher-level thinking skills. In-depth questioning leads students to a deeper understanding of each passage, and students are required to refer to the text in order to give evidence-based answers. 64 pages.

Blank books can be used in the same way as journals, giving minds and hearts a private way to express emotions or work out new ideas and feelings. These practical and useful books can be kept as signature books for productions, graduations or end of the year events. 51⁄2" x 81⁄2". 32 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.

Blast off with reading comprehension! Players start on the Earth side and work their way up to blasting off into space by answering questions covering concepts such as Main Idea, Inference, Context Clues, Figurative Language, and other essential comprehension skills. Includes 4 double-sided game boards and 140 content-rich question cards with two levels to keep students challenged. 2-4 players.

Sandpaper numerals offer an important tactile experience for the young child, or those with special needs in learning correct numeral formation.

Each card is covered with fine sand to help students make the connection between the physical movement of forming the number and the actual number shape. Each durable card has directional arrows to ensure proper formation and measures 2.75" x 4.83" and 5.5" x 4.83". Set of 21 cards, 0-20.