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Joyful Writing in PreK: Create. Imagine. Learn.
Joyful Writing in PreK contains 125 lessons (100 writing minilessons + 25 interactive writing lessons) that spark creativity, imagination, and learning. Writing minilessons are brief, focused, explicit lessons that help children understand and...
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Already Ready: Nurturing Writers in Preschool and Kindergarten
By the time they reach preschool or kindergarten, young children are already writers. They don’t have much experience, but they’re filled with stories to tell and ideas to express—they want to show the world what they know and see. All...
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Assessing Early Literacy with Richard Gentry (with DVD)
This is a three-part, DVD-based kit that shows you how one simple diagnostic test can reveal any student’s progress through the phases of early reading and writing. You’ll watch firsthand as Gentry meets children between ages three and seven...
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Build Reading Fluency: Practice and Performance with Reader's Theater
Discover innovative ways to incorporate fluency practice into literacy instruction! This professional development resource provides teachers with engaging and practical strategies for bringing fluency instruction into daily reading routines. Build...
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Choice Time: How to Deepen Learning Through Inquiry and Play, PreK-2
"In her inspirational, well-researched book, Renée describes the kinds of learning opportunities that all parents want for their own children. Her accessible writing style makes it easy to envision the environment, teaching, and community she...
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Fountas & Pinnell Sounds, Letters, and Words in PreK: Listen. Look. Learn.
Launch children’s literacy journey with Sounds, Letters, and Words in PreK100 explicit lessons designed to cultivate children’s natural curiosity about the sounds of language and encourage their active engagement in learning how sounds,...
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I Am Reading
Nurturing Young Children's Meaning Making and Joyful Engagement with Any Book It’s vital that we support young children’s reading in ways that nurture healthy reading identities, that foster an attraction to books and a love of reading, and...
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In Pictures and In Words, PreK-4
Make abstract qualities like tone, detail, and organization easily visible for young writers with Katie Wood Ray’s In Pictures and in Words. “If teachers show children how an illustrator’s decisions about pictures are a lot like a...
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Letter Lessons and First Words
If you’re not sure how phonics fits within your daily instruction, or crave a more effective process for teaching phonics, Heidi Anne Mesmer is here to help. In Letter Lessons and First Words, Heidi Anne provides a research-based vision of...
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Literacy Beginnings, 3rd Edition
With Literacy Beginnings: A Prekindergarten Handbook, Third Edition, tap into young children’s curiosity to introduce them to the world of literacy in joyful, engaging ways. “The knowledge that forms the foundation for reading and...