LITERACY

Saddleback's Literacy Books, Teen Emergent Reader Libraries offer three levels to support step-by step learning by increasing the ability and complexity along the way. Starting at a Pre-K reading level, the Libraries will entice even your most struggling, at-risk, special needs and English language learners.

To distinguish the books as teenage material, the books in the level ENGAGE are a substantial 48 pages in length, supported on every page by full-color, riveting photographs. Grouped by genre, with five genres per level and extensive teacher support, this series offers middle and high school teachers the solution for differentiating instruction while still teaching grade-level content and meeting Common Core standards.

Page Count: 48 pages per book
Word Count: 800 to 950
Genres Include: Friendship, Health/Safety, Mystery, Realistic Life, Science Fiction

Saddleback's Teen Emergent Reader Libraries offer three levels to support step-by step learning by increasing the ability and complexity along the way. Starting at a Pre-K reading level, the Libraries will entice even your most struggling, at-risk, special needs and English language learners.

To distinguish the books as teenage material, the books in the level EXCEL are a substantial 64 pages in length, supported on every page by full-color, riveting photographs. Grouped by genre, with five genres per level and extensive teacher support, this series offers middle and high school teachers the solution for differentiating instruction while still teaching grade-level content and meeting Common Core standards.

Page Count: 64 pages per book
Word Count: 1100 to 1300
Genres Include: Careers, Fantasy, Mythology, Romance, Teenage Firsts

The Comprehension Strategies Box 5is suitable for 5th Class pupils and above. The box contains a set of full-colour, differentiated literacy cards designed to support the teaching and learning of nine different comprehension strategies. These well-researched and proven strategies—predicting, visualising, making connections, questioning, clarifying, summarising, determining importance, inferring and synthesising—are compiled to help teachers unlock their pupils’ reading abilities.

Features:

162 cards in the box, colour-coded by strategy.

Original texts across the cards and teacher guide, allowing pupils to experience a variety of fiction and non-fiction text types.

Cater for all while learning the same strategies, with three differentiated reading levels by suggested Lexile ranges for each strategy, and a placement test provided to ascertain pupils’ starting point.

Extensive support through a comprehensive teacher guide and an additional activity book with worksheets for all texts on the cards.

All children deserve a chance to learn to love reading. The Joyful Reading Resource Kit offers teachers an impressive array of tools, resources, and activities for getting students at all levels excited about reading while developing their proficiency in comprehension. Serving as a companion to Joyful Reading, the book offers teachers everything they need to implement the Schoolwide Enrichment Model in Reading (SEM-R), a differentiated instructional approach that encourages students to read independently for a period of time each day on books of their own choice. Implemented in three phases, the SEM-R program has been shown by research to improve fluency and comprehension among at-risk students.

The Joyful Reading Resource Kit is a vital compendium not only for classroom teachers but also for parents and after-school educators who wish to support students in discovering the rich rewards and delights of reading.

The Joyful Reading Resource Kit includes:

Reproducible "bookmarks" for scaffolding students in critical thinking and comprehension activities

Extensive lists of recommended books

Tips for supporting students in selection of appropriately challenging books

Materials for managing independent reading in the classroom, including log sheets, five-minute conference tips, writing prompts, assessment rubrics, and a reading growth chart

Exciting enrichment resources to develop students' reading interests, including a survey form, online books, Web-based activities, and Renzulli Learning resources

Hands-On Creativity activities that help students elaborate ideas, develop fluency, brainstorm, and much more

Reproducible X-ploration projects on varied topics that students can pursue independently at their own pace

High-interest reading material in a wide variety of genres, incorporating both fiction and nonfiction. Topics that link into key curricular themes in science, geography and history. Practice of comprehension strategies using questions pitched at the literal, inferential and applied levels. Focus on vocabulary and word study

Vocabulary and word study questions specifically linked into the reading piece. Constant repetition of question types to ensure continuous practice. Suggestions for additional speaking and listening, reading, writing and cross-curricular activities relating to each card and topic contained in a comprehensive teaching guide. Creates independent readers and promotes spelling, punctuation and grammar skills through text-based activities. Engage in station teaching and group work strategies

Reading cards that are colour-coded according to reading level and difficulty. Cards can be used in mixed-ability or same ability groupings within the classroom. Independent correcting scheme to encourage children to correct their own work, freeing up teacher's time to work with selected groups in the classroom. 'Something extra' section at the end of the cards to encourage writing and further reading responses. Flexible use within the classroom

What’s in the box?

Teachers Guide containing 200+ pages of teaching suggestions and photocopiable activities.

75 × four-page literacy cards

Page 1 – reading piece

Page 2 – comprehension practice

Page 3 – word study activities

Page 4 – grammar and punctuation questions

75 × answer cards

Understanding the linguistic rules and phonic principles of English spelling is the key to success with spelling. This indispensable reference book explains the spelling system of the English Language and how it has developed. It includes generalizations for the phonic spelling of sounds and words, explains the rules for syllable division, rules of affixing and plurals. This book is particularly useful for students with an implicit processing difficulty.

This work is based on the Teaching Reading Through Spelling Programme developed between 1983 and 1987 at the Kingston Reading Centre by Lucy Cowdery and her colleagues. TRTS is a multi-sensory remedial programme for teaching reading, spelling and cursive writing and is used to train teachers of dyslexic pupils.

Get the facts and read a story all in one book! A fascinating fact-finding section is followed by a story which appears on two parallel ability levels – allowing access for the poorest of readers.

Featuring full-colour images, beautiful illustrations and lively, engaging layouts, the books cover high appeal topics that kids just love to read about. The books combine fact and fiction, starting with a fascinating fact-finding section followed by a beautifully illustrated story on the topic.
Interest Age 8 – 14 years | Reading Age 6 – 7 years. From Vampires, Dinosaurs and Formula One to Fashion and Body Art, the Trailblazers series is bound to offer a topic that will engage and motivate even the most reluctant and struggling of readers.

The Trailblazers books kick off with a fascinating fact finding section, making use of simple non-fiction conventions. The text is broken up into lots of manageable sections, often in the form of bullet points or captions. The pages feature lots of full colour photographs to illustrate the points being made in the text. These colourful and eye-catching layouts vary from page to page so that readers with low attention spans will be constantly engaged with new information, formats and colours. The second half of each book is devoted to a topic-related story. For boys that often prefer non-fiction, the Trailblazers format is designed to encourgage them to read fiction. The fiction story caters for two parallel ability levels. A simple text appears opposite a beautifully illustrated full colour ‘speech bubble’ version allowing access for the poorest readers and making it ideal for buddy reading sessions.

The series will appeal to older children, either with a low level of literacy or who are learning English as a second language. The vocabulary is carefully controlled, with simple sentences and the use of repetition to reinforce reading skills.

Get the facts and read a story all in one book! A fascinating fact-finding section is followed by a story which appears on two parallel ability levels – allowing access for the poorest of readers.

Featuring full-colour images, beautiful illustrations and lively, engaging layouts, the books cover high appeal topics that kids just love to read about. The books combine fact and fiction, starting with a fascinating fact-finding section followed by a beautifully illustrated story on the topic. Interest Age 8 – 14 years | Reading Age 6 – 7 years. From Vampires, Dinosaurs and Formula One to Fashion and Body Art, the Trailblazers series is bound to offer a topic that will engage and motivate even the most reluctant and struggling of readers.

The Trailblazers books kick off with a fascinating fact finding section, making use of simple non-fiction conventions. The text is broken up into lots of manageable sections, often in the form of bullet points or captions. The pages feature lots of full colour photographs to illustrate the points being made in the text. These colourful and eye-catching layouts vary from page to page so that readers with low attention spans will be constantly engaged with new information, formats and colours. The second half of each book is devoted to a topic-related story. For boys that often prefer non-fiction, the Trailblazers format is designed to encourgage them to read fiction. The fiction story caters for two parallel ability levels. A simple text appears opposite a beautifully illustrated full colour ‘speech bubble’ version allowing access for the poorest readers and making it ideal for buddy reading sessions.

The series will appeal to older children, either with a low level of literacy or who are learning English as a second language. The vocabulary is carefully controlled, with simple sentences and the use of repetition to reinforce reading skills.

Get the facts and read a story all in one book! A fascinating fact-finding section is followed by a story which appears on two parallel ability levels – allowing access for the poorest of readers.

Featuring full-colour images, beautiful illustrations and lively, engaging layouts, the books cover high appeal topics that kids just love to read about. The books combine fact and fiction, starting with a fascinating fact-finding section followed by a beautifully illustrated story on the topic. Interest Age 8 – 14 years | Reading Age 6 – 7 years. From Vampires, Dinosaurs and Formula One to Fashion and Body Art, the Trailblazers series is bound to offer a topic that will engage and motivate even the most reluctant and struggling of readers.

The Trailblazers books kick off with a fascinating fact finding section, making use of simple non-fiction conventions. The text is broken up into lots of manageable sections, often in the form of bullet points or captions. The pages feature lots of full colour photographs to illustrate the points being made in the text. These colourful and eye-catching layouts vary from page to page so that readers with low attention spans will be constantly engaged with new information, formats and colours. The second half of each book is devoted to a topic-related story. For boys that often prefer non-fiction, the Trailblazers format is designed to encourgage them to read fiction. The fiction story caters for two parallel ability levels. A simple text appears opposite a beautifully illustrated full colour ‘speech bubble’ version allowing access for the poorest readers and making it ideal for buddy reading sessions.

The series will appeal to older children, either with a low level of literacy or who are learning English as a second language. The vocabulary is carefully controlled, with simple sentences and the use of repetition to reinforce reading skills.

Understanding Everyday Writing - set of 4 books.Although each book is at the same level of difficulty there is differentiation.

Book 1 Cards and Letters
Book 2 Messages and Lists
Book 3 Writing in School
Book 4 Writing All Around Us

This manual provides the theory and specific steps to develop concept imagery, the ability to image a gestalt (whole) from language. It describes the important questioning techniques that stimulate mental imagery, so the teacher can learn to help students visualize language and verbalize what they have imaged. This imagery-language connection is essential for oral and written language comprehension, as well as critical thinking.

The Visualizing and Verbalizing Manual includes sample lessons, step summaries, illustrations, and useful tips for implementing Visualizing and Verbalizing instruction. This second edition is updated and revised, offering more than 100 pages of new material.

Presents the theory and science behind concept imagery
Includes lessons and summaries to assist instructors
Contains diagrams, artwork, lists, and other teaching materials
Develops and improves critical thinking skills
Improves oral and written language comprehension

This series was designed to help pupils who need to develop confidence in reading and writing and for those who English is an additional language to extend their range of written work to fulfill their National Curriculum requirements.

The activities can be used selectively to focus on specific types of text, or to supplement work being done in the mainstream class. Most pages are followed by writing frames/templates allowing students to extend their work and produce a task in two stages that would have been difficult in one stage. All 6 books are at the same level.
Reading age 8+ years.

Book 1 Everyday skills. Notes, cards, postcards, instructions and letters.
Book 2 Popular media and information. Cartoon strips, magazines, newspaper reports and information leaflets.
Book 3 Humour, poetry and drama. Jokes, limericks, poems, dialogues and drama.
Book 4 Personal writing and stories. Diary writing, autobiographical events, biography and fictional narratives.
Book 5 Cross-curricular text types. Experimental report, investigation plan, technology plan, writing for geography and history.
Book 6 Essays. Note-making and planning, essay types: explanation, comparison, discussion, persuasion, evaluation.

Let your child roll these tactile cubes and inspire writing ideas! Students can use these quiet foam cubes in both creative storytelling and non-fiction writing activities.

Feature different writing prompts on every side (36 prompts total).
Activity Guide included. Cubes measure 4cm.
Ages 6-10

A remedial program designed to give older students the tools they need to learn to spell. Combined with a few simple spelling rules, it helps students to master spelling strategies.

Using Direct Instruction methodology, students are taught research-proven strategies to accurately spell 500 morphographs resulting in the ability to spell over 12,000 words. Spelling Through Morphographs also empowers vocabulary growth.

Improve your students' spelling skills

Improves students' spelling skills through clear explanation and teaching of the key spelling rules.

Diagnostic tests ensure progression by identifying students' weaknesses and directing them to the appropriate teaching and practice.

A complete package including front-of-class interactive whiteboard activities to fully cater for the different learning styles of all your students.

Progression can be tracked using the bank using the self-tests provided in the Student Book and Teacher Resource File.

Peer and self-assessment activities enable students to measure their own progress and confidence.

The Spotlight Series is a complete set of worksheets and activities to improve spelling skills, reading accuracy, grammar and phonological awareness.

The 75 worksheets in Spotlight on Suffixes - Book One introduce the most common suffixes in English in a systematic manner, focusing on both the grammatical function of the suffx and the spelling rules concerning the joining of the suffixes to base words. Suffixes which can be pronounced differently according to context such at the '-ed' past tense verb ending are highlighted for special practice.

Spotlight on Suffixes - Book Two, with over 80 worksheets, extends the work in Book One on common suffixes and suffixig rules. The book is in two parts, Part 1 dealing with basic suffix recognition and also giving sytematic coverage of the spelling rules by which suffixes are joined to base words. This Part provides extensive practice of the 'double', 'drop-e' and 'change y to i' rules. Part 2 focuses on individual verb, noun and adjective suffixes such as '-ate', '-ify', '-ity', '-ment', '-ous', '-ible', and others.

The Spotlight Series is a complete set of worksheets and activities to improve spelling skills, reading accuracy, grammar and phonological awareness.

Book One - Phonic wordsearch puzzles and activities to help the development of spelling skills. This is a collection of 30 wordsearch puzzles and fill-in-the-blank activities designed to help in the development of spelling skills. Each puzzle is based on a specific vowel or sound combination, so the book can be used by teachers as part of a structured approach to spelling and to concentrate learning activity where it is needed most.

Book Two - Phonic wordsearch puzzles and activities to help the development of spelling skills. This collection of 40 wordsearch puzzles and fill-in-the-blank activities is designed to help in the development of spelling skills. Each puzzle is based on a specific vowel or sound combination, so the book can be used by teachers as part of a structure approach to spelling and to concentrate learning activity where it is needed most.

The Spotlight Series is a complete set of worksheets and activities to improve spelling skills, reading accuracy, grammar and phonological awareness.

Spotlight on Blends Book 1 provides material to encourage systematic practice with blends at the beginning of words. The tasks in the two Spotlight on Blends books are varied. However, the main emphasis is on developing phonological awareness by means of sound blending, rhyming and careful contrasting of blends which are similar in sound. Research shows that training in such skills leads to improved reading accuracy and spelling.

Spotlight on Blends - Book Two follows on from the work in Book One of the series, focusing this time on the end of words. The tasks in the two Spotlight on Blends books are varied. However, the main emphasis is on developing phonological awareness by means of sound blending, rhyming and careful contrasting of blends which are similar in sound. Research shows that training such skills leads to improved reading accuracy and spelling.

SRA’s Corrective Reading Decoding programs are successful with problem readers because they provide the careful integration, the practice, and the management details that the problem reader needs to succeed.

Level A is appropriate for students who are extremely deficient in decoding skills. These students may recognize some words but do not have adequate strategies for accurate decoding of words like frost and track. The skills are divided into four principal areas: Word-Attack Skills, Workbook Exercises, support activities and Checkouts and Mastery Tests.

This kit contains:
Corrective Reading Decoding Level A, Presentation Book 1
Corrective Reading Decoding Level A, Presentation Book 2
Corrective Reading Decoding Level A, Teacher Guide

SRA’s Corrective Reading Decoding programs are successful with problem readers because they provide the careful integration, the practice, and the management details that the problem reader needs to succeed.

Level B1 is appropriate for most problem readers. They guess at words. They have trouble reading words such as what, that, a, and the when the words appear in a sentence context. They often read synonyms or printed words and are generally inconsistent in their reading behavior (reading a word correctly one time and missing it the next time)

This kit contains:
Corrective Reading Decoding Level B1, Presentation Book 1
Corrective Reading Decoding Level B1 Presentation Book 2
Corrective Reading Decoding Level B1, Teacher Guide