Everyday Literacy: Listening and Speaking, Grade PreK helps you support receptive and expressive language development in your early reading program with fun, focused daily lessons. The 20 weekly units in grade PreK cover Early Reading First’s Four Dimensions, including: Oral Language: — Using new vocabulary; — Relating new vocabulary to prior knowledge; — Identifying objects through receptive language; — Developing auditory memory; — Using descriptive language; — Reciting short poems, rhymes, and songs; — Describing the actions of characters in a story; — Responding orally to simple questions; — Listening for different purposes; — Following directions; Phonological Awareness: — Indentifying rhymes and rhyming sounds in familiar words; — Beginning to attend to the beginning sounds in familiar words; — Beginning to break words into syllables; — Clapping along with each syllable; — Identifying and counting phonemes; Comprehension: — Making predictions; — Making connections using illustrations, prior knowledge, and real-life experiences; — Noting details; — Recalling details; — Identifying sequence of events; — Distinguishing between real and make-believe; — Determining cause and effect; Motor Skills: — Developing small muscle coordination; — Developing large muscle coordination;

The perfect supplement to your core early reading program! Everyday Literacy: Reading and Writing, Grade K helps your early learners develop beginning reading and writing skills using fun, focused daily lessons. The 20 weekly units in grade K cover: Concepts of Print: — Identify uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet; — Locate a word on a printed page; — Follow words form top to bottom and right to left; — Track print by pointing to written words when text is read aloud by self; — Understand that spoken words are represented in writing by specific sequence of letters; Phonemic Awareness: — Recognize a phoneme in a spoken word; — Segment the initial phoneme of a spoken word; — Segment the final phoneme of a spoken word; — Indentify the initial or final phoneme of a spoken word; — Isolate and identify the initial and final phoneme of a spoken word; — Identify the position of an isolated phoneme in a spoken word; Phonics/Word Analysis: — Learn and apply letter-sound correspondences; — Produce the sound a consonant letter makes in isolation; — Recognize that individual letters have associated sounds; — Read familiar CVC words and common sight words; Literary Response and Analysis: — Participate in a group response to a literary selection, identifying the characters, setting, and sequence of events; — Make predictions about content using pictures, background knowledge, and text features; Comprehension: — Answer questions about text read aloud; — Respond to who, what, where, why, how, questions about text read aloud; — Make connections using prior knowledge and real-life experiences; — Demonstrate comprehension of text read aloud by self or others; Writing: — Print uppercase and lowercase letters; — Use spacing between letters and words when writing on a line; — Write letters that match sounds in words;

«The perfect supplement to your core early reading program! Everyday Literacy: Reading and Writing, Grade PreK helps you introduce students to the 26 letters of the alphabet while they practice important literacy skills. The 20 weekly units in grade PreK cover: Print Awareness: — Understand that illustrations carry meaning; — Begin to understand the print runs from left to right and top to bottom; — Understand that reading and writing are ways to communicate thoughts; — Begin to understand that speech can be written down; — Visually discriminate between letters; Phonological Awareness: — Begin to make letter-sound associations; — Begin to attend to the initial sound in familiar words; — Identify the initial sound of a spoken word; — Isolate the initial sound of a spoken word; — Identify words that begin with the same sound; Alphabet Knowledge: — Begin to associate letters with their names; — Begin to associate names with their shapes; — Identify uppercase and lowercase letters; Oral Language Development: — Recite short poems, rhymes, and songs; — Respond orally to simple questions; — Listen for different purposes; Writing: — Develop fine motor skills through drawing and tracing; — Write letters or letter-like shapes to produce words or ideas; — Dictate or produce «writing» to express thoughts; — Practice letter formation; — Print uppercase and lowercase letters; Comprehension: — Make connections using illustrations, prior knowledge, and real-life experiences; — Recognize main idea; — Recall details; — Make inferences and draw conclusions; — Identify sequence of events; — Compare and contrast; — Distinguish between real and make-believe; — Determine cause and effect; — Categorize and classify; — Make connections using illustrations;»

Here are 10 resource books that provide the busy classroom teacher with science lessons that are both appropriate and doable. Up to 12 concepts are covered in each book. Step-by-step illustrated lessons make science relevant to real life. Hands-on experiences help students link new concepts with previous knowledge, then apply it all to new situations.

Here are 10 resource books that provide the busy classroom teacher with science lessons that are both appropriate and doable. Up to 12 concepts are covered in each book. Step-by-step illustrated lessons make science relevant to real life. Hands-on experiences help students link new concepts with previous knowledge, then apply it all to new situations.

Here are 10 resource books that provide the busy classroom teacher with science lessons that are both appropriate and doable. Up to 12 concepts are covered in each book. Step-by-step illustrated lessons make science relevant to real life. Hands-on experiences help students link new concepts with previous knowledge, then apply it all to new situations.

Here are 10 resource books that provide the busy classroom teacher with science lessons that are both appropriate and doable. Up to 12 concepts are covered in each book. Step-by-step illustrated lessons make science relevant to real life. Hands-on experiences help students link new concepts with previous knowledge, then apply it all to new situations.

Here are 10 resource books that provide the busy classroom teacher with science lessons that are both appropriate and doable. Up to 12 concepts are covered in each book. Step-by-step illustrated lessons make science relevant to real life. Hands-on experiences help students link new concepts with previous knowledge, then apply it all to new situations.

Here are 10 resource books that provide the busy classroom teacher with science lessons that are both appropriate and doable. Up to 12 concepts are covered in each book. Step-by-step illustrated lessons make science relevant to real life. Hands-on experiences help students link new concepts with previous knowledge, then apply it all to new situations.

Give your students practice in understanding story sequence. Cut apart sentences, arrange in order, and paste on fully illustrated sheets for a complete story.

The perfect supplement to your core early reading program! Everyday Literacy: Reading and Writing, Grade 1 helps you support beginning reading and writing skills in your early learning program with fun, focused daily lessons. The 20 weekly units in grade 1 cover: Phonemic Awareness: — Generate sounds from letter patterns; — Blend two to four phonemes into recognizable words; — Segment onset and rime; — Recognize a new spoken word when a phoneme is added, changed, or removed; Phonics/Word Analysis: — Read words with common spelling patterns; — Read high-frequency and sight words; — Read regularly spelled one-syllable words; Comprehension: — Identify story characters; — Identify main idea; — Respond to who, what, where, why, and how questions; — Recall details; — Describe a picture using complete sentences; — Use context clues to decode words; Writing: — Print legibly and space letters and words appropriately; — Use developing knowledge of letter-sound correspondences to spell independently;