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Daily Reading Comprehension Series: Books in this series
present students with direct instruction and practice on the comprehension
strategies and skills they need to become strong and successful readers. 150
original fiction and nonfiction passages with comprehension items help you
engage students in reading, thinking about, and responding to a variety of
texts. And because activities are presented in an exam format, students practice
important test-taking skills while they strengthen comprehension. The series
supports struggling and reluctant readers and will integrate easily into any
language program or classroom. It is research-based. Please click
on images to enlarge them.
Daily Reading Comprehension Grade 1: Provides 30 weeks of
instruction in these skills: main idea and details; who, what, where, and when;
sequence; compare and contrast; fantasy vs. reality; making predictions;
phonics; sight words; and word meanings. 192 pages. BTH-5570. $26.99-D
Daily Reading Comprehension Grade
2: Provides 30
weeks of instruction in these skills: main idea and details; character and
setting; fact and opinion; visual information; determining author's purpose;
making predictions; drawing conclusions; cause and effect ; compare and
contrast; nonfiction text features; fantasy vs. reality; and and sequencing.
Also covered are the following stategies: make connections; visualization;
organization; determine important information; ask questions; and monitor
comprehension. 192 pages. BTH-5571. $26.99-D
Daily Reading Comprehension Grade 3: Provides 30
weeks of instruction in these skills: main idea and details; character and
setting; fact and opinion; visual information; determining author's purpose;
making predictions; drawing conclusions; cause and effect ; compare and
contrast; nonfiction text features; fantasy vs. reality; and and sequencing.
Also covered are the following stategies: make connections; visualization;
organization; determine important information; ask questions; and monitor
comprehension.. 192 pages. BTH-5572. $26.99-D
Grades 4 and 5 will not be published until November, 2010.
Daily
Reading Comprehension Grade 6+: Provides 30 weeks of instruction in
these skills: main idea and details; character and setting; visual information;
determining author's purpose; making predictions; cause and effect ; compare and
contrast; nonfiction text features; evaluating evidence; making inferences;
theme: and sequencing. Also covered are the following strategies: make
connections; visualization; organization; determine important information; ask
questions; and monitor comprehension. 192 pages. BYH-5600. $26.99-D
Read and Understand with Leveled Texts Series, New Edition.
This series is correlated to state standards and is written to strengthen
comprehension and vocabulary skills. You can use these books to supplement your
core curriculum with texts leveled according to Lexile leveling criteria. Each
selection has follow-up activities for comprehension, vocabulary, and other
reading skills. These books will provide extra reading practice and also help
students prepare for tests. 160 pages each.
Read and Understand with Leveled Texts Grade K by Jill Norris. For
guided reading levels A-C. BTH-5604. $17.99-D
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information and a link to flip through the book, click here.
Read and Understand with Leveled Texts Grade 1 by Jill Norris. For
guided reading levels C-H. BTH-5605. $17.99-D
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information and a link to flip through the book, click here.
Read and Understand with Leveled Texts Grade 2 by Jill Norris. For
Lexile guided reading levels 330-480. BTH-5606. $17.99-D
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information and a link to flip through the book, click here.
Read and Understand with Leveled Texts Grade 3 by Jill Norris. For
Lexile guided reading levels 480–710. BTH-5607. $17.99-D
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information and a link to flip through the book, click here.
Read and Understand Poetry Series,
edited by Sarita C. Silverman. ©2005. This series with simple and structured
lessons will appeal to teachers and students alike. Each book has over 25 poems.
For each poem are a teacher lesson plan, the reproducible poem, and two activity
sheets -- one with multiple choice questions and one with short answers. An
answer key is also included. There are also drawing and poem writing
opportunities. Here are the books:
Read
and Understand Poetry Grades 2-3: Poetry themes include Beasts, Birds,
and Bugs; Seasons and Celebrations; Stuff and Nonsense; Step Outside; Poems in
Song; and A World of Sights and Sounds. Many of these will be familiar to you
(I'm skipping the quotes for faster typing and using italics for poem titles.):
The Spider and the Fly; The Swing by Robert Lewis Stevenson;
Hush, Little Baby; Mary's Lamb by Hale) My County "Tis of Thee;
and many more. Children will become familiar with many styles, including
limericks, songs, free verse, Haiku, and many poetic devices, including rhyme,
alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, simile, and more.
There is also a glossary of poetic terms,
short biographical sketches of the poets, poetry posters, and more. BTH-943.
$15.29-D
Read
and Understand Poetry Grades 3-4: Contains 26 contemporary and classic
poems. Poetry themes include Through the Eyes of a Child; Nature's Mysteries;
Poetic Forms; North, South, East, and West; Fanciful Fun; and Stories in Verse.
Many of these will be familiar to you (I'm skipping the quotes for faster typing
and using italics for poem titles.): Black is Beautiful; The Land of
Counterpane by Robert Lewis Stevenson; Who Has Seen the Wind;
Snow-Flakes by Longfellow), The Trouble with Spaghetti; Waltzing
Matilda; The Walrus and the Carpenter; Hiawatha's Childhood, A
Visit From St. Nicholas, and many more. Children will become familiar
with many styles, including limericks, cinquain; acrostics, narrative verse,
songs, free verse and Haiku, and many poetic devices, including assonance,
rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, invented words, and
more.
There is also a glossary of poetry terms,
short biographical sketches of the poets, poetry posters, and more. BTH-944.
$15.29-D
Read
and Understand Poetry Grades 4-5: Contains 27 contemporary and classic
poems. Poetry themes include Family Album; Wacky Words; Verse in Motion; The
Work of Our Hands; On the Railroad; Water and Waves; From the pages of History;
Celebrate! Many of these will be familiar to you (I'm skipping the quotes for
faster typing and using italics for poem titles.): The Village Blacksmith
and Paul Revere's Ride by Longfellow; The Runner,. I Hear
America Singing, and The Runaway Slave by Walt Whitman ;
The Brook by Tennyson; and many more. Children will become familiar
with many styles, including limericks, parodies, narrative verse, songs,
free verse, odes, sonnets, and Haiku, and many poetic devices,
including assonance, rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor,
invented words, personification, dialog, meter, and more.
There is also a glossary of poetry terms,
short biographical sketches of the poets, poetry posters, and more. BTH-945.
$15.29-D
Read
and Understand Poetry Grades
5-6 Contains 27 contemporary
and classic poems. Poetry themes include Generations and Legacies; Seasons of
Life; Outside My Window; War and Peace; and Mirth and Magic. Many of these
will be familiar to you (I'm skipping the quotes for faster typing and using
italics for poem titles.): Youth, Do I Adore Thee by Shakespeare; Dust
of Snow by Frost; The Brook and The Charge of the Light Brigade
by Tennyson; In Flanders Fields by McCrae; Grass by
Sandburg; and You Are Old, Father William and Jabberwocky by
Carroll. Children will become familiar with many styles, including elegies,
parodies, narrative verse, songs, ballads; free verse, and Haiku,
and many poetic devices, including , rhyme, alliteration, parallel syntax,
simile, metaphor, invented words, personification, dialog, repetition,
meter, and more.
There is also a glossary of poetry terms,
short biographical sketches of the poets, poetry posters, and more. BTH-946.
$15.29-D
Read and Understand Stories and Activities: These books provide a comprehensive resource of stories and skills
pages to supplement any core reading program. Books contain at least 20 stories, each
followed by four to five pages of activities to practice reading skills. 144
pages. $15.29-D each book. The links below will take you to a better description
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out.
Read and Understand, Grade K --
Cat. BTH-126
Read and
Understand, Grade 1 -- Cat. BTH-845.
Read and
Understand, Grade 2 -- Cat. BTH-139
Read and
Understand, Grade 3 -- Cat. BTH-140
More Read and
Understand, Grade 1 -- Cat. BTH-143
More Read and
Understand, Grade 2 -- Cat. BTH-144
More Read and
Understand, Grade 3 -- Cat. BTH-145
Read and
Understand, Fiction Grades 4-6 -- Cat. BTH-141
Read and
Understand, Nonfiction Grades 4-6 -- Cat. BTH-142
Read and
Understand Fairytales &Folktales, Grades 1-2 -- Cat. BTH-676
Read and
Understand Folktales & Fables, Grades 2-3 -- BTH-677
Read and
Understand Tall Tales, Grades 3-4 -- Cat. BTH-678
Read and
Understand Myths and Legends, Grades 4-6 -- Cat. BTH-679
Nonfiction Reading Practice
Series: This series is unique in that each unit features
three different articles, each at a different reading level for each
topic. Assignments can be given to each student according to his or her
ability. Each reproducible book contains 20 units. A test page follows each
article to assess comprehension and vocabulary. Each unit also contains a visual
aid suitable for reproduction as an overhead transparency. 176 pages each.
$17.99-D each. Follow title links for cover art and the opportunity to
actually browse parts of the books on line.
Nonfiction Reading Practice Grade 1
BTH-684
Nonfiction Reading Practice Grade 2
BTH-685
Nonfiction Reading Practice Grade 3
BTH-686
Nonfiction Reading Practice Grade 4
BTH-687
Nonfiction Reading Practice Grade 5
BTH-688
Nonfiction Reading Practice Grade 6
BTH-2439
Reader's Theater. The scripts in this book help
students improve their reading fluency and expression when reading aloud. the 15
reproducible scripts are related to content areas, helping them to come alive.
Student performances can be showcased at school assemblies or other public
gatherings.
Each selection includes a teacher's
page to summarize the script, help build background knowledge and vocabulary,
and provide simple staging suggestions. There is a complete script for student
readers, a program for listing cast members, follow-up activities for students
to practice the skills related to the content, a complete answer key, and
evaluation templates. 144 pages. Individual titles are below:
Reader's Theater Grade 1 by Martha
Cheney and Jill Norris. Includes scripts such as Why Bear Has a Stumpy Tail;
Math at Farmers' Market; Too Much !; Out in the Woods; The Three Billy Goats
Gruff; The Little Red Hen; Taxi the Turtle; The Three Little Pigs; Elephants in
the Wild; and more. BTH-870. $15.29-D
Reader's Theater
Grade
2 by Ginny Hall. Includes scripts such as John
Chapman; Crow's Potlatch; Earth's Seven Continents; The Statue of Liberty; Hw
Anansi Brought Stories to Earth; George Washington Carver; Lion Dancer; Our
Solar System; Don't Forget Zero; The Lost Kitten; and more. BTH-871 $15.29-D
Reader's Theater Grade 3
by Barbara Linde.
Includes scripts such as The Amazing Laundry Hamper; It Happened at Hull House;
Davy Crockett; Fact or Legend?; A Riddle-Maker Saves the Day; Yankee Doodle Hits
the Road; Brer Rabbit Shares His Crops; Spider Woman and the Gift of the Loom;
The Walking Stick Buys Shoes; Those Magnificent Counting Machines; and more.
BTH-872. $15.29-D
Reader's Theater Grade 4
by Martha Cheney and
Hilve Firek. Includes scripts such as Louis Pasteur: A Scientist Serving
Humanity; The Farmer, His Son, and Their Donkey; Keelboat Annie; The Sager
Children; The Emperor's New Clothes; The Story of the Chestnut Tree; The Girls
of the Round Table; An Underwater Web of Life; Sojourner Truth: A Life Devoted
to Justice; How Animals Got Their Beautiful Coats; and more. BTH-873. $15.29-D
Reader's Theater Grade 5
by Michael Ryall. Includes scripts such as
Demeter and Persephone; SOS Titanic; The Montgomery Bus Boycott; Enter Bruce
Lee; Journey to a New World; Women in Science; Beauty and the Beast; The
Runaways; Tall Tales from the Wild West; Haste Makes Waste; and more.
BTH-874. $15.29-D
Reader's Theater Grade 6 by Michael Ryall.
Includes scripts such as Welcome to Ellis Island; Whiz Kid; Romeo and Juliet;
Sarah Winnemucca;: A Leader for Peace; Arachne's Web; To Tell the Truth; The
Amistad Case; The Great Transcontinental Railroad Race; and more.
BTH-875. $15.29-D
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