Reproducible Portals to Reading Jr. teacher resources are filled with activities that reinforce basic reading skills as children read books commonly included in your reading program. Many lessons will align with the requirements of your standards and the skills covered in your reading program.
- Phonics
- consonant sounds
- contractions
- long vowels
- r-controlled vowels
- rhyming words
- vowel teams
- Comprehension
- cause and effect
- fact and opinion
- main idea
- evaluating
- sequencing
- retelling
- making connections
- Vocabulary
- base words
- compound words
- antonyms and synonyms
- classifying words
- homophones
- choosing the correct meaning
- using context
- language fun
- alike and different
- Writing
- retelling the story
- journal writing
- making a book
- character description
- extending the story
The pick-and-choose format lets you select those activities that meet the needs of the entire class, a small group, or a single student. School/home activities reinforce skills learned in the classroom.
Abe, Ben, Gabe, Toby, and Ty have formed a club just for outsiders—the Kooties Club.
The boys like to play ball and hang out, but they really love solving mysteries.
Explore Kooties Club Mysteries with these easy-reading chapter books where high-interest fiction paired with nonfiction content helps to smooth the transition from narrative to expository text.
BENEFITS
- Opportunities for predicting and good models for student writing
- Short chapters
- Carefully chosen vocabulary
- Close text/illustration matches
- Softcover or reinforced library bindings
- Books are 56 pages.
TEACHER ToolKit CDs
All the resources and reproducibles you need to teach comprehension and vocabulary skills for each individual book—skill practice, strategy practice and instruction, and formative and summative assessment.
- Common Core skills alignment
- 15 reproducible activities
- objective tests to help you assess vocabulary and literal and inferential comprehension
- before-, during-, and after-reading strategies
- cross-curricular activities
- inquiry strategies
- strategies for ESL learners
- take-home activities and parent letter
“…young readers will learn that cooperating as a team brings quick results; standing by someone in times of trouble shows true friendship; forgiving someone who uses bad judgement strengthens friendship; and that friends can have special health needs and disabilities—but those can serve to strengthen the reciprocal bonds of friendship.”
—Children’s Bookwatch on The Mystery of the PB & J Jam
Cover-to-Cover books provide struggling readers the same reading opportunities afforded successful readers. Written and designed to be accessible to students reading at least two years below grade level. Perfect for use with struggling readers for guided reading groups, as companion novels for favorite classroom themes, as literature citcle titles, for content-area reading instruction, or for independent reading.
TEACHER ToolKit CDs
All the resources and reproducbiles you need to teach standards-based comprehension and vocabulary skills—skill practice, strategy practice and instruction, and formative and summative assessment.
- standards-based skills alignment
- 15 to 30 reproducible activites
- objective tests help you assess vocabulary and literal and inferential comprehension
- before-, during-, and after-reading strategies
- cross-curricular activities
- inquiry strategies
- strategies for ESL learners
- take-home activities and parent letter
Create reading success for struggling readers with over 300 fiction and nonfiction titles written and designed to be accessible to students reading at least two years below grade level. This high-interest/low-reading-level series spans all genres and topics, ensuring accessible, interesting titles and reading success to below-grade-level readers in grades two through nine.