Reading Spotlight

Effective and easy to use, with no prep, this bundle is a perfect tutoring guide. The design for correct identification of weaknesses and effective lessons from a successful reading specialist of 30 years will help you improve the performance of beginning or struggling readers at reading level 2, no matter their age. Research indicates that more than 40% of poor reading in primary grades is due to weaknesses in fundamental decoding skills. These lessons engrain the process using very few phonics

Effective, easy to use, with no prep, this set is perfect for tutoring. The design for lessons from a successful reading specialist of 30 years will help you improve the performance of beginning or struggling readers at reading levels 2- 4, whatever the student’s age. Research indicates that more than 40% of poor reading in grades 4 and below is due to weakness in fundamental decoding skills; this set focuses mainly on word analysis. These lessons engrain the word family (visual) process using

Effective, engaging, and easy-to-use, this Tall Tale Grammar story is so much better than another boring worksheet. Try a Tall Tale Grammar story to practice grammar and spelling skills with intermediate & middle school students. The American frontier was both immense and harsh as it was developing in the 19th century. These pages are designed to combine a bit of history, geography, and English grammar into an entertaining form of learning. The tales focus on the most common errors in hom

Effective, engaging, and easy to use, these two Word Search Puzzles for ----le at the End of a Word are so much better than another boring phonics worksheet! They are perfect for homework, seat work, extra credit, early finishers, and learning centers. The set helps to imprint the ---le cluster for automatic recognition later. Two puzzles with more than 75 words use a unique format to provide extra decoding practice that common instructional materials often do not provide. The puzzles

Effective, engaging, and easy-to-use, this Tall Tales Bundle provides great grammar review for intermediate, middle school, and ESL students. The American frontier was both immense and harsh as it was developing in the 19th century. These pages are designed to combine a bit of history, geography, and English grammar into an entertaining form of learning. Stories include Set A: Annie Oakley, Big Mose, Hiawatha, Joe Magarac, Stormalong Set B: Casey Jones, Febold Feboldson, John Henry, Paul Bynyon

Effective, engaging, and easy-to-use, this phonics set includes 3 (+2) Consonant Bingo Games in one bundle. So much better than another boring phonics worksheet! Your students will look forward to Friday phonics practice! The games provide extra practice in 1. Beginning Consonants 2. Ending Consonants 3. Consonant Blends 4. Beginning Consonant Digraphs 5. Ending Consonant Digraphs Often, ending sounds are not given adequate practice in typical phonic worksheets, but Consonant Bingo and Conso

Looking for an enjoyable class or individual novel for children in grades 4-6? This novel and set of questions are engaging, effective, and easy to use. Written by Michael Morpurgo, the author of War Horse, the fast-paced novel describes a perilous journey of a family in wartime traveling with an elephant. It is based on a true story, and the book combines the appeal of an orphaned elephant with a family’s daring journey during World War II. Both exciting and heart-warming, the novel mirror

Students love this unique Charlotte's Web activity because they get to move around, and it is actually very good practice in the sequencing of events after the novel has been completed. There is a physicality to it that helps some children who have difficulty conceptualizing events in time. Developing the strategic skill of sequencing events in correct time order is important to introduce early because its effect on comprehension is very important. The set includes 36 correctly numbered event

Simple, clear, short, and effective, this set provides great instruction and extra practice in irregular vowel combinations for beginning or struggling readers. It is perfect for group or individualized instruction in decoding and spelling, and ideal for tutoring, too. Emphasis is placed on automatic reading of words in order to improve word recognition, phrasing, and rate, rather than on the meaning of words. The repeated format within each cluster lesson encourages natural remembering of many

More than just a final exam, this 33-item Charlotte's Web test gives students instruction in choosing the best answer in multiple choice tests, a strategy that is not often explained or practiced. Questions cover sequence, character development, cause/effect, main idea, details, inferences, theme, word meanings, point of view, and structural elements. The test also includes an extra-credit Short Essay Question. It can even be used with younger children who have had the book read aloud to them

Add a Spoonful of Sugar (SOS) to that phonics practice--so much better than another boring worksheet! This extra practice bundle for Difficult Vowel Clusters is effective, engaging, and easy to use, and it is just what some beginning and struggling readers need.CONTENTS: 3 Word Search Puzzles for: ar, er, ir, or, ur + Answer Keys6 Word Search Puzzles for : au (+aw), oi (+oy), ou, oo, ow, ew + Answer KeysRT (8 card) Bingo Set A for: all, ank, ar, au, ay, dge, ight, ild, ir, kn, oi, oo

Effective, engaging, and easy-to-use, these Tall Tale Grammar Stories are great grammar review for intermediate and middle school level students. They can also be helpful for teachers in recognizing student and class strengths and weaknesses for focused instruction. The tales concentrate on the most common errors in homophones, subject--verb agreement, apostrophe, capitalization, punctuation, irregular verbs, and irregular plurals. SET D includes: 1. Annie Christmas--Keelboat Captain 2. Buffa

Effective, engaging, and easy-to-use, this 2 Bingo game bundle for irregular vowel and consonant cluster patterns is so much better than another boring phonics workbook page. These two Reading Tutor Bingo games for difficult clusters focus on actual student pronunciation, not simply visual recognition. Research indicates that the brain remembers in patterns, and these games focus on visual patterns. They are especially helpful for students who have difficulty with phonics, which is more hearin

Effective and easy to use, these tests, lessons, activities, and games are the perfect tutoring guide for reading level 1 remediation, whatever the student's age. The set will help to identify and remediate specific reading weaknesses in word analysis at reading levels 1 - 2. This successful reading specialist’s lessons help to engrain the word family process (visual) using very few phonics rules, so the set is especially useful with students who have not done well with traditional phonics (au

Effective, engaging, and easy-to-use, these Tall Tale Grammar Stories are great grammar review for intermediate and middle school level students. They can also be useful for teachers in recognizing students and class strengths and weaknesses for focused instruction. The American frontier was both immense and harsh as it was developing in the 19th century. These pages are designed to combine a bit of history, geography, and English grammar into an entertaining form of learning. The tales concen

Effective, engaging, and easy-to-use, these Homophone Crossword Puzzles are so much better than another boring homophone worksheet. Research shows that homophones are the most common spelling errors, even in adults. Most textbooks do not provide nearly enough practice to approach proficiency for many students. The crossword puzzle format makes these exercises more enjoyable than the standard fare, and your students will get extra practice in a very important spelling/grammar skill. Great as hom

Just like the most famous of E.B. White’s children’s novels ( Charlotte’s Web),The Trumpet of the Swan is profound and wise. It brims with sage perceptions into nature, disability, and maturation, while adding insight and a few chuckles surrounding love, jazz, camps, zoos, and hotels. Louis, the main character, sets goals and achieves them with hard work and earnestness. The bundle includes Vocabulary, Chapter-By-Chapter Review Questions, Writing Prompts, Final Exam, Sequencing Cards, a Crosswor

Effective, engaging, and easy-to-use, these crossword puzzles boost English grammar, spelling, and writing in a unique way. The bundle includes 15 crossword puzzles covering homophones, collective nouns, irregular plurals, irregular past tense, and root words. Great for homework, seat work, extra credit, and learning centers, they are easy to use for busy teachers and parents. All Answer Keys are included. Also available individually, this Grammar Crossword Bundle includes these grammar, spell

36 Word Search Puzzles are sooo much better than another boring phonics worksheet. They are effective, engaging, and easy to use. By helping to imprint the sounds for automatic recognition later, these puzzles use a unique and enjoyable format to provide extra decoding practice for beginning and struggling readers and spellers. Many students need the extra practice that common instructional materials often do not provide. Once they get the hang of doing word searches, students need few expla

Make your students test-savvy and confident! More than just a Final Exam, this 25 item multiple-choice test (plus an EXTRA CREDIT short essay question) is designed to give students experience in test-taking strategies for choosing the best answer in multiple-choice tests, a strategy that is not often explained or practiced. Questions cover sequence, character development, cause/effect, main idea, details, inferences, theme, word meanings, point of view, and structural elements from the novel