Books with author Kathleen Hollenbeck

These engaging short plays offer a purposeful and powerful way to encourage the repeated reading students need to build fluency. Students are motivated to read and practice their lines so they can perform at their very best. This rehearsal time encourages them to experiment with aspects of fluent reading, such as phrasing, pacing, and expression. Includes research-based strategies, teaching ideas, and tips for using Readers Theather, plus a mini-lesson, teacher rubric, and student checklist for self-assessment. For use with Grades 1-2.

These engaging short plays offer a purposeful and powerful way to encourage the repeated reading students need to build oral fluency. Students are motivated to read and practice their lines so they can perform at their very best. This rehearsal time encourages them to experiment with aspects of fluent reading, such as phrasing, pacing, and expression. Includes research-based mini-lessons, strategies, teaching ideas, and rubrics and checklists. For use with Grades 5–6.

Teachers can step into this BIG collection of kid-pleasing classroom poems and discover connections to hundreds of topics you teach! They'll find poems about the alphabet, word families, math skills, science concepts, friendship, holidays and special times, neighborhood and community, character education, and so many more. The poems will entertain and inspire students while offering endless opportunities to expand their experience with language, foster a love of words, and build reading fluency and confidence. 176 pages.

Kids read, cut, paste, and draw to sequence the pages in these high-interest fiction and nonfiction mini-books that progress from easy to more challenging sequencing formats. As they interact with the stories to order events from beginning to end, children develop essential skills they need for understanding sequence, such as identifying context and picture clues, making predictions, drawing conclusions, and using key sequencing words. Helps boost comprehension, critical thinking, fluency, and vocabulary, too. Great for ELLs! For use with Grades 2–3.

Foster a positive classroom environment with quick, engaging activities that children will enjoy! Help kids learn to listen, communicate, cooperate, and respect one another—all the essential skills they need to prevent and resolve conflicts. Packed with a variety of easy-to-do activities, reproducibles, a read-aloud play, a game, and much more! For use with Grades 2-3.

Help children build early reading skills using poems and personal, portable, pocket charts! Includes easy how-to's for turning file folders into convenient tabletop pocket charts that are perfect for use at centers and with small groups. Comes complete with delightful, ready-to-use rhyming poems, sentence strips and letter, picture, and word cards; step-by-step lessons; extension activities; ideas for differentiated and multisensory learning; and more. For use with Grades K–2.

Teachers can build vocabulary and reading skills while exploring this key social studies topic! Easy-to-make books on homes, transportation, jobs, goods and services, natural resources, and more provide great nonfiction reading practice. A variety of formats-such as lift-the-flap, turn-the-wheel, and slide-a-story strips-keep kids actively engaged with what they read. Includes step-by-step instructions on assembling the books, plus teaching tips, activities and extensions for each book. Great for hands-on learning! For use with Grades 1-3.

Blue Crab searches for a place to molt safely, then makes her way to the salty waters at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Reviewed by the Smithsonian Institution for accuracy, Dancing on the Sand is a fun and informative story with beautifully detailed illustrations. Book Features:- An informative storyline and colorful illustrations- 32 pages- Appropriate for ages: 3-9- Paperback dimensions: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches

Red Fox makes his way back to his mate and his four small kits. They spend the night feeding their young and teaching them to hunt. When a fierce coyote attacks the fox family, it will be up to their father to save them. Reviewed by the Smithsonian Institution for accuracy, Red Fox at Hickory Lane is a fun and informative story with beautifully detailed illustrations..Watch your children have a blast reading and learning about the animals that live in an American backyard!Book Features:- An informative storyline and colorful illustrations- Appropriate for ages 3-9- Paperback dimensions: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches