Books published by publisher Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies)

Stella has an opinion: “Second graders should be able to bring a morning snack!” But stating her opinion isn’t enough. She has to support her opinion with reasons, then she has to write a closing to remind everyone why her opinion deserves attention. Reading about Stella’s experience as she develops her piece will help guide students as they write about their own opinions. Includes teaching notes at the back of the book. For use with Grades K-3.

Jumpstart your child’s reading success with comics! Kids will love these hilarious 16-page stories with easy text in speech balloons. They’ll also adore the zany cast of characters: purple cows, pigs, silly snowmen, talking gumballs, dragons, and more! This delightful set, correlated with guided reading levels E & F, is packed with 16 original titles plus a parent guide, mini-workbook, and motivating stickers. A giggle-fueled way to boost essential literacy! For use with Grades K-2.

While phonics instruction is important for all readers, it is essential for older students whose underdeveloped reading skills impede content-area learning. This resource offers dozens of practice pages that give struggling readers multiple opportunities to recognize, review, and reinforce must-know phonics elements, such as consonants, long and short vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. With this practice, students dramatically improve their ability to recognize sound-spelling relationships and use these skills to accurately and efficiently decode words, which in turn boosts fluency and comprehension. For use with Grades 3–6.

Set the stage for your child to soar with these just-right books that teach the second 25 sight words! This cheery blue box includes 25 titles, each focused on a key sight word: or, one, had, by, word, etc. The books’ real-world topics with predicable text are super-engaging to make mastering these must-know words easy and fun. Includes motivating stickers PLUS a mini-activity book to ensure learning sticks. Books correlate with Guided Reading Level B. First 25 Sight Words (Fry List): number, no, way, could, people, my, than, first, water, been, called, who, am, its, now, find, long, down, day, did, get, come made, may, part. For use with Grades PreK-1.

Sharpen critical thinking skills with this fun workbook! Critical thinking is important for cognitive development and mathematical reasoning–this product helps children develop and hone this skill. Children practice visual discrimination, sequencing, patterning, and more. As children progress through the activities they’ll begin to develop an ability to make connections, draw conclusions, make inferences and more. Help little skill seekers build a strong foundation for cognitive development. For use with Grades PreK-1.

In their hit books Notice and Note and Reading Nonfiction, Kylene Beers and Bob Probst showed teachers how to help students become close readers. Now, in Disrupting Thinking they take teachers a step further and discuss an on-going problem: lack of engagement with reading. They explain that all too often, no matter the strategy shared with students, too many students remain disengaged and reluctant readers. The problem, they suggest, is that we have misrepresented to students why we read and how we ought to approach any text - fiction or nonfiction. With their hallmark humor and their appreciated practicality, Beers and Probst present a vision of what reading and what education across all the grades could be. Hands-on-strategies make it applicable right away for the classroom teacher, and turn-and-talk discussion points make it a guidebook for school-wide conversations. In particular, they share new strategies and ideas for helping classroom teachers: --Create engagement and relevance --Encourage responsive and responsible reading --Deepen comprehension --Develop lifelong reading habits “We think it’s time we finally do become a nation of readers, and we know it’s time students learn to tell fake news from real news. It’s time we help students understand why how they read is so important,” explain Beers and Probst. “Disrupting Thinking is, at its heart, an exploration of how we help students become the reader who does so much more than decode, recall, or choose the correct answer from a multiple-choice list. This book shows us how to help students become the critical thinkers our nation needs them to be."