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It is a good start....
This is a great book.It helped me to start home school my son when he was preK (3).It is also great for daycare and for any parent who wants to get their child ready for school.It has lots of activities and full of ideas.I recommend this to all parents who need a place to start educating their child. ... Read more

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Help the children in your school or district become successful early readers with the second edition of this field-tested, activity-based curriculum, an effective way to supplement children’s instruction without giving up current language arts programming. This book gives teachers more than 60 culturally sensitive, developmentally appropriate activities that were tested for 10 years under research and practical conditions. Activities are organized into three sections emphasizing key elements of reading success: print awareness, metalinguistic skills, and oral language skills. Modifications are included for children with disabilities, and the early literacy activities for children and parents help strengthen the home–school literacy link.

With the fun, proven activities in this book, kindergarten teachers will equip children with the emergent literacy skills they’ll need to succeed in school. ... Read more

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Engaging Reproducible Activity Pages That Help Kids Recognize, Write, and Really LEARN the Top 100 High-Frequency Words That are Key to Reading Success
Builds Reading Confidence!
Watch confidence soar as children master 100 sight words ­ the words most commonly encountered in any text. Children read more fluently, write with greater ease, and spell more accurately when they know these high-frequency words! These fun, ready-to-go practice pages let kids trace, copy, manipulate, cut and paste, and write each sight word on their own. Features words from the Dolch Word List, a commonly recognized core of sight words. Also includes games and extension activities. ... Read more

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great tool for learning
This book is very helpful to practice letters and to read.I copy the pages so I can use them again and again.

I really liked this book
I really enjoyed using this book in my kindergarten classroom during the second half of the school year as my students advanced in their reading skills.I found it to be an excellent additional learning tool to my teaching of sight words. I liked this helpful book.

Purchased two in order to use
The flipbooks are posted back to back on the same page. You can not just cut them out but need to copy both sides. It was easier for me to purchase two books. Cut out the odd pages with one and even with the others. If I had more then my children to teach I suppose it might be worth it coping all 200 pages. I found it simpler to purchase two books instead.

Thumbs Up!
As with many of my good teaching ideas, I stole this one from a fellow teacher. This book is great and I would definately recommend it for kindergarten and first grade teachers. It can be used for independent work. It provides sight word practice and also incorporates complete sentence writing. I give it a definate thumbs up!

Good Sight Word Practice
This book has pages that can be used with students for daily practice of sight words. The words in the book allign with the Dolch Words of the most common sight words in the English language. ... Read more

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Help pre-school through Grade 1 readers develop and reinforce beginning reading skills. Games and activities for both whole class and small groups introduce developmentally-appropriate concepts in a fun and interactive way. The step-by-step directions are easily followed by classroom teachers, aids, or parent volunteers. Each book includes all patterns and game pieces to save prep time. Includes a Teacher Resource CD with full-color patterns. 176pp. ... Read more

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Help your child get a head start on first grade with 101 Things Every 1st Grader Should Know About Reading. Designed for children ages 5 and older, the colorful, 128-page workbook offers puzzles, mazes, connect-the-dots, and more that can help children master reading skills taught in first grade.

Each of the 101 reading activities focuses on a different skill and provides opportunity for children to practice the skill. Activities are arranged in order of difficulty so that children can build confidence as they proceed. Each activity is labeled with the skill being taught, and many offer additional suggestions to extend the learning activity beyond the book. Children will enjoy activities such as matching, solving puzzles, completing mazes, and identifying missing letters. They can have fun as they get comfortable with these reading concepts and processes:

• Basic reading skills
• Basic printing skills
• Phonics
• Reading comprehension
• Vocabulary builders
• Grammar
• Word families

Part of the Active Minds learning series, 101 Things Every 1st Grader Should Know About Reading is a fun way to help a child get a head start in first grade. The colorful, fun-filled worksheets make learning an exciting and positive experience.

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Hands-On Word Family Activities for Young Readers is a handy resource that offers you easy-to-use material for guiding children (K-3) in real reading experiences by teaching them word families. While using this book, you will be able to give your students the opportunity to learn and practice the essential phonological skills of onset and rhyme as they read an enticing story or poem. This book offers you a wide variety of engaging methods for teaching word families including art projects, poems, big books, and little take-home books. As you progress through the book's lessons, your students will learn to write the word families fluently and to manipulate magnetic letters and words. In addition, Hands-On Word Family Activities for Young Readers contains easy-to-follow lessons for each word family, helps to build self-esteem, and increases independence as students gain confidence while learning to master the contents.

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First grade teacher
Great resource book! I especially liked how diverse the lessons are- there is word work, as well as stories and poems that give students a chance to practice what they are learning. A must for any teacher in grades 1-3!!! ... Read more

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Learnig activities with more than 40 games ... Read more

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Tray Tasking teaches parents and educators how to engage children in activities that promote whole body preparation for reading and writing skills while having fun. Children use common household items in new ways that lead to strengthened eye and hand coordination for future reading and writing success. A child manipulates the items organized on a tray using movements that require them to engage their eyes, arms and hands in left-to-right and top-to-bottom directions—the same directions used for reading and writing. The tray arrangements promote respect for materials and orderliness in a child’s world, and they reinforces that there is a place for everything and everything should be in its place. Teachers will value the opportunities tray tasks provide for authentically assessing children, and they’ll find the Tray Task Chart useful in tracking children’s progress. This book guides parents and teachers in involving children in activities that promote whole body preparation for reading and writing skills while having fun. ... Read more

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Great tool for early chilhood teachers
This is a text book for my Science, Math, and Literacy class.It is really great and a must have.I took this to work with me and everyone wants one.I have to share it and I'm the one with homework! lol.We are implementing 3 activities next week.All these activites lead to language development.I like how a lot of the tasks get the children to cross the midline.What I like most is that it tells and shows you how to set up the activities so that a child that hasn't decided on which hand they like to use can choose for himself.If you set tools on the right side, the child will naturally pick it up with their right hand.If you set them on top then the child will have to think about which hand to use.

This book is long overdue!
At last not only a "workbook" for the early childhood professional but one that parents can share with their children. Great learning tools with everyday items found around the house. I saw Dr. Folds on the Health Network several years ago and it is about time she shared her endless well of ideas with early childhood pros and parents. ... Read more

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Help young children develop their reading fluency, word recognition, and overall comprehension with this easy-to-use early intervention program that takes only ten minutes each night! Parents and children engage in repeated reading of poems, and then they complete a quick, skill-building activity. This ready-to-use, research-proven resource includes more than 100 poems and companion activities, 30 motivational stickers, plus reproducible family letters, certificates, bookmarks, and reading logs. For use with Grades PreKÐK. ... Read more

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Fast Start review
I bought the Fast Start:Getting Ready to Read for my preschool class.I use it in large and small group and then send the poem and instructions home for the parents to do their part.I have had a good response from the parents and the kids seem to like the poems.The only thing I would change would be to use a few more traditional nursery rhymes. ... Read more

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Improving Early Literacy offers teachers an arsenal of reading strategies for helping struggling emergent readers develop letter-name knowledge, sight word knowledge, phonics, and reading fluency skills. This book provides a comprehensive listing of various strategies incorporated into activities and worksheets and offers

• a practical introduction to early literacy instruction
• informal assessment devices based on proven research concepts
• approaches, strategies, and materials for teaching early literacy skills
• techniques for developing listening and oral language skills
• ways to assess and implement letter-name knowledge and sight word knowledge
• strategies for improving phonic analysis
• enhancement of structural and contextual analysis
• ways to expand vocabulary and comprehension
• techniques for teaching emergent literacy to children with special needs

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25 Easy, No-Sew Quilting Activities for Reading, Writing, Math, Social Studies, and More
Piece together a wonderful year with 25 creative, cross-curricular quilt projects! Easy patterns let kids create their own squares in various art forms ­ and then arrange them for display as a beautiful collaborative quilt! You¹ll find instructions for a "Getting to Know You" quilt for September, an "I Have a Dream" quilt for January, a "100th Day of School" quilt for February, and "Autograph" quilt for June, and lots more. Includes book links, ready-to-go reproducible patterns, and management tips. A wonderful combination of individual and cooperative learning! ... Read more

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Leap Frog is AWESOME
I got this workbook, along with the Pre-K version and both the K and Pre-K Math and Basic Skills workbooks, for my 4- and 5-yr-old sons.

My older son, who will be starting kindergarten next month, has resisted anything having to do with school, he'd rather play.He's also hyperactive and has been delayed in speech and other development.But he and his little brother LOVE doing these.

We have a huge Leap Frog collection, and it's all because we have seen how well the kids are entertained AND learn a lot from it.

I would absolutely reccommend these workbooks to anyone with preschool or young elementary school kids.They're one of the few "educational" toys/books/videos that actually deliver. ... Read more

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Includes ready-to-use lessons and materials for each alphabet letter, with detailed teacher directions (including miscue analysis) and reproducible line masters. ... Read more

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All In One Spot
This book is a typical reproducible book for preschool and kindergarten students.It saves a lot of time because there are projects for every letter (and consistency throughout) so you don't have to waste time making worksheets yourself.However, there is nothing outstanding about these, and they look kind of dated.Plus, it lacks ideas for hands-on lessons, which are extremely important for children this age.It is worth it to purchase this if you are just starting your teaching library and need reproducible resources, but save your money otherwise.

Hands on Alphabet Activities
This book is a great book with many ideas for each letter of the alphabet and I use it in my preschool class. Great for home schooling as well.

Very Useful!
I resisted using this book at first, but now I find it very helpful. I like the mini books and use them in my class as I introduce letters and words.I like that the students have easy to read books and it's a nice way to reinforce the words I teach in class. I don't use much from the book, but what I do use is great.It's a nice addition to my Word Study curriculum.I recommend it.

Great for Homeschool Preschoolers
I am currently using this book with my 2nd preschooler & thought I should add a review since I've been so happy with the curriculum. This satisfies the needs of those siblings who beg to do schoolwork with their older brothers & sisters. Even my kindergartener who has moved on to bigger and better things, still enjoys looking through her poems and pictures, and reading her mini-books. I did not do every thing reccommended in the book, but used the mini-books, along with the craft and poem to introduce the letters & sounds of the alphabet. My son looks forward to reading his completed books to his Daddy. I highly reccommend it!

A lot of repetition
This book looks impressive at over 500 pages, but unfortunately much of the page count is taken up with repetitive information. Each letter has an art activity to go with a poem that focuses on an object beginning with the letter. There is a reproducible half page book with objects beginning with the letter followed by full page sized pictures of the same object which you are to make into a "big book" to read with a group. The activities for each letter are identical:

* read and act out poem
* identify letter on a card
* name object held up that start with the letter
* complete art project (mostly cutting and pasting with some painting and stamping)
* read big book for letter to child
* the child reads a little book of the same text.

Each step is described in detail for each letter although the format is exactly the same, which makes the book unnecessarily long. The little books are the best part of this curriculum, with repetitive text suitable for young readers and plenty of words that start with the letter being studied. The drawings seem a little crude, but they are friendly. ... Read more

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These easy-to-make mini-books and manipulatives are just right for teaching young children about topics such as community, holidays around the world, famous Americans, and national symbols. Features such as simple text, labels, captions, and supportive illustrations let children explore concepts of print, introduce them to nonfiction, and boost vocabulary. Also includes activities, songs, poems, and literature links to build background knowledge. For use with Grades K-1. ... Read more

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Seasons/Holidays vs. Non-Fiction
The book is great but not really what I was looking for. I wanted something to showcase non-fiction... something that would help build my students' skills in identifying non-fiction text features. These books ARE non-fiction but cover topics such as MLK Jr. Day, Groudhog Day, etc. If you're looking for something along THOSE lines, good book! ... Read more

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Print awareness activities for 12 popular childrens' tales and stories put fun into learning to read and write. Children create charts or visual displays that involve them in the reading and writing process and encourage them to imitate important literacy ... Read more

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great book for preschool and kidergarten
this is a great book for preschool to create writing opportunities and discuss interesting toppings. the book demonstrates how to use familiar books with young children to promote print awareness and language skills.

Using Charts with preschoolers
I purchased this book because I am constantly seeking ideas of ways to use children's names on charts to increase their print awareness, and this book has activities to do this. It also has great ideas to use with fairy tales and nursery rhymes which have really captured my students' interests this year. Creating graphs was another area that this book provided ideas and I can honestly say that most of my students have grown in their math and literacy skills using some of these ideas. ... Read more