EQUITABLE PARTICIPATION
LENDING LIBRARY CATALOG
2012-2013
Westmoreland Intermediate Unit
R.E.A.L
Providing Resources, Education, Assistance, and Leadership
Purpose
The purpose of this catalog is to enhance the Educational Program for students in the non-public
schools of Westmoreland Intermediate Unit #7. The Non-Public School Services Department of
the Westmoreland Intermediate Unit provides a variety of consultative services to the non-profit,
non-public schools of Westmoreland County. The materials in this catalog may be borrowed,
free of charge, for 3 months at a time. Renewal of borrowed materials will be based on demand.
In addition to the materials listed in this catalog, a number of educational assessments and
programs are also available in order to monitor student progress and supplement current
curriculum. Please contact the Equitable Participation Specialist at the Westmoreland
Intermediate Unit for more detailed information regarding these programs and assessments.
Availability is on a first come basis.
Equitable Participation Specialist:
Westmoreland Intermediate Unit
Mr. Ronald Heitchue
102 Equity Drive
Greensburg, PA 15601
724-836-2460 ext. 2391
724-836-4235 (fax)
rheitchue@wiu.k12.pa.us
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Table of Contents
Autism…………………………………………………………………………… 4
Behavior…………………………………………………………………………. 5
Bully Prevention…………………………………………………………………. 5
Classroom Management/Teaching Strategies………………………………….... 7
Differentiated Instruction……………………………………………………….. 11
Math……………………………………………………………………………… 12
Reading…………………………………………………………………………... 13
Response to Intervention……………………………………………………….... 21
Social Skills…………………………………………………………………….... 22
Study Skills……………………………………………………………………..... 23
Writing…………………………………………………………………………… 24
**Numerous Professional Development materials are included under each area**
** Additional technology devices may also be available. Call for more info**
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AUTISM
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All About Autism DVD Series
www.attainmentcompany.com
Asperger Syndrome features an in-depth interview with Dr. Tina Iyama, M.D., University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital. Iyama
explains the symptoms, causes of and strategies for coping with Asperger Syndrome. The video also spotlights Andrew, a bright
middle schooler with Asperger’s. 17 min.
Autism Spectrum Disorders features author Glenis Benson, Ph.D. as she presents her developmental perspective covering major
issue areas: Cognitive style, diagnostic characteristics, communication skills and deficits, social behaviors, support strategies and
challenging behaviors. 39 min.
Straight Talk about Autism features interviews with kids with autism and their parents. The program is divided into two sections:
Childhood Issues and Adolescence. Key topics like communication deficits, splinter skills, social competency and hypersensitivities
are discussed. 80 min.
1 of each available
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Autism in Your Classroom
www.woodbinehouse.com
Part I provides a complete overview of the types, causes, characteristics, and treatments of autism spectrum disorders. It also
explains various secondary characteristics of autism that create challenges for students, such as sensory abnormalities, behavioral
issues, and limited social skills and peer interaction.
Part II focuses on the student in the classroom. It covers modifying work, helping with language difficulties, using visual strategies,
keeping students focused and organized, teaching reading and math, using reinforcements, handling behaviors, explaining autism to
other students, and teaching social skills.
Part III features two useful case studies. Both stem from the authors’ hands-on work and consultation with teachers, students, and
parents. The book concludes with an appendix of frequently asked questions about children with autism asked by educators.
2 available
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Practical Solutions for Educating Young Children with High-Functioning Autism
and Asperger Syndrome
www.asperger.net
Designed to help parents and professionals navigate the challenges for early learners with high-functioning autism (HFA) and
Asperger Syndrome (AS). Because their deficits are more subtle, these children may be less understood by educational professionals.
This book is a much-needed resource to help teachers understand their younger child with HFA or AS.
1 available
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Simple Strategies That Work! Helpful Hints for All Educators of Students with
Asperger Syndrome, High-Functioning Autism, and Related Disabilities
www.asperger.net
Simple Strategies that Work! provides ideas and suggestions that teachers can use to help a student with AS/HFA on the road to
success. The book discusses problems that arise in the classroom and how teachers can adjust the classroom to accommodate, while
not interfering with normal classroom routines. Not boggled down with jargon, the book includes tables and boxes for quick reference
and clear meaning. Also included is information on what can cause anxiety for the AS/HFA student, how this can lead to decreased
academic and social performance, decreased attention to task, and potential increases in behavior problems, and what the teacher can
do to assist.
2 available
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Social Skills Picture Book
www.jedbaker.com
It provides a teaching tool that “engages the attention and motivation of students who need help learning appropriate social skills.” It
demonstrates through pictures nearly 30 social skills, such as conversation, play, emotion management and empathy. Most children
need and usually want social skills to make friends, and, often, their level of happiness and productivity is dependent on these
fundamentals. The Social Skills Picture Book attempts to teach these critical social skills by visually showing children what to do.
3 available
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Strategies at Hand: Quick & Handy Strategies for Working with Students on the
Autism Spectrum
www.asperger.net
This at-your-fingertips tool is broken down into five color-coded sections that are easy to locate and use: Learning Environments
(classroom, field trips, etc.), Areas of Student Need (communication, behavior, etc.), Transitions (substitute teachers, school
assemblies, etc.), Alphabetical Explanations of Terms (functional behavioral assessment, picture communication systems, etc.), and
Resources and References.
8 available
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The Hidden Curriculum-Teaching What is Meaningful(DVD)
www.nprinc.com
In this DVD, Brenda Smith Myles discusses, using numerous examples - many of them humorous - the major topics of the book of the
same title, co-authored by Melissa L. Trautman and Ronda L. Schelvan. The DV D offers practical suggestions and advice for how to
teach and learn those subtle messages that most people seem to pick up almost automatically but that have to be directly taught to
individuals with social-cognitive challenges. Given the serious consequences that can befall a person who violates a social rule, the
strategies discussed here make this a much-needed resource.
1 available
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You're Going to Love This Kid! - Teaching Students with Autism in the Inclusive
Classroom
www.asperger.net
A practical guide to understanding students with autism and including them fully in the classroom. Paula Kluth combines relevant
research with lessons learned from her own teaching experience to give teachers in primary and secondary schools specific ideas.
2 available
BEHAVIOR
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ADHD & LD Classroom Strategies at Your Fingertips
www.nprinc.com
A comprehensive and practical reference guide of effective strategies for use in general education environments. Strategies that
address:
Getting and maintaining attention
Differentiating Instruction
Academic Strategies related to organization, study skills, and written language
Collaborating and training for success
10 available
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Foundations
www.pacificnwpublish.com
A program designed to guide school staff through the process of writing a positive and instructional school-wide discipline policy.
This comprehensive approach includes:
* more than 14 hours of how-to video content
* demonstration vignettes
* study guides
* surveys that will help staff gather and use data
1 available
BULLY PREVENTION
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200+ Ready-To-Use Reproducible Activity Sheets That Help Educators Take A Bite
Out Of Bullying & CD (gr. 3-8)
www.marcoproducts.com
Use these activity sheets to teach a lesson, supplement an existing bullying program, or reinforce bullying after a program has been
completed. Activity sheets can be easily reproduced from the included CD and, where appropriate, you have the choice of color or
black and white.
2 available
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Bully Free Bulletin Boards, Posters, and Banners
www.bullyfree.com
Bully Free bulletin boards send strong, consistent messages that bullying will not be tolerated, that it hurts others, and that there are
positive alternatives: peacemaking, kindness, and respect. This book brings key anti-bullying concepts to the classroom in fun,
interactive ways: Kids work on displays together, with instruction and reinforcement from teachers. The result is a series of antibullying messages for classrooms and hallways that kids will notice, talk about, and retain. Each project includes clear, concise
instructions and discussion questions.
2 available
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Bullying Stops Here (K-12 curriculum)
www.sunburstvm.com
Designed to help staff and students together create a school culture and climate in which bullying is not allowed and all children can
feel safe. Six videos for students help children appreciate the importance of mutual respect; develop vocabulary to express and
manage feelings; learn about empathy; and acquire skills and strategies to deal with name calling, bossiness, teasing, and bullying.
Sections for staff and parents provide plans and handouts for staff development and parent education sessions.
1 available
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School House Bullies (DVD and Facilitator’s Guide)
www.corwinpress.com
Help staff members create a school environment where all students feel safe and can learn at high levels. School House Bullies
delivers just what the title implies. It can be very effective in reducing bullying and related anti-social behavior among students."
1 available
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Stop Bullying! Strategies for Prevention (gr. 3-5)
www.sunburstvm.com
Designed to help staff and students together create a safe, respectful, and empathic school environment in which bullying is not
allowed and all children feel empowered to stand up to bullies. The Staff Development video, Building Respectful Schools and
Classrooms, explores ways for creating a school culture and climate in which everyone can feel respected and safe. Five student
videos are included in the module. The videos help students learn how to identify behavior that is harassment, understand the bullytarget-bystander dynamic, develop strategies for dealing with bullying, and appreciate the importance of empathy and mutual respect
and recognize how they help to reduce bullying.
1 available
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Stand Up, Speak Out: Preventing Bullying and Harassment(gr. 5-9)
www.sunburstvm.com
This integrated package of videos and print materials for teaching and learning bullying prevention techniques, is designed especially
for middle school students. Both flexible and versatile, the package is structured so that units and activities can be selected and
arranged to fit the needs of your program and your students. Lesson plans include discussion questions and a variety of activities. You
may assign all activities in a unit or some of them; assign them to the whole class or to selected students; or let students work in
groups or on their own. Activities can be adapted to suit individual needs.
1 available
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The ABC’s of Bullying Prevention (4 DVD set)
www.nprinc.com
This program is comprised of 4 DVDs and comes with 4 books.. Each program in the series addresses a specific stakeholder audience:
administrators; pupil services staff; teachers; paraprofessionals; parents. Now for the first time, a comprehensive approach is available
to provide school communities a complete package on bullying prevention. This series targets four of the major stakeholder groups.
Through the use of the video and the accompanying book, each stakeholder group learns critical information on what he/she can do to
specifically address, reduce and eliminate bullying in our schools.
1 available
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The Bully Free Classroom
www.bullyfree.com
Includes strategies you can start using immediately. Some are classroom-centered—designed to change everyone's attitudes, thinking,
and behaviors. Some are victim-centered, focusing on students who are current or potential victims of bullying. Some are bullycentered, because bullies need help as much as victims. All are easy to understand and simple to implement; many require little or no
advance preparation and few or no special materials. Positive and practical, reinforced with true stories and enhanced by reproducible
forms, checklists, and resources, this solution-filled book can make your classroom a place where all students are free to learn without
fear.
2 available
2 CD-ROMS available with all forms found in the book
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CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT/TEACHING STRATEGIES
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A Comprehensive Guide to Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
www.brookespublishing.com
The most complete book available on children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Learning objectives,
instructive case stories, stimulating questions for reflection, and key Internet resources help make this a user-friendly textbook.
2 available
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Adapting Curriculum and Instruction in Inclusive Classrooms
Teacher's Desk Reference is designed to meet the needs of general education teachers as well as teachers of students with disabilities
and assist them as they face the challenge of teaching an increasingly diverse group of learners. The adaptation process and the
strategies and examples provided are appropriate for students at all grade levels and may be applied to all subject areas of the
curriculum.
1 available
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A Practical Approach to: Classroom Management and Discipline(DVD)
www.ber.org
In this one-of-a-kind video training program, experienced teachers demonstrate practical strategies for creating and maintaining wellmanaged primary classrooms. Viewers will observe positive ways to establish a productive learning environment, develop
responsible learners and deal constructively with misbehavior - from the most minor too the most challenging. Include training guide.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Starting the Year with Proactive Classroom Management Strategies
Management and Intervention Strategies that Keep Students on Task and Learning
Strategies for Dealing with Difficult and Challenging Students
1 available
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Brain-Based Learning
www.corwinpress.com
Borrowing research from the disciplines of neuroscience, biology, and psychology, brain expert Eric Jensen offers an easy-tounderstand explanation of the relationship between learning and the brain, helping educators increase student motivation and
achievement. The author shares empirical data and provides in-depth information about the impact of physiological effects, sensory
stimuli, and emotions on learning. Written for teachers, teacher leaders, and administrators, this comprehensive text demonstrates
how brain-compatible learning environments can work to optimize learning in the classroom, reduce discipline problems, overcome
learning difficulties, and increase graduation rates.
2 books available
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Brain-Based Learning(VHS)
www.corwinpress.com
Join David Sousa for a dynamic 42-minute presentation in which he brings the concepts of How the Brain Learns to life . . . and gives
specific examples of how brain-based learning can be put to use in your classroom. Charts, diagrams, and David Sousa’s own clear
and engaging style begin the presentation . . . and three separate examples of the theories themselves are shown through in-theclassroom footage, where theory becomes practice. It’s an involving and useful new approach to this vital material, structured in a way
that makes it a valuable tool for self-learning and an essential part of a larger professional development program for teachers and
administrators alike.
1 available
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Brain-Based Teaching With Adolescent Learning in Mind-2nd Ed.
www.corwinpress.com
Glenda Crawford shows you the newest research available on adolescent brain development and provides a structure for connecting
the research to students' social, emotional, and cognitive needs. Crawford also presents how-to strategies for motivating teens with
inquiry, relevance, and collaboration, as well as links to relevant Web sites. This indispensable handbook includes AdolescentCentered Teaching (ACT) models in each chapter and sample standards-based content lessons and scenarios. Classroom educators,
teacher leaders, and preservice instructors will find lesson examples that can be easily differentiated for students with varying
backgrounds, levels of English proficiency, prior knowledge, abilities, and interests.
2 available
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Briefcase One: Inclusion Essentials for Middle & High School
www.attainmentcompany.com
Shows you how to get the ball rolling on your inclusion program, including tiering instruction, dealing with discipline problems, and
stressing strong parent-to-teacher and teacher-to-student relationships. Includes CD-ROM with printables.
4 available
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Curriculum Adaptations for Students with Learning and Behavior Problems
www.proedinc.com
This book provides a process and specific techniques for selecting and implementing curricular adaptations for students who need
accommodations in their programs. It addresses the daily challenges of implementing curriculum for students who require adaptations
to differentiated learning in content, strategies, or management techniques.
2 available
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How the Brain Learns- 4 Book Collection
www.corwinpress.com
Sousa provides teachers with the practical strategies and understanding needed to reach every student in the general and inclusive
classroom-including the most challenged, challenging, and highly accomplished students.
Book 1-How the Brain Learns
David A. Sousa explores source material on brain research, including basic brain structures, how the brain processes information,
memory and retention, and the transfer of knowledge to enhance present and future learning. In addition to critical new research about
how the brain acquires language.
Book 2- How the Brain Learns to Read
Presents what scientists have uncovered about how children develop spoken language and use spoken language abilities when learning to
read. Best-selling author David Sousa explores source material on brain research and provides scores of practical reading strategies for the
K-12 classroom. Complete with relevant brain diagrams and informative tables, this exciting new book examines critical concepts.
Book 3-How the Gifted Brain Learns
David Sousa shows how the brain processes information and offers both simple and complex strategies that will help identify and
challenge gifted students in your classroom. Building on the latest discoveries in neuroscience, learning, and the nature of intelligence,
this book examines why traditional talent-identification techniques are inadequate (and often inaccurate), and presents methods that
will allow you to identify giftedness and talent potential with greater accuracy than ever before.
Book 4-How the Special Needs Brain Learns, 2nd Edition
In this completely revised second edition, Sousa builds on the latest data by examining both simple and complex learning strategies
that can be adapted for students with learning disabilities such as ADHD/ADD; speech, reading, writing, and math disabilities;
emotional and behavioral disorders; autism; and Asperger's syndrome. Emphasizing lifelong independent learning, increased retention,
and cognitive flexibility
1 complete collection available
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How the Brain Learns-3rd Edition (with Facilitator’s Guide)
www.corwinpress.com
Examines remarkable new research and developments in brain functioning while continuing its successful tradition of translating this
information into effective classroom strategies and activities. In this revised edition, best-selling author David A. Sousa explores
source material on brain research, including basic brain structures, how the brain processes information, memory and retention, and
the transfer of knowledge to enhance present and future learning. In addition to critical new research about how the brain acquires
language
The facilitator’s guide provides staff developers and turnkey teachers with the tools necessary to facilitate a workshop or study group
based on the bestselling book. Chapter-by-chapter topics focus on brain research that relates to teaching and learning and how this
research can be translated into practical classroom strategies
1 book
2 facilitator’s guide
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Positive Classroom Management
www.incentivepublications.com
Terri Breeden and Emalie Egan
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Positive Classroom Management is a collection of creative, proactive ideas to make the classroom a fun, yet controlled, learning
environment. Tailor these innovative management tools to fit your school’s discipline philosophy and your personality. Reproducible
forms are included. There’s even a script for an operatic spoof to illustrate the folly of disruptive behavior.
1 available
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Positive Classroom Management
www.corwinpress.com
Robert DiGiulio
Student teachers, beginning teachers, and veteran teachers will find this a perfect resource for strengthening their classroom
management skills. Providing creative ideas, materials, checklists, models, tools, and sample dialogues illustrating applications across
all K–12 grade levels, this concise edition features:
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The four dimensions of successful classroom: spiritual, physical, instructional, and managerial.
A differentiated approach to instruction and management in the classroom
Added coverage of child and adolescent development and emotional intelligence
2 available
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Practical Strategies for High School Inclusion
www.attainmentcompany.com
All high school students want to feel they belong and this is particularly true of students with an ED label. Veteran special educator
and author June Stride writes candidly about her challenges, frustrations and disappointments from her experience as a teacher and
department head. She explains the who, why, how and the legal aspects of implementing inclusive programs, especially for students
with behavioral disabilities. Practical guidelines, tips, surveys, do’s and don’ts and tips for teaching enhance this easy-to-read book.
1 available
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Practical Strategies for Middle School Inclusion
www.attainmentcompany.com
Author Eileen Bowers, an inclusion teacher for many years, shows how to put together an inclusive program that works for everyone
involved, from the administration to the students. Bowers recalls her struggles and also the successful strategies she developed.
Dozens of easy-to-use suggestions on important topics like grading, coteaching and peer acceptance.
1 available
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Sensorcises-Active Enrichment for the Out-of-Step Learner
www.corwinpress.com
This useful resource explores the REAL technique-Relax, Energize, Activate and Lead-and shows you how to design activity
sequences to help students with sensory dysfunction. Each research-based activity is fully described and illustrated with photographs
to assist with classroom implementation.
1 available
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Seven Simple Secrets (book)
www.eyeoneducation.com
By: Annette L. Breaux and Todd Whitaker
Implementing these secrets will change your life both in and out of the classroom. But most importantly, implementing these secrets
will enhance the lives of every student you teach.
Secret One: The Secret of Planning
Secret Two: The Secret of Classroom Management
Secret Three: The Secret of Instruction
Secret Four: The Secret of Attitude
Secret Five: The Secret of Professionalism
Secret Six: The Secret of Effective Discipline
Secret Seven: The Secret of Motivation and Inspiration
Conclusion
2 available
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Tactics for Boosting Academic Achievement
www.sopriswest.com
This intervention resource features 70 demonstrated academic tactics—each with a corresponding evaluation tool—for reading,
writing, spelling, and more. Includes Coaching Checklists, directions for involving peer tutors, and classroom organization strategies.
It can be used with the entire class or in small groups for more intensive instruction.
1 available
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Teaching Effective Classroom Routines Book and Classroom Coaches
www.sopriswest.com
Classrooms without established routines may contribute to distraction and misbehavior. This book offers methods for creating and
maintaining daily routines that can have a significant impact on classroom transitions, student behavior, and instructional flow. Comes
with Classroom Coaches cue cards to help teach skills efficiently, assist in skill practice, and monitor skill use.
2 available
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The Classroom Teachers Guide to Instructional & Curricular Modification(DVD, Book)
www.masterteacher.com
Offers insights into the teacher's role in making accommodations, as well as tackling tough issues such as fairness, grading, and
confidentiality. In addition, teachers will explore the crucial distinction between instructional and curricular modifications, the
resources at their disposal, and the role of support staff in making modifications and accommodations. In addition it offers a
comprehensive set of instructional modification strategies teachers can use for planning and carrying out accommodations—as well as
detailing the issues involved with making curricular modifications, including the potential levels of participation for students with
special needs, the level of resource intensiveness involved at each level, and the task of monitoring and documenting progress.
1 available
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The Classroom Teacher’s Guide to Instructional and Curricular Modifications
www.nprinc.com
Making the general curriculum accessible to all students means that ALL teachers -- not just special education teachers -- must know
how to modify instruction and curriculum for students served by support programs. This set will provide your teachers with hands-on,
practical ideas for making the curriculum accessible to every student in your school.
DVD 1: Modifications 101 (41 minutes)
DVD 2: Developing a Shared Vision of Modifications (38 minutes)
DVD 3: Accommodating Specific Student Needs (44 minutes)
DVD 4: Modifying Instruction and Assessment to Increase Student Learning (46 minutes)
DVD 5: Understanding and Implementing Curricular Modifications (33 minutes)
1 available
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The Effective Teacher
www.effectiveteaching.com
This DVD series captures the warmth, humor, and enthusiasm of Harry K. Wong. A five hour in-service presentation has been
packaged into eight small parts so that a teacher who needs help can look at certain sections or a staff developer or administrator can
use each part over a period of time. The Effective Teacher shows what effective teachers do to cause student achievement. It is all
common sense, research-based, non-controversial, basic information and techniques used by effective teachers shared in an
entertaining easy-to-implement format. Each DVD contains one of each of the eight parts of the series, the complete Facilitator’s
Handbook with the transcript of the series in PDF format, an expanded Implementation Guide that walks the staff developer through
each part and provides questions for discussion and follow-up, PDF files of all the graphics used in the production, PowerPoint slides
of all of the graphics from the series, and a video file of all of the opening music and commentaries that begin each of the eight parts.
Part 1: The Effective Teacher – 32 minutes
How to use research-based practices to be an effective teacher
Part 2: The First Days of School – 36 minutes
How to invite students to succeed
Part 3: Discipline and Procedures – 36 minutes
How to have a well-managed classroom
Part 4: Procedures and Routines – 55 minutes
How to have students follow classroom procedures
Part 5: Cooperative Learning and Culture – 47 minutes
How to prepare your students for tomorrow’s world
Part 6: Lesson Mastery – 33 minutes
How to increase student learning and achievement
Part 7: The Professional Educatory – 41 minutes
How to become a professional
Part 8: Positive Expectations – 20 minutes
How to increase positive student behavior
2 of each complete set available
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The Teacher's Pocket Guide for Effective Classroom Management
www.pbrookes.com
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This concise book takes research-proven information on preventing problem behavior and makes it easy to apply. Behavior expert and
former teacher Tim Knoster—the dynamic speaker whose workshops have inspired thousands of teachers across the country—uses
humor, memorable examples, and vivid metaphors to help K–12 educators solve mild to moderate behavior challenges in any
classroom. Teachers will use the practical, down-to-earth advice year after year.
3 available
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The Tough Kid Book and Tool Box: Classroom Management Strategies
www.addwarehouse.com
These ready-to-use, research-validated solutions have helped hundreds of thousands of teachers reduce disruptive behavior and make
their classrooms pleasant and productive. This indispensable resource can help you do the same! Step by step strategies enable you to
deal with aggression, arguing, tantrums, and poor academic progress. You'll be equipped with practical assessment tools; positive,
proactive intervention strategies; tips for effective reinforcement; reductive techniques; guidelines for making precision requests; and
more.
The Tough Kid Tool Box helps teachers improvise or enhance an intervention—plus, it is packed with reproducibles! Each of the
book's sections begins with a definition, a description, and steps to accomplish a specific intervention; troubleshooting tips are also
offered in every chapter.
1 of each available
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Turning Best Practice Into Daily Practice (book)
www.crystalspringsbooks.com
By: Anne Beninghoff
Wouldn`t it be great if someone would take current research, distill it into manageable bites, and figure out exactly how you could
actually use it in the classroom? Anne does just that, suggesting enticing, research-supported strategies for everything from increasing
participation to focusing attention to strengthening memory. Your students will love these time capsules, secret code books, and
metaphor machines! Great for professional discussion groups, too.
3 available
DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION
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Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom (CD-ROM & Book)
www.freespirit.com
A practical guide that presents a menu of strategies for any teacher faced with a spectrum of student needs and styles. Some are quick
and easy—differentiating discussions, creating tiered assignments. Others are more comprehensive—matrix plans for designing
curriculum units, “one-sentence lesson plans” that encompass content, process skills, and evidence of learning. Individual chapters
focus on evaluation in a differentiated classroom and how to manage both behavior and work tasks. The book describes ways to get to
know your students and recognize that all have strengths and limitations. Templates and forms simplify planning; examples illustrate
differentiation in many content areas.
17 books available
7 CD-ROMS available
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Differentiated Instruction Planner
www.nprinc.com
This 10-page planner is a quick-reference resource to help teachers encourage students to find their own ways, their own rhythms, and
their own strengths. The easy-to-read charts and tables include a checklist for assessing how students are smart, a summary of Howard
Gardner's Eight Intelligences and Gregorc's four basic learning styles, a personal inventory for students, and learning cycle checklists
and lesson templates.
9 available
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Differentiation Through Learning Styles and Memory-2 edition
www.corwinpress.com
Learn how to optimize learning by using brain-based strategies that address students' social/emotional, cognitive, and physical
learning preferences. The author provides readers with graphic organizers, current research on memory, and new charts to help
implement differentiated strategies. This comprehensive resource provides the tools you need to create a brain-friendly learning
environment and to differentiate content, process, and product for your students' diverse learning needs and strengths.
2 available
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MATH
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Elementary Math Instant Learning Center
www.lakeshorelearning.com
Ready to use centers designed for up to 4 students at a time. Helps students build math skills independently and allows them to work
at their own pace. Includes simple instructions and a guide with differentiated instruction strategies.
The following centers are available:
Graphing
Place Value
Fractions
Geometry (1 available)
Measurement
Money (1 available)
Time
Problem Solving
2 of each center available, except where noted
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Hands-On Math Listening Centers
www.lakeshorelearning.com
Simple audio instructions guide students through skill-building activities one step at a time—from making change with realistic coins
to telling time with analog and digital clocks! Each center has enough materials for 4 children to work at once…with all the cards and
manipulatives students need to complete 4 different activities.
The following centers are available:
Money
Time
Measurement
2 of each center available
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Hot Dots Flash Cards (gr. K-6)
www.educationalinsights.com
Interactive Flash Cards that use a special Hot Dot Pen. Students touch the pen to a dot and it responds instantly whether your answer
is correct or incorrect with fun sounds that you select: cool phrases, wild SFX, or both. Hot Dots Flash Cards can also be used as
regular flash cards.
The following sets are available:
Addition (Facts 0-9)
More Addition (Facts 10-19)
Subtraction (Facts 0-13)
More Subtraction (Facts 13-19)
Fractions
Multiplication (Facts 0-9)
Money
Telling Time
Division (Facts 0-9)
1 of each available
Classroom Packs
Grade 1 (2 available)
Grade 2 (1 available)
Grade 3 (1 available)
Grade 4 (1 available)
Grade 5 (2 available)
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Math Problem Solving Strategies Overhead Kit
www.lakeshorelearning.com
Grades 1-3
Help students develop the skills they need to solve word problems…and strengthen mathematical reasoning! You get 6 acetate sheets
that each focus on a different problem solving strategy…plus 60 color-coded cards that challenge students to solve problems using the
appropriate strategy—from finding a pattern to working backwards!
Grades 4-6
Give students the practice they need to master word problems—with easy-to-use activity sheets that target 6 essential strategies! You
get 6 acetate sheets that each focus on a different problem solving strategy…plus 60 color-coded cards that challenge students to solve
a variety of word problems—by applying the strategies they’ve learned.
2 of each kit available
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Math Standards Review (gr. 5-12)
www.sdlback.com
Includes: Whole Numbers, Number Theory, Decimals, Integers, Fractions, Percent. Skill and strategy instruction based on NCTM
standards and strands in a pick-and-choose format. Reproducible activities for in-class assignments, quizzes, or homework.
1 available
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On Cloud 9 Math (Lindamood-Bell)
www.lindamoodbell.com
A Visualizing and Verbalizing® Math Program developed by Kimberly Tuley and Nanci Bell, successfully stimulates the ability to
image and verbalize the concepts underlying math processes. Concept and Numeral imagery are integrated with language and applied
to math computation and problem solving. There is emphasis on both mathematical reasoning and mathematical computation.
Individuals of all ages learn to do and enjoy math.
1 available
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Overhead Math Manipulatives Kit (gr. 1-3 and gr. 3-6)
www.lakeshorelearning.com
Grades 1-3
Introduce math concepts to the whole class—with handy manipulatives made just for your overhead! Over 380 pieces include 2-D
shapes, place value blocks, coins, attribute blocks, fraction bars and more. Includes a guide.
Targets standards in these areas:
• Operations
• Place value
• Time
• Money
• Geometry
• Fractions
• Classification
Grades 4-6
This kit is filled with over 270 pieces designed for use with an overhead. Includes fraction circles, graphing and decimal boards,
number lines, a coordinate plane, number tiles, and more.
Targets standards in these areas:
• Operations
• Fractions
• Geometry
• Measurement
• Probability
• Graphing
2 of each kit available
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Texas Instruments Graphing Calculator (TI-84 Plus Silver Ed)
education.ti.com
The TI-84 Plus Silver Edition graphing calculator comes with a USB cable, plenty of storage and operating memory, and lots of preloaded software applications (Apps) -- all to help you gain an academic edge from pre-algebra through calculus, as well as biology,
chemistry and physics.
5 available
READING
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50 Nifty Activities Kit (Speaking and Listening Activities)
www.sopriswest.com
50 Nifty Speaking and Listening Activities: Promoting Oral Language and Comprehension promotes the development of oral language
confidence and enhanced comprehension skills. Mirroring Judith Dodson’s popular 50 Nifty Activities for 5 Components and3 Tiers of
Reading Instruction, this book includes 50 simple, engaging activities that build students’ vocabulary, background knowledge, and
expressive language skills.
The activities, all of which align directly with LETRS content, are clearly explained and illustrated, allowing teachers to emphasize
oral language as they teach active listening, speaking, vocabulary, comprehension, and language fluency skills. 50 Nifty Speaking and
Listening Activities is written in student-friendly language, promotes a positive classroom culture, and includes family-focused
activities to encourage at-home support.
1 available
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50 Nifty Activities Kit
www.sopriswest.com
For 5 components and 3 tiers of reading instruction. Fifty Nifty Activities connects and reinforces the concepts taught in LETRS with
fun, engaging activities that are aligned with DIBELS measures. The activities are easy to implement and incorporate into daily
lessons from any research-based core reading program.
Combined Set includes Program Guide, Koosh® ball, magnetic wands and chips, hand clappers, overhead letter tiles, and more
1 available
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Assessing Reading: Multiple Measures for K-12th grade
www.academictherapy.com
Provides a collection of tests for the comprehensive assessment of skills related to reading. These assessments can help you, as a
teacher, identify why a student is having reading difficulty and determine what the next step in instruction should be to remediate that
difficulty. The assessments are intended to assist the teacher in determining the instructional needs of all students and in monitoring
progress throughout the course of instruction.
2 available
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Bingo Games
www.lakeshorelearning.com
Parts of Speech
Students master parts of speech as they play bingo. When a part of speech is called, students search their game mats for a
corresponding word used in context. Includes all the materials you need for up to 36 players
Capitalization
Students strengthen grammar & capitalization skills. The game is played just like traditional bingo, only when a description is
called—like “day of the week”—students search their game mats for the sentence the word is used in! Includes all the materials you
need for up to 36 players.
Verb Tense
Students master verb tenses. The game is played just like traditional bingo, only when a word or verb tense is called, students search
their game mats for the sentence the word is used in. Includes all the materials you need for up to 36 players.
Punctuation
Students master proper punctuation. The game is played just like traditional bingo, only when you call out a punctuation mark,
students search their game mats for the sentence it belongs in! Includes all the materials you need for up to 36 players.
2 of each available
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Bringing the Classics to Life (gr. 1-5)
www.highnoonbooks.com
These novels have been adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Key words
are defined and used in context, prior to each chapter. Multiple-choice questions require the student to recall specific details, sequence
of events, draw inferences from story context, develop another name for the chapter, and choose the main idea. Each book is 72 pages
with illustrations. Answer keys provided.
Reading Level Grade 1
Swiss Family Robinson
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
White Fang
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rip Van Winkle
Little Women
The Jungle Book
Reading Level Grade 2
Treasure Island
Adventures of Robin Hood
Tom Sawyer
Black Beauty
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Call of the Wild
Silas Marner
Reading Level Grade 4
Gullivers Travels
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Captains Courageous
The Pathfinder
The Time Machine
The Pioneers
Reading Level Grade 5
Ivanhoe
Last of the Mohicans
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Hound of the Baskervilles
Moby Dick
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Count of Monte Cristo
Reading Level Grade 3
The Man in the Iron Mask
War of the Worlds
Red Badge of Courage
Robinson Crusoe
Oliver Twist
Kidnapped
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
1 of each book available
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Bringing the Classics to Life – Audio CD Read-Alongs
www.edconpublishing.com
Bring the Classics to Life Read-Alongs. These high-interest read-alongs have been adapted into 10 short chapters aimed at introducing
students to great classic literature, while improving comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. Expertly paced narration provides sound
effects to keep interest high, while students follow along, and then pause to work on activities at the end of each chapter. Each book:
Includes 100 comprehension questions that test for main idea, critical thinking, inference, recalling details, and sequencing, Contains
60 vocabulary exercises in modified Cloze format, and defines and uses new vocabulary in context, prior to each chapter. Includes
exciting illustrations in every chapter and answer keys at the back of each book. Workbooks and CD's can be used together or
independently of each other.
Reading Level Grade 1
White Fang
Reading Level Grade 2
Tom Sawyer
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Reading Level Grade 3
The Red Badge of Courage
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Little Women
The Call of the Wild
Robinson Crusoe
Black Beauty
Reading Level Grade 4
Gulliver’s Travels
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Reading Level Grade 5
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Ward of the Worlds
1 of each available
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Comprehension Skills Complete Set
www.pcieducation.com
Written especially for struggling readers in Grades 2-12, each series in this program covers reading skills that every student needs to
have. Each book covers a different skill and provides standardized test practice. Each set of 6 books is available in Reading Levels 2,
3, 4, 5, or 6. This kit is the complete classroom library set of all 6 books in all 5 levels. It also includes a Teacher’s Guides. Titles in
each set include: Context, Conclusion, Facts, Inference, Main Idea, and Sequence.
1 complete set available
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Greek and Latin Roots (gr. 4-8)
www.learningworksonline.com
The national standards, require that students beginning at fourth grade use known common Greek and Latin roots and affixes and use
this knowledge to analyze the meaning of complex words. Each of the 30 units in these resources include a word list, vocabulary sort
cards, review game cards, and a vocabulary quiz. Students will learn over 300 vocabulary words and become more comfortable
"dissecting" words and defining their parts. 144 pages
1 available
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Hear Myself Sound Phone
www.lakeshorelearning.com
The phone lets children hear themselves talk…so they can really focus on every sound they say. Perfect for exploring letter sounds,
phoneme blending, sound manipulation and more. The molded plastic phone is sized just for kids, with a lightweight, easy-grip
handle.
10 available
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Hot Dots Flash Cards (gr. K-6)
www.educationalinsights.com
Interactive Flash Cards that use a special Hot Dot Pen. Students touch the pen to a dot and it responds instantly whether your answer
is correct or incorrect with fun sounds that you select: cool phrases, wild SFX, or both. Hot Dots Flash Cards can also be used as
regular flash cards.
Hot Dots Phonics Program (gr. K+)
Set 1 Reading Readiness
Match upper and lowercase letters, explore colors, shapes, numbers, sounds, and rhymes.
Set 2 Consonants
Learn initial, medial, & final consonant sounds (hard and soft c & g) in word context.
Set 3 Vowels
Identify short/long vowel sounds. Read CVC words, plus various spellings of long vowel words
Set 4 Blends & Digraphs
Read words/phrases beginning and ending r-, l-, s- blends and digraphs (sh, ch, th, wh)
Set 5 Word Families
Read words with 37 common phonograms (-at, -ank, -ell,-in, -ing, -ot, -ock, -un, and –unk)
Set 6 Variant Vowels & More Identify r-controlled & silent vowels, vowel digraphs & diphthongs, & words ending in –le and –y
3 sets available
Hot Dots Reading Comprehension Program (gr. 2-6)
Set 1 Getting the Main Idea
Set 2 Noting and Recalling Details
Set 3 Drawing Conclusion/Predicting Outcomes
Set 4 Using Context Clues
Set 5 Finding the Sequence/Finding Cause & Effect
Set 6 Making Inferences
1 set available
Phonics Fun (PreK and up)
This self-checking electronic quiz card set gives children the basic skills they need to succeed in a fun, effective learning format. The
Hot Dots Power Pen registers answers on any of the 80 two-sided colorful, pressure-sensitive cards (160 lessons). Five fun sounds
reward correct answers and buzz incorrect ones.
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Launching Literacy Stations (DVD)
www.stenhouse.com
Mini-Lessons for Managing and Sustaining Independent Work (K-3) DVD extras include audio tours of the work stations in both
classrooms.
Program 1: Launching Stations
Debbie Explains the basic principles, and then launches work stations in two classrooms-the drama station in first grade, and the
science station in second grade.
Program 2: Managing Stations
This program provides examples of the nitty gritty issues that emerge with work stations, and how they are handled by teachers.
Program 3: Sustaining Stations
Ensuring students have interesting, engaging materials in stations and can work independently in them is an ongoing challenge for
teachers.
1 available
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Book Sets (gr. 3-6)
www.nationalschoolproducts.com
Each Little House Books set contains 4 books and 1 audio CD
The following sets are available:
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Little House on the Prairie
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Little House in the Big Woods
1 of each set available
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Leveled Reading Books with Tape (PreK-3rd grade)
Each title includes 4 books and 1 tape.
Level 1- Preschool- Grade 1 and I Mean It Stanley
Level 1-Beginning - Harry and the Lady Next Door
Level 2-(With Help) - Frog and Toad Together
Level 2-(With Help) – Mouse Soup
Level 2- My Visit to the Dinosaurs
www.lakeshorelearning.com
Level 2- Digging Up Dinosaurs
Level 2- Be A Friend to Trees
Level 2-Why Do Leaves Change Color
Level 3 (Reading Alone) – The Josefine Story Quilt
1 of each available
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Listen & Learn Letter Sounds Activity Program
www.lakeshorelearning.com
PreK – 1st grade
Students follow step-by-step lessons to identify beginning and ending sounds—or short and long vowel sounds—for every letter of the
alphabet. The program comes with enough materials for up to 8 students at once, including 208 write & wipe cards and 8 write &
wipe markers…plus two different activities for each letter of the alphabet. (CD Format)
Targets standards in these areas:
• Letter formation
• Matching letters and sounds
1 available
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Listen & Learn Phonemic Awareness Activity Program www.lakeshorelearning.com
PreK-1st grade
Kids follow step-by-step lessons to build phonemic awareness—in an involving, interactive way. The ready-to-use program has
enough materials for 8 students at once, including 128 write & wipe activity cards, 16 different activities. You even get 8 write & wipe
markers, 125 plastic chips and a guide. (CD Format)
Targets standards in these areas:
• Phoneme substitution
• Listening and following directions
• Identifying and manipulating sounds
1 available
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Listening Storage Centers
www.lakeshorelearning.com
An instant listening center and easy-access storage space for all your read-along materials—in a convenient, compact design that fits
right on your tabletop! Our sturdy wooden center comes with an 8-station junction box with individual volume controls, plus 8 sets of
adjustable headphones that fit onto the center—all with washable ear cushions and wipe-clean vinyl headbands that keep their shape
year after year. Plus, there’s plenty of extra space to store your read-along materials and books inside.
4 available
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Magnetic Word Builders (gr. 1-3)
www.lakeshorelearning.com
Children combine beginning, middle and ending sounds…to build words one sound at a time! Perfect for hands-on phonics practice,
110 sturdy foam magnets are color-coded for easy word building.
Targets standards in these areas:
• Letter-sound correspondence
• Decoding
• Word families
• Phoneme blending
2 available
1 Magnetic Board also available
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More Greek and Latin Roots (gr. 4-8)
www.learningworksonline.com
The national standards require that students beginning in fourth grade use their knowledge of common Greek and Latin roots to
analyze the meaning of complex words. This book introduces students to 30 new root words to aid their comprehension skills. 144
pages.
1 available
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More Prefixes and Suffixes (gr. 4-6)
www.learningworksonline.com
The national standards require that students beginning in fourth grade use their knowledge of prefixes and suffixes to determine the
meaning of words. This 144-page book includes 24 units. Each unit includes a word list, vocabulary sort cards, review game cards, a
vocabulary quiz, and a crossword puzzle.
1 available
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Phonemic Awareness Activity Kits
www.lakeshorelearning.com
The activity kits use easy-to-recognize pictures to introduce phonics sounds…so kids can build language skills even if they’re not yet
reading or writing! To begin each activity, just slip a starter strip into the pocket chart included; each strip shows a kid-friendly
picture, followed by 3 blank spaces. Then, kids just fill in the blank spaces with picture cards—and create a series of rhyming sounds,
like “cake-snake-lake-rake”…match words with the same initial sound, like “heart-house-horse-hamburger”…and much more! Each
kit focuses on a different phonics skill, and each includes a 12" x 17" nylon pocket chart, 15-20 illustrated starter strips and 45-60
illustrated answer cards.
Targets standards in these areas:
• Phoneme substitution
• Identifying initial & final consonant sounds
• Initial & medial vowel sounds
• Identifying & distinguishing rhyming sounds
• Long & short vowel sounds
The following kits are available:
Beginning Sounds
Ending Sounds
Rhyming Words
Vowel Sounds
1 of each kit available
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Phonics Word Builder Magnetic Kit
www.lakeshorelearning.com
From prefixes and suffixes to rimes, blends and digraphs, this kit is packed with magnetic phonics tiles—each color-coded according
to the sound it represents. Kids stick the phonics tiles onto the magnetic board…and build lots of words by sounding them out. The
magnetic board even comes with upper- and lowercase alphabet tile.
1 available
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Prefixes and Suffixes (gr. 4-8)
www.learningworksonline.com
Each of the 30 units in this resource includes a word list, vocabulary sort cards, review game cards, and a vocabulary quiz. Students
will learn over 300 vocabulary words and become more comfortable "dissecting" words and defining their parts. 144 pages.
1 available
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Reading Comprehension Games Library
www.lakeshorelearning.com
Grades 1-3
These action-packed games give students a fun-filled way to develop comprehension skills! Students hunt for hidden treasure as they
read for details, race through a skateboard park to practice predicting outcomes, and more! 2-4 players
Star Power Premiere: Following Directions Game
Pirate Island: Reading for Details Game
Kooky Carnival: Context Clues Game
Skatepark Rally: Predicting Outcomes Game
Extra! Extra!: Fact/Opinion Game
Adventure Camp: Sequencing Game
Grades 4-6
Help students master what it takes to be effective readers…with challenging games they’ll love to play! Students go on a surfing
adventure to improve vocabulary, search for lost jewels to analyze cause & effect, and more. 2-4 players.
Hazard Mountain: Inference Game
Capture the Flag: Reading Comprehension Game
Quest for the Jewels: Cause and Effect Game
Main Street Shopping: Main Idea Game
Outlast: Reading for Information Game
Wipeout!: Vocabulary Game
2 of each game available
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Reading Comprehension Learning Centers
www.lakeshorelearning.com
Fiction- From analyzing characters and reading for details to summarizing stories and drawing conclusions, this center is full of skillbuilding activities that make it easy to improve fiction comprehension! You get 12 write & wipe activity cards with step-by-step
instructions that students can follow on their own…plus all the materials students need to sequence events, identify story elements,
make comparisons and much more.
Nonfiction- ready-to-use center is specially designed to boost comprehension of nonfiction text—with skill-building activities that
students can complete independently! It features 12 write & wipe cards with step-by-step activities…plus all the materials students
need to identify the main idea and supporting details, match up cause and effect, interpret information from charts and graphs, and
much more.
2 of each available
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Reading Pen
www.wizcomtech.com
The Reading Pen Basic Edition K-12 is designed specifically to help school-age readers improve their English reading skills. This
fully portable scanning device helps with reading fluency and comprehension by providing immediate definitions from the American
Heritage® Children’s Dictionary and Thesaurus and translations from WizCom’s English to Spanish dictionary. Scanned text and
definitions can be read aloud, allowing readers to maintain their reading flow, even when encountering unfamiliar words.
2 available
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Road to the Code – A Phonological Awareness Program
www.brookespublishing.com
For helping kindergartners and first graders who are having difficulty on their early literacy skills, Road to the Code is a successful,
11-week program for teaching phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence. Developmentally sequenced, each of the 44 1520-minute lessons features three activities — Say-It-and-Move-It, Letter Name and Sound Instruction, and Phonological Awareness
Practice — that give students repeated opportunities to practice and enhance their beginning reading and spelling abilities.
2 available
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Road to Reading: A Program for Preventing and Remediating Reading Difficulties
www.brookespublishing.com
This innovative literacy program for students in grades 1-3 is committed to helping all children develop accuracy and fluency in
decoding. Ideal for students who can demonstrate beginning levels of phonemic awareness and who know some letter names and
sounds, Road to Reading targets the next crucial skills, including word identification, oral reading, and dictation. The program can
also be adapted for older struggling readers. The easy-to-follow teachers’ guide facilitates lesson planning for six levels of instruction
that increase in complexity as students progress.
2 available
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Seeing Stars
www.lindamoodbell.com
Seeing Stars is a comprehensive program for teaching reading and spelling. This program helps establish phonemic awareness and
orthographic processing, improving decoding, sight-word recognition, spelling, and reading fluency.
1 available
Star Words Timed Reading Practice CD’s
The Star Words Timed Reading Practice CDs help students develop instant word recognition for the 300 most commonly used words
in English.
1 available
Seeing Stars Star Words box 501-1000
1 available
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Sight-Word Magnets (Level 2)
www.lakeshorelearning.com
The leveled magnet set makes it easy to introduce sight-words step by step…and gives kids lots of hands-on practice with word
identification, reading, word usage and more! Each set includes 25 high frequency sight-words that gradually increase in difficulty,
plus a guide—all in a handy storage jar. Letters are approximately 1 1/2" tall.
1 available
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Table Top Pocket Chart Sets (gr. PreK-3)
www.enasco.com
Ending Sounds and Vowel Sounds
Help students boost their early reading skills. Students match tiles as they learn to identify ending word patterns. The second set of
tiles helps to teach both long and short, middle vowel sounds. Set includes over 100 tiles depicting real photos of objects, quality
nylon, stand-up pocket chart with storage pouch, and reference guide. Self-checking.
Beginning Blends
A great interactive tool to help kids identify similar beginning consonant blend and digraph sounds. Just put a starter tile in each of 10
clear pockets as the child finds the other three matches for each beginning sound. Real photos make recognition easy. Set includes 26
starter tiles, 78 matching tiles, quality nylon pocket chart with storage pouch, tabletop stand that folds for easy storage, and reference
guide. Self-checking.
Word Families
Introduces 26 different word families in an easy-to-use format. Just put a starter tile in each of the 10 clear pockets as the child finds
the other three matches for each starter tile. Allows a child to work on 10 rhyming sounds at a time. Tiles depicting real photos are
included to help make recognition easy. Set includes 26 starter tiles, 78 matching rhyming tiles with blanks, portable nylon pocket
chart, and reference guide. Self-checking.
Beginning Sounds
Help kids practice important phonic awareness. Put a starter tile in each of the 10 clear pockets. Children then find the matching
beginning sounds on tiles depicted by real photos and place them next to the corresponding starter tile with the same sound. Full-color
photos make recognition easier. Set includes over 100 tiles depicting photos of real objects, tabletop stand that folds for easy storage,
portable nylon pocket chart, and reference guide.
2 of each available
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Teaching Reading Essentials (gr. K-3)
www.sopriswest.com
Professional development that demonstrates how to teach beginning reading to challenging students, using research-based strategies in
a format that provides both guidance and support. Organized to target specific reading and writing skills, the DVDs move from basic
language development to phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension instruction.
Part 1. Teaching Letters, Sounds, and Sense
Part 2. Teaching Phoneme Awareness
Part 3. Teaching Beginning Reading and Writing
Part 4. Teaching Advanced Phonics
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Part 5. Teaching Vocabulary and Comprehension
1 available
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Teaching Reading Sourcebook – 2nd Edition
www.corelearn.com
A comprehensive reference about reading instruction. Organized according to the elements of explicit instruction (what? why? when?
and how?), the Sourcebook includes both research-informed knowledge base and practical sample lesson models. Like the first
edition, the updated and revised second edition of the Teaching Reading Sourcebook combines the best features of an academic text
and a practical hands-on teacher's guide. It is an indispensable resource for teaching reading and language arts to both beginning and
older struggling readers.
2 available
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Themed Novels-(high interest, low level)
www.sdlback.com
The following themed novels are available. Books include bold-face vocabulary, tables, charts, graphs, sidebars, maps, and more.
Reading levels 3.0-6.0
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The Trail of Tears: An American Tragedy (Cherokee Indians)
Explorers to the New World: Moments in History
Pioneer Days: Moments in History
The Aztec Civilizations: Moments in History
Ancient Egypt: Moments in History
The Red Tails: World War II’s Tuskegee Airmen
The Civil War: Moments in History
World War II: Moments in History
The American Revolution
Disasters of the Ancient World: Moments in History
Oil Spills! The Perils of Petroleum
Tsunami! Death Wave
Fire! Raging Destruction
Earthquake! On Shaky Ground
Volcano! Dome of Fire
Tornado! The Strongest Winds on Earth
Hurricane! Nature’s Most Destructive Force
Floods! Rising, Raging Waters
Teamwork-Working Together to Win
Record Breakers-Incredible Sports Achievement
Breaking Barriers-Athletes Who Led the Way
Child Care-Yeow! I’m in Charge of a Human Being!
Friendship-Come Along on a Cruise
The Iditarod-The Greatest Win Ever
Helping Paw-Service Dogs
Animal Geography-Africa
Pets-Never Dance with a Tree Frog
Canopies in the Clouds-Earth’s Rain Forests
Kayaking-Riding the Rapids
Mountain Climbing-Scaling the Heights
Ocean Diving-Traveling Through Inner Space
American Justice-Seven Famous Trials of the 20th Century
Lights, Camera, Action! – A fun look at the Movies
Cave Story-An Underground Adventure
Drag Racing-Attacking the Green
Stock Car Racing-Running with the Big Boys
Spellography (gr. 4-5, Intervention 5-7)
www.sopriswest.com
A classroom-tested spelling and word study program that teaches concepts explicitly, systematically, and cumulatively.
Spellography’s humorous games, entertaining activities, and engaging instruction reinforce multisyllabic decoding skills, develop
reading fluency, teach vocabulary using word roots, and strengthen spelling retention. A wonderful complement to any reading or
language arts program, Spellography can be used with the entire class, in small groups, or with individual students. The sequence of
books is A, B, and C
Year 1 Classroom Set includes the Teacher’s Resource Guide; Teacher Answer Guide, Books A–C; Student Lesson Books A–C (25
copies); and lessons for a full year of instruction.
1 classroom set available
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Visualizing and Verbalizing
www.lindamoodbell.com
Visualizing and Verbalizing (V/V) is a learning program that helps students improve reading comprehension, language
comprehension, and higher order thinking skills by developing the ability to create mental imagery for the language they read and
hear, and to create an imaged gestalt – imagery for the big picture, or whole. This mental imagery for language is called concept
imagery, and it is essential to comprehension skills.
1 available
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Wilson Reading System
www.wilsonlanguage.com
The WILSON Reading System® is a highly-structured remedial program that directly teaches the structure of the language to students
and adults who have been unable to learn with other teaching strategies, or who may require multisensory language instruction. It is
based on research and Orton-Gillingham philosophy and provides a teacher-friendly, comprehensive program for older students.
1 available
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Words are CATegorical
www.lernerbooks.com
By: Brian P. Cleary (www.brianpcleary.com)
The series introduces young readers to different types of words through rhyming verse and illustrations of comical cartoon cats.
Offering a lighthearted perspective, each title shows readers the fun and entertaining world of language.
The following Titles are available:
How much can a Bare, Bear, Bear? What are Homonyms and Homophones?
Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know: What is a Synonym?
I and You and Don’t Forget Who: What is a Pronoun?
Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What is an Adjective?
To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What is a verb?
Under, Over, By the Clover: What is a Preposition?
Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What is an Adverb?
A Mink, a Fink, and Skating Rink: What is a Noun?
1 of each book available
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Word Family Magnets Center
www.lakeshorelearning.com
The activity center provides focused practice with 37 different word families—with 5 magnets for each rime, plus tons of onset
magnets. Students just match up beginning and ending sounds to create hundreds of words…exploring spelling patterns and building
language skills.
1 available
RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION
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Getting Ready for RtI: Staff Training on Key Principles (DVD)
www.shoplrp.com
This 28-minute video covers the basis of RTI, its importance and core principles - giving trainees a solid introduction to the RTI
approach. Getting Ready for RTI also provides practical applications of the tiered RTI process - so your staff understands the service
delivery system and how interventions, student progress monitoring, and instructional decision-making fit into the RTI framework.
1 available
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Response to Intervention and the Classroom Teacher: A Guide for Fostering
Teacher Buy-In and Supporting the Intervention Process
www.shoplrp.com
This practical guide is designed to help administrators and personnel support classroom teachers in the intervention process. You
learn how to:
Identify and overcome common barriers of teacher resistance to interventions
Facilitate teacher “buy-in” to the RTI process
Equip teachers with the skills and training to implement interventions competently, and more…
1 available
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Response to Intervention: Principles and Strategies for Effective Practice
www.nprinc.com
A comprehensive guide to implementing a schoolwide response to intervention (RTI) program. The book is geared to helping
practitioners understand and respond to No Child Left Behind and to the new special education eligibility guidelines outlined in IDEA
2004. Presented are the theoretical and empirical foundations of the approach and a clear, 10-step model for conducting RTI
procedures with students, including those from diverse backgrounds, who are experiencing learning difficulties. Helpful reproducibles
include 11 worksheets and more than two dozen overhead transparency masters, in a large-size format with layflat binding to facilitate
photocopying.
1 available
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RTI Toolkit:A Practical Guide for Schools
www.nprinc.com
Written to provide educators with the necessary guidance and tools to implement Response to Intervention (RTI) in a school setting. A
guiding philosophy of this book is that "the quality of a school as a learning community can be measured by how effectively it
addresses the needs of struggling students." (Wright, 2006 p1) Schools are judged by their success in working with marginal learners
who would otherwise fall through the cracks and become lost. RTI is a means to expand schools' capacity to reach and support diverse
learners.
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The RTI Guide: Developing and Implementing a Model in Your Schools
www.shoplrp.com
The RTI Guide is the ideal launch pad to putting a Response to Intervention model to work for your schools. This hands-on resource
examines the critical components to developing and implementing an effective RTI model and spells out key phases and specific tasks
– putting essential guidance and groundwork at your fingertips.
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SOCIAL SKILLS
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Bingo Games (gr.7-12)
www.store.at-risk.com
Each game includes laminated cards, chips, calling cards, reproducible handouts, and instructions.
Anger Bingo
Alcohol Prevention Bingo
Healthy Relationships Bingo
Stress Bingo
Self-Esteem Bingo
Smoking Prevention Bingo
Social Skills Bingo
Game addresses five anger management areas: triggers, symptoms, causes, control, and prevention.
Teens learn about alcohol prevention while having fun! Each card contains a fact or idea to start
your group thinking about why they should not use alcohol. Includes handout, "Twenty Questions
About Problem Drinking."
Explore what to look for in a healthy relationship, obstacles to a healthy relationship, red flags, green
flags, and skills to building a healthy relationship.
Five stress factors are examined: external stressors, internal stressors, physical stress symptoms,
emotional/behavioral stress symptoms, and stress relievers.
Explore the subject of self-esteem in a new way . . . with Self-Esteem Bingo! Using a familiar and
fun game, five different areas are covered: benefits of self-esteem, self-esteem busters, self-esteem
boosters, acknowledging strengths, and taking responsibility. Use the calling cards to introduce how
these areas affect self-esteem on a day-to-day basis.
Address why kids smoke, the effects of smoking, the facts about tobacco, ways to say no, and
smoking prevention activities. Includes handouts, "Choosing Not to Smoke" and "Online
Resources." For up to 16 players.
This game focuses on these five important areas: strengths, put-ter-off-ers, interests, communication,
and getting along.
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Know the Code
www.attainmentcompany.com
Ideal for all students with high functioning autism or behavioral disabilities. The three components—cards, DVD and instructor’s
guide—form a comprehensive program that is easy to implement. The Social Standards at School book focuses on 53 relevant social
skills, organized to mesh with a typical school day: Getting ready, classroom behavior, transitions, breaks, plus relationships and
etiquette. Each skill provides teacher guidelines and a student self-monitoring page. Know the Code Cards illustrate 50 social
behaviors in five easy-to-follow steps. Each card shows a skill with a relevant photo, lists sequential steps and suggests talking points.
Use these oversized cards for 8 different games, role plays and individual cue cards. Your students will love the Know the Code DVD!
It presents social skills in a lively, story-based format. Includes six segments: A Day at School, Charles Gets Teased, Dion Scores,
Kristi’s First Day, Shana and the Secret, and Tameka and the Bully. Two engaging hosts analyze social skills for classroom
discussion.
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Social Standards at School
www.boystownpress.org
Use this instructor's guide to teach students social skills they need to succeed in school, ranging from standing in line to dealing with
bullies. Each of the skills is complemented by teacher guidelines that include an objective with five benchmarks, problem-solving
checklist and a suggested script to use when reviewing the skill with students. A student page for self-monitoring allows children to
follow their progress and ultimately take ownership of the skill taught. Instructors can use the curriculum for an entire class or target
skills to implement individually as needed. The curriculum is ideal for writing IEPs.
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What Did You Say? (game)
www.childswork.com
A game of non-verbal language. Many children have a hard time reading body language. This game contains 50 colorful pictures of
children in different postures. Players pick Body Language cards and try to match the posture closest to the feeling being expressed.
Correct answers advance the player. Prompts have kids doing fun stunts and acting out situations as they express themselves nonverbally. For 3-6 players.
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STUDY SKILLS
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Brain-Friendly Study Strategies (gr. 2-8)
www.addwarehouse.com
Presents creative, research-based study strategies covering all content areas and tailored to elementary and middle school students,
individual learning styles, including auditory, visual, and kinesthetic modalities.
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Overhead Teaching Kit-Study Skills (gr. 4-8)
www.nationalschoolproducts.com
Teach study skills to students using an overhead projector. Help students learn how to:
Set goals
Use Test-Taking Strategies
Prioritize
Plan for Big Projects and More
Get Organized
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SMARTS-Study Skills Resource Guide (gr. 5-12)
www.sopriswest.com
(Study, Memorizing, Active Listening, Reviewing, Test-Taking, and Survival Skills)
The SMARTS collection of activities helps students successfully gather, record, organize, understand, remember, and use classroom
information.
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Studying, Test Taking, and Getting Good Grades (gr. 5-9)
www.proedinc.com
Reproducible student activity book designed to build a base of understanding and skill development in the broad spectrum of learning,
studying, and test-taking. It also provides opportunities for students to apply this knowledge to their own lives and provides
opportunities to practice and discuss new information and skills so students are better prepared to apply these techniques and skills in
all subject areas. Goes beyond basic study skills to address motivation, personal responsibility, diet, exercise, the brain, and numerous
other topics.
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Study Skills Binder (1 & 2)
www.sdlback.com
Binder 1- Includes: Organizing for Study; Improving Memory, Anatomy of a Textbook, Taking Class Notes, The Vocabulary of
Tests, and more. These reproducible activities allow students to master study skills with fun, high-interest exercises. From reducing
the stress of test taking to looking up words in the dictionary, these binders have it all. Includes organizing for study, improving
memory, taking notes, goal setting, and more.
Binder 2 - Includes: Time Management, Planning and Goal Setting, Developing a Learning Style, Paraphrasing and Summarizing,
Answering Essay Questions, and more... These reproducible activities allow students to master study skills with fun, high-interest
exercises. From reducing the stress of test taking to looking up words in the dictionary, these binders have it all. Includes organizing
for study, improving memory, taking notes, goal setting, and more.
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Study Strategies for Early School Success (gr. 3-6)
www.addwarehouse.com
A collection of more than 70 study strategies teaches children in grades three through six efficient and effective learning techniques.
Experienced educators share their tips to better organize school work, understand and use different learning styles, improve reading
ability, and prepare for oral presentations and tests. Line drawings, charts, and diagrams enliven and clarify each of the strategies.
Accompanying activity sheets round out the learning process.
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Study Strategies Made Easy: A Practical Plan for School Success (gr. 6-12)
Teaches students strategies that focus on the following areas: organizational skills, time management, improving reading
comprehension, vocabulary development, communication, how to study for tests effectively, memorization and more. Includes selftests and reproducible forms to be used by individual students. It also contains valuable information for teachers and parents who work
with students to develop study strategies for school success.
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WRITING
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Instant Writing Center (gr. 1-2)
www.lakeshorelearning.com
Introduce students to the writing process—from brainstorming to editing! The center comes with 80 prompts in a variety of fun-to-use
formats—all designed to spark students’ interest and provide involving practice with 5 key writing styles. Four picture dictionaries are
also included to help generate ideas…and 8 editing cards that let students review their own writing. Freestanding nylon center.
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Instant Writing Center (gr. 3-4)
www.lakeshorelearning.com
This well-organized center holds everything your students need for focused writing practice—and you can stand it on a table or hang it
on a wall! The center features 80 writing prompts in a variety of fun-to-use formats, covering five essential writing styles, from
informative to imaginative. The center also includes useful tools such as graphic organizers and editing flip books.
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See &Write: Electronic Handwriting Tutor
www.lakeshorelearning.com
Interactive writing tutor makes it easier than ever to learn manuscript, modern manuscript and cursive writing! The LCD screen shows
how to form upper- and lowercase letters stroke by stroke…kids just follow along on their paper to write perfect letters every time.
Plus, a game mode lets children guess each letter as it’s written on the screen…while fun graphics and sound effects give instant
reinforcement.
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