Kindergarten

CD2428 - Learning Centers in Kindergarten. Enhance cognitive & social development, self-regulation & curiosity. Suggestions: set up learning centers, room arrangement, determine the number of students at each center, move in & between centers, develop activities & find materials.  Ideas for center time & month-by-month activities for 8 centers are included, 176 pages.  Price $23.99

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CD2401 - Month-by-Month Reading, Writing & Phonics, grade K. Teacher Resources Systematic, Multilevel Instruction.  This month-by-month approach to a balanced literacy program is packed full of activities that reinforce phonemic awareness, print concepts & more, 144 pages.  Price $18.99

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CD2426 - Writing Mini-Lessons, grade K.  Introduce writing to kindergarten students.  Children watch each day as the teacher writes a morning message or a journal entry. Later in the year, the children write & share each day & observe the teacher writing & thinking about writing during the daily mini-lesson. The focus of the mini-lessons changes as teachers proceed through the kindergarten year, 64 pages.  Price $19.99

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CD2408 - The Teacher's Guide to Building Blocks™, grade K. This resource explains how kindergarten teachers can stimulate students desire to learn to read & write through multilevel activities, while increasing students phonemic awareness & knowledge of letters & sounds, print or language concept & interesting words, 160 pages. Price $26.99

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CD104274 - Month-by-Month Reading, Writing, & Phonics for Kindergarten, grade K. Readers stay encouraged to learn when working with the latest edition of this supplement. More activities, lessons & reproducibles will show teachers significant results when used as part of a balanced literacy program. Kindergartners develop phonemic awareness, improve letter & sound recognition & enhance vocabularies, 176 pages. Price $19.99

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CD2614 - Making Alphabet Books to Teach Letters & Sounds, grades K-1.  This book provides opportunities for students to learn by doing!  Multilevel, interactive activities using student names, tongue twisters & predictable charts are included, 96 pages. Price $15.99

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CD2410 - Predictable Charts, grades K-1. Activity Shared Writing.   Introduce students to predictable charts a special kind of interactive writing for kindergarten & 1st grade. The text includes step-by-step instructions, ideas for 60 predictable charts, ranging from easy I charts to charts for books, field trips & special days & accompanying activities for each chart that stretch out over an entire week, 242 pages. Price $16.99

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CD2601 - Tongue Twisters to Teach Phonemic Awareness & Phonics, grades K-2.  Activity Beginning Consonants & Vowels.  This resource includes teacher instructions, tongue twisters for each beginning consonant & vowel sound, parent letter, observation & assessment guide & much more, 80 pages.  Price $11.99

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CD2414 - Self-selected Reading The Four-Blocks® Way, grades K-5.  This book provides strategies to build intrinsic motivation for reading, introduces children to all types of literature, encourages children’s reading interest & provides instructional-level reading, 144 pages. Price $25.99

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CD104103 - Writing the Four-Blocks® Way, grades K-6.  Show how to apply what they are learning in the Guided Reading, Self- Selected Reading & Working with Words Blocks of the Four-Blocks® Literacy Model. Features: classroom setup; write & keep writing; learning to read through writing; extra support for struggling writers; teaching a variety of writing genres; editing; revising; sharing; publishing; plus much more, 240 pages. Price $25.99

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Grade 1

CD2616 - Poems for Shared Reading, grade 1.  Teacher Resources Filled with high-frequency words, fun rhymes, & alliteration, this book will help children gain the primary skills needed for successful reading, 48 pages.  Price $18.99

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CD2602 - Guess the Covered Word for 1st Grade. This resource includes 12 full-color transparencies, teacher instructions, 27 reproducible, cross-curricular Guess the Covered Word lessons, 21” x 15” poster, an assessment or record keeping chart & much more, 48 pages.  Price $17.99

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CD2402 - Month-by-Month Phonics, grade 1.  Teacher Resources Systematic, Multilevel Instruction.  This month-by-month approach to a balanced literacy program is packed with activities to reinforce interactive word-building & pattern- decoding, 130 pages. Price $18.99

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CD2608 - Making Words, grade 1.  Activity Lessons for Home or School. This helpful resource contains 50 new Making Words Lessons designed to be used by tutors, pull-out teachers, volunteers, parents & classroom teachers.  Includes Making Words Helper reproducible to provide instructions for helping students complete the lessons, 64 pages.  Price $14.99

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CD2417 - Writing Mini-Lessons, grade 1.  In the literacy model, teachers devote 30-40 minutes each day to teach major approaches to learning to read, including writing. Children write & share each day as they observe the teacher writing & thinking about the daily mini-lesson. Designed to take teachers through the school year, these books provide well-designed mini-lessons to help ensure student success during the Writing Block, 80 pages. Price $19.99

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CD2813 - Month-by-Month Phonics, grade 1.  Alphabet tab dividers, 584 word cards, word card list.  Designed to be used with the Making Words lessons from CD2402. Price $29.99

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CD104194 - Poems for Shared Reading, grade 1.  Filled with high-frequency words, fun rhymes & alliteration, this book will help children gain primary skills needed for successful reading, 48 pages.  Price $18.99

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CD104275 - Month-by-Month Phonics for First Grade, Second Edition, grade 1.  A valuable part of your students’ balanced literacy diet. This book focuses on common word patterns that allow young readers to instantly decode new words with similar builds & cross-check for accuracy. More activities, lessons & reproducibles will show teachers significant results while keeping students interested throughout, 176 pages. Price $19.99

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CD2423 - Reading/Writing Simple & Complex Rhymes, grades 1-2.  Use the popular strategy from Month-by-Month Phonics to give students practice in using spelling patterns to decode & spell hundreds of words.  Reproducible lesson pages for 40 spelling patterns, interactive transparencies for all 40 lessons & 50 color-coded, onset/beginning letter cards for single consonants, blends & digraphs are included.  48 pages + 40 transparencies, 3 pages of durable card stock with color type. Price $29.99

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CD104000 - Book Club Groups, grades 1-3. A multilevel Four-Blocks reading strategy.  A popular literacy model activity, book club groups are a fun activity for the Guided Reading block that lets teachers use small groups without grouping students by their reading abilities. this resource includes book club groups for: author studies; thinking skills including previewing, predicting, summarizing & concluding; social studies & science themes plus more, 208 pages. Price $24.99

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CD104101 - Rounding Up the Rhymes, grades 1-3. Based on the strategy developed by Dr. Patricia Cunningham & Dr. Dorothy Hall, this activity book can be used in any balanced-literacy classroom. Students study rhymes, word families & spelling patterns found in the given piece of literature.  The strategy follows the reading of a book, story or poem containing rhyming words. Since the lessons are based on 92 popular children’s books, it is a favorite of both teachers & students, 192 pages.  Price $19.99

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CD2612 - Guess the Covered Word for Seasons & Holidays, grades 1-3.  This book provides a great resource for holiday & seasonal Guess the Covered Word lessons. Fun, decoding activities help students learn to figure out words by looking at the beginning letters, length of the word, then about what word would make sense in the sentence.  Each Season & holiday are represented, 30 transparencies, 48 pages.  Price $25.99

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CD2429 - Making Names, grades 1-3. Hands-on Spelling & Phonics. Children enjoy making their names, names of relatives & friends.  Uses Patricia Cunningham’s Making Words strategy to teach children to decode & spell names, 210 lessons in which the secret word is a person’s name.  Manipulating letters, they learn how changing 1 letter or moving letters around results in new words, 240 pages. Price $24.99

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CD2407 - Guided Reading the Four-Blocks® Way, grades 1-3.  Teacher Resources The Four-Blocks® Literacy Model Book Series. Provides instructions for teaching reading comprehension skills & strategies; a variety of reading activities & variations for Kindergarten & upper grade students, 224 pages.  Price $26.99

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CD2615 - Assessment & Intervention for Struggling Readers, grades 1-3.   This book helps identify student needs & provides specific strategies that will accelerate learning.  A variety of helpful lists, assessments, the Ohio Word Test, & other useful reproducibles are included, 128 pages. Price $18.99

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CD2613 - Teaching Guided Reading Strategies with Transparencies, grades 1-3+.  Ten full-color transparencies covers comprehension strategies, story structure, time-order words, story sequence & main characters. Instructions for using transparencies are included, with additional lesson ideas & a reproducible of each transparency.  An example of each transparency has also been provided as an at-a-glance reference, 32 pages. Price $17.99

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CD104235 - Children with Disabilities, grades 1-3. Children with disabilities require support & informed teachers to succeed. Ideas, strategies & resources provide means to meet learning needs. This book can help special education classrooms have success in reading & writing. Includes variations along with commonly asked questions that help teachers. Supports the Four-Blocks® Literacy Model. Price $31.99

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CD1050 - Guided Reading Beach Balls, grades 1-5. Ideal for Four-Blocks™ Classrooms.  Two 10” in diameter, multicolored beach balls. One ball with 6 open-ended phrases & 1 ball with 6 questions to reinforce comprehension skills, resource guide. Price $6.99

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CD104071 - Guess the Covered Word for Character Development, grades 1-5. Provides a resource for lessons based on character traits. Fun, decoding activities helps learn to figure out words by looking at beginning letters, length of the word, then thinking about what word would make sense in the sentence. Lessons included:  responsibility, respect, sharing, self- discipline, cooperation & more, transparencies, 48 pages.  Price $25.99

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CD2409 - Systematic Sequential Phonics, grades 1-5.  They Use Activity For Beginning Readers of All Ages. This is a great resource to help beginning readers of any age learn phonics through Word Wall & Making Words activities, 208 pages.  Price $26.99

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CD2810 - Word Cards for Systematic Sequential Phonics, grades 1-9. Alphabet tab dividers, word card list, 815 cards. Price $39.99

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CD2604 - Guess the Covered Word for 2nd Grade. This resource includes teacher instructions, 29 reproducible Guess the covered Word lessons in language arts, math, science, social studies & general themes, a 21” x 15” poster, an assessment or record keeping chart, student awards & more, 64 pages. Price $17.99

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CD2609 - Making Words, grade 2.  Activity Lessons for Home or School. This helpful resource contains 50 new Making Words Lessons designed to be used by tutors, pull-out teachers, volunteers, parents & classroom teachers. Includes Making Words Helper reproducible to provide instructions for helping students complete the lessons, 64 pages.  Price $14.99

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CD2403 - Month-by-Month Phonics for grade 2. Teacher Resources Systematic, Multilevel Instruction.  This resource offers monthly activities, lessons & word lists to help 2nd grade students become better readers & writers. Students will learn to spell commonly misspelled words & use spelling patterns, 159 pages.  Price $18.99

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CD2418 - Writing Mini-Lessons, grade 2. During the Four-Blocks® Writing Block, children write & share each day & they observe the teacher writing & thinking about writing during the daily writing mini-lesson.  These books provide well-designed mini-lessons to help ensure success in writing, 80 pages.  Price $19.99

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CD104272 - The Teacher’s Guide to the Four-Blocks Literacy Model, grade 2. Contains extensive descriptions of the four approaches to teaching reading that compose the Four-Blocks™ model. Each full-color book is now specific to each grade level & focuses on maintaining a balanced literacy framework & implementing the model in the classroom, 176 pages.  Price $31.99

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CD104276 - Month-by-Month Phonics for 2nd grade, Second Edition, grade 2.  Sound & word association practices in this book augment 2nd grade students’ enthusiasm for reading with new lessons, activities & reproducibles. Second-graders will also come away with greatly enhanced vocabulary after learning the techniques of decoding using word patterns, 176 pages.  Price $19.99

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CD2424 - Reading/Writing Simple & Complex Rhymes, grades 2-3.  Use the popular strategy from Month-by-Month Phonics to give students practice in using spelling patterns to decode & spell hundreds of words.  Reproducible lesson pages for 40 spelling patterns, interactive transparencies for all 40 lessons & 50 color-coded, onset/beginning letter cards for single consonants, blends & digraphs are included.  48 pages + 40 transparencies, 3 pages of durable card stock with color type. Price $29.99

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CD2413 - Prefixes & Suffixes, grades 2-5. Activity Systematic Sequential Phonics & Spelling.  This book provides teachers with hands- on, minds-on, manipulative activities in which students learn to decode words & properly use common prefixes, suffixes & spelling changes. This book includes 120 lessons, which teach the most common prefixes, suffixes & spelling changes, 192 pages.  Price $26.99

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CD104233 - Poetry for Reading & Writing, grades 2-5. Language development for young readers with 12 transparencies of original poems, suggestions for poetry read-alouds & Guided Reading ideas. Learn how to read poetry to children, while they learn to write poems. Included:  examples of rhymed verse, acrostic poems, cinquains & haiku. Supports Four-Blocks® Literacy Model, 48 pages. Price $19.99

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CD104108 - Making Places, Activity Hands, grades 2-6.  Learning Phonics, Spelling, & Geography. Help decode & spell words & learn geography with Patricia Cunningham's Making Words strategy.  Decode & spell geographical places through 160 lessons which the secret word is a specific geographical location/term. Includes: making words, sorting words into patterns & transferring to reading/writing reproducible letter strips.  Also a Geographical Places Index. Price $24.99

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CD2409 - Systematic Sequential Phonics, grades 1-5.  They Use Activity For Beginning Readers of All Ages. This is a great resource to help beginning readers of any age learn phonics through Word Wall & Making Words activities, 208 pages.  Price $25.99

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Grade 3

CD2610 - Making Words, activity lessons for home or school, grade 3. This helpful resource contains 50 new Making Words Lessons for tutors, pull-out teachers, volunteers, parents, & classroom teachers. Includes Making Words Helper reproducible to provide instructions for helping students complete the lessons, 64 pages.  Price $14.99

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CD2404 - Month-by-Month Phonics, grade 3.  Teacher Resources Systematic, Multilevel Instruction.  This resource will help students learn to apply reading & writing strategies, spell commonly misspelled words & more, 176 pages. Price $18.99

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CD2419 - Writing Mini-Lessons, grade 3.  During the Four- Blocks® Writing Block, children write & share each day & they observe the teacher writing & thinking about writing during the daily writing mini-lesson.  These books provide well-designed mini-lessons to help students succeed in their writing, 112 pages. Price $19.99

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CD2605 - Guess the Covered Word, grade 3.  This resource includes: teacher instructions, 26 reproducible Guess the Covered Word lessons in language arts, math, science, social studies & general themes, a 21” x 15” poster, an assessment or record keeping chart, student awards & more, 64 pages.  Price $17.99

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CD104273 - The Teacher’s Guide to the Four-Blocks Literacy Model, grade 3. Contains extensive descriptions of the four approaches to teaching reading that compose the Four-Blocks™ model. Each full-color book is now specific to each grade level & focuses on maintaining a balanced literacy framework & implementing the model in the classroom, 176 pages.  Price $31.99

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CD104277 - Month-by-Month Phonics for 3rd Grade, Second Edition.   Most teachers don’t find it necessary to implement additional spelling supplements after discovering this book. Its multilevel approach ensures that students retain what they learn & it will show in their writing. Plenty of new activities are sure to keep students interested as their reading skills develop, 176 pages.  Price $19.99

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CD2413 - Prefixes & Suffixes, grades 3-5.  Hands-on, minds-on, manipulative activities in which students learn to decode words & properly use common prefixes, suffixes & spelling changes. Includes 120 lessons, which teach the most common prefixes, suffixes & spelling changes. Supports the Four-Blocks® Literacy Model, 192 pages.  Price $25.99

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CD2600 - Making & Writing Words, grades 3-6. This resource provides practice to help students improve their word decoding skills, Included:  73 reproducible Making & Writing Words lessons along with a blank reproducible so you can create your own lessons. Step-by-step instructions for each lesson make implementing this activity quick & easy, 160 pages. Price $15.99

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Grade 4

CD104241 - Month-by-Month Phonics and Vocabulary, grade 4. Help upper-grade students read & understand multisyllabic words & morphemes, build vocabulary & learn spelling strategies. Lessons cover what to teach, how to teach & when to teach the Working with Words Block in 4th-grade classrooms. Supports the Four-Blocks® Literacy Model, 160 pages.  Price $18.99

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CD2606 - Guess the Covered Word, grade 4.  Full-color, 12 transparencies introduce this cross-checking reading strategy from the Four-Blocks Literacy Model. This resource includes teacher instructions, 24 reproducible Guess the Covered Word lessons in language arts, math, science, social studies & general themes, a 21” x 15” poster, an assessment or record keeping chart, student recognition charts more, 64 pages. Price $17.99

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CD104241 - Month-by-Month Phonics and Vocabulary, grade 4. Help upper-grade students read & understand multisyllabic words & morphemes, build vocabulary & learn spelling strategies. Lessons cover what to teach, how to teach & when to teach the Working with Words Block in 4th-grade classrooms. Supports the Four-Blocks® Literacy Model, 160 pages.  Price $19.99

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CD2405 - Month-by-Month Phonics for Upper Grades, grades 4+. Teacher Resources Systematic, Multilevel Instruction.  This resource will help students learn to apply reading & writing strategies, spell commonly misspelled words & more, 160 pages. Price $21.99

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CD2427 - Writing Mini-Lessons for Upper Grades, grades 4-6.  Address specific issues to become better writers. Divided into 3 sections. Topics include: making decisions about what to write, different writing genres, paragraphing in stories & informational text, self-editing & peer editing, what to do about spelling, using commas to separate words & phrases, writing to a prompt & more.  After each mini-lesson, students are asked to practice writing, 160 pages.  Price $19.99

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CD2412 - Modifying the Four-Blocks® for Upper Grades, grades 4-8.   This book includes instructions for modifying strategies to meet the needs of older students; fun, age-appropriate activities for each block; tips on scheduling; reproducible to make implementation easier & more, 242 pages. Price $26.99

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CD104167 - Checklists for Implementing Big Blocks™, grades 4-8.  Resource for guidance using the Big-Blocks™ Literacy Model. Teachers will find this book helpful for self- evaluation, identification of areas for improvement & lesson planning. For administrators, these checklists are invaluable aids to understanding Big Blocks™, assisting teachers with implementation, observing & evaluating teachers, plus planning staff development, 80 pages. Price $14.99

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CD8209 - Upper Grades Plan Book, grades 4-8. Planning pages for curriculum areas. Weekly records for activities, class rosters, summaries, checklists, substitute teacher pages, additional lesson ideas; classroom arrangement, 13" x 9.25, 112 pages.  Price $10.99

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CD104102 - The Teacher’s Guide To Big Blocks™, grades 4-8. Provide the balanced literacy framework of Four-Blocks® in the upper grades. Includes ideas & suggestions for scheduling, materials for each block, classroom layout, professional development & much more. Instruction is tailored to the needs of all learners, including those who may have been left behind by other methods. Supports the Four-Blocks® Literacy Model, 208 pages.  Price $25.99

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Grade 5

CD104242 - Month-by-Month Phonics & Vocabulary, grade 5. Help upper-grade students read & understand multisyllabic words & morphemes, build vocabulary & learn spelling strategies. Lessons cover what to teach, how to teach & when to teach the Working with Words Block in 5th-grade classrooms. Supports the Four-Blocks® Literacy Model, 160 pages.  Price $19.99

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Grade 6

CD2420 - Big Words for Big Kids, grades 6-12. Four lessons making words lessons, 5 lesson reviews roots, prefixes & suffixes used in lessons & adds 5 words to the Word Wall.  Decode, spell words with roots, prefixes, suffixes, learn what roots means, how prefixes & suffixes change the meanings of words & how to use them. Contains reproducible take-home word walls & review activities, 192 pages.  Price $22.99

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Big Words, Big Words for Big Kids, Book Club Groups, Building Blocks, Checklists, classroom layout, professional development, Guess the Covered Word, Bookmarks, Guided Reading, Guided Reading Beach Ball, Guided Reading Questions Bookmarks, Guided Reading Sentence Bookmarks, Integrating, Interactive Charts, Kindergarten Learning Centers, Make Words, Making & Writing Words, Making & Writing Words, Making Alphabet Books, Making Places, Making Words, Modifying, Month-By-Month Phonics, Plan Book Plus, Poems For Shared Reading, Poetry, Prefixes & Suffixes, Prefixes & suffixes, Reading Writing Simple & Complex Rhymes, Reading Writing Simple & Complex Rhymes, Rounding Up the Rhymes, Self-Selected Reading, Shared Reading, Systematic Sequential Phonics,Teacher's Guide, Tongue Twisters, Upper Grades Plan Book, Word Card Words, Word Wall, Writing Mini-Lessons, Writing, four block, four block literacy, four block reading four block reading program, four block writing, four block teaching, four block model, four block literacy program