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Improve foundational reading skills with a guided reading program that appeals to students at every reading level.

Guided Reading: Summarize for first and second grades enhances language arts lesson plans with six sets of readers for below-level, on-level, and above-level reading skills. This reading comprehension resource book engages students with colorful images as they learn about topics such as bees, firefighters, weather, and more.

Ready to Go Guided Reading: Summarize offers the essentials for an effective, comprehensive language arts program for first and second grades. This book includes:

• leveled readers that cover high-interest topics
• graphic organizers
• prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features
• discussion guides

The high-interest readers are separated into three readability levels and designed to keep students' attention. Various call-out boxes direct students to apply guided reading strategies to the texts, such as scanning for meaning or word work. Each reader concludes with a writing prompt.

The Ready to Go: Guided Reading series for first to sixth grades includes everything you need for guided reading organization. Each 80-page book is essentially a guided reading set, containing 36 total readers, six discussion guides, and three reproducible pages. Each grade span includes 8 books, focusing on the following reading comprehension strategies:

• Connect
• Infer
• Question
• Summarize
• Analyze
• Determine Importance
• Synthesize
• Visualize

Each nonfiction reader contains short nonfiction texts, vocabulary banks, photographs, charts, and maps.

• Be More Descriptive
• Writing Process
• Word Families
• 10 Great Ways to Treat Others
• Contractions

Includes historical, anecdotal, and geographical information, an elevation scale measured in meters and feet, and a distance scale measured in miles and kilometers. Identifies county boundaries, the state flag, motto, bird, flower, and tree, plus total area, population, and origin of name. Map is mounted on a roller with backboard.

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Designed with busy teachers in mind, these art integration kits include pre-prepped materials and detailed instructions to deliver 3 lessons to 30 students. The hands-on activities help improve tested math skills by using art to teach difficult concepts. These kits were developed in partnership with STEAM experts at Education Closet to provide comprehensive lesson plans, even for teachers without an art background. The teacher's guide is complete with lesson plans, pre- and post-assessments, differentiation tips, a curriculum map with arts integration ideas for future lessons, and a link to an online community to access videos and additional resources.

Kits include detailed lesson plans and enough materials to deliver 3 lessons to 30 students. Unique pre-prepped materials allow teachers to spend more time engaging with their students and teaching the lessons, and less time prepping. Provides access to online videos and additional resources. Hands-on activities help improve tested math skills for students. Integrates 21st century skills and supports students in critical connections for success.

Materials include: mat frames, heavyweight tagboard, marble construction paper, clear cellophane sheets, and double-sided foam tape.

• You can use masking tape for labeling, light-duty mounting or packaging
• This general use masking tape is also ideal for paint masking and other applications
• Natural colored crepe paper tape has a 3" core