Most Popular Books by Gail Saunders-Smith

Describes and illustrates the life cycle of frogs.

Text and photographs describe the process of getting apples from the tree to trucks that are used to ship them everywhere.

Simple text and photographs describe different ways to enjoy apples--whole, sliced, cooked, and juiced.

Text and photographs present the different types and colors of leaves found in the Northern Hemisphere in autumn.

Simple text and photographs describe planting, growing, picking and eating green beans.

"A solid resource to help teachers understand the basic foundation for literacy development through guided reading in the primary grade." —Patti Ulshafer, first-grade teacher Develop successful readers with these strategies for before, during, and after reading. In Teaching Kids to Read, Gail Saunders-Smith describes the cognitive processes of emergent readers and provides educators with clear guidelines for promoting reading comprehension with small groups of young learners. A variety of exercises included helps children to locate, record, retrieve, and manipulate information from texts while enabling teachers to measure how students respond in oral, written, graphic, and three-dimensional forms. Topics covered include: Aliteracy Coaching statements Elements of craft False positive readers Fresh text Guided reading Instructional practice Metacognition Phonemic awareness Self-monitoring Shared reading Sight words Study skills Teacher talk Workable words and more!

Text and photographs provide examples of back and forth movement, including the pendulum on a clock, a child in a rocking chair, and waves on the shore.

Text and photographs present the clothing worn to keep warm as fall changes to winter.

Profiles the life and career of President George Washington.

Non-fiction text structures organize information into comprehensible patterns. Knowing how to recognize and use these structures to navigate non-fiction text greatly improves students'' understanding of what they read. Gail Saunders-Smith simplifies the process by providing teachers of grades 4-8 with: ways to teach each of the five non-fiction text structures: compare/contrast, cause/effect, sequence/procedure, question/answer, and exemplification; engaging whole-class and small-group activities using written, verbal, image, three-dimensional, and technology responses; study skills for locating, recording, and using information; tools for assessing student understanding, and explanations of the text features that organize information within the text structures; and mini-lessons for whole-class, small-group, and independent application of students'' text structure knowledge. Examples, photographs, student samples, and graphic organizers support your teaching, and a bibliography of professional books and resources for locating leveled non-fiction texts make this a complete, ready-to-use guide for improving student comprehension.

Thematic units designed to instill a curiosity to learn more about the world and simultaneously sharpen students'' reading skills.

Introduces the concepts og the four seasons and types of weather, both daily and seasonal. The effects of weather and the water cycle also are addressed.