Most Popular Books by Gail Saunders-Smith

Geared towards primary school teachers to understand the foundation for literacy development

In simple text and photographs, describes a variety of trucks and what they do, including garbage trucks, cement mixers, snow plows, and mail trucks.

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.

Simple text and photographs depict the weather, plants, animals, and activities of autumn.

Text and photographs depict the parts of flowers and their pollination.

Simple text and photographs depict the weather, plants, animals, and activities of spring.

Text and photographs describe the life cycle of frogs.

Text and photographs depict the weather, plants, animals, and activities of summer.

"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!

Profiles the life and career of President George Washington.

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

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.