Most Popular Books by Suzanne I. Barchers

36 readers theatre scripts use authors and illustrators to awaken student imaginations. This book of 36 readers theatre scripts (one for each week of the school year) concentrates on scripts written at multiple reading levels with a large number of parts—including choral reading parts—that enable the entire class to participate. The first 18 scripts are written for 1st-3rd grade reading levels and feature giants of kids literature like Margaret Wise Brown, James Marshall, Bill Martin Jr., Bill Peet, and Beatrix Potter. The second 18 scripts are written for 2nd-4th grade reading levels to allow for growth throughout the school year. This group of plays introduces students to Stan Berenstain, Arnold Lobel, Shel Silverstein, and Tasha Tudor, among others. Carefully designed to meet the needs of students of various reading levels, the scripts are also ideal for use with remedial readers. Grades 2-5

Kip compares his size to many things, including a big rig and a little pig.

This classroom resource encourages third grade students to reinforce their knowledge of mathematical and language arts grade-level skills. Focusing on specific Common Core Standards, this resource is designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, helping students prepare themselves for life beyond their educational careers. Students will gain regular practice through the quick activities found in each book. Perfect for additional practice in the classroom or at home! The book contains a Teacher Resource CD with PDFs of the activity pages. 208pp.

The children of Main Street enjoy games, a talent show, and a barbecue at a neighborhood block party.

Ross and Gus can toss, bop, jog, box, and hop. Can you top that?

How big is Kip? Beginning readers will find out in this charming book that features delightful illustrations and simple text to tell a story using sight words and short words containing the vowel I. This phonics book is a great resource to aid in children’s progression in reading and phonemic skills. Early readers will enhance their ability to use and recognize short I sounds in familiar vocabulary as well as challenging words. This book also includes discussion questions and extension activities to help students comprehend the story and continue to practice using words with short I sounds.

After giving San ideas after she asks what can she do, Dad finds he becomes a part of San''s busy activities.

Ross makes popcorn on the stove and finds himself with one big mess to clean up.

Ross receives a box in the mail, and takes guesses as to what may be inside.

It’s bedtime for Ren and she wants to fill her bed with toys and dolls. Beginning readers will follow along as Ren tries to fill her bed with toys. Readers will practice their short E sounds and early reading and phonemic skills as they make their way through this delightful phonics book containing familiar and new vocabulary. With lively illustrations and simple text, children will read sight words and words using short E sounds. This book also includes discussion questions and extension activities to help early readers comprehend the story and continue to practice using words with short E sounds.

Luce describes what she hears and sees on her street.

What happens when Dad wants to nap but San wants to gab and rap? Beginning readers will find out in this charming phonics book that uses bright illustrations and simple, easy-to-read text in a story made up of sight words and short words containing the vowel A. This book is a great resource for teaching phonics to young children. Early readers will enhance their ability to use and recognize short A sounds in familiar vocabulary as well as challenging words. This book also includes discussion questions and extension activities to help students comprehend the story and continue to practice using words with short A sounds.

Experience the magic, excitement, and happiness that surround holidays and cultural celebrations. Geared toward engaging students in grades K-2, The Big Book of Holidays and Cultural Celebrations is filled with hands-on activities, fun facts, puzzles, crafts, and brainteasers that make learning about holidays fun and easy. Each activity in this resource can be used in the classroom or at home.

Come along on a walk with Ren! Beginning readers will follow along as Ren sees many things on her walk. Readers will practice their short E sounds and early reading and phonemic skills as they read familiar and new vocabulary in this fun story. With bright illustrations and simple text, children will learn to recognize sight words and a variety of words using short E sounds. This phonics book also includes discussion questions and extension activities to help early readers comprehend the story and continue to practice using words with short E sounds.

What helps Kip feel better? Is it all his pals or the doc? Read and find out!

Kip wins a game and now he gets to pick a prize! Beginning readers follow along as Kip picks from a variety of prizes that all feature a short I sound. Readers will enjoy the colorful illustrations and simple text in this story filled with sight words as well as familiar and challenging vocabulary using short I sounds. This phonics book is great resource to aid young children in developing their reading and phonemic skills. This book also includes discussion questions and extension activities to help early readers comprehend the story and continue to practice using words with short I sounds.

Gus plays in the mud and has to get in the tub! Readers will practice recognizing short U words and develop their early reading and phonemic skills as they make their way through this delightful book. With lively illustrations and simple text, children will read familiar as well as challenging words using short U sounds. This phonics book also includes discussion questions and extension activities to help early readers comprehend the story and continue to practice using words with short U sounds.

Ross and Gus want to try to top what the other can do! Beginning readers will be entertained with this delightful phonics book that uses bright images and simple text in a story made up of sight words and words with short O sounds. Young children will enhance their reading and phonemic skills as they use and recognize short O sounds in familiar vocabulary as well as challenging words. This book also includes discussion questions and extension activities to help early readers comprehend the story and continue to practice using words with short O sounds.

As Mom drives them to the store, baby Rose and her big dog Bose describe what they see.

Children race with an egg on a spoon and play other games at Main Street''s game day.

Ren has let her room become a mess. San helps her get rid of a lot. Will San go too far?

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, p, e, i, t.

Gus finds a jug that is stuck in the mud, but with the help of his friends he pulls it free.

Luce visits a horse ranch where she grooms a horse and goes on a ride with the trail guide.

Use this guide to explore this Newbery Honor Book about a boy who must learn to survive in the wilderness with only the help of his hatchet. Hatchet: An Instructional Guide for Literature is filled with challenging cross-curricular activities and lessons that work in conjunction with the text. Students will learn how to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading, improve text-based vocabulary, and determine meaning through text-dependent questions. Strengthen your students'' literacy skills by implementing this high-interest resource in your classroom!

What happens when Ross, a young boy, is given a big job? Beginning readers will find out in this charming phonics book that uses lively illustrations and simple, easy-to-read text in a story made up of sight words and short words containing the vowel O. This book is a great resource for helping new readers develop phonemic pronunciation and recognition skills. Early readers will enhance their ability to use and recognize short O sounds in familiar vocabulary as well as challenging new words. This book also includes discussion questions and extension activities to help students comprehend the story and continue to practice using words with short O sounds.

Kate and Gail take a walk on Main Street, where they see an ape wearing a cape and grapes on a plate.

Luce prepares for a trip to the sand dunes.

Practice two-digit addition and subtraction while planning a family reunion! This charming title encourages young readers to use subtraction skills and STEM concepts to help plan the reunion by determining how many people are attending and how much the family will need to accommodate everyone. Add up the tallies to determine where the reunion should be! Calculate how many children are attending by subtracting the number of adults from the number of total guests! Examples like these and more pair with helpful mathematical charts and vivid images to make useful skills like addition and subtraction seem easy and fun!

Kip wants to get fit. He zips up a hill. He goes for a dip. Will Kip ever stop?

From riding a bike to doing a half-pipe, Mike enjoys doing everything twice to double his fun.

Volume 1 includes activities and lessons to accompany children''s books by Michael Bond, Margaret Musgrove, Seymour Chwast, Doug Cushman, Gene Baer, Pam Conrad, Monica Wellington and Andrew Kupfer, Sara Fanelli, Sandra Markle, David Wisniewski, Alexandra Day, Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss, Miela Ford, Joanna Cole and Stephanie Calmenson, Wendy Pfeffer, Kay Dokken, Mordicai Gerstein, Ted Lewin, David A. Adler, Shirley Climo, Michael O. Tunnell, D. Anne Love, Ron Roy, Mary Pope Osborne, Fred Gwynne, Raffi, Alma Flor Ada, Ann Jonas, Stuart J. Murphy, Alan Baron, Amy Ehrlich, Syd Hoff, Sarah Weeks, James Stevenson, Carol Ann Timmel, Carolyn Jackson, Linda Martin, Janet Perlman, Robert Kraus, George Shannon, Laura Joffe Numeroff, Amy Schwartz, Bruce Lansky, David Kirk, Chris Van Allsburg, Deborah Blumenthal, Nina Laden, Jon Scieszka, Judy Blume, Elaine Greenstein, Colin Thompson, June Crebbin, Vivian French, Charlotte Dematons, Timothy Bush, Miriam Moss, Emily Arnold McCully, Phillis Gershator, Jan Romero Stevens, Rachel Isadora, Carmen Agra Deedy, Peter Mandel, Anita Jeram, Nancy Van Laan, Jack Prelutsky, Sue Tarsky, Gail Gibbons, Paul Giganti, Byron Barton, Scott Gustafson, Teri Sloat, Eve Merriam, Tana Hoban, Zita Newcome, Sarah Perry, Pat Hutchins, Margaret Read MacDonald, Shirley Neitzel, Ann Morris, Margaret Wise Brown, Rick Brown, Andrew Clements, Sylvia Andrews, Larry LaPrise, Charlotte Zolotow, Luis Garay, Ann Whitford Paul, Betsy Byars, Harriet Lerner, Marjorie Priceman, Rod Clement, Diana Appelbaum, Melvin Berger, Katherine K. Winkleman, Amy Axelrod, Eve Bunting, Henry Cole, B.G. Hennessy, Arthur Dorros, Bernard Most, Colin West, Franklyn M. Branley, Susi Greg Fowler, Deborah Heiligman, Patricia Lauber, Pamela Duncan Edwards, Jama Kim Rattigan, Allan Fowler, Carole Lexa Schaefer, Max Grover, Louis Phillips, Betsy and Giulio Maestro, Richard Egielski, Kevin Henkes, Nurit Karlin, Leo Lionni, Aliki, Joy N. Hulme, Eloise Greenfield, Liz Rosenberg, Jill Murphy, Karla Kuskin, Jack Gantos, Jean Marzollo, Katrin Hyman Tchana, Eric Carle, Eugene Trivizas, John Updike, Chris Raschka, Judith Gorog, Jonathan London, Jane Manning, Joan L. Nodset, Rose Robart, Laura Rader, Bob Barner, Marcia Vaughan, Margot Zemach, David Martin, and Ellen Stoll Walsh. Volume 2 includes activities and lessons to accompany children''s books by Jane Bayer, Gayle Corbett Shirley, Kevin Henkes, Scott Gustafson, Jeff Moss, Jack Prelutsky, Aliki, Seymour Simon, Lynn Reiser, Sid Fleischman, Kathleen Karr, Sharon Creech, Delia Ray, Margaret Read MacDonald, Bo Flood, Betty Fraser, Charles Keller, Pam Conrad, Elizabeth Levy, Avi, Roger Ressmeyer, John Christopher Fine, Robert D. Ballard, George Shannon, Judy Sierra, Andrew Santella, Jean Fritz, Martin Hallet, Jane Yolen, Brian Selznick, Elizabeth Winthrop, Gloria Whelan, Arlene Erlbach, Sylvia Whitman, Gary Bowen, Zlata Filipovic, Chris Van Allsburg, E.L. Konigsburg, Charlotte F. Otten, A. Mifflin Lowe, Susi Gregg Fowler, Bruce Coville, Karen Hesse, Audrey Wood, Mary Pope Osborne, Marvin Terban, Darleen Bailey Beard, Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Barbara Ware Holmes, Demi, Vicki Cobb, Alan Arkin, Eth Clifford, Marvin Miller, Sylvia Cassedy, Tara and Kathy Darling, James Gurney, Barbara Cohen, Anne Mazer, Gerald Hausman, Laura Numeroff, Bruce Lansky, Paul Fleischman, Margaret Mahy, Tor Seidler, Jessie Haas, Gail Carson Levine, Johanna Hurwitz, Toby Forward, Sylvia Waugh, Arnold Lobel, Jon Scieszka, Michael J. Rosen, Barbara Robinson, Betty Levin, Joy Cowley, Thomas J. Dygard, Barbara Park, Norton Juster, Ashley Bryan, Donald M. Silver, Ruth Heller, Naomi Shihab Nye, Virginia Grossman, Karla Kuskin, Barbara Juster Esbensen, Taro Gomi, Patricia Mullins, Jerry Spinelli, Natalie Babbitt, John Walker, Loretta Krupinski, Lois Lowry, Kathleen Leverich, Ilene Cooper, Janice Lee Smith, Martin W. Sandler, Veronica Lawlor, Lucille Recht Penner, Mary D. Lankford, Steve Tomecek, Jamie Gilson, Jacqueline Morley, James Klein, Tana Hoban, Beverly K. Duncan, Monalisa DeGross, Lawrence Yep, Carlos Cumpian, Russell Freedman, Jeanne Steig, Fred Gwynne, Linda Bourke, Artie Bennett, J. Patrick Lewis, Bobbye S. Goldstein, Eve Merriam, Phillis Gershator, Layne Longfellow, Mary Beth Miller, George Ancona, David F. Birchman, Judith Viorst, and Tiphaine Samoyault.

Pete speeds through his day with his fast feet.

Ross explores ways of fixing different problems, including a ripped hat, messy floor, and dirty car.

Pete likes foods that are green, including green beans, peas, and mint ice cream.

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: It''s Ted''s birthday and everyone''s forgotten the important date! How do the friends save the day and come up with the perfect gift? It''s a surprise you''ll have to discover. Character concepts: Being responsible, empathy, being a good friend, working together.

This classroom resource encourages kindergarten students to reinforce their knowledge of mathematical and language arts grade-level skills. Focusing on specific Common Core Standards, this resource is designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, helping students prepare themselves for life beyond their educational careers. Students will gain regular practice through the quick activities found in each book. Perfect for additional practice in the classroom or at home! The book contains a Teacher Resource CD with PDFs of the activity pages. 208pp.