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Did you know that Greek and Latin roots make up 90% of English words of two or more syllables? Having an extensive vocabulary is key to students’ reading comprehension. By adopting the strategies in this book, teachers will help their students read more effectively, setting a foundation for lifelong learning and reading success. This teacher-friendly resource written by Timothy Rasinski, Nancy Padak, Rick M. Newton, and Evangeline Newton provides the latest research on how to teach Greek and Latin roots. It includes anecdotes from teachers who have adopted these strategies and how they play out in today’s classrooms. With a research-based rationale for addressing vocabulary in the classroom, this K-12 resource is full of strategies for increasing reading comprehension, instructional planning, and building a word-rich learning environment to support all students including English language learners.

With a strong focus on reading intervention, the Fourth edition of this treasured resource offers prospective and practicing teachers best practices for developing and strengthening the literacy skills of children who find reading difficult. In Teaching Children Who Find Reading Difficult, celebrated authors Tim Rasinski and Nancy Padak join literacy expert Gay Fawcett to present teachers with a research-based instructional approach to teaching struggling readers. Drawing on IDEA's Responsiveness to Intervention (RTI) model, the authors group user-friendly strategies around key reading instruction areas: phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension--to show teachers how to organize intervention for diverse classroom settings, including classrooms with English learners and students with disabilities. Teachers will learn how to combine and adapt strategies that meet individual student needs within their reading and writing curriculum and transform students into strong, independent readers.

Expand your students' content-area vocabulary and improve their understanding with this roots-based approach! This standards-based resource, geared towards fourth grade, helps students comprehend informational text on grade-level topics in science, social studies, and mathematics using the most common Greek and Latin roots. Each lesson provides tips on how to introduce the selected roots and offers guided instruction to help easily implement the activities. Students will be able to apply their knowledge of roots associated with specific subject areas into their everyday vocabulary.

Expand your students' content-area vocabulary and improve their understanding with this roots-based approach! This standards-based resource, geared towards fifth grade, helps students comprehend informational text on grade-level topics in science, social studies, and mathematics using the most common Greek and Latin roots. Each lesson provides tips on how to introduce the selected roots and offers guided instruction to help easily implement the activities. Students will be able to apply their knowledge of roots associated with specific subject areas into their everyday vocabulary.

Effective Reading Strategies: Teaching Children Who Find Reading Difficult, Third Edition, offers the teaching community a wealth of instructional strategies and activities. This book is aimed at strengthening and developing the reading skills of children who find the subject hard to grasp, including those for whom English is a second language. The broad-based remedial and corrective reading instruction focuses on several areas: phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Teachers can combine and modify the various reading strategies and activities to fit their current curricula. Other features of this book: A clear focus on scientifically based research, including summaries of the National Reading Panel's findings and compliance strategies for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act ("No Child Left Behind"). Professional commentary-Real teachers' opinions and classroom experiences interwoven with the strategies and activities illustrating their application in today's classrooms. High-Frequency Words-Appendix O provides a listing of common words for instructional focus.

Expand your students' content-area vocabulary and improve their understanding with this roots-based approach! This standards-based resource, geared towards third grade, helps students comprehend informational text on grade-level topics in science, social studies, and mathematics using the most common Greek and Latin roots. Each lesson provides tips on how to introduce the selected roots and offers guided instruction to help easily implement the activities. Students will be able to apply their knowledge of roots associated with specific subject areas into their everyday vocabulary.

Teach the power of word roots to help students unlock the meaning of words and deepen their understanding of language. Transform vocabulary learning with this engaging, easy-to-use resource designed for busy teachers and parents. These 52 concise lessons are perfect for helping students understand word roots, expand their vocabulary, and build skills that support academic growth.

Help your students expand their vocabularies and deepen word knowledge with Practice with Prefixes. This standards-based resource presents the most frequently encountered Latin and Greek prefixes in a way that is easy to implement and understand. Each lesson provides necessary content explanations, instructional guidelines, and student activities to help learners determine meaning by analyzing word parts. With the key to understanding both everyday and academic vocabulary at their fingertips, all students will be delighted to discover how easy it is to learn the meanings of prefixes.

Dive into prefixes and suffixes where students in grades 2–4 will expand their vocabularies and improve their word knowledge. Starting with Prefixes and Suffixes is a standards-based resource that introduces common Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes and presents them in ways that are easy to understand and apply. Each lesson provides necessary content explanations, instructional guidelines, and activities to help students decipher meaning by analyzing work parts and word groups. Additional resources are offered to assist teachers facilitate learning with an appendix offering more activities, extensions, and flashcards. This resource is correlated to College and Career Readiness and other state standards.

Expand your students' content-area vocabulary and improve their understanding with this roots-based approach! This standards-based resource, geared towards secondary grades, helps students comprehend informational text on grade-level topics in science using the most common Greek and Latin roots. Each lesson provides tips on how to introduce the selected roots and offers guided instruction to help easily implement the activities. Students will be able to apply their knowledge of roots associated with specific subject areas into their everyday vocabulary.

Expand your students' content-area vocabulary and improve their understanding with this roots-based approach! This standards-based resource, geared towards secondary grades, helps students comprehend informational text on grade-level topics mathematics using the most common Greek and Latin roots. Each lesson provides tips on how to introduce the selected roots and offers guided instruction to help easily implement the activities. Students will be able to apply their knowledge of roots associated with specific subject areas into their everyday vocabulary.

Expand your students' content-area vocabulary and improve their understanding with this roots-based approach! This standards-based resource, geared towards secondary grades, helps students comprehend informational text on grade-level topics in social studies using the most common Greek and Latin roots. Each lesson provides tips on how to introduce the selected roots and offers guided instruction to help easily implement the activities. Students will be able to apply their knowledge of roots associated with specific subject areas into their everyday vocabulary.

Take your students beyond mere memorization of words by taking a roots approach to learning! This resource, geared towards fifth grade students, focuses on root words for specific content areas such as science or social studies.

Literacy experts, Timothy Rasinski, Nancy Padak, and Maryann Mraz explore five of the major components essential to creating an effective literacy program and present teachers with friendly tips and strategies to implement at their own school. The new series, Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading is a five part professional development program designed to help teachers meet the literacy instruction guidelines as identified by the National Reading Panel (2000). Each of the five books in the series focuses on one key component: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension and offers recommendations for incorporating appropriate reading materials, fostering productive home-school connections, and promoting a desire for students to learn to read and write throughout the five part series. Making this the perfect professional development resource for teachers in the elementary classroom! ... Publisher description.

Building Vocabulary from Word Roots helps students unlock the meaning of over 60% of the words they encounter in the classroom and beyond with a systematic approach to teaching vocabulary using Greek and Latin prefixes, bases, and suffixes. Students are introduced to one new root per lesson and this full-color Student Guided Practice Book is filled with daily activities to ensure that they learn the root and the many English words it generates.

From Phonics to Fluency does not stop with word study but goes beyond words and explores effective fluency instruction. The authors offer aspiring or veteran teachers workable approaches to authentic word study that students will find engaging and enjoyable. The approaches shared are based on solid literacy theory, current reading research, actual classroom application and incorporate the National Reading Panel Report (2000) and the requirements of No Child Left Behind. In addition, the proven and effective instructional strategies and practices from real teachers provide a window into effective teaching for developing reading fluency. Teachers will walk away with a solid understanding and a wealth of strategies to promote fluency in their classrooms and their students will learn to read more efficiently, expressively, and meaningfully and at the same time develop a greater comprehension of all words.

This engaging, teacher-friendly guide provides the latest research on strategies, ideas, and resources for teaching Greek and Latin roots-prefixes, suffixes, and bases. It introduces the vocabulary learning strategies that will improve comprehension and content vocabulary knowledge. Change the way you teach vocabulary with this book and start students on the path to a lifelong enjoyment of word learning.

Take your students beyond mere memorization of words by taking a roots approach to learning! This resource, geared towards fourth grade students, focuses on root words for specific content areas such as science or social studies.

Take your students beyond mere memorization of words by taking a roots approach to learning! This resource, geared towards fifth grade students, focuses on root words for specific content areas such as science or social studies.

Help students unlock the meaning of the words they encounter in the classroom and beyond with a systematic approach to learning vocabulary and word families using Greek and Latin roots. This full-color Building Vocabulary workbook guides students toward independent skills application with daily practice activities. Kindergarten students will learn to divide and conquer words by separating onsets from the most common rimes or word families.

Make learning science vocabulary fun with a roots approach! This resource, geared towards secondary grades, focuses on root words for science and includes teaching tips and strategies, standards-based lessons, and student activity pages.

Take your students beyond mere memorization of words by taking a roots approach to learning! This resource, geared towards fourth grade students, focuses on root words for specific content areas such as science or social studies.

Help students unlock the meaning of cross-curricular vocabulary words they encounter in the classroom and beyond! This full-color Building Vocabulary workbook provides a systematic approach to learning vocabulary and word families using Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and bases. Sixth grade students learn strategies for deciphering roots and their meanings across multiple content areas. Guide students toward independent skills application with daily practice activities!

Take your students beyond mere memorization of words by taking a roots approach to learning! This resource, geared towards fourth grade students, focuses on root words for specific content areas such as science or social studies.

The Teacher's Guide includes lesson plans with detailed notes about words from each root, overhead transparencies for introductory activities, standards-based connections, and differentiation strategies. A resource CD is also included with 50 bonus activities to support a variety of learning styles.

Take your students beyond mere memorization of words by taking a roots approach to learning! This resource, geared towards fourth grade students, focuses on root words for specific content areas such as science or social studies.

Take your students beyond mere memorization of words by taking a roots approach to learning! This resource, geared towards fourth grade students, focuses on root words for specific content areas such as science or social studies.

Help students unlock the meaning of the words they encounter in the classroom and beyond with a systematic approach to learning vocabulary and word families using Greek and Latin roots. This full-color Building Vocabulary workbook guides students toward independent skills application with daily practice activities. Second grade students will begin by learning to divide and conquer words by separating onsets from the most common rimes or word families. Students transition to Latin-Greek morphemes, learning to decode and understand a multitude of words.

Help students unlock the meaning of cross-curricular vocabulary words they encounter in the classroom and beyond! This full-color Building Vocabulary workbook provides a systematic approach to learning vocabulary and word families using Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and bases. Seventh grade students learn strategies for deciphering roots and their meanings across multiple content areas. Guide students toward independent skills application with daily practice activities!

Take your students beyond mere memorization of words by taking a roots approach to learning! This resource, geared towards fourth grade students, focuses on root words for specific content areas such as science or social studies.

Take your students beyond mere memorization of words by taking a roots approach to learning! This resource, geared towards fourth grade students, focuses on root words for specific content areas such as science or social studies.

Help students unlock the meaning of cross-curricular vocabulary words they encounter in the classroom and beyond! This full-color Building Vocabulary workbook provides a systematic approach to learning vocabulary and word families using Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and bases. Third grade students learn strategies for deciphering roots and their meanings across multiple content areas. Guide students toward independent skills application with daily practice activities!

Take your students beyond mere memorization of words by taking a roots approach to learning! This resource, geared towards fifth grade students, focuses on root words for specific content areas such as science or social studies.

Take your students beyond mere memorization of words by taking a roots approach to learning! This resource, geared towards third grade students, focuses on root words for specific content areas such as science or social studies.

Take your students beyond mere memorization of words by taking a roots approach to learning! This resource, geared towards fifth grade students, focuses on root words for specific content areas such as science or social studies.

Take your students beyond mere memorization of words by taking a roots approach to learning! This resource, geared towards fourth grade students, focuses on root words for specific content areas such as science or social studies.