Special Ed Primary

In this program, students "visit" four different Vowel Towns where unique characters use their vowel patterns to make words in Word Family Houses and Wiggle-Jiggle Word Factories. Short stories, charts, and chants introduce the characters, and then key words are posted on the different Vowel Towns' phonics bulletin boards to use as reference tools. After learning all the vowel patterns for single syllable words, the lessons then move to the next level of spelling, two-syllable words that include compound words, open and closed syllables, two-syllable words with le endings (i.e., middle), and two-syllable words with y endings (i.e., happy). In this section, kid-friendly stories and charts are also used to introduce all the different types of two-syllable words. Additionally, prefixes and suffixes, contractions and possessives, and homophones, as well as parts of speech are added bonus lessons to complete this binder.

This practical resource gives primary teachers a collection of stimulating, tested learning center activities to teach and reinforce alphabet letters and their sounds based on the unique "Holder & Faster Alphabet" (see below) that enables young children to hear and feel the letter sounds, and modeled reading and writing strategies that help children identify and spell words with ease! You'll find easy-to-follow, illustrated steps for presenting each of the 26 letters of the alphabet using multisensory cues and charts, plus detailed directions and reproducible patterns for creating a variety of learning centers to give children practice in using the alphabet connecting letter knowledge to reading and writing. This book gives you research-supported practices, teaching techniques, and hands-on materials, all of the effective elements of a comprehensive emergent and beginning-level literacy program needed to make your students' introduction to alphabet letters and sounds memorable, successful and fun!

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The Reading Connections Book is packed with strategies to reach all students regardless of languages differences, special needs or varying ability levels. These standards-based tools dove-tail smoothly into any reading program utilizing the unique before, during, and after reading instructional activities and strategies. Before reading, learn to frontload academic oral language, vocabulary knowledge, core concepts, and narrative and expository text structure. During reading, apply the highly effective Good Reader's flow chart of proven strategies that include connections and monitoring, summarizing and clarifying, as well as visualizing, questioning, and predicting. After reading, write concise summaries to check for understanding; Use Build a Question to develop standardized questions; Analyze text structures and words and phrases embedded in text for analysis; Master Prove-It! steps for a response to literature. Please join the thousands of teachers who have bridged theory to practice by using this program. It works and the kids love it!

Assessment: Guide your instruction through the Levels of Writing Assessment (LWA). Learn to use the unique 5 level assessment, accompanied with student benchmark writing samples, to establish specific teaching points for accelerated writing achievement.

Plan, Talk, and Write: Guide academic oral language to written text using Plan, Talk and Write procedures that systematically bridge students from highly supportive writing instruction to total independent writing regardless of language differences, special needs, and varying ability levels.

Movie Scripts to Story Writing: Capture the art of storytelling utilizing the unique Movie Script and Build a Character activities. Engage your students in these dynamic oral language activities that bridge to narrative writing. Learn the sequential interactive writing lessons that build from simple narratives to well-developed stories filled with voice and style.

Lecture Notes to Expository Writing: Learn to use Lecture Notes for every student to assess and develop interesting and meaningful ideas from the core curriculum. Engage students in dynamic note-taking, academic oral language practice and vocabulary development strategies to write across the curriculum. Provide meaningful expository writing instruction lessons that begin with the big idea statement to the development of cohesive and coherent multiple paragraph essays.

Systematic Writing Lessons: Plan and organize ideas to write engaging narratives, interesting information, dynamic descriptions, friendly letters, succinct summaries, insightful responses to literature, and convincing persuasives.

Beginner Writers: Learn methods that explicitly guide non-writers to create and write powerful sentences. Utilize teacher write, interactive writing, guided writing, and independent writing to provide a balanced writing curriculum.

Vocabulary: Help students access high-levels of vocabulary using the interactive Vocabulary Wall.

Voice: Use the Fancy Words: Deck of Cards, Sensational Sentences, and Sensational Sentences Plus to create sophisticated sentences with voice and flair.

Sentence Structure: Build difficult written language sentence structures using The Who/What Chart, The Sentence Builder, or Sentence Pattern Blueprints.

Revising and Editing: Learn the most effective steps to revise and edit writing without frustrating students with endless revisions of the original draft.

Please join the thousands of teachers who have bridged theory and practice by using this program. It works and the kids love it!

Freebies

Nancy Fetzer's Letter Writing Kit is packed with kid-friendly lessons, activities, and materials that engage all students to write organized and interesting letters. Follow the fun and easy steps outlined in the manual to teach students the skills necessary to write friendly letters, thank you notes, business letters, and invitations. Your students will receive exemplary instruction as you apply these researched-based dynamic tools, strategies, and resources packed with best teaching practices. The children will come alive with the engaging, systematic scripted lessons connected to stories from the big book. Not only will they reach their greatest potential as letter writers , but as they go through the lessons you will be imparting oral language strategies and rehearsals of organizers that will elicit sophisticated writing. You can quickly get the parents on board with letters that explain homework assignments for easy implementation. Nancy Fetzer's Letter Writing Kit is a must have for your classroom.

Included:
32 Page 12" X 15" Full Color BigBook
The students will love The Letter Writing Big Book which introduces and systematically breaks down different types of letters through a story involving the Big Bad Wolf, Mr. Pig, and many other magical characters from the Royal Kingdom.

Letter Writing Manual
The Letter Writing Manual is an easy-to-use guide filled with steps and
procedures to teach letter writing with kid-friendly blackline masters.

Two 12"x15" Dry Erase Laminate Interactive Posters
Provide interactive lessons with the two-dry erase laminated chart-sized organizers that brainstorm and write letters.

Eight 3"x3" Interactive Magnets
Reinforce the parts of a letter with eight 3” x 3” vividly-colored magnets that display
the different Royal Kingdom characters.

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Letter Writing Kit

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Who What Chart

Video Overview

The Sentence Builder is a tool used to build sophisticated sentences or to revise simple sentences into more elaborate and developed constructions.
Board: The large (33" X 22") board displays dotted boxes to velcro the parts of speech cards (click here), a long rectangular box to construct a sentence, and ample space to brainstorm vocabulary for the sentence.

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Who What Chart

This part of the manual is a handy reference that outlines step-by-step directions for the unique tools required to teach writing through the Writing Connections program.Notice the directions were provided in English with the blackline masters in English.Now the strategies and tools students use in Spanish match when they transition to writing in English. The appendices provide easy access to the Spanish blackline masters. This way, the teacher easily picks andchooses tools for use. If directions are needed or the English blackline, then the teacher refers to section one for the information or tool.