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Independent Reading Packet

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this free packet helps teachers and parents encourage independent reading for kids.

Category: Independent Reading, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Fluency, Parents
Price: $Free
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All SPORTS Reading Comprehension Activity

Enjoyable, effective, timely, and easy to use, this activity takes advantage of the hype of the latest Big Game to improve comprehension skills.

Category: Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension
Price: $ FREE
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Best Sight Words Bargain Bundle

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this kit is so much better than all those Dolch words. Don't overload beginning or struggling readers with too much memorization. This set contains the only high-frequency, irregular words they need to learn by rote.

Category: Reading Games: Bingo (LTR), Sight Word Kits
Types: Fluency
Price: $5.38
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Best Sight Words Kit A

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this kit is so much better than all those Dolch words. Don't overload beginning or struggling readers with too much memorization. This set contains the first 50 of 100 high-frequency, irregular words, the only sight words they need to learn by rote.

Category: Reading Games: Bingo (LTR), Sight Word Kits
Types: Fluency
Price: $ 2.99
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Best Sight Words Kit B

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this kit is so much better than all those Dolch words. Don't overload beginning or struggling readers with too much memorization. This set contains the second 50 of 100, the only high-frequency, irregular words they need to learn by rote.

Category: Reading Games: Bingo (LTR), Sight Word Kits
Types: Fluency
Price: $ 2.99
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Bingo: Consonants, Blends, & Digraphs (LTR) Bargain Bundle

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these Bingo Games help students practice beginning and ending consonant sounds, letters, consonant blends and consonant digraphs. Phonics practice does not have to be boring!

Category: Reading Games: Bingo (LTR), Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
Price: $ 9.99
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Bingo: Beginning & Ending Consonants (LTR)

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this Learn-To-Read Bingo game is so much better than a boring phonics worksheet to practice beginning and ending consonants. Phonics practice does not have to be boring.

Category: Reading Games: Bingo (LTR), Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
Price: $4.99
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Bingo: Consonant Blend Bingo (LTR)

Effective, enjoyable and easy to use Bingo game for consonant blends--phonics practice does not have to be boring.

Category: Reading Games: Bingo (LTR), Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
Price: $4.99
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Bingo: Beginning & Ending Consonant Digraphs (LTR)

Extra practice in beginning and ending consonant digraphs is effective, enjoyable, and easy to use with this Consonant Digraph Bingo Game. Phonics does not have to be boring.

Category: Reading Games: Bingo (LTR), Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
Price: $ 4.99
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Bingo: Vowel Families Bargain Bundle (LTR)

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these 2 Bingo games are a great way to practice short and long vowel families, especially with students who do not hear phonics sounds well.

Category: Reading Games: Bingo (LTR), Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
Price: $ 7.50
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Bingo: Long Vowel Families (LTR)

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this Long Vowel Families Bingo is better than a boring phonics worksheet, especially for student who do not hear phonics sounds well.

Category: Reading Games: Bingo (LTR), Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
Price: $ 4.99
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Bingo: Short Vowel Families (LTR)

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this Short Vowel Families Bingo Game is so much better than a boring worksheet. Phonics practice does not have be boring.

Category: Reading Games: Bingo (LTR), Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
Price: $ 4.99
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Bingo: Difficult Clusters Bundle (RT)

Effective, enjoyable and easy to use, these games provide extra practice in reading aloud some confusing English letter clusters. They also help to improve spelling. Phonics practice does not have to be boring.

Category: Reading Games: Reading Tutor Bingo (RT), Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
Price: $ 4.99
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Bingo: Difficult Vowel & Consonant Clusters Set A (RT)

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, Reading Tutor Set A provides extra practice reading words with difficult vowel teams and consonant clusters, helping automatic recognition later--without using complicated phonics rules. Phonics practice doesn't have to be complex or boring!

Category: Reading Games: Reading Tutor Bingo (RT), Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
Price: $2.99
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Bingo: Difficult Vowel & Consonant Clusters Set B (RT)

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, Reading Tutor Set A provides extra practice reading words with difficult vowel teams and consonant clusters, helping automatic recognition later--without using complicated phonics rules. Phonics practice doesn't have to be complex or boring!

Category: Reading Games: Reading Tutor Bingo (RT), Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
Price: $2.99
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Bingo: Reading Long Vowel Teams (RT)

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, Reading Long Vowel Teams (RT) Bingo provides extra practice reading words with difficult vowel teams and consonant clusters, helping automatic recognition later--without using complicated phonics rules. Phonics practice doesn't have to be boring!

Category: Reading Games: Reading Tutor Bingo (RT), Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
Price: $2.99
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Bingo: Reading Silent e (RT)

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, Silent e Reading Tutor Bingo provides extra practice reading words with difficult vowel teams and consonant clusters, helping automatic recognition later--without using complicated phonics rules. Phonics practice doesn't have to be boring!

Category: Reading Games: Reading Tutor Bingo (RT), Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
Price: $ 2.99
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Capital Letters

Effective and easy to use, these three worksheets give focused practice on capital letters with  only two rules to follow. Grammar practice does not have to be complicated!

Category: Grammar, Writing
Types: Grammar
Price: $1.49
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Charlotte’s Web Unique Bundle

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these Before and After Reading Strategies for Charlotte's Web, rated the BEST children's book of the 20th century, are unique and productive.

Category: Charlotte's Web, Novel Studies, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Listening, Tests, Vocabulary, Writing (Composition)
Price: $4.99
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Charlotte’s Web: Chapter Questioning Strategies

Chapter-by-chapter questioning & strategies for Charlotte's Web are based on the latest comprehension research and include writing prompts & ideas for end of novel projects.

Category: Charlotte's Web, Novel Studies
Types: Comprehension
Price: $2.99
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Charlotte’s Web: Crossword Puzzle

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this crossword puzzle about Charlotte's Web is great for homework, seat work, extra credit, and learning stations. The 48 word crossword puzzle is a helpful review of vocabulary, characters, details, and events from the novel.

Category: Charlotte's Web, Crossword Puzzles, Novel Studies
Types: Comprehension, Spelling, Vocabulary
Price: $ 1.49
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Charlotte’s Web: Final Exam

More than just a Final Exam on Charlotte's Web, this test will also help students learn how to choose the best answer in a multiple choice test.

Category: Charlotte's Web, Novel Studies
Types: Comprehension, Tests
Price: $ 2.49
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Charlotte’s Web: Introduction to Outlining

Effective, easy to use, and unique, this outline uses class brainstorming to activate prior knowledge before reading Charlotte's Web while also introducing the skill of outlining.

Category: Charlotte's Web, Novel Studies, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Vocabulary
Price: $ 1.29
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Charlotte’s Web: Story Sequencing Cards

Students love this activity because they move around the classroom while sequencing events from the novel Charlotte's Web.

Category: Charlotte's Web, Novel Studies
Types: Comprehension
Price: $ 1.49
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Collective Nouns Crossword Puzzles

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set of crossword puzzles is a unique and different method of learning collective nouns.

Category: Crossword Puzzles
Types: Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary
Price: $ 2.49
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Double Vowels In Context: Sentence Completion Level 2

Effective and easy to use, these worksheets provide extra practice for regular vowel teams within the context of a sentence. Unlike many phonics worksheets, these contain simple and clear word choice, thus enabling independent completion by struggling readers.

Category: Word Analysis
Types: Comprehension, Fluency, Phonics/ Word Analysis
Price: $1.49
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Irregular Vowel Teams In Context: Sentence Completion Level 3

Effective and easy to use, these worksheets provide extra practice for irregular vowel teams within the context of a sentence. Unlike many phonics worksheets, they contain simple and clear word choice, enabling independent completion by struggling readers.

Category: Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
Price: $1.49
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Earth Day Script

This simple script for Earth Day, designed for school P.A. systems, builds success and confidence with no memorization. Twenty simple statements describe what kids can to to help save the earth from climate change. Instructions for adapting the script to different sizes of classes and different reading levels are included.

Category: Scripts, Holiday Menagerie
Types: Fluency
Price: $ 1.29
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First Day of School: A Play

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this FREE play requires no memorization.Containing GROUP parts for an entire class, it is a great way to focus attention on listening to the teacher and to each other.

Category: Scripts, Listening Skills
Types: Listening
Price: $ FREE
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Grammar Crossword Puzzle Bundle

Effective, enjoyable and easy to use, this set of grammar crossword puzzles provides a unique and productive way to practice grammar skills. Boost not only grammar, but also spelling & writing. Grammar practice does not have to be boring!

Category: Grammar, Writing
Types: Grammar, Spelling, Writing (Composition)
Price: $10.99
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Grammar Review: Stories About Careers

Many students have no idea what career to pursue. With Grammar Stories about Careers, they can practice grammar while learning about numerous careers. Teachers will find an invaluable resource for designing instruction in the Grammar Review Error Analysis Worksheets that are included.

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar, Spelling
Price: $ 4.99
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Grammar Review: History of Sports

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set of grammar stories about the history of sports is helpful and motivating. Teachers will find the included Error Analysis Worksheets invaluable in designing class instruction for new classes or students. No teacher preparation is necessary because all Answer Keys include explanations for every correction.

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar, Spelling
Price: $4.99
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Grammar Review: Stories About Holiday Traditions

Students enjoy learning about the origin of holiday traditions while reviewing grammar skills. Each one-page story includes sentences with only one grammatical error in each sentence. Students enjoy trying to find it.

Category: Grammar, Holiday Menagerie
Types: Comprehension, Grammar, Spelling
Price: $4.99
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Grammar Review: The Summer Games

Grammar Practice Does Not Have To Be Boring!

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar, Spelling
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Grammar Review: The Winter Games

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set of four grammar stories about events in the Winter Games is helpful and motivating. No teacher preparation is necessary because all Answer Keys include explanations for every correction. Each sentence of the story includes only one grammatical error, and students enjoy trying to find all of them.

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar, Spelling
Price: $3.99
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Halloween Candy Wrapper Stories

Fun, motivating, and easy to use, this project is a great way to stimulate student writing. Using candy wrappers in the text of the story, students can compose impressively creative stories. Clear and simple directions make classroom use a breeze.

Category: Holiday Menagerie, Writing
Types: Comprehension, Fluency, Writing (Composition)
Price: $ FREE
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Homophone Crossword Puzzles

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these five homophone crossword puzzles are a unique way to practice the #1 source of spelling errors, even in adults. The set provides extra practice in 100 of the most common homophones/homonyms in English. They are great for homework, seat work, extra credit, or in Learning Centers. Easy to use Answer Keys are included.

Category: Crossword Puzzles, Grammar
Types: Grammar, Spelling
Price: $ 4.99
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Homophone Practice With Fun Facts Set 1

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set of Fun Facts is a unique way to provide extra practice with homophones, the # 1 cause of spelling mistakes--so much better than another boring worksheet. Reference Lists and Answer Keys are included for each page.

Category: Grammar, Writing
Types: Grammar, Spelling
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Homophone Practice With Fun Facts Set 2

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set of Homophone Practice with Fun Facts is a unique method of extra practice with homophones. Students review four pages of fun facts while choosing the correct homophone in each sentence. Grammar and spelling practice do not have to be boring!

Category: Grammar, Writing
Types: Spelling, Writing (Composition)
Price: $3.99
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Homophone Practice with Knock-Knock Jokes

Homophones are the number one cause of poor spelling, even with adults. These 5 pages of knock-knock jokes provide extra spelling and grammar practice that many students need, while providing a few chuckles along the way. Enjoy the smiles!

Category: Grammar
Types: Grammar, Spelling, Writing (Composition)
Price: $2.49
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Less Common Homophones Crossword Puzzle

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this puzzle is a unique way to practice less common homophones. Research shows homophones are the main cause of spelling errors. Grammar and spelling practice do not have to be boring!

Category: Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing
Types: Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary
Price: $1.29
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How To Eat Fried Worms: Short Answer Questions

This oldie-but-goodie novel is perfect for a chuckle-filled read-aloud. 41 very short chapters have been divided into eleven segments that have a one-page, short answer set of questions that involve basic understanding of the text, as well as higher level questioning strategies. The short essays easily relate to younger lives and foster composition comfortably.

Category: Listening Skills, Novel Studies, Writing
Types: Comprehension, Listening, Writing (Composition)
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How to Eat Fried Worms: Word Search

This Word Search helps students review important characters and plot points in the novel, How To Eat Fried Worms.

Category: Novel Studies, Word Analysis, Word Search Puzzles
Types: Comprehension, Spelling
Price: $1.29
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Inferences and Details: Comprehension Cups

Effective, enjoyable, easy to use, and inexpensive to make, this reading game, Comprehension Cups, helps students to see "the big picture," a metacognitive strategy. They read a factual detail and learn to make an inference about what information it communicates to them.

Category: Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension
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Invisible Valentine

Truly Invisible!!! Instructions for making an Invisible Valentine. Easy! Fun! Free!

Category: Holiday Menagerie
Types: Writing (Composition)
Price: $ FREE
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Irregular Past Tense Verbs Crossword Puzzles

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these two crossword puzzles with 100 irregular past tense verbs can help students improve grammar, spelling and writing. Grammar practice can actually be fun!

Category: Crossword Puzzles, Grammar
Types: Grammar, Spelling
Price: $1.49
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Irregular Plurals Crossword Puzzle

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this crossword puzzle includes 40 irregular, English plural nouns. It  provides the extra practice that some students need. Use for homework, seat work, extra credit or in learning centers. Grammar practice can be fun!

Category: Crossword Puzzles, Writing
Types: Grammar
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Irregular Plurals Crossword Puzzles #2 & #3

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these two crossword puzzles include irregular plural English nouns that end in ch, sh, y, o, f, and fe. They provide the extra practice that some students need. Use for homework, seat work, extra credit, or in learning centers. Simple instructions and Answer Keys are included.

Category: Grammar, Writing
Types: Grammar
Price: $1.99
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Listening Skills: 4 Audience Participation Plays

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these plays improve listening skills. No memorization is required. They contain very short, group parts for an entire class. After roles are assigned, the teacher reads the story, and the student groups provide the appropriate words when they hear their cues. Enjoy the smiles!

Category: Scripts, Listening Skills
Types: Listening
Price: $ 1.99
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LE or LY Crossword Puzzle

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this crossword puzzle helps students gain proficiency in distinguishing between le or ly at the ends of words, which often confuse beginning or struggling readers.  Words that end with le are adjectives, and most that end with ly are adverbs, so the usage sentences for the puzzle also provide extra practice in that grammar concept as well.

Category: Crossword Puzzles, Grammar
Types: Grammar, Spelling
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Main Idea Category Cards

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this category game is a helpful way to get kids thinking in broad terms about main idea and supporting details. It helps to ingrain the metacognitive structure of this important reading strategy. It is also useful for verbal communication skills, allowing students to organize thoughts and speak in front of an audience in a short, non-threatening exercise. Crazy fun!

Category: Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension
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Making Inferences with Life Mottos

Effective, unique, and easy to use, these four lessons in making inferences contain well-known adages that are derived from centuries of human experiences. When matching these truisms to their underlying meanings, students practice making inferences from what they read. 

Category: Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension
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Thinking About Thinking: Metacognition

Effective, motivating, and easy to use, this set makes a strong addition to your comprehension repertoire with its metacognitive strategy (thinking about thinking) of placing details into the correct category: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

Category: Reading Comprehension
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Misspelled Words Crossword Puzzle

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this research-based crossword puzzle includes 90 words that are most often misspelled by students and adults. Students can practice these words in a unique and fun way.

Category: Crossword Puzzles
Types: Spelling
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Reading Profile

This exceptional, ordered list of fundamental reading skills will help you gauge each of your students’ reading strengths and weaknesses. You can add to the profile as you learn more about each student. It can direct more effective grouping strategies with your class as well as more beneficial individualized homework assignments.

Category: Diagnosis, Reading Comprehension, Word Analysis
Types: Comprehension, Fluency, Grammar, Phonics/ Word Analysis, Tests
Price: $ FREE
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Reading Tutor Packet: Level 1 Decoding

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this Level 1 packet requires no prep for teachers and tutors. Designed by a 30 year reading specialist who has had great success with beginning or struggling readers, this bundle of effective decoding worksheets focuses mainly on short vowel words and includes some advice about comprehension skills as well.

Category: Reading Games: Bingo (LTR), Sight Word Kits, Word Analysis, Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis, Spelling
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Reading Tutor Packet: Level 2 Decoding

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this Level 2 packet requires no prep for teachers and tutors. Designed by a 30 year reading specialist who has had great success with beginning or struggling readers, this bundle of effective decoding worksheets covers mostly long vowel words, and it includes some advice about comprehension skills as well.

Category: Reading Games: Bingo (LTR), Sight Word Kits, Word Analysis, Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis, Spelling
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Reading Tutor Packet: Level 3 Decoding

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this Level 3 packet requires no prep for teachers and tutors. Designed by a 30 year reading specialist who has had great success with beginning or struggling readers, this bundle of effective decoding worksheets covers mostly irregular double vowel teams. The set also includes some advice about comprehension skills .  Beginning and struggling readers can find success and enjoyment with this resource.

Category: Reading Games: Bingo (LTR), Word Analysis, Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis, Spelling
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Retelling Profiles

Do you have a student who sounds like a good reader but does not seem to understand what s/he reads? Retelling may be useful strategy to gain insight into his or her thinking process. This organizational technique, one for fiction and one for non-fiction, can be taught in small or large groups with this set.

Category: Diagnosis, Reading Comprehension
Types: Tests
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Root Words Crossword Puzzles

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these three puzzles help students improve word power. Twelve roots with Latin and Greek origins are used in each puzzle, with three or more words derived from each root. A bonus page of 14 Rather Questions and  Answer Keys are included.

Category: Crossword Puzzles
Types: Spelling, Vocabulary
Price: $2.49
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Self-Help Test: Parent Guide to Kindergarten Readiness

This one page FREE assessment is an additional guide for parents in deciding if a child is ready for kindergarten. It is intended for help in evaluating non-special needs students. Parents should use the test as a supplement to preschool teacher assessments, as well as kindergarten screening tests from their own schools.

Category: Diagnosis
Types: Parents, Tests
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Self-Help Test: Parent Self-Evaluation

Are parents doing the activities that help their children succeed in school? This parent self-help evaluation test helps to guide parents.

Category: Diagnosis
Types: Parents, Tests
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Self-Help Test: Reading Habits (Grades 1-2)

Help your children help themselves. This two page Reading Habits Self-Help Test is designed to demonstrate the skills that are important to being a good reader in Grades 1 & 2. 

Category: Diagnosis, Reading Comprehension
Types: Tests
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Self-Help Test: Reading Comprehension (Grades 3-8)

Do some of your students sound like good readers, but they don't seem to comprehend very well what they read? Teachers often simply hope that students will know how to read with understanding. It is so much better to actually provide them with information about how good readers go about understanding text, and then help them assess themselves in relation to that information. This test does that.

Category: Diagnosis, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Tests
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Self-Help Test: Reading Habits (Grades 3-12)

Help your children help themselves. This two page Reading Habits Self-Help Test is designed evaluate the skills important to being a good reader in Grades 3-12. Students then develop improvement statements based on the honest appraisal of their own habits. 

Category: Diagnosis, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Tests
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Self-Help Test: Study Habits

Help your students help themselves. This two page Study Habits Self-Help Test is designed to demonstrate the skills or actions that are important to having good study habits. Students develop improvement statements based on an honest evaluation of their own habits.

Category: Diagnosis, Listening Skills, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Tests
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Self-Help Test: Understanding What I Read

Effective and easy to use with most reading selections, this test will help your students help themselves to better reading. Stop simply HOPING that your students learn the process of how to read and study--actually provide explicit instruction with this Self-Help Test in a completion format.

Category: Diagnosis, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Tests
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Self-Help Test: Writing Well

Easy essays are not a fantasy. This 2 page Self-Help Test is designed to aid students in organizing their thoughts and planning an effective essay. By the time they finish filling in the blanks, the hard work is almost done.

Category: Writing
Types: Tests, Writing (Composition)
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Frightful Similes Crossword Puzzle

The frightful similes in this crossword puzzle illustrate the impressive power of similes to develop images in writing. Help students understand the efficacy of using similes in an effective, enjoyable, and easy-to-use format. Learning writing skills can be fun!

Category: Writing
Types: Writing (Composition)
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Story Grid

The perfect cure for writer's block!--students can easily create a myriad of interesting settings, characters, and plots. Students can brainstorm ideas to fill out the chart, then decide on which ideas they would like to use in their stories.

Category: Writing
Types: Writing (Composition)
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Strega Nona Sequencing Cards

Effective, enjoyable, and easy, to us, this set develops the strategic reading skill of sequencing events for the book, Strega Nona. Students love this activity because there is a physicality to it that helps some children who have difficulty conceptualizing events in time.

Category: Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension
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Summer Reading Packet

Summer is a great time to hook kids on reading because they can choose their own books according to their own interests. At the same time, they can practice previously taught reading skills and improve in many ways. This packet makes summer reading easy to manage.

Category: Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Fluency, Parents
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Syllables: A Better Way

Effective and easy to use, this set makes it simple for students to decode 2, 3, and 4 syllable words. These pages help students see common English clusters in longer words, without learning complicated rules for syllabication.

Category: Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
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Syllable Matching Game

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set helps students see small parts in bigger words. This syllable matching game makes it much easier and fun for kids to practice making two syllables into meaningful words. 

Category: Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
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Synonyms Crossword Puzzles

Effective, enjoyable and easy to use, these Synonym Crossword Puzzles help high school students improve both reading and writing in a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious way.   Extra practice with new vocabulary in different formats increases the likelihood that the new words will be remembered and used in writing and in speaking.

Category: Vocabulary, Writing
Types: Spelling, Vocabulary
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TALL Tales Bargain Bundle

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this Tall Tale Bundle improves grammar with interesting tales of Americana, rather than with boring, unrelated sentences. They focus on the most common errors in homophones, subject-verb agreement, apostrophe, capitalization, punctuation, irregular verbs, and irregular plurals.

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar
Price: $ 14.99
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Tall Tales Grammar Review: Set A

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set of Tall Tales improves grammar with a bit of Americana, rather than with boring, unrelated sentences. These tales focus on the most common errors in homophones, subject-verb agreement, apostrophe, capitalization, punctuation, irregular verbs, and irregular plurals. Grammar practice can be fun!

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar
Price: $4.99
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Tall Tales Grammar Review: Set B

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set of Tall Tales improves grammar with a bit of Americana, rather than with boring, unrelated sentences. These tales focus on the most common errors in homophones, subject-verb agreement, apostrophe, capitalization, punctuation, irregular verbs, and irregular plurals.

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar
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Tall Tales Grammar Review : Set C

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set of Tall Tales improves grammar with a bit of Americana, rather than with boring, unrelated sentences. These tales focus on the most common errors in homophones, subject-verb agreement, apostrophe, capitalization, punctuation, irregular verbs, and irregular plurals.

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar
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Tall Tales Grammar Review: Set D

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set of Tall Tales improves grammar with a bit of Americana, rather than with boring, unrelated sentences. These tales focus on the most common errors in homophones, subject-verb agreement, apostrophe, capitalization, punctuation, irregular verbs, and irregular plurals.

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar
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Tall Tales Grammar Story: Johnny Appleseed

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this Tall Tale improves grammar with a bit of Americana, rather than with boring, unrelated sentences. The tale focuses on the most common errors in homophones, subject-verb agreement, apostrophe, capitalization, punctuation, irregular verbs, and irregular plurals.

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar
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The Trumpet of the Swan: Chapter Review Questions

Perfect for reviewing & refocusing the information from the previous chapter before embarking on the next one. Both literal and higher-level questioning strategies are used.

Category: Novel Studies, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension
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The Trumpet of the Swan: Crossword Puzzle

This crossword puzzle for The Trumpet of the Swan includes characters, places, themes, and ideas from another wise and profound novel from the author of Charlotte's Web.

Category: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary
Types: Comprehension, Spelling, Vocabulary
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The Trumpet of the Swan: Final Exam

More than just a Final Exam, this 30 item multiple-choice test is designed to give students experience in test-taking strategies for choosing the best answer in multiple-choice tests, a strategy that is not often explained or practiced in classrooms today.

Category: Novel Studies, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Tests
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The Trumpet of the Swan: Origami Swan

This simple origami swan is designed as a lesson in following directions after completion of The Trumpet of the Swan. Enjoy!

Category: Novel Studies
Types: Comprehension
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The Trumpet of the Swan: Sequencing Events Cards

Children really love this activity because they get to move around, and it is actually very good practice in the skill of sequencing events after The Trumpet of the Swan has been completed.

Category: Novel Studies, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension
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Valentines & Adjectives: Little Love Letters

So much better than those pre-printed, perfunctory Valentines, these Little Love Letters encourage friendship and community in your classes while improving vocabulary at the same time. This set includes a Matching Exercise (with Answer Key) for improving knowledge of many adjectives that explore character traits.

Category: Vocabulary, Writing
Types: Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing (Composition)
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Vocabulary: Confusing Word Sets Crossword Puzzle

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this crossword puzzle is perfect for extra practice in often misconstrued meanings of words.

Category: Crossword Puzzles, Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing
Types: Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing (Composition)
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Vocabulary: The Prefix “in” (Parts 1 + 2)

Effective and easy to use, these vocabulary worksheets provide extensive development with 100 words that use the prefix "in." Different formats such as definition matching, completion exercises, rather questions, and crossword puzzles improve retention of new words

Category: Vocabulary
Types: Comprehension, Vocabulary
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Vowel Tutor Part 1: Short Vowel Clusters

Effective and easy to use, this no prep set includes great instruction or extra practice in short vowels for beginning and struggling readers. It is perfect for group or individualized instruction in decoding and spelling. Placing emphasis on automatic reading of short vowel words, the worksheets improve decoding, phrasing, fluency, and speed.

Category: Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
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Vowel Tutor Level 2: Regular Double Vowels

Effective and easy to use, this no prep set includes great instruction or extra practice in regular long vowel clusters for beginning and struggling readers. Placing emphasis on automatic reading of words with regular long vowel clusters, the worksheets improve decoding, phrasing, fluency, and speed.

Category: Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
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Vowel Tutor Part 3: Irregular Vowel Clusters

Effective and easy to use, this no prep set includes great instruction or extra practice in irregular vowel clusters for beginning and struggling readers. Placing emphasis on automatic reading of words with irregular vowel clusters, the worksheets improve decoding, phrasing, fluency, and speed.

Category: Word Analysis
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
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Where the Wild Things Are: A Sequencing Activity

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this sequencing activity for events from Where the Wild Things Are provides a fun experience while practicing an important skill. Sequencing of events is an important competency for listening, thinking, and reading. It is valuable to introduce as soon as possible. Practice with the letter "w" is also included.

Category: Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Listening
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Women’s History Biography Stories

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these eight stories about famous women from history improve comprehension and spelling at the same time. The stories include blanks for missing vowels, so students must supply them.

Category: Holiday Menagerie
Types: Comprehension, Phonics/ Word Analysis, Spelling
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Women’s History: Female Firsts Crossword Puzzle

Inspiring, enjoyable, and easy to use, this crossword puzzle matches 32 modern women with their trailblazing accomplishments (Female Firsts). Perfect for Women's History month, it can be used as homework, seatwork, extra credit, or in learning centers. The puzzle is also helpful in learning internet search and in transferring accurate spelling.

Category: Crossword Puzzles, Holiday Menagerie
Types: Spelling
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Word Search Puzzles: Sounds of C, G, Y, & Silent Consonants

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set of Consonant Word Searches helps students practice the sounds of c, g, y, and silent consonants within words in a unique way. They are great for homework, seatwork, extra credit, and learning centers.

Category: Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis, Spelling
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Word Search Puzzles: Two Sounds of C

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these 3 Word Search Puzzles help students practice the two sounds of the letter "c." They are great for homework, seatwork, extra credit, and learning centers. The extra practice this set provides helps to imprint the words for more automatic recognition later. 

Category: Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
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Word Search Puzzles: Difficult Vowels

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these 6 Word Search Puzzles help students practice difficult vowel teams-- au (+aw) oi (+oy) ou oo oo ow ew-- imprinting for more automatic recognition while reading text.

Category: Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis, Spelling
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Word Search Puzzles: Two Sounds of G

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these 3 Word Search Puzzles help students practice the two sounds of the letter "g" with more than 100 words. They are great for homework, seatwork, extra credit, and learning centers. The extra practice this set provides helps to imprint the words for more automatic recognition later.

Category: Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
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Word Search Puzzle Bundle: Vowels

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these 9 Word Search Puzzles help students practice vowels. The extra practice this set provides helps to imprint the silent e, long, and r-controlled words for more automatic recognition later while reading text.

Category: Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis, Spelling
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Word Search Puzzles: –le At the End of a Word

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these 2 Word Search Puzzles help students practice "le" at the end of a word, using more than 75 words. They are great for homework, seatwork, extra credit, and learning centers. The extra practice that this set provides helps to imprint the words for more automatic recognition later.

Category: Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
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Word Search Puzzles: Long Vowels

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these 3 Word Search Puzzles offer extra practice in using more than 100 words with regular double long vowels. The practice that this unique set provides helps to imprint the words for more automatic recognition later. Phonics practice can be fun!

Category: Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
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Word Search Puzzles: Sound of ph

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these 2 Word Search Puzzles help students practice the "ph" sound, using more than 50 words. The extra practice that this set provides helps to imprint the words for more automatic recognition later.

Category: Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis, Spelling
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Word Search Puzzles: R-Controlled Vowels

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these 3 Word Search Puzzles offer help in using more than 100 words with r-controlled vowels--ar, er, ir, or, and ur.  They are great for homework, seatwork, extra credit, and learning centers. The extra practice that this set provides helps to imprint the words for more automatic recognition later.

Category: Word Analysis, Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis, Spelling
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Word Search Puzzles: Silent e

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these Silent E Word Search Puzzles are so much better than another boring phonics worksheet. Helping to imprint for automatic recognition later, these puzzles with more than 100 "silent e" words use an engaging format to provide extra decoding practice for beginning and struggling readers and spellers. 

Category: Word Analysis, Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis, Spelling
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Word Search Puzzles: Short Vowels

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these 5 Word Search Puzzles offer extra practice in using more than 200 words with short vowels. The practice that this unique set provides helps to imprint the words for more automatic recognition later.

Category: Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
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Word Search Puzzles: Silent Consonants

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these 3 Word Search Puzzles offer extra practice in using more than 100 words with silent consonants. The practice that this unique set provides helps to imprint the words for more automatic recognition later.

Category: Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis, Spelling
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Word Search Puzzles: –tion

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these 3 Word Search Puzzles offer extra practice in using more than 75 words with "tion." The practice that this unique set provides helps to imprint the words for more automatic recognition later.

Category: Crossword Puzzles, Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
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Word Search Puzzles: Sounds for the Letter Y

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these 3 Word Search Puzzles with more than 100 words help students practice three sounds of the letter "y." The extra practice this set provides helps to imprint the words for more automatic recognition later.

Category: Word Search Puzzles
Types: Phonics/ Word Analysis
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