Activities for Fast Finishers: Language Arts, Grades 2-3. Jan Meyer, $13.99

55 reproducible puzzles, brain teasers and other independent, learning-rich activities kids can’t resist!

Alphabet Soup: Language Enrichment Activities, Grades 4-6. Dianne Draze, $12.95

Quick, ready-to-use activities to help add an element of interest to your language arts program – whether in the regular curriculum or to provide creative activities for home learning.

Banish Boring Words! Leilen Shelton, $13.99 (Grades 4-8)

Dozens of reproducible word lists for helping students choose just-right words to strengthen their writing.

Beginning Cursive: Modern Handwriting. $8.25

Make handwriting fun with letter and word practice, number practice and reviews and reference charts.

The Best Sight Word Book Ever! K-3. Gail Vinson & Leland Graham, $21.95

170 high-frequency words and activities to increase fluency and comprehension skills for English language learners and struggling readers.

Better than Book Reports, Grades 2-6. Christine Boardman Moen, $21.99

More than 40 creative responses to literature including Story-Maps, Point-of-View Postcards and Storytelling with Tangrams.

The BIG Book of ALPHABET Activities, Grades PreK-K. Ada Goren, $37.99

A treasure trove of engaging activities, mini-books and colorful picture cards for teaching alphabet recognition, letter formation and more!

Big Words for Big Kids: Systematic Sequential Phonics and Spelling, Upper Grades. Patricia Cunningham, $24.50

Big Words for Big Kids provides teachers with hands-on, minds-on, manipulative activities in which children learn to decode and use word roots, prefixes and suffixes.

Books as Bridges: Using text to connect to home and school literacy and learning. Jane Baskwill, $24.95

Based on convincing research that parents play a vital role in raising a reader, books as bridges offers an effective and efficient way to use texts, including children`s picture books, to help create a common reading experience for the class that can be extended to the home. Numerous reproducibles and send-home materials, as well as suggestions for supporting families for whom English is not the first language, complement this timely resource.

Breathe, Stretch, Write: Learning to Write with Everything You've Got. Sheree Fitch, $24.95

Designed to spark the imagination and enhance creativity, the guided exercises and fun-filled suggestions in this innovative book integrate elements of writing with simple movements and yoga principles to create a safe and joyful learning experience. The book combines writing tasks with basic physical movements that are easy to incorporate into classroom instruction. Useful and inspiring for students and teachers alike, the book is committed to getting kids writing and playing with words and ideas. It challenges teachers to refresh their teaching of writing, inspire students, and find the fun in everyday learning.

Building ALPHABET Knowledge, Grades PreK-K. Debra Olson Pressnall, $21.50

See, hear, name and write — activities for learning about the letters and their sounds.

Building Essential Vocabulary. Sherrill Flora, $14.50 (all ages)

Reproducible photo cards, games and activities to build vocabulary in any language.

Building Oral Language Skills in PreK-K. Cindy Middendorf, $22.99

Dozens of easy, research-based ideas that develop children’s listening, speaking and vocabulary skills — and lay the foundation for reading success.

Building Real-Life Reading Skills, Grades 3-5. Cindy Harris, $14.99

Eighteen lessons with reproducible activity sheets that help students read and comprehend schedules, forms, labels, menus and more.

Contemporary Cursive. Suzanne Lowe Wilke, $14.50

Enhance the handwriting program in your classroom with the practical and creative activities that not only strengthen handwriting skills but thinking and reading as well.

Early Literacy Intervention Activities, PreK to K. Sherrill Flora, $19.50

Research-based instructional strategies that promote the development of reading, writing and spelling skills necessary for later literacy achievement.

First Homework: ALPHABET. Alyse Sweeney, $16.99 PreK-K

60+ Age-perfect reproducibles that help youngsters learn their letters from A to Z.

5-Minute Grammar Practice, Grades 4-8. Judith Bauer Stamper, $19.99

180 quick and motivating activities students can use to practice essential grammar skills.

40 Writing Prompts with Graphic Organizers, Grades 4-6. Stefan Czarnecki, $18.99

Engaging prompts with reproducible organizers that spark ideas, focus thinking and put students on the path to wonderful writing.

Get Ready, Read, Grade K-2. $21.95

Lessons and games for phonemic awareness, phonics, decoding, word recognition and vocabulary development. Includes clip art & reproducible word cards transform bulletin boards into word-family displays.

Got Grammar? Ready-to-Use Lessons and Activities That Make Grammar Fun! Jack Umstatter, $35.99 (Grades 6 to 12)

Each of the over 60 lessons in Got Grammar are ready-to-use and reproducible, and each begins with helpful teaching pages that define, explain, and illustrate grammar, usage, or mechanics concepts. These lessons and the many ready-to-use student activities include 15 diagnostic tests, 15 section-review activities, 18 final tests, and over 100 other creative reinforcement activities, including diagramming.

The Grammar Teacher’s Activity-a-Day, Grades 5-12. Jack Umstatter, $23.95

180 ready-to-use lessons to teach grammar and usage.

Graphic Organizers for Teaching Poetry Writing, Grades 1 – 3. Betsy Franco, $15.99

20 graphic organizers with model poems and lessons that support children as they learn to write different forms of poetry.

Graphic Organizers & Strategy Sheets That Scaffold Writing from Paragraphs to Essays. Anina Robb, $21.99 (Grades 4 to 8)

These student packets for 15 key writing formats include guided lessons, writing models, graphic organizers and planning sheets. The lessons help students build the skills they need to write both in fiction and non-fiction genres — from evocative descriptive paragraphs to powerful persuasive essays.

The Great BIG Idea Book: LANGUAGE ARTS, Grades 2-3. Edited by Mela Ottaiano, $29.99

Dozens and dozens of just-right activities for teaching the topics and skills kids really need to master.

I See What You Mean, 2nd Edition: Visual Literacy K-8. Steve Moline, $31.95

The first edition OF I SEE WHAT YOU MEAN was one of the first professional development books to outline practical strategies for improving students' visual literacy. In this new and substantially revised edition, Steve Moline continues his pioneering role by including dozens of new examples of a wide range of visual texts, from time maps and exploded diagrams to digital tools like Smartphone apps and "tactile texts". In addition to the new chapters and nearly 200 illustrations, the book has been reorganized into a useful teaching sequence, moving from simple to complex texts. This book will help you decode the visual world for your students, and help you see visual literacy in a whole new light.

I'm Going to Write! Lower-Case Letters. $6.50 (ages 4-6)

I'm Going to Write! Upper-Case Letters. $7.95 (ages 4-6)

These cheerfully illustrated workbooks helps young children practice forming letters and numbers, while promoting reading readiness.

Journey to Literacy: No Worksheets Required. Krista Flemington, Linda Hewins & Una Villiers, $24.95

The play-based learning and individualized strategies in this practical book build on the wide range of literacy skills present in the kindergarten classroom. This valuable resource explores simple ways to use traditional learning centres to provide children with real and authentic reasons to listen, speak, read, write, and view. This highly readable book will support teachers as they move beyond worksheets and nurture students on their journey to lifelong literacy.

Jump Into Phonics: Strategies to Help Students Succeed with Phonics, Kindergarten. Gail Vinson & Leland Graham, $21.95

Jump Into Phonics: Strategies to Help Students Succeed with Phonics, Grade 1. Gail Vinson & Leland Graham, $21.95

Jump Into Phonics: Strategies to Help Students Succeed with Phonics, Grade 2. Gail Susan Ludwig $21.95

Jump Into Phonics is designed to create a systemic instructional resource that will guide students to proficiency in basic phonics skills, word/letter associations, prefixes and suffixes and exploring words and word parts.

Just-Right Reading Response Activity Sheets for Young Learners, Grades K-2. Erica Bohrer, $14.99

50 reproducible graphic organizers that help children write meaningful responses to the books they read.

Literacy Lessons to Help Kids Get Fit & Healthy. Michael Opitz, $24.99

This practical book will help teachers weave fitness (physical, nutritional, social and emotional) into existing classroom literacy routines, to help develop children’s critical reading skills and their overall health.

Literacy Smarts. Jennifer Harper & Brenda Stein Dzaldov, $24.95

Simple classroom strategies for using interactive whiteboards to engage students.

Month-by-Month Reading, Writing and Phonics for Kindergarten, 2nd Edition. Dorothy Hall & Patricia Cunningham, $21.50

Month-by-Month Phonics Grade 1, 2nd Edition. Dorothy Hall & Patricia Cunningham, $21.50

Month-by-Month Phonics Grade 2, 2nd Edition. Dorothy Hall & Patricia Cunningham, $21.50

Month-by-Month Phonics Grade 3, 2nd Edition. Dorothy Hall & Patricia Cunningham, $21.50

Month-by-Month Phonics and Vocabulary Grade 4, 2nd Edition. Karen Loman, Amanda Arens & Patricia Cunningham, $22.95

Month-by-Month Phonics and Vocabulary Grade 5, 2nd Edition. Karen Loman, Amanda Arens & Patricia Cunningham, $21.50

Partner Poems for Building Fluency, Grades 4-6. Timothy Rasinski, David Harrison & Gay Fawcett, $21.99

Forty engaging poems for two voices with motivating activities that help students to improve their fluency and comprehension.

Perfect Poems for Teaching Vocabulary, Grades PreK-1. Beth Sycamore, $18.99

Delightful poems with easy teaching routines to help young learners expand and enrich their vocabularies.

Phonemic Awareness: Ready-to-Use Lessons, Activities and Games. Victoria Groves Scott, $39.95

Phonemic Awareness contains a collection of 48 lessons for children in Grades K–3 or students in Grades 4–6 who have difficulty reading. While the activities are sequenced around particular phonemes or sounds, teachers can reorganize and sequence them according to skills such as identification, blending, rhyming, segmentation, deletion, or manipulation. With updated pictures and graphics to make concepts clearer for students, this new edition provides:

This exceptional, field-tested guide provides elementary teachers, literacy coaches, and reading specialists with a balance of consistency and variety in lessons that lead students through lively activities.

Phonics from A to Z: a Practical Guide, 2nd Edition. Wiley Blevins, $31.99 (Grades K to 3)

A comprehensive resource that will support your day-to-day teaching of phonics and reading in the early grades. Author Blevins presents a framework for developing effective phonics lessons and provides phonogram word lists and picture book suggestions to streamline planning.

Phonics Pathways Boosters! Dolores Hiskes, $29.95

Fun games and teaching aids to jump-start reading for all ages. Includes a CD with audio recordings of the sounds of spoken English.

Phonics Picture Puzzles for Little Learners. $12.99 Grades K-2

Dozens of age-perfect practice pages that help children build key phonics skills.

Phonics Poetry Pages, Grades K-2. Kama Einhorn, $13.99

50 fill-in-the blank practice pages that help kids master essential phonics skills for reading success.

Pick a Poem! Helen Moore, $20.99 (grades K-2)

More than 300 kid-pleasing poems for all the topics you teach.

Poems for Shared Reading, Grade 1. Karen Sharpe, $21.50

Poems for Shared Reading offers an effective way to help children gain the primary skills needed for successful reading. Filled with fun rhymes and high frequency words, the book exposes children to a variety of pre-reading skills and activities.

Real-Life Reading Activities for Grades 6-12. James Silver, $32.99

Over 200 ready-to-use lessons and activities to help students master practical reading skills.

Really Writing! Ready-to-Use Writing Process Activities for the Elementary Grades, 2nd Edition. Cherlyn Sunflower, $38.99

The second edition of Really Writing provides 40 real-life writing activities that capture the attention of young authors (grades 2 through 6) who are just learning the composing process. This book is also a valuable resource for teaching advanced writers who are ready to experiment with a variety of writing and speaking genres. Each of the Really Writing activities assists teachers in providing for the wide range of writing abilities that exist in most classrooms. At the end of each lesson are practice writing prompts that are ready to use in preparing students for success.

Reproducible Forms for the Writing Traits Classroom, Middle School. Ruth Culham, $22.99 (Grades 6-8)

Checklists, graphic organizers, rubrics, scoring sheets and more to boost students’ writing skills in all seven traits.

See It, Be It, Write It. Hope Sara Blecher-Sass & Maryellen Moffitt, $47.99

Using performing arts to improve writing skills and test scores.

Sequencing Practice Mini-Books, Grades K-1. Kathleen Hollenbeck, $16.99

Sequencing Practice Mini-Books, Grades 2-3. Kathleen Hollenbeck, $16.99

These interactive mini-books help children build an understanding of story sequence and boost reading comprehension.

The Spelling Teacher’s Lesson-a-Day, Grades 3 to 8. Edward Fry, $23.95

180 reproducible activities to teach spelling, phonics and vocabulary.

Step-by-Step Writing Lessons for K-1. Waneta Davidson, Deanne Camp & Deneen Wuest, $24.99

75 easy lessons that introduce the writing process and teach beginning writing skills.

Story Play: Building Language and Literacy One Story at a Time. Mary Jo Huff, $19.95

With stories, poems, songs, chants and fingerplays, as well as ideas for working with puppets and props, Story Play brings all the fun of storytelling into the classroom in new ways. These easy-to-follow ideas focus on literacy skills and are perfect for engaged, active learning.

Teach Terrific Grammar: a Complete Grammar Program for Use in Any Classroom. Gary Robert Muschla, $24.95 (Grades 4 & 5)

Help your students develop their grammar skills with these creative, hands-on activities and practical exercises that will boost your pupil’s language confidence.

Teacher's Guide to Multisensory Learning: Improving Literacy by Engaging the Senses. Lawrence Baines, $38.95

For teachers who are ready to energize their classrooms, this is a great resource for expanding students’ capacity to learn and helping them cultivate essential skills that will last a lifetime.

Teaching Kids to Be Confident, Effective Communicators. Phil Schlemmer & Dori Schlemmer, $42.99

Differentiated projects to get all students writing, speaking and presenting. 

Teaching Real-Life Writing to Young Learners, K-2. Paula Jensvold, $18.99

Easy teacher-tested lessons that help children learn to write lists, letters, invitations, how-to’s and much more.

Teaching Vocabulary Words with Multiple Meanings, Grades 4-6. Rebecca Lamb, $19.99

Week-by-week word-study activities that teach 150+ meanings for 50 common words to improve comprehension, fluency and writing skills.

Teaching With Favorite ALPHABET Books, Grades PreK-1. Kama Einhorn, $13.99

Easy activities for using thematic ABC books to teach alphabet recognition, letter formation, letter-sound correspondence and much more!

Teaching Writing with Mentor Texts in the Primary Classroom, Grades 1-3. Nicole Groeneweg, $19.99

20 lessons based on favorite picture books that introduce story structure, nonfiction text and author’s craft.

Traditional Cursive. Suzanne Lowe Wilke, $13.95

Traditional Manuscript. Suzanne Lowe Wilke & Renee Cummings, $14.50

Enhance the handwriting program in your classroom with the practical and creative activities that not only strengthen handwriting skills but thinking and reading as well.

25 Super Sight Word Songs & Mini-Books, Grades K-2. Joan Mancini, $26.99

A book and CD of fun songs set to favorite tunes, with companion ‘read & write’ mini-books that teach essential sight words.

Using Name Walls to Teach Reading and Writing, Grades K-2. Janiel Wagstaff, $21.99

Dozens of classroom-tested ideas for using this motivating tool to teach phonological awareness, letter recognition, decoding, spelling and much more.

Using Picture Books to Teach 8 Essential Literary Elements. Susan van Zilw, Mary Napoli & Emily Ritholz, $20.99 (grades 4-8)

An annotated bibliography of more than 100 books with model lessons to deepen students’ comprehension.

Vocabulary Games for Any Word List, Grades 4-6. Jane Sullivan & Midge Madden, $16.99

15 easy-to-play games that motivate students to master any word list and expand their vocabulary.

Vocabulary Games for the Classroom. Lindsay Carleton & Robert Marzano, $38.95

Vocabulary Games for the Classroom is simple, straightforward, and easy to use. Each game begins with a brief description that identifies the appropriate grade level and subject area, as well as whether or not the students should already be familiar with the vocabulary. Each chapter outlines necessary materials and set-up instructions to prepare teachers ahead of time. Teachers can visualize the game in their classrooms with the clear, concise directions. Many games include sample questions and exercises.

Hundreds of handpicked vocabulary terms cover four different content areas and all grade levels. Use the lists in this book or supplement your school’s established terms. These games add energy and excitement to your class, and are part of a systematic approach to direct vocabulary instruction.

Word Family Poetry Pages, Grades K-2. Kama Einhorn, $13.99

50 fill-in-the-blank practice pages that help kids master essential phonograms for reading success.

Word Family Trees, Grades K-2. Scholastic, $13.99

50+ practice pages that help kids master the top word families and become better readers, writers and spellers.

The Writing Coaching Tool, K to 3. Donna Whyte, $12.95

This quick-and-easy teaching tool will help any teacher to build stronger writers, one step at a time. This handy reference offers a reproducible checklist, along with samples of actual student work, to help evaluate a child's current skills. It then provides dozens of classroom-tested strategies designed to motivate students, boost confidence, and build on existing skills.

Writing Stretchers: 15 Minute Activities to Enrich Writing Skills, Grades 4-8. Linda Collins, $16.25

Over 30 exciting language arts activities to help students enrich their writing skills.

The Writing Teacher’s Activity-a-Day, Grades 6-12. Mary Ellen Ledbetter, $23.95

More than 180 reproducible prompts and quick writes for the secondary classroom.