Reading Education

The Reading Mind is a brilliant, beautifully crafted, and accessible exploration of arguably life's most important skill: reading. Daniel T. Willingham, the bestselling author of Why Don't Students Like School?, offers a perspective that is rooted in contemporary cognitive research. He deftly describes the incredibly complex and nearly instantaneous series of events that occur from the moment a child sees a single letter to the time they finish reading.

Street signs, menus, game directions - words are everywhere! Where else do you put your reading skills to use? Listen to this book to find out.

It’s time to read and rhyme! This series introduces young listeners to decodables through a fun and quirky rhyming story. Each book features up to 10 words from the same word family to reinforce the sound combination. The expertly crafted text uses this rhyming pattern to help early book explorers get the practice they need.

Fluffy. Soft. Scaly. Kids encounter many textures in everyday life. Bring texture words to young learners, and watch their vocabularies grow!

What is a pronoun? Is it HER? Is it THEM? Maybe ME? Take a listen to see if it's YOU!

Learn about nouns and proper nouns.

Learn about adverbs.

Books in the Hide and Seek series provide an entertaining introduction to some of the words that tell us where things are. This book looks at "Near" and “Far”.

Discover the tools of leadership to revolutionize your workplace. Tim Stevens traveled an alternative road—leaving high school and immediately joining a national non-profit organization. He rose quickly through the ranks of leadership, but nine years later left it all behind to help an upstart...

Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties is a practical, accessible, in-depth guide to reading assessment and intervention. It provides a detailed discussion of the nature and causes of reading difficulties, which will help develop the knowledge and confidence needed to accurately assess why a student is struggling.

From bestselling author and teacher Mary Maccracken comes the engaging and inspiring story of five troubled children who she fought to bring back from the brink Joey is the class clown, but alone proves to be an intensely dark seven-year old who still can’t read. Eric is a kindergartener, left...

Comprehension proposes a comprehensive new model of reading instruction that goes beyond teaching skills to fostering engagement and motivation. Using a structured, three-pronged approach—skill, will, and thrill—students learn to experience reading as a purposeful act and embrace struggle as a natural part of the reading process.

Learn the best ways to use text-dependent questions as scaffolds during close reading and the big understandings they yield. But that’s just for starters. Fisher and Frey also include video, texts and questions, cross-curricular examples, and an online facilitator’s guide—making the two volumes of TDQ a potent professional development tool across all of K-12. The genius of TDQ is the way Fisher and Frey break down the process into four cognitive pathways: What does the text say? How does the text work? What does the text mean? What does the text inspire you to do?

Spelling Six is the sixth in the Spelling for Kids interactive spelling workbooks series, which features spelling words that will quickly improve vocabulary, reading comprehension, and spelling skills. It makes a great addition to any school or home-school curriculum! Our fun and enabling spelling system can be used by your whole family at home, and it can also be used by schoolteachers for all children. They can start their practice one year earlier and at their own pace.

Spelling Four is the fourth book in the Spelling for Kids interactive spelling workbooks series, which features spelling words that will quickly improve vocabulary, reading comprehension, and spelling skills. It makes a great addition to any school or home-school curriculum!

Ob es um märchenhafte Feen geht, Freundschaften und Mut oder einfach den morgendlichen Sonnenaufgang: Wenn Erwachsene mit einer Geschichte beginnen, spitzen kleine und größere Kinder die Ohren. Geschichten bedeuten Magie – und die können Sie in Krippe, Kita & Co. auf umfassende Weise nutzen! Wie die Erzählung ganz einfach zum pädagogischen Erlebnis mit Spaßgarantie wird, das zeigen Ihnen nun die tollen Geschichtensäckchen-Ideen in diesem Buch.

In Ausgabe 14/2024 von Spotlight Audio stellt das Spotlight-Team seine Lieblingsbücher vor. Wir treffen einen Tierretter, der in Südkalifornien Hunde von der Straße rettet. Und freuen Sie sich auf einen Krimi in drei Kapiteln mit Spotlights eigener Privatdetektivin Dorothy Winslow.

This course will expand a 7th grader's vocabulary by introducing new words in multiple ways, through explaining word definitions, using words in sentences, providing new words alongside words with similar meaning, telling stories involving the words and other games and activities to support vocabulary development. This repeated exposure to vocabulary in different contexts enables deeper comprehension of the meaning of vocabulary so that it can be applied appropriately in written and verbal communication and comprehension.

This book is for everybody who wants to improve their English. It’s fun to learn English by listening to interesting stories.

Diesmal führt die Hörreise in die Welt der Bücher und der Labyrinthe. Als Einstieg können Sie einem Ausschnitt aus einem neuen Hörbuch und lauschen...