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I firmly believe in your philosophy regarding your high-frequency word books, and I feel that reading teachers would benefit from using them with their students.
Cherry Carl; Reading Specialist and University Instructor at the University of California, San Diego |
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I hope you keep adding new rhymes each month. They're wonderful for developing phonemic awareness.
Tom Stahly; First-Grade Teacher; Decker Elementary School; Clark County School District; Las Vegas, NV |
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I am working on the first five books of your fantastic Tommy Tales series. I have made a PowerPoint presentation for every book. When the children saw Tommy and his friends on the screen, they were delighted and highly motivated. We also downloaded the books and read each story together in class, and the children read them at home.
C. Degabriele; primary school; Malta
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More Resources
In addition to guided reading, phonics, and alphabet books and materials, Reading A-Z offers a number of other resources to help make teaching easier and help children learn to love to read.
Theme Resources
Theme packs, author studies, and special news features help educators integrate literacy and content-area standards as well as topical events into classroom instruction.
List of Theme Resources
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Humor Books
Humor is a form of play that expands students' understanding of their world. Reading A–Z offers humor books as a way to motivate students to become critical readers and writers. Reading A–Z’s books of jokes, riddles, and cartoons introduce students to structured forms of humor, such as word play, situational humor, physical humor, and character humor. Humor books help teach critical skills such as, inferencing, determining author’s purpose, problem solving, understanding associations among ideas, and mastering language rules and how they can be broken to make fun. Encourage students to use Reading A–Z’s wordless humor books to write their own jokes or riddles.
List of Humor Books
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Trade Book Lesson Plans
Lesson plans are available for a collection of popular new and classic trade books. For each book, the downloadable lesson plan packet includes a lesson plan, worksheets, and discussion cards. Lesson plans are assigned to one of three levels according to the lexile and grade level of each book:
Level 1 (lexile to 400; grades K–1)
Level 2 (lexile 400–800; grades 2–4)
Level 3 (lexile 800 and above; grades 4 and above)
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RAZ Pocketbooks
Reading A-Z offers at least 5 RAZ pocketbooks at every reading level. They are books just small enough to fit in a pocket. They are the perfect size for students to take home for additional reading practice or for students to make notes in. Encourage students to highlight subjects or predicates, to underline dialogue, or to reinforce reading and grammar skills. The size of RAZ pocketbooks makes them easy to use and fun to carry. In addition to all this, you use half the paper used for a traditional Reading A-Z book.
RAZ Pocketbook List
RAZ Pocketbook Assembly Instructions
Wordless Books
Wordless books are books that contain illustrations but no text allowing students to use their imagination to create their own stories. These books give students an opportunity to hone their writing skills, which help them build foundations of language, basic story structure, and an understanding of the relationship between pictures and words. Students at all levels are provided with learning opportunities, from labeling pictures to strengthening their understanding of story and plot.
Reading A-Z has made available over 150 wordless books covering levels aa - G. You may wish to use these books as a comprehension check after students have read the companion book by having students retell with their own words the original story. Or, you can use the primary lesson plan or the intermediate lesson plan to provide further guidance for using the wordless books.
Wordless Book List
Wordless Book Primary Lesson Plan
Wordless Book Intermediate Lesson Plan
Comic Books
Experienced readers weave in and out of a variety of text types and genres. One text type popular with children of all ages is comic strips. Reading A-Z has created some introductory comic books small enough to fit in the palm of a child's hand. These Beginning Reader Comic Books are perfect tools for not only introducing students to another text type, but they also help motivate students to want to read more. Starring favorite characters like the Monsters and introducing new characters like the Scarecrows, they are a perfect vehicle from which to teach left to right tracking, beginning dialogue, and humor.
Comic Book List
Comic Book Assembly Instructions
Graphic Organizers
The collection consists of over 50 Graphic Organizers designed to support learning in all subject areas. The organizers are divided into two groups: primary (K–2) and intermediate (3–6). All of the organizers are arranged according to the reading strategy, comprehension skill, or learning process they best facilitate.
High-Frequency Word Books
High-frequency words are the most commonly used words in printed English. Since these words are essential to fluent reading, and since many are not decodable, repeated exposure and memorization are crucial. Reading A-Z's High-Frequency Word Books are designed to introduce these words in an easy-to-read and enjoyable format. The book sets introduce the most common and most essential words in the early sets, then reinforce those words in subsequent sets. Repeated use of these fun and simple books will lead to greater fluency, reading rate, and reader confidence.
Reading A-Z also has a High-Frequency Word Books Strategy Bank--teaching tools for the books--as well as bingo cards and flashcards to accompany the high-frequency word books. These materials are available in Spanish and French, too.
In an additional collection of High-Frequency Flashcards, nine sets of flashcards feature the 220 most commonly used words (downloadable in groups of 24) in order of frequency.
Reading and Word-Attack Strategies
Experienced readers use a variety of strategies--predicting, visualizing, questioning, retelling, summarizing, and more--to understand text. These Reading and Word-Attack Strategies can be taught to beginning readers.
Reader's Theater
Reader's Theater Scripts are adapted from our leveled readers. They are simple play scripts that students can perform in the classroom without the need for props, costumes, or a set. Reading scripts aloud gives students essential practice in oral reading fluency and public speaking. The scripts also provide a great opportunity for group interaction and student cooperation. Reader's theater offers an easy and dynamic way to practice reading. The Reader's Theater Teaching Tips offer great ideas on various ways to use the scripts in the classroom.
Reader's Theater Scripts
Reader's Theater Teaching Tips
Serial Books
Tommy Tales are second-grade adventure stories for levels K-P.
Charly, a girl who takes figurative phrases literally. For levels Q-T.
The Great Gallardo's books are fabulous fantasy stories for levels U-Z.
The Maria books provide fun for early readers from levels aa-J.
The Monsters are popular levels F-I stories.
Morty Mouse books provide mischievous adventures for levels N-T.
The Hoppers are great fun for levels K-M.
RAZ WOWzers
Reading A-Z's WOWzers collection provides teachers with a variety of downloadable cards and certificates that can be used anytime to encourage and reward successful readers and learners. Use our Benchmark WOWzers specifically when students advance from one guided reading level to the next.
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