literacy resources for Pre-K-12 educators - Maupin House Publishing

Student Engagement is FUNdamental
Building a Learning Community with Hands-on Activities
JANE FEBER (Grades 4-10)
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Feber’s newest off ering in her award-winning, hands-on approach to
learning gives you ready-to-go activities that engage all learners and add
academic muscle to your curriculum. These classroom-proven activities
are fun, aligned to Common Core Standards, and fl exible enough to fi t
easily into any teaching day and curriculum. Inexpensive, commonly found
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skills across the curriculum. RTI Tier 2 support
978-1-936700-47-9 | 128 pp. | MH # 235 | $19.95
E-BOOK: 978-1-936700-48-6 | MH # 235E | $17.95
Guided Highlighted Reading
A Close-reading Strategy for Navigating Complex Text
ELAINE M. WEBER, BARBARA A. NELSON, &
CYNTHIA LYNN SCHOFIELD (Grades 4-12)
Common Core Standards now challenge teachers to expose every student
to complex and diffi cult text. Guided Highlighted Reading provides the key,
text-based reading strategy that enables teachers in grades four through
twelve to meet that challenge, with scaff olding for four reading purposes:
comprehension, vocabulary, writer’s craft and structure, and preparation
for high-stakes, multiple-choice assessments. The authors explain the easy
and eff ective strategy, and they include reproducible reading passage samples from Appendix B of the
Common Core Standards with the prompts that lead students back into the text to fi nd evidence for
their responses. Includes rubrics. RTI Tier 2 support
978-1-936700-53-0 | 128 pp. | MH# 239 | $23.95
E-BOOK: 978-1-936700-54-7 | MH# 239E | $19.95
Available March 2012
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Read! Chant! Learn!
60 Literacy-building Chants for the K-1 Day
SUSAN NATIONS, SUZI BOYETT, &
KRISTIN BOERGER (Grades K-1)
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Reading Buddies
Reading buddies
can help me read.
I’ll read to you and
you read to me!
Oral Language: Read the poem and have the children listen. Discuss strategies
that good readers use when they read. Have children practice reading a small book
with a reading buddy. Remind them that readers try to use their strategies and listeners
only coach when necessary. The goal of reading buddies is to help children use the
following prompts with each other: “What can you try?” “What looks right?” “What
sounds right?” “What makes sense?” “Try that again.”
Phonics/Phonemic Awareness: Post an enlarged copy of the poem for all children
to see. Tell them they are going on a letter hunt for the letter “d.” Read the poem slowly
and have them listen for the /d/ sound. Select children to come to the front of the group
and point to a letter “d” in the chant. They should tell whether the /d/ sound is in the
middle or end of the word.
Fluency: Provide small copies of the chant in your classroom library or guided reading
area. When students are ready to read with a buddy, have them read this chant together
first. They may want to read it before and after reading a shared book together.
Vocabulary: Write or highlight the word “help” on a chart or the board. Ask students
to talk about what this means. Remind students that there are many ways that they can
help each other. Reading is only one way to help. Write the word “Help” at the top of
a chart. Let students dictate sentences that tell how we help one another at school.
Comprehension: As a follow-up to the vocabulary activity above, have each child
draw a picture showing how he or she helps others in the classroom. Students can draw
on index cards or large sticky notes to be added to the class-made chart. To label the
pictures, provide a sentence stem such as “I help my buddy by ____________.”
Read! Chant! Learn! 60 Literacy-Building Chants for the K-1 Day
Reading Buddies
Reading buddies
can can help help me me read. read.
I’ll I’ll read read to to you you and and
you read to me!
Read! Chant! Learn! 60 Literacy-Building Chants for the K-1 Day 113
Develop oral language skills in meaningful and fun ways while building classroom routines. Use
these 60 chants in any order to fi t your classroom needs, facilitate meetings, enhance shared
literacy experiences, and transition through the day and year. Activities for each chant focus
on the essential fi ve elements of reading instruction—phonics, phonemic awareness, fl uency,
vocabulary, and comprehension—and allow students to revisit known text again and again in
multiple ways. Full-color pages make great posters for your classroom. RTI Tier 2 support
978-1-934338-33-9 | 158 pp. | MH # 113E | $19.95
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