Most Popular Books by Gail Saunders-Smith

"Simple text and photos explain a day as a unit of time and the parts of a day"--

Simple text and photographs depict the weather, plants, animals, and activities of autumn.

Describes a number of different cars, including toy cars, model cars, and old cars.

Describes and illustrates the life cycle of frogs.

Illustrations and simple text describe the life cycle of butterflies.

"A solid resource to help teachers understand the basic foundation for literacy development through guided reading in the primary grade." —Patti Ulshafer, first-grade teacher Develop successful readers with these strategies for before, during, and after reading. In Teaching Kids to Read, Gail Saunders-Smith describes the cognitive processes of emergent readers and provides educators with clear guidelines for promoting reading comprehension with small groups of young learners. A variety of exercises included helps children to locate, record, retrieve, and manipulate information from texts while enabling teachers to measure how students respond in oral, written, graphic, and three-dimensional forms. Topics covered include: Aliteracy Coaching statements Elements of craft False positive readers Fresh text Guided reading Instructional practice Metacognition Phonemic awareness Self-monitoring Shared reading Sight words Study skills Teacher talk Workable words and more!

Text and photographs provide examples of back and forth movement, including the pendulum on a clock, a child in a rocking chair, and waves on the shore.

Non-fiction text structures organize information into comprehensible patterns. Knowing how to recognize and use these structures to navigate non-fiction text greatly improves students'' understanding of what they read. Gail Saunders-Smith simplifies the process by providing teachers of grades 4-8 with: ways to teach each of the five non-fiction text structures: compare/contrast, cause/effect, sequence/procedure, question/answer, and exemplification; engaging whole-class and small-group activities using written, verbal, image, three-dimensional, and technology responses; study skills for locating, recording, and using information; tools for assessing student understanding, and explanations of the text features that organize information within the text structures; and mini-lessons for whole-class, small-group, and independent application of students'' text structure knowledge. Examples, photographs, student samples, and graphic organizers support your teaching, and a bibliography of professional books and resources for locating leveled non-fiction texts make this a complete, ready-to-use guide for improving student comprehension.

Thematic units designed to instill a curiosity to learn more about the world and simultaneously sharpen students'' reading skills.

Text and photographs describe people who work in a doctor''s office including receptionists, nurses and doctors, and explains what their roles and activities are and the equipment they use.