New Releases by Timothy Rasinski

Discover innovative ways to incorporate fluency practice into reading instruction! This professional resource provides teachers with engaging and practical strategies for bringing fluency instruction into daily reading routines. Written by literacy experts Timothy Rasinski and Chase Young, this book offers instructional strategies to help teachers understand fluency and how to teach it. With step-by-step strategies, detailed lessons, and ideas for improving fluency, this meaningful guide allows teachers to provide purposeful reading opportunities for their students. Help every student become a confident and fluent reader with this professional resource!

Develop student’s vocabulary with weekly lessons and activities on word roots. These 52 short lessons are based on holidays and special days throughout the year and will support building vocabulary by helping students see the power of Latin and Greek word roots for word learning. The vocabulary ranges from everyday words that come readily to mind to more challenging academic vocabulary that students must master for academic success.

Did you know that Greek and Latin roots make up 90% of English words of two or more syllables? Having an extensive vocabulary is key to students’ reading comprehension. By adopting the strategies in this book, teachers will help their students read more effectively, setting a foundation for lifelong learning and reading success. This teacher-friendly resource written by Timothy Rasinski, Nancy Padak, Rick M. Newton, and Evangeline Newton provides the latest research on how to teach Greek and Latin roots. It includes anecdotes from teachers who have adopted these strategies and how they play out in today’s classrooms. With a research-based rationale for addressing vocabulary in the classroom, this K-12 resource is full of strategies for increasing reading comprehension, instructional planning, and building a word-rich learning environment to support all students including English language learners.

Reading fluency has been identified in the Common Core Standards as a foundational competency for reading proficiency. This resource provides teachers and literacy interventionists with approaches to fluency instruction that are effective, engaging, and easy to implement. This important new book updates and adds to Timothy Rasinskis classic text, The Fluent Reader.

Use these paired texts to test your students'' understanding of level 3 mathematics! Students will also be assessed on their ability to evaluate and draw reasonable conclusions about the text.

Use these paired texts to test your students'' understanding of level 4 science! Students will also be assessed on their ability to evaluate and draw reasonable conclusions about the text.

Use these paired texts to test your students'' understanding of level 1 social studies! Students will also be assessed on their ability to evaluate and draw reasonable conclusions about the text.

Teach first grade students close reading strategies that strengthen their fluency and comprehension skills! Students will read and analyze various types of texts to get the most out of the rich content. Their reading skills will improve as they answer text-dependent questions, compare and contrast texts, and learn to use close reading strategies on their own! The lessons are designed to make close reading strategies accessible, interactive, grade appropriate, and fun. The lesson plans are easy to follow, and offer a practical model built on research-based comprehension and fluency strategies.

Teach kindergarten students close reading strategies that strengthen their fluency and comprehension skills! Students will read and analyze various types of texts to get the most out of the rich content. Their reading skills will improve as they answer text-dependent questions, compare and contrast texts, and learn to use close reading strategies on their own! The lessons are designed to make close reading strategies accessible, interactive, grade appropriate, and fun. The lesson plans are easy to follow, and offer a practical model built on research-based comprehension and fluency strategies.

Teach third grade students close reading strategies that strengthen their fluency and comprehension skills! Students will read and analyze various types of texts to get the most out of the rich content. Their reading skills will improve as they answer text-dependent questions, compare and contrast texts, and learn to use close reading strategies on their own! The lessons are designed to make close reading strategies accessible, interactive, grade appropriate, and fun. The lesson plans are easy to follow, and offer a practical model built on research-based comprehension and fluency strategies.

Increase student reading fluency in 2nd grade with this engaging and effective lesson! Through strategic use of Fry's Instant Words, students will both improve reading prosody and build important comprehension skills.

Increase student reading fluency in 5th grade with this engaging and effective lesson! Through strategic use of Fry''s Instant Words, students will both improve reading prosody and build important comprehension skills.

Increase student reading fluency in 2nd grade with this engaging and effective lesson! Through strategic use of Fry''s Instant Words, students will both improve reading prosody and build important comprehension skills.

Increase student reading fluency in 1st grade with this engaging and effective lesson! Through strategic use of Fry''s Instant Words, students will both improve reading prosody and build important comprehension skills.

Increase student reading fluency in 2nd grade with this engaging and effective lesson! Through strategic use of Fry''s Instant Words, students will both improve reading prosody and build important comprehension skills.

Increase student reading fluency in 1st grade with this engaging and effective lesson! Through strategic use of Fry''s Instant Words, students will both improve reading prosody and build important comprehension skills.

Increase student reading fluency in 2nd grade with this engaging and effective lesson! Through strategic use of Fry''s Instant Words, students will both improve reading prosody and build important comprehension skills.

Increase student reading fluency in 1st grade with this engaging and effective lesson! Through strategic use of Fry''s Instant Words, students will both improve reading prosody and build important comprehension skills.

Increase student reading fluency in 5th grade with this engaging and effective lesson! Through strategic use of Fry''s Instant Words, students will both improve reading prosody and build important comprehension skills.

Choosing appropriate words to express an idea is important to improve students' reading comprehension and writing composition skills. Vocabulary Ladders: Understanding Words Nuances provides second grade students with fun and engaging vocabulary activities to support word knowledge within reading and writing skills. This resource provides a framework to teach related words using a cluster approach that helps students learn many semantically related words at once. With this series, students will discuss differences between themed words, order words and explain their thinking, use words in context, and use words in writing.

Take your students beyond mere memorization of words by taking a roots approach to learning! This resource, geared towards third grade students, focuses on root words for specific content areas such as science or social studies.

Take your students beyond mere memorization of words by taking a roots approach to learning! This resource, geared towards fourth grade students, focuses on root words for specific content areas such as science or social studies.

Take your students beyond mere memorization of words by taking a roots approach to learning! This resource, geared towards fifth grade students, focuses on root words for specific content areas such as science or social studies.

Expand your students' content-area vocabulary and improve their understanding with this roots-based approach! This standards-based resource, geared towards fifth grade, helps students comprehend informational text on grade-level topics in science, social studies, and mathematics using the most common Greek and Latin roots. Each lesson provides tips on how to introduce the selected roots and offers guided instruction to help easily implement the activities. Students will be able to apply their knowledge of roots associated with specific subject areas into their everyday vocabulary.

Expand your students' content-area vocabulary and improve their understanding with this roots-based approach! This standards-based resource, geared towards third grade, helps students comprehend informational text on grade-level topics in science, social studies, and mathematics using the most common Greek and Latin roots. Each lesson provides tips on how to introduce the selected roots and offers guided instruction to help easily implement the activities. Students will be able to apply their knowledge of roots associated with specific subject areas into their everyday vocabulary.

Expand your students' content-area vocabulary and improve their understanding with this roots-based approach! This standards-based resource, geared towards secondary grades, helps students comprehend informational text on grade-level topics mathematics using the most common Greek and Latin roots. Each lesson provides tips on how to introduce the selected roots and offers guided instruction to help easily implement the activities. Students will be able to apply their knowledge of roots associated with specific subject areas into their everyday vocabulary.

Use this resource featuring a game-like format to help students build words from overlapping word parts. Each activity provides a focus on specific letters in words and meaning clues, ultimately helping learners with spelling and vocabulary skills.

Use this resource featuring a game-like format to help students build words from overlapping word parts. Each activity provides a focus on specific letters in words and meaning clues, ultimately helping learners with spelling and vocabulary skills.

Helping teachers move beyond fluency as measured by speed alone, this book focuses on building the skills that students need to read accurately, meaningfully, and expressively--the essential components of reading comprehension. Each concise chapter presents a tried-and-true instructional or assessment strategy and shows how K-12 teachers can apply it in their own classrooms, using a wide variety of engaging texts. Special features include classroom examples, "Your Turn" activities, and 24 reproducible forms, in a large-size format for easy photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

Dive into prefixes and suffixes where students in grades 2–4 will expand their vocabularies and improve their word knowledge. Starting with Prefixes and Suffixes is a standards-based resource that introduces common Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes and presents them in ways that are easy to understand and apply. Each lesson provides necessary content explanations, instructional guidelines, and activities to help students decipher meaning by analyzing work parts and word groups. Additional resources are offered to assist teachers facilitate learning with an appendix offering more activities, extensions, and flashcards. This resource is correlated to College and Career Readiness and other state standards.