Best Selling Books by Timothy Rasinski

Get ready to "hit a homerun" with strategies and suggestions that will "knock your socks off" including how to introduce idioms and incorporate them into your language and writing instruction. The idioms and expressions are provided in context with stories and activities to teach usage and definitions and include hyperboles, metaphors, similes, and personification. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski''s research, the idioms are grouped by themes for ease in teaching and learning. Includes a Teacher Resource CD. 96pp.

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.

As students regularly read and perform these age-appropriate texts, they improve decoding, interpretation, fluency, and comprehension.

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.

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.

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 in social studies 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.

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.

Use strategies developed by Dr. Timothy Rasinski to help students improve their phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, and vocabulary skills.

Increase student fluency levels through repeated reading of traditional poems, songs, reader''s theater, and monologues. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski''s important fluency research, these books are ideal for ELL students. Two CD''s are included: an Audio CD with recordings of the songs, and a Teacher Resource CD with the songs presented in PowerPoint for whole class participation.

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.

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.

As students regularly read and perform these age-appropriate texts, they improve decoding, interpretation, fluency, and comprehension.

Increase student fluency levels through repeated reading of traditional poems, songs, reader''s theater, and monologues. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski''s important fluency research, these books are ideal for ELL students. Two CD''s are included: an Audio CD with recordings of the songs, and a Teacher Resource CD with the songs presented in PowerPoint for whole class participation.

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.