Best Selling Books by Timothy Rasinski

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.

Building Vocabulary from Word Roots helps students unlock the meaning of over 60% of the words they encounter in the classroom and beyond with a systematic approach to teaching vocabulary using Greek and Latin prefixes, bases, and suffixes. Students are introduced to one new root per lesson and this full-color Student Guided Practice Book is filled with daily activities to ensure that they learn the root and the many English words it generates.

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.

Enhance instruction with an in-depth understanding of how to incorporate word roots into vocabulary lessons in all content areas.

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.

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.

Coauthored and compiled by fluency expert Timothy Rasinski, this selection of engaging texts for Grades 4-8 will make reading enjoyable for students so that they will want to read, reread, and perform! Research has shown that readers who engage in regular repeated readings improve their word recognition, reading rate, comprehension, and overall reading proficiency. As students regularly read and perform these age-appropriate texts, they improve their decoding, interpretation, and ultimately comprehension of the materials. A variety of genres are included: poetry and rhymes, song lyrics, readers theater scripts, and famous speeches and quotations. 112pp.

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.

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.

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.