Most Popular Books by Timothy Rasinski

Increase student reading fluency in 3rd 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 fifth 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.

Use these paired texts to test your students'' understanding of level K social studies! 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.

Use these paired texts to test your students'' understanding of level 4 social studies! 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 third 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 2 social studies! Students will also be assessed on their ability to evaluate and draw reasonable conclusions about the text.

Co-authored by fluency expert, Timothy Rasinski, this resource aids in teaching literacy skills through poetry with word study activities based on poems that develop phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and spelling skills.

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.

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.

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

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 K social studies! Students will also be assessed on their ability to evaluate and draw reasonable conclusions about the text.

Based on Dr. Edward Fry''s Instant Words and Dr. Timothy Rasinski''s fluency research, this resource helps teach grade 5 students to recognize words, read phrases with expression, improve fluency, and increase comprehension. Includes Audio CD and Teacher Resource CD. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards. 96pp.

Immerse your fourth graders in research-based practice aimed to develop fluency. Increasing Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrasesu003c\iu003e offers 20 creative lessons that analyze high frequency practice to gain word recognition, expression, and fluency with comprehension questions to evaluate mastery. A fluency rubric and reference list of oral reading strategies are included to support learning success. Based on Dr. Timothy’s expert fluency research and Dr. Edward Fry’s Instant Wordsu003c\iu003e, this resource is aligned with college and career readiness standards and provides an important reading foundation. An Audio CD with oral readings of phrases and reading selections is included.

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.

Increase student fluency through repeated readings of interesting, social studies reader''s theater scripts for 6th graders. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski''s fluency research, these scripts are ideal for improving fluency through dramatic readings.

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.

Coauthored and compiled by fluency expert Timothy Rasinski, this selection of engaging texts for Grade 1 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.

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 science 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.