Most Popular Books by Timothy Rasinski

Increase student reading fluency in 4th 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.

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.

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

Use these level 5 paired texts to test your students'' understanding of the key ideas, details, and text structures! 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.

Use these paired texts to test your students'' understanding of level 5 mathematics! Students will also be assessed on their ability to evaluate and draw reasonable conclusions about the text.

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.

Includes 1 teacher resource CD-ROM containing reproducibles of poems, songs, and scripts, and one audio CD of recordings of the songs from the book.

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.

Increase student fluency through repeated readings of interesting, content-based reader''s theater scripts for 2nd graders. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski''s fluency research, these scripts are ideal for improving fluency through dramatic readings.

Increase student fluency through repeated readings of interesting, language arts reader''s theater scripts for 2nd graders. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski''s fluency research, these scripts are ideal for improving fluency through dramatic readings.

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

Increase student fluency through repeated readings of interesting, language arts reader''s theater scripts for 5th graders. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski''s fluency research, these scripts are ideal for improving fluency through dramatic readings.

Increase student fluency through repeated readings of interesting, animal-themed reader''s theater scripts for 1st graders. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski''s fluency research, these scripts are ideal for improving fluency through dramatic readings.

Choosing appropriate words to express an idea is important to improve students'' reading comprehension and writing composition skills. Vocabulary Ladders: Understanding Words Nuances provides third 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.

Increase student fluency through repeated readings of interesting, content-based reader''s theater scripts for 1st 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.

Make learning mathematics vocabulary fun with a roots approach! This lesson, geared towards secondary students, focuses on root words for mathematics and includes teaching tips and strategies, standards-based lessons, and student activity pages.

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.

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.

Increase student reading fluency in 4th 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 fluency through repeated readings of interesting, animal-themed reader''s theater scripts for 2nd graders. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski''s fluency research, these scripts are ideal for improving fluency through dramatic readings.

Increase student fluency through repeated readings of interesting, language arts 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.

Increase student fluency through repeated readings of interesting, math/science reader''s theater scripts for 4th graders. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski''s fluency research, these scripts are ideal for improving fluency through dramatic readings.

Make learning social studies vocabulary fun with a roots approach! This resource, geared towards secondary grades, focuses on root words for social science and includes tips and strategies, standards-based lessons, and student activity pages.

Increase student fluency through repeated readings of interesting, social studies reader''s theater scripts for 3rd graders. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski''s fluency research, these scripts are ideal for improving fluency through dramatic readings.