Most Popular Books by Timothy Rasinski

Use these level 4 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.

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.

Provide opportunities for students to explore and expand vocabularies, increase reading comprehension, and improve writing composition. Assist your students in understanding word relationships and nuances in word meanings related to questioning.

Coauthored and compiled by fluency expert Timothy Rasinski, this selection of engaging texts for Grades 2-3 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.

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.

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.

Provide opportunities for students to explore and expand vocabularies, increase reading comprehension, and improve writing composition. Assist your students in understanding word relationships and nuances in word meanings related to tastiness.

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.

Provide opportunities for students to explore and expand vocabularies, increase reading comprehension, and improve writing composition. Assist students in understanding word relationships and word meanings related to a piece of an object.

Provide opportunities for students to explore and expand vocabularies, increase reading comprehension, and improve writing composition. Assist students in understanding word relationships and word meanings related to emotion, from upset to joyful.

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

Provide opportunities for students to explore and expand vocabularies, increase reading comprehension, and improve writing composition. Assist your students in understanding word relationships and word meanings related to showing emotions.

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, 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.

Provide opportunities for students to explore and expand vocabularies, increase reading comprehension, and improve writing composition. Assist your students in understanding word relationships and word meanings related to temperature.

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.

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.

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.

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. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards and is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. 96pp.