Most Popular Books by Timothy Rasinski

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

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.

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.

Help students unlock the meaning of cross-curricular vocabulary words they encounter in the classroom and beyond! This full-color Building Vocabulary workbook provides a systematic approach to learning vocabulary and word families using Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and bases. Eighth grade students learn strategies for deciphering roots and their meanings across multiple content areas. Guide students toward independent skills application with daily practice activities!

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

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 volume and sound.

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

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

Use these paired texts to test your students'' understanding of level 3 social studies! Students will also be assessed on their ability to evaluate and draw reasonable conclusions about the text.

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.

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.

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.

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 relationships.

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.

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

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.

Improve students'' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through this reader''s theater script. Engage students through reader''s theater to make learning fun while building knowledge about the Johnson Space Center.

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 human energy.

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.

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 behavior.

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.

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

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.

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 moving 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 degree of wetness.

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 handling an object.

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 levels of destruction.

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 feelings.

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.

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 range of emotion.

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 following the law.

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 interest level.

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.

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.

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.