Category: Reading

  • Dead End in Norvelt (2012) Book Unit
    $2.00

    This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..

    About the book (Not included):
    Dead End in Norvelt is an autobiographical novel by the American author Jack Gantos, published  in 2011. It features a boy named Jack Gantos and is based in the author’s hometown, Norvelt, Pennsylvania. According to one reviewer, the “real hero” is “his home town and its values”.

    Interest level:
    Grades 4 – 8    		 Reading level:
    Grades 4 – 10

     

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  • Measure for Measure – Shakespeare
    $3.00
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  • From Seed to Plant Book Unit
    From Seed to Plant Book Unit
    $1.50

    20 page resource to use along side, From Seed to Plant

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  • The Egg Tree Guided Reading and Journal Response Activities
    The Egg Tree | Caldecott Book Guided Reading and Response
    $2.25

    This Reading / Literacy resource offers guided reading questions and student journal responses that will help students enjoy and appreciate the book and illustrations of The Egg Tree, written and illustrated (1951 Caldecott Medal) by Katherine Milhous. During this unit, students will be asked to give opinions, answer factual questions about the story, use critical thinking skills and be creative!

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  • Get Up and Go! Book Unit
    Get Up and Go! Book Unit
    $1.50

    26 page resource to use along side, Get Up and Go!

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  • Robert Frost – His Life and Literary Works
    $3.00

    Biography & works of Robert Frost
    458 pages

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  • The Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan)
    $2.50

    This is a downloadable copy of the book.
    About the book:The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory by the English writer John Bunyan, published in two parts in 1678 and 1684. The work is a symbolic vision of the good man’s pilgrimage through life. At one time second only to the Bible in popularity, The Pilgrim’s Progress is the most famous Christian allegory still in print.

    About the Author: John Bunyan was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim’s Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons.

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  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
    $2.50

    This is a downloadable copy of the book.
    About the book: Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel published in 1852. Tthe novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have “helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War”. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible.

    About the Author:  Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential for both her writings and her public stances and debates on social issues of the day.

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  • Smoky Night Guided Reading Activities
    Smoky Night | Caldecott Book Guided Reading Activities
    $3.25

    This Reading / Literacy resource offers guided reading questions and student activities that will help students get the most from Eve Bunting’s book, Smoky Night. (1995 Caldecott Medal award winning book illustrated by David Diaz!) During this unit, students will be asked to give opinions, answer factual questions about the story, use critical thinking skills and be creative!

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  • Toni, the Little Wood Carver (Spyri)
    $2.00

    This is a downloadable copy of the book.
    About the book: Toni is a little boy who discovers a love for woodcarving. When tragedy strikes and his father dies, Toni does all he can to help his mother Elsbeth. He sets his dream aside to become a woodcarver when the cost to pursue it is out of their means. The only job available for the boy is as a herdsman in the mountains. Cut off from the home he loves, he suffers tremendously and no one can help. Only his mother’s love can turn him around.

    About the Author:  Johanna Louise was a Swiss-born author of novels, notably children’s stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.

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  • Mega-Phonics | Blends Volume 1
    $15.00

    This large (234 page) volume is filled with phonics learning! Students will concentrate on words with the following blends:

    • bl
    • br
    • cl
    • cr
    • dr
    • fl
    • fr
    • gl
    • gr
    • pl
    • pr
    • sc

    This is Volume 1 of 2 – Get Volume 2 here!

    Watch a combined preview of Volumes 1 and 2 here!

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  • Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Sidney)
    $2.00

    This is a downloadable copy of the book.
    About the book: The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew tells how the Peppers live, learn, and play in their little brown house. They are poor, and Mamsie must work constantly to keep the wolf from the door, but their lives are unexpectedly happy. They make do with whatever they have and the older children help the younger ones. They bear bad times as best they can and make the most of the good times.

    About the Author:  Harriett Lothrop was an American author also known by her pseudonym Margaret Sidney (June 22, 1844 – August 2, 1924). In addition to writing popular children’s stories, she ran her husband Daniel Lothrop’s publishing company after his death. After they bought The Wayside country house, they worked hard to make it a center of literary life.

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  • Spanish Explorers of the Americas
    $1.25

    One page informational text on Spanish explorers: Christopher Columbus, Balboa, Ponce de Leon, Ferdinand Magellan, De Soto and Coronado. After reading the text, student comprehension will be assess through a short reading comprehension worksheet. To extend the lesson, students will be asked to short opinion based essay questions.

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  • The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk (Burgess)
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    This is a free downloadable book.

    When Jimmy Skunk curls up to take a nap in an old barrel, the imp of mischief gets the better of Peter Rabbit. Tons of trouble plague the long-eared prankster after he decides it’d be great fun to see the barrel — with Jimmy inside — roll down from its resting point high on a hill. Reddy Fox gets the blame for Jimmy’s wild ride (as well as a dose of the skunk’s “perfume”); Peter gets his comeuppance for playing nasty tricks; and before the day is out, Jimmy Skunk and Unc’ Billy Possum go egg-hunting and wind up in a pretty pickle in Farmer Brown’s henhouse. Children will delight in these warm, whimsical adventures that combine all the interest and excitement of a good story with gentle lessons about nature, wildlife and such virtues as courtesy, kindness, and preparedness.

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  • A Child’s Garden of Verses
    $2.50

    This is a downloadable copy of the book. (63 pages)
    About the book: Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood, from sailing boats down a river, to waiting for the lamplighter, to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination. (See sample poetry in description below)

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  • Word Wheels | -ill -it -et -ell
    $2.00

    This phonics, learning to read resource will help students create words using 4 word wheels ( -ill -it -et -ell ). As students create new words, they can write each word on the included ‘Creating Words’ worksheet!

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  • McGuffeys Fifth Eclectic Reader
    $2.50

    Since 1836, children have been delighted by these volumes filled with exotic adventures, exciting stories, beautiful poems, and funny fables. The Fifth Eclectic Reader includes selections from Washington Irving, Daniel Webster, Charles Dickens, Samuel Johnson, and Bret Harte.

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  • A Christmas Carol (Dickens)
    $3.00

    One night, the old money-lender Ebenezer Scrooge receives four visitors. The first is the ghost of his business partner, Jacob Marley, who warns Scrooge of the night ahead. The next three spirits show Scrooge what he once was, what he came to be, and what will become of him if he continues to be a miserly, selfish, cheerless person. Scrooge must regain his compassion and humanity to avoid the fate shown to him by the last spirit.

    • Interest Level: Grade 5 – Grade 12  ·
    • Reading Level: Grade 5
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  • John Milton – Literary Analysis
    $3.00

    Analysis of Works – John Milton
    358 pages

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  • Word Master | Florence Akin
    $3.00

    This is a downloadable copy of the book. (132 pages)
    About the book: Published in 1913, Word Mastery continues to be a complete and highly effective phonics method for teaching beginning and remedial reading.Everything needed to successfully teach anyone to read with phonics is contained between the covers of this book. Especially helpful with anyone who shows tendencies toward dyslexia.

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