Language Arts

WhisperPhone Select™ is designed to help manage guided reading. This team-based, direct-to-ear product helps students hear themselves very clearly while reading and allows the teacher to monitor reading performance and assist with word decoding one student at a time. Turn the dial to provide easy and discrete communication between teacher and student. Select also provides a setting that creates three teams of two students for paired reading. For those paired reading times where you would prefer to have students pair up and find a space in the classroom, the components of Select allow for easy reconfiguration of up to three “portable paired reading tools” to be used anywhere.

Product Description: Select contains 7 expandable tubes, 7 phone handsets, center Selector and instructions. Components can be configured for Guided Reading, Paired Reading at the reading table, or Paired Reading in up to three locations.

BioFilter Enhancement: This inline bacterial viral filter is designed to minimize the spread of germs with a minimum loss of air flow; allowing students to still hear each other. Each unit is sonically sealed so there are no chemical adhesives or unwanted material residue. This Inline filter is easy to install and does not require any tools for assembly. BioFilter snaps together with the tubing and the Orange or Blue phones found in WhisperPhone DUET and SELECT systems.

In Forged by Reading: The Power of a Literate Life, Kylene Beers and Bob Probst reflect on the role of reading in a democratic society. It is a book that helps us all-teachers, administrators, parents, and policy makers-to understand not only what it means to be an independent reader and writer, but also why creating independent readers and writers is critical to the health of our nation and the world. Beers and Probst argue that reading and writing are not literacy. They are the tools of literacy. Literacy is about power and privilege-the power to rethink visions of ourselves and to reshape our visions of what society might be. This is critical because the history of literacy has largely been about the suppression of that power and privilege.

This book is about creating readers who think, who live an empowered life, who live a self-determined life shaped by evidence and reason, vision and imagination.

Forged by Reading, a culmination of Beers and Probst's life's research and teaching, grapples with many of the questions we should each be asking about literacy. It discusses pressing topics such as inclusive libraries, student identity, and anti-racism, and strategies that will help students think deeply about text. But at its heart, it is a call to action, one that reminds us, “To stay silent about wrong acts is to speak loudly. Instead, with love and encouragement, with sincerity and strength, with hope and humility, we must offer a voice that seeks a truer version of who we have been in this nation and sings a song of who it is we might become.” You, too, will want to stand with strength, hope, and humility after reading Forged by Reading, a book that invites each of us to shape ourselves and our world.

This deck of 36 wordless storytelling cards features more than 30 games to build basic mathematics, storytelling and writing skills in children ages 3 - 10. The 12 character, 12 object and 12 setting cards invite children to create stories about mermaids, pirates and more.

• 30 Games in One: This new addition to Barefoot Books' popular Build-a-Story Cards series features more than 30 games crafted by an education specialist to build basic mathematics, storytelling and writing skills in children ages 3 - 10.
• Early Mathematics Skills: The robust instruction booklet includes clear directions for using the cards to reinforce familiarity with basic mathematics concepts such as shapes, relative size and quantity, patterning, measurement, addition, subtraction, counting by 5s and 10s, and word problems.
• Writers' Workshop: Includes kid-tested directions for activities that help children understand basic story elements, as well as prompts for drawing and creative writing activities. Featuring delightful artwork by Bear series and Port Side Pirates! illustrator Debbie Harter, the cards themselves are color-coded to indicate characters, objects and settings.
• Handy Deck Format: Like the popular Barefoot Books Build-a-Story Cards: Magical Castle, the Build-a-Story Cards: Ocean Adventure deck's 36 sturdy, versatile cards are designed to withstand travel, frequent solo or group play, and home or classroom use.

The national standards require that students beginning at fourth grade use their knowledge of common Greek and Latin roots to analyze the meaning of complex words. This book introduces students to 30 new root words to aid their comprehension skills.

Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension

Help increase your students' confidence in understanding and using larger vocabulary words with More Greek and Latin Roots.

Over 60 percent of all English words contain Greek or Latin roots. Use the activities in this resource to help students:

• Move beyond simply decoding words to understanding them
• Dissect multisyllabic words into their meaningful parts
• Increase their use of larger vocabulary words in oral and written language
• Improve reading comprehension
• Increase confidence in their language skills

More Greek and Latin Roots follows the same friendly, easy-to-use format as in Trisha Callella's original Greek and Latin Roots and features 30 new lessons to support students' growing vocabulary. The built-in repetition and review will help students overlearn these roots and their meanings so that they become second nature.