A Corwin Press Classroom Activity Book Give students the reading skills they need to succeed Can all your students read fluently independently and with understanding? As puzzle pieces fit together to complete a picture reading skills are dependent upon one another to make reading meaningful for students. The Reading Puzzle series helps you organize instruction to better develop students' core reading skillsincluding phonemic awareness phonics vocabulary fluency and comprehensionto make them successful readers. Derived from the research-based strategies in Elaine K. McEwan's bestseller Teach Them ALL to Read: Catching the Kids Who Fall Through the Cracks these standards-based easy-to-use activities will set students on the course to reading success. This book offers practical techniques that include teacher modeling guided practice and independent application and provides creative reproducibles and ready-to-use tools such as graphic organizers and visual prompts. Through fun and interactive activities students can focus on one spelling skill at a time and internalize what they've learned before moving on to the next concept. A chart of spelling rules and their exceptions will help you organize instruction to cover: Silent letters plural nouns and homophonesPrefixes suffixes and contractionsThe difference between a and an and using i before e As students advance in spelling proficiency their newfound confidence will significantly impact reading success and future academic achievement . Language: English