In this helpful classroom supplement, 100 lessons, arranged in five-lesson cycles, teach 33 common roots and all of the common prefixes and suffixes. Lessons cover making words; decoding and spelling words with roots, prefixes, and suffixes; root meanings; and more! It also contains review activities and reproducible Take-Home Word Walls. It also fully supports the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model.

Big Words for Big Kids

Teen & Young Adult

Cunningham, Patricia M.

Education & Reference

Four Blocks

With this excellent classroom resource, you can use the Building-Blocks™ Literacy Model to introduce writing to your students more easily than ever! Early in the year, children watch each day as the teacher writes a morning message or journal entry. Later

Writing Mini-Lessons for Kindergarten

Education & Teaching

Hall, Dorothy P.

Williams, Elaine

Schools & Teaching

Learn when and how to teach the Writing block using Writing Mini-Lessons for Upper Grades for grades 4–6. This 160-page resource, addresses specific issues and skills that help students become better writers. These mini-lessons are divided into three sect

Writing Mini-Lessons for Upper Grades

Arens, Amanda B.

Keep students engaged with Learning Centers in Kindergarten. This 176-page book includes suggestions for how to set up learning centers, arrange the room with appropriate furniture, determine the number of students at each center, move in and between cent

Learning Centers in Kindergarten (The Four-Blocks Literacy Model)

Loman, Karen L.

by Patricia M. Cunningham. Children will enjoy making their names and the names of relatives and friends! This book uses Patricia Cunningham’s Making Words strategy to teach children how to decode and spell names and includes 210 Making Words lessons in which the secret word is a person’s name. As children manipulate letters to make words, they learn how changing one letter or moving letters around results in new words.

Making Names, Grades 1 - 3 (The Four-Blocks Literacy Model)

Children's Books

Use small groups without grouping students by their reading abilities! This resource includes book club groups for author studies; thinking skills including previewing, predicting, summarizing, and concluding; social studies and science themes; and more.

Book Club Groups, Grades 1 - 3

Tillman, CeCe

Turn typical question/answer sessions into conversations about books and writing projects! Three major kinds of conversations are included: metacognitive, instructional, and literate. Teachers will learn to develop group dynamics, use open-ended discussion prompts, facilitate turn-taking, and much more. Supports Four-Blocks® Literacy Model.

Conversations in Four-Blocks® Classrooms, Grades K - 6

By summarizing each of the Four Blocks®, steps for implementation in the classroom, and a variety of student activities, this book explains how teachers can help all children become better readers and writers. It also fully supports the Four-Blocks® Literacy Model.

Teacher's Guide to the Four Blocks®, Grades 1 - 3

Sigmon, Cheryl Mahaffey

This resource includes teacher instructions; 29 reproducible, cross-curricular lessons; a 21” x 15” poster; an assessment or record-keeping chart; student awards; and more. Supports the Four-Blocks® Literacy Model.

Guess the Covered Word for Second Grade

Kohfeldt, Joyce

Collier, Helen

King, Annie

This resource includes 12 full-color transparencies; teacher instructions; 26 reproducible, cross-curricular lessons; a 21” x 15” poster; an assessment or record-keeping chart; and much more. Supports the Four-Blocks® Literacy Model.

Guess the Covered Word for Third Grade

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