"Leading phonics expert Wiley Blevins has updated his best-selling classic to include the latest in phonics instruction and the science of reading, as well as current research on handwriting and on phonemic awareness. This revised edition also offers ideas for maximizing your scope and sequence, practical tips for creating sound walls, a decodable text routine for building comprehension, strategies for differentiating during whole-group lessons while...

Provides first through sixth grade teachers with short narrative comments, word lists, and sentence starters that cover any situation and let parents know how their children are doing.

Contains more than seventy-five writing prompts, organized by science, math, and social studies, with guidelines for using them and reproducible versions, designed to help students build content knowledge through writing.

Uses cartoons with simple definitions and sentences to help build students' vocabulary, reading, writing and test-taking skills.

A children's poet shares seventy-five new poems spanning the content areas and an experienced teacher provides lesson plans, suggests activities, and offers advice on using poetry in the classroom.