Scholastic CPD Training and Workshops | Climbing the Ladder to Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary Success with Professor Timothy V. Rasinski
Climbing the Ladder to Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary Success with Professor Timothy V Rasinski
Join our free CPD workshop with Professor Timothy V. Rasinski on 7th September 2022 at 3.45pm.
A breadth of vocabulary is a key component to becoming a successful reader. Much research has shown that the breadth of children’s vocabulary has a direct correlation with children’s reading comprehension and future life chances. Discover how Daily Word Ladders for Fluency are designed to provide teachers with an invaluable resource to supplement their approach to developing vocabulary breadth, whilst also reinforcing and embedding decoding skills.
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Books and resources by Professor Timothy V. Rasinski
Word Ladders
Children climb to new heights in reading and writing with these engaging word-building games! Working from the starting word at the bottom, children read clues on each rung, then change and rearrange letters to create words until they reach the top. All the while, they’re boosting decoding and spelling skills, broadening vocabulary, and becoming better, more fluent readers.
- Word building games for Ages 6-11 to build fluency, vocabulary and spelling skills
- Over 80 photocopiable activities
- Perfect for use in the classroom or at home
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Daily Word Ladders for Fluency: Ages 6–7
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Daily Word Ladders for Fluency: Ages 7–8
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Daily Word Ladders for Fluency: Ages 8–9
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Daily Word Ladders for Fluency: Ages 9–11
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The Megabook of Fluency
Fluency expert Timothy V. Rasinski teamed up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, to help teachers effectively weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction. The book is packed with engaging text and tools, an assessment scale, and high quality ready-to-use lessons including text phrasing and tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more! Given the importance of fluency- and its pivotal relationship to comprehension and word recognition- the potential is high for improving students’ overall reading achievement, and their performance in other content areas.
The Fluent Reader
Tim Rasinski’s ground-breaking book covers all the latest research on fluency, teaching strategies based on that research, new classroom vignettes, and suggestions for using a variety of texts to teach fluency such as poetry, speeches, and monologues and dialogues.