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FreeReading has just created a new series of lessons to teach writing. Use these step-by-step lessons to teach writing letters, story elements, biographies, informative writing, and much more. Each writing skill has a three lesson sequence: introduce, reintroduce, and build mastery. http://www.freer...

Use this Story Board to teach reading comprehension. The easy to use graphic organizer can be used with any fiction book or story from your basal.

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Get ready for back to school with these great resources. They all offer free printables, worksheets, bulleting board ideas, book lists, and much more.

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FreeReading has a ton of great printable resources…all for free! Check out the picture cards. They can be used in various games to reinforce beginning sounds and rhyming, such as bingo and memory.

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Eye on the Sky is a great program that teaches reading skills through science and technology. The lessons are creative and hands-on, involving nonfiction reading and journal writing.

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Here is a great graphic organizer Story Board to help you teach Sequencing. Use this free printable with any trade book or even a story from your basal.

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Looking for ideas to keep kids busy during the summer? Check out the great activities and suggestions from Reading is FUNdamental.

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Here are a ton of great activities to introduce and teach prefixes and suffixes. You can download all of the graphic organizers for free!

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Looking for a fun way to help your students practice sounding out words? Try the Word Relay Race. They won’t even realize they’re learning during this fun and fast-paced game.

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Yes! Literacy is Priceless has tons of great resources for early literacy teachers.

Create your own worksheets with the Worksheet Generator from Discovery Education. Make words scramble, multiple choice, fill in the blank, and much more!

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Bingo is a great way to teach a variety of different skills. Here is a link to a Compound Word Bingo. You can use the bingo card from this game for all different kinds of Bingo Games – Sight Words, Letter Recognition, Double Letter Words… the possibilities are endless! http://www.freereading.net/ind...

FreeReading has a ton of great printable resources. The Irregular Word Cards are a fantastic tool for the classroom. I let my students quiz one another on their sight words when they finish their work early. They have so much fun, they don't even realize they are learning! http://www.freereading.net...

Having trouble getting your students to learn higher tier vocabulary words? Check out these great vocabulary lessons from FreeReading. They use popular trade books to make vocabulary fun. Did you ever think your students could learn scrumptious and loitering from a fairy tale?? The Three Little Pigs...

Teachingbooks.net offers students the chance to connect with authors as they are reading. The website includes virtual author visits – videos of authors in their homes and studios. There are also audio readings of authors reading their own work. Enjoy! [/url]http://literacyispriceless.wordpress.com/...