Alphabet Soup: Language Enrichment Activities, Grades 4-6. Dianne Draze, $12.95

Quick, ready-to-use activities to help add an element of interest to your language arts program – whether in the regular curriculum or to provide creative activities for home learning.

Banish Boring Words! Leilen Shelton, $13.99 (Grades 4-8)

Dozens of reproducible word lists for helping students choose just-right words to strengthen their writing.

Better than Book Reports, Grades 2-6. Christine Boardman Moen, $21.99

More than 40 creative responses to literature including Story-Maps, Point-of-View Postcards and Storytelling with Tangrams.

The BIG Book of ALPHABET Activities, Grades PreK-K. Ada Goren, $37.99

A treasure trove of engaging activities, mini-books and colorful picture cards for teaching alphabet recognition, letter formation and more!

Big Words for Big Kids: Systematic Sequential Phonics and Spelling, Upper Grades. Patricia Cunningham, $24.50

Big Words for Big Kids provides teachers with hands-on, minds-on, manipulative activities in which children learn to decode and use word roots, prefixes and suffixes.

Building ALPHABET Knowledge, Grades PreK-K. Debra Olson Pressnall, $21.50

See, hear, name and write — activities for learning about the letters and their sounds.

Building Essential Vocabulary. Sherrill Flora, $14.50 (all ages)

Reproducible photo cards, games and activities to build vocabulary in any language.

Building Oral Language Skills in PreK-K. Cindy Middendorf, $22.99

Dozens of easy, research-based ideas that develop children’s listening, speaking and vocabulary skills — and lay the foundation for reading success.

Building Real-Life Reading Skills, Grades 3-5. Cindy Harris, $14.99

Eighteen lessons with reproducible activity sheets that help students read and comprehend schedules, forms, labels, menus and more.

Contemporary Cursive. Suzanne Lowe Wilke, $14.50

Enhance the handwriting program in your classroom with the practical and creative activities that not only strengthen handwriting skills but thinking and reading as well.

First Homework: ALPHABET. Alyse Sweeney, $16.99 PreK-K

60+ Age-perfect reproducibles that help youngsters learn their letters from A to Z.

40 Writing Prompts with Graphic Organizers, Grades 4-6. Stefan Czarnecki, $18.99

Engaging prompts with reproducible organizers that spark ideas, focus thinking and put students on the path to wonderful writing.

Got Grammar? Ready-to-Use Lessons and Activities That Make Grammar Fun! Jack Umstatter, $35.99 (Grades 6 to 12)

Each of the over 60 lessons in Got Grammar are ready-to-use and reproducible, and each begins with helpful teaching pages that define, explain, and illustrate grammar, usage, or mechanics concepts. These lessons and the many ready-to-use student activities include 15 diagnostic tests, 15 section-review activities, 18 final tests, and over 100 other creative reinforcement activities, including diagramming.

The Grammar Teacher’s Activity-a-Day, Grades 5-12. Jack Umstatter, $23.95

180 ready-to-use lessons to teach grammar and usage.

Graphic Organizers for Teaching Poetry Writing, Grades 1 – 3. Betsy Franco, $15.99

20 graphic organizers with model poems and lessons that support children as they learn to write different forms of poetry.

Graphic Organizers & Strategy Sheets That Scaffold Writing from Paragraphs to Essays. Anina Robb, $21.99 (Grades 4 to 8)

These student packets for 15 key writing formats include guided lessons, writing models, graphic organizers and planning sheets. The lessons help students build the skills they need to write both in fiction and non-fiction genres — from evocative descriptive paragraphs to powerful persuasive essays.

The Great BIG Idea Book: LANGUAGE ARTS, Grades 2-3. Edited by Mela Ottaiano, $29.99

Dozens and dozens of just-right activities for teaching the topics and skills kids really need to master.

Just-Right Reading Response Activity Sheets for Young Learners, Grades K-2. Erica Bohrer, $14.99

50 reproducible graphic organizers that help children write meaningful responses to the books they read.

Month-by-Month Reading, Writing and Phonics for Kindergarten, 2nd Edition. Dorothy Hall & Patricia Cunningham, $21.50

Month-by-Month Phonics Grade 1, 2nd Edition. Dorothy Hall & Patricia Cunningham, $21.50

Month-by-Month Phonics Grade 2, 2nd Edition. Dorothy Hall & Patricia Cunningham, $21.50

Month-by-Month Phonics Grade 3, 2nd Edition. Dorothy Hall & Patricia Cunningham, $21.50

Month-by-Month Phonics and Vocabulary Grade 4, 2nd Edition. Karen Loman, Amanda Arens & Patricia Cunningham, $21.50

Month-by-Month Phonics and Vocabulary Grade 5, 2nd Edition. Karen Loman, Amanda Arens & Patricia Cunningham, $21.50

Partner Poems for Building Fluency, Grades 4-6. Timothy Rasinski, David Harrison & Gay Fawcett, $21.99

Forty engaging poems for two voices with motivating activities that help students to improve their fluency and comprehension.

Phonemic Awareness: Ready-to-Use Lessons, Activities and Games. Victoria Groves Scott, $39.95

Phonemic Awareness contains a collection of 48 lessons for children in Grades K–3 or students in Grades 4–6 who have difficulty reading. While the activities are sequenced around particular phonemes or sounds, teachers can reorganize and sequence them according to skills such as identification, blending, rhyming, segmentation, deletion, or manipulation. With updated pictures and graphics to make concepts clearer for students, this new edition provides:

This exceptional, field-tested guide provides elementary teachers, literacy coaches, and reading specialists with a balance of consistency and variety in lessons that lead students through lively activities.

Phonics from A to Z: a Practical Guide, 2nd Edition. Wiley Blevins, $31.99 (Grades K to 3)

A comprehensive resource that will support your day-to-day teaching of phonics and reading in the early grades. Author Blevins presents a framework for developing effective phonics lessons and provides phonogram word lists and picture book suggestions to streamline planning.

Real-Life Reading Activities for Grades 6-12. James Silver, $32.99

Over 200 ready-to-use lessons and activities to help students master practical reading skills.

Really Writing! Ready-to-Use Writing Process Activities for the Elementary Grades, 2nd Edition. Cherlyn Sunflower, $38.99

The second edition of Really Writing provides 40 real-life writing activities that capture the attention of young authors (grades 2 through 6) who are just learning the composing process. This book is also a valuable resource for teaching advanced writers who are ready to experiment with a variety of writing and speaking genres. Each of the Really Writing activities assists teachers in providing for the wide range of writing abilities that exist in most classrooms. At the end of each lesson are practice writing prompts that are ready to use in preparing students for success.

Reproducible Forms for the Writing Traits Classroom, Middle School. Ruth Culham, $22.99 (Grades 6-8)

Checklists, graphic organizers, rubrics, scoring sheets and more to boost students’ writing skills in all seven traits.

See It, Be It, Write It. Hope Sara Blecher-Sass & Maryellen Moffitt, $47.99

Using performing arts to improve writing skills and test scores.

Sequencing Practice Mini-Books, Grades K-1. Kathleen Hollenbeck, $16.99

Sequencing Practice Mini-Books, Grades 2-3. Kathleen Hollenbeck, $16.99

These interactive mini-books help children build an understanding of story sequence and boost reading comprehension.

The Spelling Teacher’s Lesson-a-Day, Grades 3 to 8. Edward Fry, $23.95

180 reproducible activities to teach spelling, phonics and vocabulary.

Step-by-Step Writing Lessons for K-1. Waneta Davidson, Deanne Camp & Deneen Wuest, $24.99

75 easy lessons that introduce the writing process and teach beginning writing skills.

Teach Terrific Grammar: a Complete Grammar Program for Use in Any Classroom. Gary Robert Muschla, $24.95 (Grades 4 & 5)

Help your students develop their grammar skills with these creative, hands-on activities and practical exercises that will boost your pupil’s language confidence.

Teacher's Guide to Multisensory Learning: Improving Literacy by Engaging the Senses. Lawrence Baines, $38.95

For teachers who are ready to energize their classrooms, this is a great resource for expanding students’ capacity to learn and helping them cultivate essential skills that will last a lifetime.

Teaching Real-Life Writing to Young Learners, K-2. Paula Jensvold, $18.99

Easy teacher-tested lessons that help children learn to write lists, letters, invitations, how-to’s and much more.

Traditional Cursive. Suzanne Lowe Wilke, $13.95

Traditional Manuscript. Suzanne Lowe Wilke & Renee Cummings, $13.95

Enhance the handwriting program in your classroom with the practical and creative activities that not only strengthen handwriting skills but thinking and reading as well.

25 Super Sight Word Songs & Mini-Books, Grades K-2. Joan Mancini, $26.99

A book and CD of fun songs set to favorite tunes, with companion ‘read & write’ mini-books that teach essential sight words.

Using Name Walls to Teach Reading and Writing, Grades K-2. Janiel Wagstaff, $21.99

Dozens of classroom-tested ideas for using this motivating tool to teach phonological awareness, letter recognition, decoding, spelling and much more.

Vocabulary Games for Any Word List, Grades 4-6. Jane Sullivan & Midge Madden, $16.99

15 easy-to-play games that motivate students to master any word list and expand their vocabulary.

The Writing Coaching Tool, K to 3. Donna Whyte, $12.95

This quick-and-easy teaching tool will help any teacher to build stronger writers, one step at a time. This handy reference offers a reproducible checklist, along with samples of actual student work, to help evaluate a child's current skills. It then provides dozens of classroom-tested strategies designed to motivate students, boost confidence, and build on existing skills.

Writing Stretchers: 15 Minute Activities to Enrich Writing Skills, Grades 4-8. Linda Collins, $16.25

Over 30 exciting language arts activities to help students enrich their writing skills.

The Writing Teacher’s Activity-a-Day, Grades 6-12. Mary Ellen Ledbetter, $23.95

More than 180 reproducible prompts and quick writes for the secondary classroom.