Intended to be used in conjunction with the Essentials Reader, the Essentials Reader Teacher’s Guide prepares students for academic reading and writing through:

• Pre-reading
• Post-reading
• Cross-curricular activities
• Composition 

Experts have designed this guide to be used after each corresponding Essentials unit is taught. This helps students reinforce their knowledge of phonograms and spelling rules while learning vocabulary and decoding skills.

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This student activity book is filled with dozens of activities, practice pages, and templates to help students develop their:

• Pre-reading skills
• Comprehension skills
• Vocabulary
• Note-taking skills
• Composition skills
• Handwriting skills 

A companion to the Essentials Reader Teacher’s Guide and the Essentials Reader, this student activity book is an easy tool for teaching reading, writing, and spelling.

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From acorn hunting to the history of chocolate, Essentials Reader contains high-interest texts that target students’ comprehension and critical thinking skills. This reader grows in complexity as new phonograms, spelling rules, and high-frequency words are taught. Stories range from text using only single-letter phonograms to poems to full articles.

At the beginning of each story, teachers and students will find a list of “challenging” words to decode before reading the text. Decoding these words prior to reading the text helps students focus on comprehending the content rather than sounding out words. 

The Essentials Reader is 100% decodable – without guessing and without sight word memorization – when introduced as directed in the Essentials Teacher’s Guides. 

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