"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...

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.

Contains forty reproducibles designed to help students in grades two through four use reading strategies, learn about literary elements, and explore genre.

A step-by-step guide to teaching the essentials of good writing in third through sixth grade classrooms; featuring twenty-five mini-lessons based on excerpts from favorite children's authors' work, and student writing.