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"Sing With Me ABC" works with basic letter recognition, phonemic awareness, and also with numbers and rhythm and rhyme. The books supplement any reading and music curriculum for pre-school and kindergarten. In this interview with author Bente Martinsen, she discusses how music is such a valuable part of the learning process, how the program was developed, her perspectives from Europe compared to the US, how the collaboration began with her co-author Solveig Pedersen; and FREE samples of how the program works with the letters A, N, P & the whole alphabet. If you have a question about the program, you are welcome to participate in our discussion group and ask a question.

Write Source 2000:
A Guide to Writing, Thinking, & Learning:
by Patrick Sebranek, Pat Sebranek, Verne Meyer, Dave Kemper

also see: Writer's Support Group
It is a user-friendly reference which saves students time and gives them autonomy which they prefer it. It is easy to generate lesson plans to get students started on using the books. Introduce a topic, such as subject-verb agreement or sentence-combining, use examples from Write Source 2000, help students find evidence in their own work of the the problem, and let them see how well the book works to support editing.

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
by Siegfried Engelmann, Phyllis Haddox, Elaine Bruner

also see: Reading Ed Center
SRA's DISTAR is one of the most successful beginning reading programs available to schools. Now, this program has been adapted for use at home. In only 20 minutes a day, this remarkable step-by-step program teaches your child to read--with the love, care, and joy only a parent and child cane share.

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Guided Reading:
Good First Teaching for All Children
by Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell

also see: Reading Ed Center
This is the richest, most comprehensive guided reading resource available today and the first systematic offering of instructional support for guided reading adherents. Guided Reading was written for K-3 classroom teachers, reading resource teachers, teacher educators, preservice teachers, researchers, administrators, and staff developers. Based on the authors' nine years of research and development, it explains how to create a balanced literacy program based on guided reading and supported by read aloud, shared reading, interactive writing, and other approaches. While there is an entire chapter devoted solely to the process by which children become literate, every chapter clearly presents the theoretical underpinnings of the practices it suggests.