Early Childhood Thematic Units by Evan Moor

It's all done for you! No need to spend hours and hours pulling together the materials and activities for your thematic units. These 10 themed units have it all - and in full color too! Basic concepts and skills become more meaningful when presented around a theme. 208 full-color pages. $21.99 each Grades PreK - K

Each thematic unit includes:

• 5 full-color storybooks
• full-color storyboard figures
• 5 reproducible take-home storybooks
• story comprehension reproducibles
• theme-based language and math reproducibles
• 5 ready-to-use learning centers
• theme-based art & cooking projects
• theme-based songs, games and more!

Jumbo Fun with the Alphabet

The ultimate resource for teaching letter names and sounds.

For each letter you get:

• a drawing lesson
• a reproducible cut-and-paste activity
• an art lesson
• a bibliography of suggested literature
• a 4-page reproducible minibook
• a trace-and-write reproducible
• a full-page picture card with capital letters and lowercase letters

Plus alphabet picture cards, 4 games for practicing letter names and sounds, directions for 5 centers, and simple recipes for foods beginning with each letter. 304 pages. Grades PreK-1, $26.99

The Big Book of Playground Rhymes and Chants

Build oral language and large motor skills with The Big Book of Playground Rhymes and Chants. This book contains 32 big 11" X 17" ready-to-display charts with rhythm activities that develop oral language, phonemic awareness, and motor skills. 64 pages. Grades K-3 $12.99

Getting Ready to Read

Help children develop the social, motor, listening, visual perception, and oral language skills that are necessary for success in reading and math instruction. 240 pages. Grades PreK-1. $19.95

Phonemic Awareness Through Language Play

34 week-long units, each focusing on a chant, poem, or language game. The lessons increase in difficulty, moving through the five levels of phonemic awareness and finally to letter-sound association. 112 pages. Grades PreK-1. $14.99

Picture Letters - a Christian Cottage product
These are simple, cartoon letters which illustrate the sound of the letter through its shape. A student will need to have a good understanding of the shape of a letter first. The sound will follow easily because the picture will clue them (the "a" has a leaf to make it look like an "apple", the "e" is doing "EX-ercise", the "f" is "fluffy", etc..). 26 6" x 9" cards, Grades PreK-K, $5.00

Circle Time Activities

Circle Time Activities gives you more than 75 motivating activities to teach concepts and skills within the structure of circle time. 112 pages. Grades PreK-1. $14.99

Language Games and Centers

Contains 17 games that make practicing letters, colors, shapes, and language skills exciting for young students. 112 pages. Grades PreK-1. $14.99

Following Directions

Following and giving directions are important skills. Following Directions helps you teach these skills with complete step-by-step directions and all the patterns you need. 112 pages. Grades PreK-1, $14.99

Learning with Nursery Rhymes

Presents 12 popular rhymes and provides ideas and props for teaching language arts and math concepts and skills using the rhymes. 112 pages Grades PreK-1, $14.99

Teach your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

$22.00

This book is a DISTAR approach to reading. The story of DISTAR begins with two educational psychologists named Englemann and Becker. The schools were using the Look-Say system of reading. When the underprivileged children of the inner city were not succeeding, the schools determined it was so to their cultural disadvantage and learning disabilities. Englemann and Becker thought otherwise and set out to prove that any child could read if taught properly. They were extremely successful and a "cookbook, no-fail" type of reading program emerged in which teachers were given a script to read with their students. This book will also give you a script to read. It also addresses many reading struggles ahead of time. (dots beneath the words teach eye fixation, left to right arrows teach eye tracking, attached letters or unusual shaped letters increase recognition and reduce confusion.)

Directions Take your time and work one lesson per day with young ones. Some children will need to switch to skipping the easy lessons and go right to the more challenging lessons. MOVE THROUGH THIS BOOK AT YOUR CHILD"S PACE. Don't hold them up or jam them through. If your child is struggling with vowel sounds and letter recognition, try Picture Letters to help them along. When you get to lesson 70 or so, it will go very fast. You may need to slow down or stop and work on just the Sight Words cards for awhile. As soon as 3 letters are being used to form words, you can start teaching the Sight Words curriculum. Children who successfully complete this book often measure at the late-first-grade level in their reading skills!