Multi-leveled Reader's Theater scripts make learning active and effective!

Teach students to read and write persuasive, informational, and narrative text.


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Accelerate achievement with strategy-based Anchor Comprehension Workshop.

Word Study & Vocabulary Skill Bags named
2011 Best Elementary Intervention.

Engage students with interactive whiteboard sets, enhanced e-books, and more!

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Running Records and ELs
I feel strongly that running records are the best measure of a student's reading performance. I am often asked: "Is it appropriate to give running records to English learners?" The answer is…Full post by Barbara Andrews
Support struggling readers with new research-proven products for RTI. Target needs, then model, teach, and reinforce skills with assessments, instructional materials, leveled texts, and more.
A comprehensive core reading program for Grades K-6 using the gradual-release model and featuring 30 weeks of explicit comprehension-focused lessons for the whole class, small groups, and intervention. Read the research.
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New! Oral Reading Records
FREE Shipping on Oral Reading Records: A new way to place and monitor ALL reading students.
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Literacy Resources


Leveled Reading Books

Build literacy with leveled reading books and explicit comprehension instruction. Precisely leveled texts for differentiated instruction, both fiction and nonfiction, build literacy while supporting content area instruction.

Reader's Theater

Five award-winning, multi-leveled Reader's Theater series engage every student and enhance instruction. Use Readers Theater classroom plays to build fluency while enriching content and genre studies.

1st Grade Books

Empower young readers with first grade reading books at "just right" levels. First grade reading books and instructional resources build comprehension, fluency and vocabulary. High interest fiction and nonfiction 1st grade books motivate students.

3rd Grade Books

Make your third graders confident readers with third grade reading books at "just right" levels. Select the 3rd grade reading books and research-proven teaching resources you need for literacy and language development.

5th Grade Books

Motivate older readers with leveled fifth grade reading books and empower every student to succeed. Fifth grade books, both fiction and nonfiction, provide students with access to grade-level content and build comprehension and vocabulary.
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New Literacy Products

Readers' and Writers' Genre Workshop

Help students meet state standards for Gr.3-8+ genre study and literary analysis with differentiated leveled books and activities.

6-PACK $44
THEME SET $249
PRIME Science & Social Studies

Provide access to the same Gr. 6-8+ standards-based content for on- and below-level readers with differentiated text pairs.

6-PACK $65
THEME SET $595
Classic Tales

Introduce genres to K-2 readers and build oral language and vocabulary with beloved classics and "just-right" text.

6-PACK $33
GRADE LEVEL SET $335
Word Study/Vocabulary Skill Bags

Easy to use grab-and-go lessons make it easy to assess needs, target skills, and build success. 4 sequential kits each includes 32 skill bags for a full-year of explicit instruction for Gr. 3-8+.

SINGLE KIT $795
COMPLETE 4-KIT SET $2,975
Anchor Comprehension Workshop

Anchor your K-6 strategy instruction, and teach metacognitive and comprehension strategies together, with consistent, spiraling whole- to small-group resources!

SINGLE STRATEGY SET $1,125
COMPLETE K-5 WKSHP $18,750

 

News and Announcements

New Teachers' Choice Award Winner!
We are proud to announce that the Readers' & Writers' Genre Workshop has won a 2011 Teacher's Choice award. New and expanded, Readers' & Writers' Genre Workshop uses differentiated texts to help teach genres, literary analysis, and the writers craft to ALL students, enabling them to succeed on high-stakes tests.

NEW! Talking E-Books
View, listen and read at school and at home. 1,400+ titles in English and Spanish build fluency and comprehension with 24/7 access for students and teachers. Teachers can search texts by level, content area, and themes to differentiate instruction. Compatible with PCs, Macs, all Interactive Whiteboards, and LCD projectors.

NEW! Interactive Whiteboard Resources
Interactive whiteboard resources -- perfect for both whole-group and small-group – make instruction engaging and effective. Talking E-Books, lesson plans, activities, and image banks enable you to bring lessons to life. Affordable web-based subscriptions to 500+ interactive sets are now available. Compatible with all whiteboards and computers.

NEW! Acclaimed Professional Development
Improve instruction and accelerate achievement through customized professional development that is research-based with proven results.
“After a year of using the BEC materials and participating in perhaps the best ongoing Professional Development I have ever seen, our Grade 3 students posted the highest scores on the state mastery test since its inception. Our free/reduced lunch population also set an all-time high.”
– Principal, O'Connel Elementary School, East Hartford, CT