Remedia Publications was founded by two experienced special education teachers who recognized a great need for special materials that would help their struggling learners develop and improve basic skills. They believed that teachers know best when it comes to creating learning material, so they assembled a team of other experienced teachers and began developing unique learning products suitable for students in both special ed. classes and regular ed. classes.
Remedia Publications was founded by two experienced special education teachers who recognized a great need for special materials that would help their struggling learners develop and improve basic skills. They believed that teachers know best when it comes to creating learning material, so they assembled a team of other experienced teachers and began developing unique learning products suitable for students in both special ed. classes and regular ed. classes.
Do your students need practice making inferences and drawing conclusions? Are they having trouble reading for details and then determining the main idea? This innovative series highlights 10 essential reading skills/concepts...one skill at a time.
Extremely short passages (30 to 100 words) are followed by comprehension questions designed to target and improve specific reading skills. High-interest topics keep students interested, while the short passages keep students from feeling overwhelmed and "giving up." Ideal for students who get intimidated by longer paragraphs, those with short attention spans, and struggling readers of all ages. A controlled vocabulary and simple sentence structure help ensure success.
Reading Level 1.0-3.9 | Interest Level 2+
Skills Covered Include:
- Details
- Cause & Effect
- Sequence
- Conclusions
- Vocabulary
- Locating the Answer
- Comparison
- Inference
- Fact or Opinion
Do your students need practice making inferences and drawing conclusions? Are they having trouble reading for details and then determining the main idea? This innovative series highlights 10 essential reading skills/concepts...one skill at a time.
Extremely short passages (30 to 100 words) are followed by comprehension questions designed to target and improve specific reading skills. High-interest topics keep students interested, while the short passages keep students from feeling overwhelmed and "giving up." Ideal for students who get intimidated by longer paragraphs, those with short attention spans, and struggling readers of all ages. A controlled vocabulary and simple sentence structure help ensure success.
Reading Level 3.4-5.1 | Interest Level 2+
Skills Covered Include:
- Details
- Cause & Effect
- Sequence
- Conclusions
- Vocabulary
- Locating the Answer
- Comparison
- Inference
- Fact or Opinion
These short, high-interest mysteries happening in fascinating locations will grab any struggling reader’s attention! Students follow clues, find facts, make inferences, and solve each caper.
To increase fluency, pre-reading exercises introduce vocabulary and help students establish prior knowledge by providing background information. Each reading passage is full of clues to keep even the most reluctant of readers captivated.
Following each mystery story, comprehension questions target specific reading skills including main idea, inference, drawing conclusions, sequence, reading for details, and much more!
Reading Level 2-4 | Interest Level 3-12
Contents Include:
- 36 Mysteries
- Before You Read Activities (Predicting, Thinking, & Glossary)
- After You Read Skill-Specific, Comprehension Questions
Fluency is a key component of reading comprehension, and these ready-to-use activities provide plenty of practice in both speed and comprehension.
This bundle includes 42 short, high-interest stories will capture students' attention while they race the clock to improve their reading speed. After reading students show their comprehension through short-answer questions and cloze sentences.
Turn the stories into timed reading exercises to get students to read at a faster pace! Students can read the story then record the amount of time it took them to read, or set a time limit and track how far they got. End-of-line word counts make it quick and easy to figure the number of words read.
Contents Include:
- 42 High-Interest Stories
- Words to Know for Each Story
- Follow-Up Comprehension Questions
- End-of-Line Word Counts
- Timed Reading Chart
- More!
A great way to improve reading confidence as well as overall comprehension!
Fluency is a key component of reading comprehension, and these ready-to-use activities provide plenty of practice in both speed and comprehension.
This unit includes 14 short, high-interest stories will capture students' attention while they race the clock to improve their reading speed. After reading students show their comprehension through short-answer questions and cloze sentences.
Turn the stories into timed reading exercises to get students to read at a faster pace! Students can read the story then record the amount of time it took them to read, or set a time limit and track how far they got. End-of-line word counts make it quick and easy to figure the number of words read.
Contents Include:
-14 High-Interest Stories
- Words to Know for Each Story
- Follow-Up Comprehension Questions
- End-of-Line Word Counts
- Timed Reading Chart
- More!
Fluency is a key component of reading comprehension, and these ready-to-use activities provide plenty of practice in both speed and comprehension.
This unit includes 14 short, high-interest stories will capture students' attention while they race the clock to improve their reading speed. After reading students show their comprehension through short-answer questions and cloze sentences.
Turn the stories into timed reading exercises to get students to read at a faster pace! Students can read the story then record the amount of time it took them to read, or set a time limit and track how far they got. End-of-line word counts make it quick and easy to figure the number of words read.
Contents Include:
-14 High-Interest Stories
- Words to Know for Each Story
- Follow-Up Comprehension Questions
- End-of-Line Word Counts
- Timed Reading Chart
- More!
These step-by-step activities present information in short, manageable chunks so learners can isolate and master one concept before moving on to the next. This bundle focuses on specific, beginning math skills.
Skills Covered Include:
- Recognizing and writing numbers
- Counting
- Adding
- Subtracting
- Relating numerals and symbols to actual objects
From understanding the concept that "a sentence tells one complete thought" to actually writing coherent sentences, students will find the lessons in this unit to be both enlightening and entertaining. The exercises begin with the basic sequencing of a few words into short sentences and progress to viewing an imaginative illustration and writing an original sentence to describe it.
Activities Include:
- Sentence Recognition
- Sequencing Words into a Sentence
- Writing Original Sentences
Visual Activities Teaching 144 Sight Words
This fun, hands-on unit was created to help early readers identify sight words and build reading fluency. Children need to develop a growing core of sight words, which will help them become more fluent readers.
Since sight words are meant to be identified instantly – pictures are a great way to aid the student in immediate recognition of several high-frequency words. A great stepping stone for writing sentences and categorizing!
Activities Include:
- crossword puzzles
- word searches
- configuration fill-ins
- riddles
Word Categories Include:
- Animals
- Restaurant
- Beach
- Nature
- People
- Sports
- Tools
- Transportation
- Countryside
- Shapes
- Clothes
- Food
- Outside/Inside
Spark the interest of budding writers and watch their writing skills blossom. The lessons in this unit offer simple instructions, fun story starters, writing prompts, easy-to-read vocabulary words, and picture clues. Students progress from writing simple sentences to writing short stories in no time!
Features:
- Picture Clues
- Writing Prompts
- Story Starters
- Vocabulary Words
- Sample Sentences
Turn storytellers into story writers with this skill-based approach to writing. Each of the four units in the bundle guides beginners through the writing process. From learning to recognize sentences to writing their first story, students will be well on their way to writing success.
Features Include:
- Picture Clues
- Story Starters
- Vocabulary Words
- Sample Sentences
- Awards
- Skills Chart
Activities Include:
- Sentence Recognition
- Sequencing Words into a Sentence
- Identifying and Writing Statements, Questions, Commands, and Exclamations
- Writing Paragraphs
Four Titles in this Bundle Include:
- What is a Sentence?
- How Do I Write a Sentence?
- What are the Four Kinds of Sentences?
- How do I Write a Story?
These 50 nonfiction stories and activities are a sure-fire way to improve fluency and comprehension skills!
Simple sentences and short, easy-to-read paragraphs are paired with compelling illustrations for a strong picture-text correspondence. Age-appropriate topics and a controlled vocabulary motivate students and help ensure success. Follow-up activities focus on specific reading skills such as finding the main idea, making inferences, reading for details, locating information, using context clues, and more.
The activities featured in this book utilize the direct-approach fluency formula: read and re-read decodable words in connected text. Research shows that repeated readings turn slow, choppy readers into faster, smoother, more fluent readers. By doing the five follow-up activities that accompany each short paragraph, students will read the same paragraph a minimum of four times:
1. Read the paragraph when first presented with it.
2. Look back at the paragraph to respond to the follow-up exercises.
3. Complete the cloze reading activity involving the paragraph.
4. Follow the direction to “Re-read your completed paragraph to make sure it makes sense.”
Reading Level 3-4
Grade Level: 1-2
Writing complete sentences has never been so much fun! This 20-lesson unit is filled with a variety of activities to encourage students to write unique sentences. Students develop sentences using rhyming words, compose questions about specific pictures, compile answers to intriguing questions, and more! Without a doubt, the “story starters” in this book are sure to get kids thinking and writing. 24 pages.
Activities Include:
Picture Clues
Content Ideas
Vocabulary Words
Sample Sentences
Divide and Conquer with Phonics Rules! The study of phonics helps students divide words into small parts to conquer their reading problems. By using this powerful tool, your students can achieve improved reading performance.
Part I is a teacher reference guide that provides you with a thorough knowledge of phonics. You’ll see all the most important phonics rules and the most important exceptions, along with patterns, examples, and explanations. These are presented to you in a logical progression of concepts, each building on the last.
Part II offers reproducible worksheets and activities to help students reinforce basic phonics rules. These include interesting and short exercises working with vowels, consonants, syllables and more. Patterns and examples are also featured to make it easier for students to improve their pronunciation and word recognition.
Altogether, this information-packed unit will help:
you teach reading more effectively!
raise your students reading levels!
Grade Level K-3 | Interest Level 3-12
Google Slides:
AT LAST… A PHONICS PROGRAM FOR OLDER STUDENTS…AND TEACHERS TOO! * 167 ready-to-use Google Classroom Lessons & Activities designed to help students of all ages conquer reading! Now you can Divide and Conquer with Phonics Rules! This unique and interactive Google Slides program sets you and your students up for success! It includes a complete ‘phonics refresher’ teacher manual followed by the corresponding student version of the phonics activities & lessons. These colorful lessons are straightforward, and suitable for students of ALL AGES who need additional phonics and decoding practice to reach mastery level. The art is NOT “BABYISH.” Check out the product preview to see tons of sample pages. :)
This unique resource helps students divide words into small parts to conquer their reading problems. By using this powerful tool, your students can achieve improved reading performance.
Part I is a teacher reference guide that provides you with a thorough knowledge of phonics. You’ll see all the most important phonics rules and the most important exceptions, along with patterns, examples, and explanations. These are presented to you in a logical progression of concepts, each building on the last.
Part II offers student lessons and activities to help learners reinforce basic phonics rules. These include interesting and short exercises working with vowels, consonants, syllables and more. Patterns and examples are also featured to make it easier for students to improve their pronunciation and word recognition.
Fun-to-Read & Complete!
Slides feature short, colorful lessons that students will WANT to complete! Every short lesson is followed by specific activities targeting that specific phonics skill. A variety of fun formats keep things interesting as students drag and drop, cross out, circle, write words and more. These lessons are ideal for distance learning, remediation, daily enrichment, homework, and review!
Easy-to-Use! We’ve done the work for you! With this easy-to-use set you won’t have to waste time searching through books and activities to create a program to help your students succeed. Simply add these Interactive Google Slides to your Google Drive Classroom. You can assign specific slides to specific students, or assign to the whole class! Watch students work in real-time, or check their progress later.
These skill-building activities are helpful for:
Older students who have not yet reached mastery levels
Middle school through adult students who have a reading or learning disability
Good students who are laborious readers
Anyone interested in enhancing their pronunciation, spelling, and reading skills
English as a second language students (ESL)
Students read the hilarious "newspaper articles" from the Bovine City Daily News, then answer who, what, when, where, & why questions designed to test comprehension.
These laugh-out-loud stories can be used with individuals or small groups to help improve comprehension skills. Simply download, print, cut, and play! These will be a favorite with reluctant and struggling readers as well as those performing on grade level.
Skill Introduction Features:
- 75 Task Cards / Stories & Questions
(25 Cards Introduce Students to the 5 W's & 50 Cards Give Students Practice with Each of the 5 W's)
- Introduction of Basic 5 W's Concepts
- 30- to 50-Word Stories
- Reading Level 1-2
- Answer Key
Fundamental thinking skills. As students work through the 20 visual exercises in this book, they learn to classify everything from “ocean creatures” to “things that fly.”
Matching and coloring activities give students further practice grouping similar and dissimilar objects. The creative illustrations featured make the learning fun.
Exploring similar and opposite meanings. This 21-lesson unit is packed with vocabulary-building activities that introduce children to synonyms and antonyms. Puzzles, word searches, and color coding exercises are all used to teach the fundamentals of identifying and understanding words of like meanings (close/shut) and opposing meanings (over/under). Delightful illustrations keep students enthused while they get plenty of practice. A pre/post test is included.
Putting things in order! This 21-lesson book is an outstanding introduction to sequential ordering. With each activity, students are challenged to cut out three or four related pictures and paste them in their logical order.
Visual illustrations depict a wide range of activities from “a boy feeding his fish” and “girl diving into a pool” to “a young man flying a kite.” The final two exercises in this book are creative connect-the-dot drawings that test the sequential ordering of letters and numbers. Fun while learning is sure to be had by all.
Reading for comprehension.
Packed with informative short stories, comprehension questions, and various research activities, this 23-lesson book provides valuable practice with the reading skills needed to locate specific information in written text. Each fact-based story is followed by questions that require students to locate the information in the story and give precise answers. Subjects covered range from “The Stars in the Sky” and “Amazons,” to “Komodo Dragons” and “Going Bananas.”
28-page book includes an answer key.
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12
You’re sure to find the reading activities in this 9-book set useful for the older student whose skills are below grade level. Topics include locating information, fact and opinion, making inferences, reading for details, finding the main idea, reading to understand, and comparing. High-interest reading passages are followed by comprehension and logic activities designed to strengthen students’ reading skills.
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 4-12
