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.
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
Do your students battle with spelling and pronunciation? Are multi-syllable words threatening? Is reading a struggle? Don’t let your students face these problems unarmed! Take aim with this secret weapon!
Divide and Conquer
The study of phonics helps students divide words into small parts to conquer reading problems. This unit offers a specialized and unique phonics program that targets the most problematic English language sounds. By using four general rules for dividing words, your students will learn to decode difficult words quickly and easily. A variety of hands-on worksheets are included to provide a rapid review of skills and improve reading, spelling and pronunciation performance. These versatile activities can be presented by an instructor or used independently by the student.
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)
Figurative language gets a workout with this unit!
While similes compare different things using the words AS, LIKE, or THAN, metaphors make the same comparison without the use of these words.
Example: The sunlight was like a shower of gold on the garden. The sunlight was a shower of gold on the garden.
The activities in this unit not only teach students to differentiate between similes and metaphors, they demonstrate that such comparison language is an excellent way to add color and interest to writing and conversation.
The 27 lessons featured progress in difficulty and utilize techniques including creating original phrases, using them in sentences, and understanding what they mean when used as comparisons.
Help students reach mastery level with 248 high frequency words. Based on the Dolch List, this research-based set of flash cards will help students become better and more fluent readers.
This set features 220 sight words plus 28 colorful photo noun cards. This combination allows students to make phrases and sentences, laying the foundation for fluency in reading. Words are divided into 5 color-coded word lists, making it easy for readers to tackle essential words in small, manageable doses. Great for one-on-one or small group practice.
Contents Include:
- 220 Sight Words with Sentences
- 28 Photo Cards with Sentences
- 40 Hands-On Activities
- Complete List of Color-Coded Sight Words
- Bonus Activity Suggestions
Expressive exercises for developing language skills!
All of the materials in this bundle are sold separately on TpT. Follow the links below to read detailed descriptions for each title.
Idioms & Proverbs
“HOLD YOUR HORSES!” Do your students need help with idioms? Well, let's not “beat around the bush,” many students do. We don't mean to be “back seat drivers” but we want to help you “get the ball rolling.” “In a nutshell,” this unit is sure to help your students' writing and conversation become more colorful. Also terrific for ESL because idioms cannot be translated literally.
Similes & Metaphors
Show your students the many way similes and metaphors can be used to enrich written and oral language! Activities include identifying similes vs. metaphors, creating original phrases, using them in sentences, understanding what they mean when used as comparisons, and more!
Homographs & Heteronyms
Stimulate awareness of the multiple meanings a single word can have and how pronunciation changes the meaning of like words. Students will get plenty of practice identifying and using homographs and heteronyms.
Each of the 24 creative yet challenging crossword puzzles in this workbook put forth a number of riddles or rhymes. Twelve words are featured with each puzzle. Riddle and Rhyme clues challenge students to ponder the appropriate answer.
Examples:
Rhymes with Choke: Scared, Smoke, Donate...
I direct a group of musicians: Puppets, Butcher, Conductor...
Comprehension skills are given a great workout with these activities.
Free-time fun in 15 minutes or less! Each of the 24 creative, yet challenging, crossword puzzles in this unit focus on:
Combination Words (smoke + fog = smog)
Short-Form Words (gymnasium = gym)
Contractions (he will = he’ll)
Abbreviations (gallon = gal.)
Compound Words (green + house = greenhouse)
In some exercises, a list of words are featured and clues are given. In others, questions are simply posed. Comprehension skills are given a great workout with these activities.
Free-time fun in 15 minutes or less! Each of the 24 creative yet challenging crossword puzzles in this unit focuses on vocabulary acquisition. Twelve words are featured with each puzzle. Clues challenge students to identify the appropriate word to complete the phrase.
Example:
What comes next?
Tuesday, Wednesday, ______.
Crawl, Walk, _____.
Toe, Foot, _____.
Comprehension skills are given a great workout with these activities.
Main idea, word analysis, analogies, cause and effect, inferences, drawing conclusions... when you need to target specific reading skills this bundle is for you!
With this bundle you won't have to waste time searching through stories and activities to find one that targets the skills you need to include in your lesson plan.
This high-interest, low readability stories in this bundle are followed by activities, which are labeled according to the specific skills targeted. There's even a quick reference chart that links specific reading skills to their accompanying stories! A valuable resource and a terrific time saver!
Reading Level 2-6 | Interest Level 4-12
The wonderful, ready-to-color illustrations featured in this popular classic tale is sure to bring the story to life for your students! The story is followed by three skill-based activity pages and 15 comprehension questions to stimulate an "After You Read" discussion. A great way to pair enjoyment with learning!
Contents Include:
- Classic Tale
- Illustrations for Coloring
- Skill-Based Activities
- Discussion Questions
- Answer Key
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 2-5
The wonderful, ready-to-color illustrations featured in this popular classic tale is sure to bring the story to life for your students! The story is followed by three skill-based activity pages and 15 comprehension questions to stimulate an "After You Read" discussion. A great way to pair enjoyment with learning!
Contents Include:
- Classic Tale
- Illustrations for Coloring
- Skill-Based Activities
- Discussion Questions
- Answer Key
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 2-5
The wonderful, ready-to-color illustrations featured in this popular classic tale is sure to bring the story to life for your students! The story is followed by three skill-based activity pages and 15 comprehension questions to stimulate an "After You Read" discussion. A great way to pair enjoyment with learning!
Contents Include:
- Classic Tale
- Illustrations for Coloring
- Skill-Based Activities
- Discussion Questions
- Answer Key
Reading Level 3-4 | Interest Level 2-5
These literature-based activities feature fun poems and classic nursery rhymes. Each of the 23 activities features a short poem or story and an illustration for coloring. Students must follow directions to color the picture or connect the dots. This unit also features discussion questions for each story as well as additional activities suggestions.
These literature-based activities feature fun poems and classic nursery rhymes. Each of the 25 activities features a short poem or story and an illustration for coloring. Students must follow directions to color the picture. This unit also features comprehension questions for each story as well as additional activities suggestions.
These fun, comprehensive, and easy-to-use activities focus entirely on building basic skills and cover the following subject areas: reading, writing, language, creative and critical thinking, science, social studies, and more!
Students will read 12 short stories all about summer. Each story introduces vocabulary words to know and is followed by comprehension questions.
18 Additional Activities Cover:
- counting
- following directions
- critical thinking skills
- alphabetizing
- finding details
- reading temperatures / thermometers
- vocabulary
- math word problems
- grammar
- comprehension
- map reading
- bar graph
- addition and subtraction
- drawing solutions
- thinking skills
From “Armadillos” to “Gliders” and “Amelia Earhart” to “Magnets,” this 26-lesson unit features success-oriented comprehension activities that focus on a controlled vocabulary and utilize high-interest stories.
True to its goal of encouraging students to absorb what they read, the exercises in this book follow up informational reading with effective comprehension questions.
32 Pages includes answer key.
Reading Level 2-3 | Interest Level 3-12
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
Grade Level: 1-2
From understanding the concept that “a sentence tells one complete thought” to actually writing coherent sentences, students will find the 20 lessons in this book 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. 24 pages.
Activities Include:
Sentence Recognition
Sequencing Words into a Sentence
Writing Original Sentences
Grade Level: 1-2
Watch students’ basic writing and critical thinking skills grow by identifying the four types of sentences! With the reading, writing, and color-coding exercises in this unit, students will begin to learn the differences between statements, questions, commands, and exclamations.
Activities Include Identifying & Writing:
Statements
Questions
Commands
Exclamations
Grade Level: 1-2
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
Story Starters
Vocabulary Words
Sample Sentences