Gail Saunders-Smith

Develop successful readers with these strategies for before, during, and after reading. In Building Literacy Through Small-Group Instruction, Gail Saunders-Smith describes the cognitive processes of emergent readers and provides educators with clear guidelines for promoting reading comprehension with small groups of young learners. A variety of exercises included helps children to locate, record, retrieve, and manipulate information from texts,...

As students gain confidence and skills in guided reading, what is the next step to helping them become strong, independent readers? Small-group reading sessions. By working in small groups, students will be able to explore longer text and build their literacy skills with confidence. Literacy expert Gail Saunders-Smith demonstrates through the methods in this book how educators can advance students from small-group reading to silent reading, all while...

In simple text and photographs, describes several different kinds of airplanes, including paper airplanes, biplanes, and jets.

Simple text and photographs present the different types and colors of leaves found in the Northern Hemisphere in autumn.

Simple text and photographs depict the weather, plants, animals, and activities of spring.

Simple text and photographs depict the weather, plants, animals, and activities of autumn.

Simple text and photographs describe different ways to enjoy apples--whole, sliced, cooked, and juiced.

Simple text and photographs present the behavior changes of animals as winter approaches, such as growing thicker fur, migrating, and hibernating.

Simple text and photographs depict the weather, plants, animals, and activities of winter.

Describes the life cycle of the chicken through photographs and text.