New Products

Please take a look at the many new core enrichment offerings from Sopris West! Click on each cover for more information, including a FREE program overview.

WRITING SUPPLEMENTS: Literacy isn't just about reading

Step Up to Writing in Math
Grades K-12
Maureen Auman, M.A. and Debbie Vallette, M.Ed.

Your students may be able to correctly work math problems, but can they explain how they arrived at the solution? Step Up to Writing in Math is a powerful new resource for mathematics and content-area teachers looking for practical strategies that can be used with all students—from kindergarten through high school—in math-related reading and writing.

Teaching Basic Writing Skills
Grades 3-8
Judith Hochman, Ed.D.

Teaching Basic Writing Skills presents strategies for teaching expository writing in every content area from the primary grades through high school. Instructional guidelines are presented for developing complex sentences, outlining, writing paragraphs and compositions, and revising and editing. Teaching Basic Writing Skills can be implemented in general classrooms as well as special education settings. Instruction can be adapted for large classrooms, resource rooms, or tutorials.

ADDRESSING THE FIVE COMPONENTS OF READING

Practicing Basic Skills in Reading
Grades K-12
Ray Beck, Ed.D., Denise A.Conrad, Ed.D., Peggy Anderson PhD

More than 400 Skill Builder Sheets in this newly reformatted collection increase students’ ability to process words accurately and quickly, while helping to improve phonemic awareness, phonics skills, letter knowledge, vocabulary, and comprehension. Timed exercises bring reading skills to a high level of automaticity and keep students on task and motivated with immediate feedback.

Letter Tiles for Phonics and Spelling
Grades K-3 and Intervention 4-12
Created by Sopris West

Letter Tiles for Phonics and Spelling is a magnetic letter tile kit perfect for use with beginning and struggling readers. It provides support for phonics and spelling instruction by demostrating the relationship between sounds and letters and is ideal for one-on-one and small group reading instruction.

RIDE Reading Intervention Bank
Grades K-12

The new RIDE™ (Responding to Individual Differences in Education) Reading Intervention Bank is a multimedia Web-based program consisting of 100 validated instructional tactics across five critical areas of literacy: phonological/phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Based on 20 years of research, the program addresses reading problems common to many struggling students. It is an effective tool to reinforce specific literacy skills that some students have not yet mastered.

GOLD STANDARD PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

LETRS 2nd Edition
Grades K-12
Created by Louisa Moats, Ed.D

In 2002, Sopris West published the First Edition of Louisa C. Moats' groundbreaking "gold standard" reading professional development program, LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling). Since that introduction, Moats and the team of national LETRS trainers have worked to remain at the cutting edge of reading research and to reflect the recommendations of current LETRS users in districts across the country. The result is LETRS 2d Edition.

FOR COACHES AND ADMINISTRATORS

Logistics of Literacy Intervention
An RtI Planning Guide for Elementary Schools
Grades K-6
Joanne Allain, M.A.

Logistics of Literacy Intervention: An RtI Planning Guide for Elementary Schools provides all the implementation and planning information outlined in the middle school/high school level but with an understanding that the issues and struggles of elementary schools are unique. It offers guidelines for developing precise plans to ensure quality implementation of an RtI approach at the elementary school level.