Language for Thinking builds upon the concepts, vocabulary, and statement patterns introduced in Language for Learning. Carefully organized sequences of activities, exceptional vocabulary development, extensive practice, sequencing and retelling exercises, and inference activities set the stage for reading comprehension and the grammatical analysis of written language.

Builds student background a component of the print experience that enables teachers to model student responses and build background knowledge and piques interest

Use Language for Writing to lead your students toward independence as writers. This revision and expansion of Distar Language III teaches not only writing skills, but also the vocabulary, sentence, and organizational skills that underpin good writing.

Use Language for Writing to lead your students toward independence as writers. This revision and expansion of Distar Language III teaches not only writing skills, but also the vocabulary, sentence, and organizational skills that underpin good writing.

Use Language for Writing to lead your students toward independence as writers. This revision and expansion of Distar Language III teaches not only writing skills, but also the vocabulary, sentence, and organizational skills that underpin good writing.

SRA Phonemic Awareness is a complete program for developing phonological and phonemic awareness. The program contains 110 15-minute lessons featuring activities that follow the developmental sequence for teaching all levels of phonological awareness. Use Phonemic Awareness to help establish the early framework necessary to help pre-K to Grade 1 students progress into fluent and confident readers.

Language for Learning is a comprehensive oral language program that teaches essential concepts and skills that children need to succeed in school. The program provides carefully sequenced lessons to help students:

  • Learn vocabulary commonly used by teachers, as well as by textbooks and other instructional material
  • Develop precise knowledge of "little," but important, words such as first, next, between, who, what, and where
  • Use different sentence forms, ask and answer questions, and follow instructions
  • Acquire important background information and world-knowledge, such as days of the week, months, and seasons
  • Figure out the logical aspects of language, such as classification and "if-then" reasoning

Features:

  • Thinking and Understanding are part of every lesson
  • Carefully orchestrated lessons teach the language of classroom instruction
  • Provides the building blocks for verbal and reading comprehension
  • Opportunity for both group and individual practice of the content of the exercise
  • Continuous integration and review of all the concepts and skills
  • Original stories and poems to be read to the students
  • Placement Test and 15 Program Assessments ensure that children are working on concepts appropriate for their ability