Resources from Dr. Tim Rasinski, Ph.D.

Understanding Idioms and Other English Expressions

Developed by Timothy Rasinski and written by Kathleen Knoblock

Introduce all students to common idioms and other expressions including:

• hyperbole
• metaphor
• simile
• personification

The idioms and expressions are provided in context with stories and activities to teach usage and definitions.

Based on Dr. Rasinski's research, the idioms are grouped by themes for ease in teaching and learning.

Primary Source Fluency Activities: Early America

Introduction by Timothy Rasinski

Make difficult primary source materials accessible to today's students. This book provides primary sources from the Early American period with activities that teach important fluency strategies and cover key historical events and people.

Building Fluency through Reader's Theater

These kits include everything you need to improve fluency with meaningful, repeated reading that fully engages students.

This kit includes:

• 6 copies of eight different scripts written at multiple reading levels
• Lesson plans and teaching strategies
• CDs with songs, poems, scripts, reproducibles, and home-school connections
• Transparencies with song lyrics and poem texts

Texts for Fluency Practice

By Timothy Rasinski and Lorraine Griffith

Research has shown that readers who engage in regular repeated readings improve their word recognition, reading rate, comprehension, and overall reading proficiency. Teacher Created Materials has worked with Timothy Rasinski and Lorriane Griffith to develop materials in response to teachers' requests for texts to practice reading fluency.

As students regularly read and perform these age-appropriate texts, they improve their decoding, interpretation, and ultimately comprehension of the material. Since the selections are engaging and enjoyable, students will want to read, reread, and perform!

A variety of genres are included:

• Poetry and rhymes
• Song lyrics
• Readers Theater scripts
• Fabulous speeches and quotations

Making and Writing Words

By Timothy Rasinski and Roger Heym

The Making and Writing Words method helps students improve their phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, and vocabulary skills. Each 3-ring binder contains 40 carefully sequenced wor-building lessons with transparencies.

Poems for Word Study

By Timothy Rasinski and Karen Brothers

Teach literacy skills through poetry. Word study activities based on poems develop phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and spelling skills. Includes full color transparencies of the poems.

• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Vocabulary
• Spelling

Building Vocabulary

By Timothy Rasinski, Nancy Padak, Rick Newton, and Evangeline Newton

Help students unlock the meaning of over 60% of the words they encounter in the classroom and beyond with this systematic approach to teaching vocabulary using Greek and Latin prefixes, bases, and suffixes.

Building Fluency Through Practice and Performance: American History

By Timothy Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith

Research has shown that readers who engage in regular, repeated readings improve their word recognition, reading rate, comprehension, and overall reading proficiency. As students regularly read and perform these American history related texts, they improve decoding, interpretation, fluency, and comprehension. Students will want to read, reread, and perform these engaging and enjoyable selections.

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