Primary Reading Products
Grades Pre-K through 2

If Sight Words Could Talk

A fun story about sight words.  This book is a great tool for teaching twenty (20) sight words found in every beginning reader book.

Rugzby the Reader
This workbook provides a new opportunity to build sight word vocabulary that will spark creativity and imagination.  The activities provide meaningful skill practice to stimulate the learning experience.  In addition, Rugzby the Reader’s Sight Word Workbook has been used to review and expand the writing skills of primary education classes.  The increased writing skills that resulted allowed students more ease in reading leveled readers and content-area textbooks.

Students have fun working through the ten sight word sections.  As a result of participation in this program students will:

• Accurately read sight words within sentences.
• Accurately read sight words found in textbooks and classroom materials.
• Expand Vocabulary.
• Write complete sentences using sight words.
• Decode unknown monosyllabic words.

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Intermediate Products
Grade 3 through 8

Think Tank Toolkit
Think Tank Toolkit is a great way to learn the eight (8) essential reading skills.  This book will give you practice on the different kinds of skills you will see on standardized reading test given by each state  These test are based on standards students should master in each grade.  Educators want to make sure you have all the skills necessary to be a lifelong learner.

You can earn workout points as you learn the eight reading comprehension skills found in the Think Tank Toolkit Book.  Your points will qualify you for the Think Tank Toolkit Sweepstakes located in the back of the book. 

Black Box Skill Drill
Black Box Skill Drill (BBSD) is an innovative, interactive, and research-based program designed to teach readers how to use their analytical skills to understand how reading comprehension questions are formulated.

Black Box Skill Drill has been proven to be an effective tool with both fluent and struggling readers.  In addition, the program prepares students for standardized weekly checkpoints, district, or state testing.

Black Box Skill Drill is designed as a supplemental program only.  The lessons have been developed for use with second through tenth graders.

How Will Black Box Skill Drill Help Drive Instruction?
Black Box Skill Drill is a research-based program that has been proven to be an effective tool to use with both fluent and struggling readers.  It teaches readers to use their analytical skills to comprehend how reading comprehension questions are designed. In addition, it prepares students for standardized testing. 

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Readball
Are you looking for the right tool to increase your students’ creative thinking and analytical reason?  Well, Readball allows students to choose high interest reading materials to increase their reading comprehension skills. 

There is no multiple-choice assessment.  The student provides all the information about the book.  The graphs are designed to address specific skills that will improve the student’s comprehension. 

Some of the skills students will learn by completing the graph are as follows:

• Main Idea
• Vocabulary
• Sequencing
• Author’s Purpose
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Fact
• Opinion
• Supporting Details
• Character Analysis
• Plot Development
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Reading Comprehension Posters