"Have you ever watched the cooking shows where chefs get a basket of ingredients and are challenged to create something delicious out of it? Teaching can be like that, too. You get a curriculum and basket full of standards and it's up to you to figure out how to make them taste "yummy" for your students. Reading Recipes will help you become a "master chef" with recipes you can use to spice up your reading program and make it even more engaging and effective. Including over 90 new activities and dozens of variations, Reading Recipes comes to you from master educators, Dr. Jean Feldman and Carolyn Kisloski. Together, they have developed a cookbook chock-full of classroom activities to build key literacy skills in phonological and phonemic awareness, alphabet knowledge, phonics, sight word recognition, and vocabulary development. Most require no advanced preparation or special materials, and all can be differentiated to meet the needs of the learners in your classroom. Open this book at any time of day; you'll and quickly find a bounty of terrific ideas that you can adapt to your standards and the specific skills that you want to reinforce. 160 pages. Fully illustrated with color photographs."