Learn the essential steps of writing an essay with our engaging and highly interactive 80 screen page digital lesson plan. Take the fear out of writing essays and empower your students by giving them the tools to comprehensively express their point of view. Our digital lesson plan provides clear and concise lessons about every stage of the writing process. We offer instruction about the four most common types of essays - Descriptive, Narrative, Informative and Persuasive - and provide review lessons about verbs, adjectives and pronouns. Learn how graphic organizers can help students work through the writing process. Create an opportunity for your students to get more involved in the lesson by using your classroom Interactive Whiteboard. Each ready-made screen contains reading passages, before and after you read interactive activities, test prep, memory match game, crossword, word search, and even supporting video & audio. All of our content is aligned to your State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy. Each ready-made digital lesson plan will operate on the following devices: - PC and MAC computers - Standard & Interactive Projectors - Touchscreen Displays - Interactive Whiteboards, including: SMART Board (Notebook), Promethean Board, MimioBoard, Epson, Best-Rite Board, eBeam, Hitachi, Touch IT, Panasonic, or any other brand of Interactive Whiteboard. **SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS** Windows PC: Intel PentiumII 450 MHz or faster processor; Windows XP or higher operating system. MAC OS: Power PC G3 500 MHz or faster processor; Intel Core Duo 1.83 GHz or faster processor; Mac OS X v.10.1.x or higher operating system. A minimum of 128 MB of RAM; a minimum of 50 MB free hard disc space.

The Core Reading Skills Program features hundreds of ready-to-use activities designed to help struggling readers become more confident, fluent readers. This essential program includes four sections of skill-specific activities. Section 1 includes 56 high-interest stories, follow-up questions, and cloze reading assessments, along with an Audio CD that reads each story aloud. Section 2 features vocabulary activities like word search puzzles, configurations, and crossword puzzles. Section 3 covers conclusions and inferences through picture matching, sentence matching, and riddles. Section 4 features 10 stories with end-of-line word counts, a fluency chart, and word lists. The 224-pg. binder contains over 200 reading activities, timed reading chart, fluency progress chart, reading levels & word counts chart, words/phrases/sentences lists, and answer key--all included as PDFs on a whiteboard-ready Resource CD. 9 Essential Skills Covered: Building Vocabulary, Drawing Conclusions, Finding Facts, Following Directions, Improving Fluency, Locating Answers, Making Inferences, Understanding Main Idea, and Using Context. Binder Program Includes: - 56 High-Interest Stories with Follow-up Questions & Cloze Reading Assessments - 40 Vocabulary Activities - 29 Conclusions & Inferences Activities - 10 Fluency Stories with End-of-Line Word Counts - 14 Fluency Word/Phrase/Sentence Lists - Reading Level & Word Count Charts - Timed Reading Charts - Fluency Progress Chart - 1 Whiteboard-Ready Resource CD with Reproducible PDFs - 1 Audio CD