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	NEWLY RELEASED DVD Think Small! Engaging Our Youngest Readers in Small Groups. If you want to see small reading groups in action early in the year in kindergarten and first grade, this DVD is for you! Filmed in a Title I school , you'll see Debbie work with bilingual teachers, Estella Perez and Maria Diaz-Albertini to choose books, plan lessons, organize, and teach small groups for reading in their classrooms. Debbie works with different groups of students on English oral language, rhyming, reading, and writing. You'll see whole group lessons that connect to small group, a tour of the kindergarten small group teaching area, and tips for helping students work independently. This video was a delight to create, and you'll find it a welcome companion to Debbie's book, "Making the Most of Small Groups."
	NEWLY RELEASED PRODUCT! Literacy Work Station Task Cards: Emergent And Fluent Levels The newly reprinted Literacy Work Station Task Cards are finally here and are part of my Debbie Diller Design line at Really Good Stuff! Included are task cards for 8 different work stations written for emergent and fluent readers: Big Book, Buddy Reading, Classroom Library, Drama, Listening, Poetry, Word Study, and Writing.
	Each work station set of cards includes 7 meaningful, developmentally appropriate tasks for that level. Full-color illustrations add visual cues to ensure success. Each task is translated into Spanish on the reverse side. Includes 8 sets of 7 task cards plus 1 title card each, written for 2 different levels, and printed on laminated cardstock; hole-punched, with O-rings included. The task card sets are sold separately (emergent OR fluent levels) as well as in a complete set for emergent and fluent. Click here to get the complete set
	Spaces & Places: Designing Classrooms for Literacy This book works in tandem with Debbie’s other books from Stenhouse Publishers as it shows how to build the physical foundation or structure for quality instruction. In it, you’ll find over 300 full-color photos of PreK-5th grade classrooms for inspiration and direction in setting up your classroom. Through pictures and text, this unique visual reference answers tough questions about space that educators ask, such as: What do I really need in my classroom and what’s the best way to set it up? How does my physical classroom impact student learning? How can I find the space I need to teach more effectively? What can I get rid of and how? Where do I put all my stuff?
	Debbie Diller Designs Nursery Rhyme Big Books and Little Readers for Reading and Retelling . This set of classic nursery rhyme materials gives young children opportunities to read and retell favorite rhymes.
	Teachers can use these to teach beginning reading skills and strategies in shared reading, small group instruction, and at literacy work stations. Retelling pieces are also available for developing oral language and comprehension.
	Each book includes one nursery rhyme with one line of print per page, good spacing between words, and a close picture-text match. Little Miss Muffet, Hickory Dickory Dock, and One Two Buckle My Shoe are the first books in this new series from Really Good Stuff.
	Debbie Diller Designs Work Stations Management Kits. Get all you need to effectively manage literacy work stations in your classroom in one handy kit from Really Good Stuff. There is one for PreK/K, another for grades 1-2, and one for grades 3-6.
	Each kit includes a 31” x 35” double-sided pocket chart (use one side for literacy stations and the other side for math stations), full-color literacy stations icon cards (in English on one side and Spanish on the other), nameplates with space for each student’s photo and name, and “Meet with Me” cards to show which groups the teacher meets with and when.
	Full-color double-laminated signs for literacy work stations are also available. 16-18 different icons are included in each kit, including several blank ones for making your own.
	Debbie Diller Designs Classroom Mapping Kit. Also from Really Good Stuff. This laminated folder, when opened, provides you with a planning grid for your classroom space. Included are 60 full-color plastic cling-on pieces of die-cut furniture and spaces that adhere easily to the dry-erase folder. Manipulate these pieces to plan your classroom space before ever moving any furniture! Use in conjunction with Debbie’s new book, Spaces & Places.
	DVD - Spotlight on Small Groups See small groups in action. Debbie teaches two different reading groups in this DVD—one with a vocabulary focus using nonfiction and the other with a focus on inference in a fiction book. Use with Making the Most of Small Groups for a professional study group. For grades 2-5.
	DVD - Fluency Rubric In this video, Debbie explains fluency to a group of 3rd grade bilingual students and models how to use a fluency rubric so they can self-assess on a 4-step scale. For grades 2-5.
	Making the Most of Small Groups: Differentiation For All. This book by Debbie focuses on small group reading instruction and how to get more power from your lessons. It is structured around the five reading components-- comprehension, fluency, phonemic awarenes, phonics, and vocabulary-- and provides practical tips , sample lessons, lesson plans and templates, suggestions for related literacy work stations, and connections to whole-group instruction. You will love the ideas on organizing your time and resources and will appreciate the "research at a glance" and questions for using this resource in a book study.
	See literacy work stations in action in real classrooms in upper grades in this DVD series. Stepping Up with Literacy Stations: Design and Instruction in Grades 3-6 provides teachers in third grade and up a way to tap into the energy and excitement of this innovative management and learning system. This DVD takes viewers into diverse third and fifth grade classrooms, where Debbie Diller coaches and guides children and their teachers through the process of designing and implementing stations.
	Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work. This book will help teachers solve the dilemma: What does the rest of my class do while I'm working with a small reading group? Debbie Diller offers practical suggestions for over a dozen literacy work stations that link to instruction and make preparation and management easy for teachers. Learn how to set up work stations, how to manage them, and how to keep them going throughout the year.
	Launching Literacy Stations: Mini-Lessons for Managing and Sustaining Independent Work K-3. Literacy work stations are being embraced in many elementary schools as a way to ensure students of all ages are completing thoughtful, challenging tasks while their teachers meet with small groups of students. Debbie Diller, author of the book Literacy Work Stations, takes you into two primary classrooms to demonstrate how to create a thriving stations program.
	Practice With Purpose: Literacy Work Stations for Grades 3-6. In her book, Debbie shows teachers of grades three-to-six how to structure their classrooms so that all students can be successful doing meaningful independent work using literacy work stations. Practice with Purpose offers guidance on establishing routines for independent reading and response writing, as well as step-by-step instructions on how to set up and manage a variety of hands-on literacy work stations appropriate for intermediate students.
	Beyond the Names Chart: Using Children's Names for Word Study. Temporarily Unavailable K-2 teachers will love these easy-to-use suggestions for displaying and teaching with children's names all year long. This book has many ideas for helping children study words (learn phonics and spelling) in a connected way through shared and guided reading and writing, using the most powerful piece of text of all - the child's name! Valuable reproducible resources, such as names poems, names books, and independent names centers ideas are provided. Special features include tips for teaching with names from other languages and notes for 2nd grade teachers to extend names work.