Students experience meaningful and motivating opportunities to develop literacy skills in this multimedia collection that focuses on listening and oral communication components of language skill. The Ribbit Collection helps students develop their listening, speaking, sequencing, reading, and writing skills in a learning environment that developmentally mirrors the natural language acquisition process. By building on oral language strengths, students solidly learn to read, write, and comprehend literature. The Ribbit Collection’s four volumes each address the specific area of literacy, listening, reading skills, and writing in an open-ended presentation that is accessible to students on every ability level. This series focuses on the development of listening and oral language while introducing reading and writing skills. Anchor Story Volume 1: Students begin the series with a video presentation of a thematic story entitled The Little Planet and the Magic Hats, and are presented with an authentic writing challenge. Instruction is anchored around an original video story that becomes a common context for the entire class to participate. Thematic Short Stories Volume 2: Three multicultural folktales encourage high-level class discussion by presenting students with authentic literary themes. In this program, students focus on sequencing and retelling the folktales and begin to write their own stories based on these oral retellings. Students can review, publish, and share their version of three folktales. Reading Skills Volume 3: Twenty storybooks reinforce knowledge of different vowel sounds and common word families, solidly developing phonics reading skills in your emergent readers. The Read Along and Sing Along books incorporate scaffolding support with highlighted text, clear audio pronunciation, options for word syllabication, and a recording section for student reading. Creating Original Stories Volume 4: Students continue book-writing activities with the three story starters contained in this program. Exciting clip art, enhanced drawing tools, musical selections, and recording features allow students to author and present stories based on story-starter themes and become more independent developing their own ideas. With The Ribbit Collection, teachers find detailed support materials, including a teacher’s CD-ROM and teacher’s guides complete with blackline masters, lesson plans, and assessment materials.
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