Books in the DISTAR LANGUAGE SERIES series

Teaches the basic vocabulary and concepts that students need to be successful in school. This book includes lessons to help students catch up with their more verbal peers. It helps teachers create a language-centered learning environment.

An oral language program that teaches essential concepts and skills that children need to succeed in school. It provides carefully sequenced lessons to help students learn vocabulary commonly used by teachers, as well as by textbooks and other instructional material.

Boost language skills through critical thinking

Language for Thinking builds upon the concepts, vocabulary, and statement patterns introduced in Language for Learning. Carefully organized sequences of activities, exceptional vocabulary development, extensive practice, sequencing and retelling exercises, and inference activities set the stage for reading comprehension and the grammatical analysis of written language.

Helps beginning and early intermediate ELL in elementary grades achieve functional spoken English. Students learn the words, concepts, and statements important to both oral and written language.

Offers a highly explicit, systematic approach to teaching reading that has proven successful in a wide range of schools, classrooms, and districts. This book also addresses all five essential components of reading - phonemic awareness, phonics and word analysis, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Teaches the basic vocabulary and concepts that students need to be successful in school. This book includes lessons to help students catch up with their more verbal peers. It helps teachers to create a language-centered learning environment.

Phonological and phonemic awareness for early learners

A comprehensive oral language program that teaches essential concepts and skills that children need to succeed in school. It provides carefully sequenced lessons to help students: learn vocabulary commonly used by teachers, and develop precise knowledge of "little," but important, words such as first, next, between, who, what, and where.

Boost communication skills through writing

Use Language for Writing to lead your students toward independence as writers. This revision and expansion of Distar Language III teaches not only writing skills, but also the vocabulary, sentence, and organizational skills that underpin good writing.

Focusing on the concepts, vocabulary, and statement patterns, this book features sequences of activities, vocabulary development, extensive practice, sequencing and retelling exercises, and inference activities set the stage for reading comprehension and the grammatical analysis of written language.

Builds upon the concepts, vocabulary, and statement patterns introduced in Language for Learning. In this book, carefully organized sequences of activities, vocabulary development, extensive practice, sequencing and retelling exercises, and inference activities set the stage for reading comprehension and grammatical analysis of written language.

Builds student background a component of the print experience that enables teachers to model student responses and build background knowledge and piques interest.

Builds student background a component of the print experience that enables teachers to model student responses and build background knowledge and piques interest.

Builds student background a component of the print experience that enables teachers to model student responses and build background knowledge and piques interest.

Helps beginning and early intermediate ELL in elementary grades achieve functional spoken English. In this book, students learn the words, concepts, and statements important to both oral and written language.

Offers a way to teach the basic vocabulary and concepts that students need to be successful in school. This book intends to meet the needs of students who have less than adequate language skills for their age.

Teaches the basic vocabulary and concepts that students need to be successful in school. This book includes lessons to help students catch up with their more verbal peers. It helps teachers to create a language-centered learning environment.

Teaches the basic vocabulary and concepts that students need to be successful in school. This book includes lessons to help students catch up with their more verbal peers. It helps teachers to create a language-centered learning environment.

Use Language for Writing to lead your students toward independence as writers. This revision and expansion of Distar Language III teaches not only writing skills, but also the vocabulary, sentence, and organizational skills that underpin good writing.

Use Language for Writing to lead your students toward independence as writers. This revision and expansion of Distar Language III teaches not only writing skills, but also the vocabulary, sentence, and organizational skills that underpin good writing.

Builds upon the concepts, vocabulary, and statement patterns introduced in Language for Learning. In this book, carefully organized sequences of activities, vocabulary development, extensive practice, sequencing and retelling exercises, and inference activities set the stage for reading comprehension and grammatical analysis of written language.