Grade(s): K
Pages: 248, Digital Resource CD included.

Activities: 5 activities for each of 180 days

This standards-based resource provides an engaging and purposeful practice page for every day of the school year. Foundational skills and anchor standards for reading are addressed daily through fiction and nonfiction passages, allowing students ample opportunity to interact with text and advance in text complexity. Day 5 of each week provides a writing exercise.

The practice pages follow a consistent format. Providing the questions as a full practice page makes it easy to set a daily goal.

Parents looking for supplemental reading activities can begin this title at any time during the school year. It works just a well for summer skill retention. Purchase the grade your child will be entering and aim for a couple of pages a day. At the end of summer your child will have improved their reading skills.

The activities in 180 Days of Reading are aligned to Common Core Standards.

The Teacher Resource CD contains pdf versions of all the worksheets and assesment analysis resources. Teachers can use the included diagnostic tools to record evidence of student learning, assess student and class progress, and identify students' intervention or enrichment needs.

The reading skills targeted in this book include:

• Reading with purpose and understanding
• Understanding letter-sound correspondence
• Understanding sight words and vocabulary
• Associating vowel sounds with common spellings
• Understanding setting and plot
• Summarizing

Table of Contents

Introduction and Research
How to Use This Book
Standards Correlations
Table of Contents
Daily Practice Pages
Answer Key
References Cited
Contents of the Digital Resource CD


Common Core State Standards Addressed
Days 1-3. Questions 1-3
Reading Foundational Skills 3a: Demonstrate basic knowledge of letter‑sound correspondences by producing the primary or most frequent sound for each consonant or

Reading Foundational Skills 3b: Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

Days 1-3. Question 4
Reading Foundational Skills 3d: Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ

Day 4
Reading Foundational Skills 4: Read emergent‑reader texts with purpose and understanding

Day 5
Writing 3: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.