Story Friends(TM) Teacher Guide

Watch a recorded webinar on Story Friends! This book is your user-friendly guide to implementing Story Friends, a fun and engaging language intervention program for 4- to 6-year-old children at risk for later reading difficulty. Youll getAn accessible, concise overview of the program and its many benefitsA look at the research behind Story FriendsComplete guidance on setting up your listening center an area in your classroom where children listen to stories and instruction based on those storiesAn easy threestep model for implementing the Story Friends programInstructions on monitoring student progress Photocopiable resources, including assessments, program pacing charts, and attendance logsThrough 26 interactive animal-themed storybooks and lively, engaging audio recordings, Story Friends effectively improves oral language and vocabulary developmenttwo of the most important predictors of later reading success. With colorful illustrations, rhyming text, interactive story components, and appealing narration from Wanda the Word Wolf, children strengthen other important skills, such as solving problems, empathizing, working together, and making friends with others who are different. And because Story Friends is a natural fit with any existing classroom schedule or curriculum, its easier than ever to deliver interventions when they matter most and get all young children ready to read and succeed.Learn more about the Story Friends program.Stay on track for implementation success with the professional development modules for Story Friends. Learn more about the complete Multitiered Interventions for Language & Literacy in Early Childhood (MILLIE) product suite.