educator resources
Give Your Kids a Lift That Pays Off
With Capstone as your partner, you can tap into the widest range of high-kid-appeal supplemental material that’s certain to ratchet up classroom enthusiasm and give all students—from struggling to gifted readers—the meaningful lift that helps them achieve success.
Reader’s Theater
Bring an exciting story to life with a leveled play script that builds oral reading fluency for each student. Reader's Theater engages both reading and public speaking skills in a format that promotes listening, builds cooperation and adds a fun element to reading routines. Learn more.
Activities Calendar
Spark new areas of research and tap into your students’ interests with our activities calendar. Discover educationally relevant holidays, events and celebrations and correlate books and other resources that deepen the experience far beyond a calendar date. Learn more.
Reading Olympics
Use these tools to help increase students' reading skills and enjoyment for reading. Learn more.
Videos
Create intrigue and excitement and learn more about our latest resources with our informational videos and trailers, including an intriguing look at the making of a graphic novel. View our videos.
Lesson Plans
Strengthen your instruction planning with our focused teacher guides. Using up-to-date instructional materials that support a variety of in-classroom strategies, you can fit our titles to current national curriculum standards, fully complementing your planning. Learn more.
No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
Add excitement and engage readers through fiction and nonfiction titles and supplemental reading programs and materials. Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and text comprehension are incorporated as critical elements for children’s reading achievement. Learn more.
Leveling Guide
Use our convenient guide to see how the most popular leveling systems correlate with grade levels and each other. Learn more.
Research
From phonics to vocabulary acquisition to the unique characteristics of academic language—the language of school—available research that demonstrates the critical value of classroom strategies that help kids achieve success through vocabulary acquisition and growth. Learn more.
Stimulus Support
Invest stimulus funds in important reading programs that will boost literacy and student achievement. How? Learn more about ARRA and how Capstone can support your initiatives. Learn more.
Articles
Improve content-area learning and literacy. Learn more.
Student Activities
Engage your students and extend their learning with these free downloadable activities, including a graphic novel template and the fun story-building game of EdLibs. Learn more.
Fairy Tale Support
Downloadable bookmarks to help your students find more fairy tales to read. Learn more.
Library Skills Downloadables
Mastering library skills is a critical component of learning. Let Capstone help you reinforce such key concepts as library organization, search strategies and more with these free downloadables. Learn more.
Professional Development
Our dynamic speakers have over twenty years of experience and can help you expand your abilities with one of our professional development programs. Learn more.
21st Century Learning
Make sure your students succeed by introducing 21st century learning skills. Not sure where to start? Learn more.
