Develop fluent, confident readers with this activity book. Each lesson includes a piece of nonfiction, short fiction, script, song, poem or riddle. Follow-up activities help readers with unfamiliar words and punctuation marks. Students also learn about stressed and unstressed syllables, breathing patterns in reading aloud, suffixes, prefixes, root words, inflection and reading with emotion. Activity book is designed for first-graders and second-graders.