Time Spies and Transitional Readers                                Candice Ransom

Time Spies series,

published by Mirrorstone Books                 Forthcoming titles:               

Secret in the Tower                                        Message in the Mountain

Bones in the Badlands                                   Flames in the City

Giant in the Garden                                       Struggle in the Street

Magician in the Trunk                                   Lady in the Harbor

Signals in the Sky                                           Spies in the Ocean

Rider in the Night                                           Airship in the Clouds

Horses in the Wind

Gold in the Hills

Mirrorstone Books, a division of Wizards of the Coast

www.mirrorstonebooks.com

Times Spies website:

www.timespies.com

To order Time Spies book club kits, e-mail:

mirrorstone@wizards.com

Bibliography:

Szymusiak, Karen and Franki Sibberson. Beyond Leveled Books: Supporting Transitional Readers in Grades 2-5. Portland, ME: Stenhouse, 2001.

Pink, Daniel. A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age. New York: Riverhead, 2005.

Skill Areas to Support Transitional Readers (from Beyond Leveled Books):

• Learning to select appropriate books
• Sustaining comprehension
• Maintaining interest over an entire book
• Understanding many genres
• Decoding and fluency skills
• Using text features

My Contact Information:

www.candiceransom.com

alaric@candiceransom.com

Speaking Engagements:  www.daytonbookings.com