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AS OF JUNE 2025, this site will be edited, due to SOME outdated information. Therefore, this site is still operational and still serves as an alternative resource for helping young children learn to read.

WELCOME to TOPS THE MONKEY!

Be sure to click on the MENU to see what this site offers besides read aloud videos for DRA Levels 1-16.

For those interested in phonics, I do have FREE instructional videos, uploaded on Teacher Tube. The only problem using Teacher Tube has been the short ad that appears before each FREE lesson.

(Most books, read aloud, has a link listed for a FREE follow-up activity available on my Teachers Pay Teachers' Store).

The activities below are not free but are needed in today's educational market:

Quick Assessments for Nonfiction Text Features
Labels, Captions, and Charts
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Quick-Assessments-for-the-Nonfiction-Text-Features-Labels-Captions-Charts-7134519
Table of Contents
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Quick-Assessments-for-the-Nonfiction-Text-Feature-Table-of-Contents-7134598
Using the Index
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Quick-Assessments-for-the-Nonfiction-Text-Feature-Using-the-Index-7134761
Assessment for Headings, Bold Words and Captions
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/An-Assessment-for-Nonfiction-Text-Features-Headings-Bold-Words-and-Captions-7309876
Assessment for Table of Contents
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Quick-Assessments-for-the-Nonfiction-Text-Feature-Table-of-Contents-7134598

FREE Read Aloud Video Library with FREE activities
Kindergarten/DRA 1): https://www.topsthemonkey.com/read-alouds-for-kindergartendra-1.html
(Ten Book Videos)
Kindergarten/DRA 2): https://www.topsthemonkey.com/read-alouds-for-kindergartendra-2.html
(Seven Book Videos)
Kindergarten/DRA 3):https://www.topsthemonkey.com/read-alouds-for-kindergartendra-3.html
(Eight Book Videos)
First Grade/ DRA 4): https://www.topsthemonkey.com/first-grade-read-aloud-videos-for-dra-4.html
(Seven Book Videos)
First Grade/ DRA 6):  https://www.topsthemonkey.com/first-grade-read-aloud-videos-for-dra-6.html
(Six Book Videos)
First Grade/ DRA 8):  https://www.topsthemonkey.com/first-grade-dra-8-read-alouds.html
(Seven Book Videos)
First Grade/ DRA 10:)  www.topsthemonkey.com/first-grade-dra-10-read-alouds-with-free-activities.html
(Six Book Videos)
First Grade/ DRA 12/DRA 14/DRA 16
(Three books per level) https://www.topsthemonkey.com/read-alouds-for-dra-12-14-16.html

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I am a retired teacher. I've taught for forty years and retired with exemplary status (master teacher). I have a bachelor's degree in elementary education from the University of South Florida. I have a master's degree in reading education from Old Dominion University. I am a Navy wife and mother of three children. Currently, I'm an Indie Author and a Traditional Author with arobookpublishing.com. Also, I have received a number of prestigious awards, such as the National Award Winner in Nickelodeon's Bright Orange Teacher Contest, a National Daily Point of Light Award from the Points of Light Foundation, a National Presidential Call-to-Service Award, Cox Cable Educator of the Year, VFW District-Leveled Teacher of the Year, Thirteen Norfolk Public School Teacher Bell Awards and twice was named as a semi-finalist as Norfolk Public School's Teacher of the Year.

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