Education - Elementary

33 Ways to Help with Writing equips teachers and teaching assistants with a wide range of practical resources to help children who are having difficulties learning the basic skills of writing. Offering a range of activities and games to engage children and encourage motivation...

Teaching the Dimensions of Literacy provides both the conceptual knowledge to support teachers' instructional decisions in the reading/literacy classroom and a multitude of instructional strategy lessons for classroom use with both monolingual and bilingual students. It proposes that teachers need to help children become...

In this ground-breaking book, Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in modern society. He critically examines 'the new social studies of childhood', reconsidering some of its key assumptions and positions and arguing that childhood is heterogeneous and complex. The study of...

Detailing qualitative research undertaken with elementary-grade children in a Korean heritage language school in the U.S., this text provides unique insight into the translanguaging practices and preferences of young, emergent bilinguals in a minority language group. Understanding the Oral and Written Translanguaging Practices of...

This essential resource is designed to help your classroom, school, or district better identify and serve gifted English language learners in the Latinx community. Drawing on detailed case studies and vignettes from actual programs, chapters highlight the unique needs of gifted Latinx English language...

The Parent Playbooks are designed to help the parent, teacher, or child with fun activities to do in just a few minutes a day. These activities are matched to the new Common Core State Standards lessons being taught in your schools everyday. Doing these...

The Parent Playbooks are designed to help the parent, teacher, or child with fun activities to do in just a few minutes a day. These activities are matched to the new Common Core State Standards lessons being taught in your schools everyday. Doing these...

The Parent Playbooks are designed to help the parent, teacher, or child with fun activities to do in just a few minutes a day. These activities are matched to the new Common Core State Standards lessons being taught in your schools everyday. Doing these...

How did a young generation of activists come together in 1990s Los Angeles to shake up the education system, creating lasting institutional change and lifting children and families across southern California? Critics claim that America's public schools remain feckless and hamstrung institutions, unable to...

This eBook+ version includes the following enhancements: interactive features and links to the up-to-date Companion Website, with more strategies and examples of practice and student work. This book's unique and engaging voice, supported by its many resources, will help future and in-service teachers bring...

An Essential Resource for Teachers of Children in First, Second, and Third GradesEdited and compiled just for teachers, this resource explains developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) so teachers can apply DAP in their work with children in first, second, and third grades. Chapters include: What...

Your students' comprehension--and writing--abilities will soar with this big collection of no-prep, task cards that teach all about figurative language! Each reproducible card contains a high-interest mini-passage and five key questions to hone must-know skills--in just ten minutes a day. Cards provide guided support...

A student will fare better on a test when s/he has practiced and mastered the skills measured by the assessment. A student also excels when s/he is familiar with the format and structure of the test. This book helps students do both. Students can...

Essay. Poetry. Book Clubs. Digital Composition. Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher extend their work in 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents by taking a deep dive into four essential studies. Their aim is to move beyond compliance and...

Children will develop word recognition skills, build automaticity, and improve reading fluency with these ready-to-go pages. Each page gives kids repeated opportunities to spell, write, and read a sight word while completing a fun poem Poems feature predictable, rhyming text and tie in with...

Build word power with 24 ready-to-reproduce, 3-page lessons Each lesson teaches ten words, and includes research-based activities that tap students' prior knowledge for greater understanding and give them multiple encounters with new words so they really remember them. Topics include synonyms, antonyms, compound words,...

Add this set of 100 text cards to your classroom routine and watch students' comprehension abilities skyrocket! Each reproducible card contains a high-interest mini-passage and five key questions to hone must-know inference skills--in just 10 minutes a day. Cards provide guided support to help...

Help students become confident, fluent readers using poetry. Compiled by a reading specialist, this book includes 50 engaging poems specially selected for building different aspects of oral reading fluency: poems to build intonation and phrasing, poems to build phonics patterns and sight words, and...

Help first graders learn important spelling and writing skills with Skill Sharpeners Spell & Write! Each of the 12 colorful units introduces eight new spelling words and includes engaging writing, matching, and fill-in-the-blank activities to help children understand the meaning and spelling of each...

Help students build fluency and gain confidence as readers with the timeless tales of King Midas, Daedalus and Icarus, Echo and Narcissus, and more. This collection of short scripts features parts that are written to accommodate readers at different proficiency levels-so everyone can participate....

Give young readers the tools they need to improve reading fluency and master letter-sound relationships with this teacher-friendly book of multisensory lessons based on the proven Orton-Gillingham (OG) reading approach. Bringing Orton-Gillingham and multisensory teaching into your classroom has never been easier. With this...

A counselor and popular Washington Post contributor offers a new take on grades 6-8 as a distinct developmental phase--and the perfect time to set up kids to thrive. Middle school is its own important, distinct territory, and yet it's either written off as an...

From caring for our environment to the digital revolution, the demand for STEM skills is huge and is only set to grow. STEM is therefore an important priority area in modern education, leaving many teachers and parents asking questions such as 'How do I...

Color, have fun & learn Coloring books helps develop hand-strength and focus, stimulates creativity, encourages self*expression, improves fine motor coordination, offers practice for pencil grip and much more. -100 pages with simple and big objects to color - crisp white paper to highlight colors...

Set the stage for reading success with 20 reproducible activity packs that teach the top 120 word families. Created by a reading specialist!20 reproducible activity packs that teach the top 120 word families Helps kids become fluent readers Created by a reading specialist! Perfect...

This comprehensive pack features 15 engaging topics-including animal families, plant life cycle, clouds, volcanoes, sound, light and shadow-that support the Next Generation Science Standards. Each topic comes in a self-contained folder with an anchor text for building background knowledge, multiple copies of two hands-on...

This practical resource helps students build essential skills for managing the typical math scenarios they encounter every day. Through high-interest lessons, guided activities, and reproducible independent pages, students practice standards-based math skills, such as estimating prices, calculating discounts, reading schedules, evaluating nutrition labels, and...

In Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice, Grade 5, students will learn 18 spelling words per week (540 total). Three sentences for dictation are provided for each list. Spelling lists include the following: contractions blends vowel sounds prefixes and suffixes compound words words with silent...

Mastering the basic facts for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division is an essential goal for all students. Most educators also agree that success at higher levels of math hinges on this fundamental skill. But what's the best way to get there? Are flash cards,...

In Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice, Grade 6, students will learn 18 spelling words per week (540 total). Three sentences for dictation are provided for each list. Spelling lists include the following: homophones blends vowel sounds prefixes and suffixes root words compound words words...

In Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice, Grade 1, students will learn five spelling words per week in lists 1-14; then eight words per week in lists 15-30 (198 total). One or two sentences for dictation are provided for each list. Spelling lists include the...

Harness the Power of Curiosity to Foster Students' Love for Learning From their youngest years, our children are innately curious. They explore the world around them through play, imagination, and discovery. They build meaning, they create understanding, and they unabashedly share their learning. It's...

Help your students turn simple sentences into super sentences with the engaging writing activities in Write a Super Sentence! Step-by-step directions guide students through the process of describing who, what, where, and when. 15 guided lessons help students learn a pattern for writing more...

How to Write a Story, Grades 4-6 is packed with easy-to-do ideas and dozens of writing forms that help students improve their sentence writing skills. Part I: Learn the Parts of a Story Students learn to identify and develop characters, settings, plots, and conclusions...

Engage students in meaningful discussions with these collections of short "sticky situation" stories that get them to think deeply and talk about issues that are important and relevant to their lives. Thought-provoking topics include bullying, peer pressure, friendship, family, schoolwork, tolerance, values, and more....

High-interest science and social studies book sets for small groups. Features gorgeous photos, rebus pictures, patterned text, high-frequency words, and consistent print placement. Box set includes 144 full-color, 8-page books (6 copies of 24 titles). Correlates to Guided Reading Levels B-F.Author: Scholastic Teaching ResourcesISBN-10:...

The higher standards expected today call for literacy instruction that focuses on the close reading of complex texts. In this book, twenty literary text passages are organized around high-interest topics connected to the curriculum and to key comprehension skills. Each reading is specially formatted...

Learning to decode is easy with this big collection of engaging informational books on kids' favorite animals-from bugs to apes, frogs to whales Inside the sturdy storage box, you'll find a total of 144 books (6 copies of 24 titles) that target and teach...

Fifty, 2-page activities to help students build skills in vocabulary, grammar, spelling, writing, reading comprehension and fluency, handwriting, and more. Students will quickly learn how to follow the routine and jumpstart their learning at the beginning of the day-or anytime A great way to...

Favorite poet and author Georgia Heard shares step-by-step poetry lessons that guide students to identify figurative language, hear rhyme, rhythm, and other poetic conventions, and explore imagery and theme-and then determine how these elements deepen their understanding of the poem. Students gain a thorough...

Before actual writing occurs, writers prepare. With these words, award-winning children's author David Harrison affirms the importance of teaching students the necessary steps of prewriting-from choosing a viable topic to conducting in-depth research to taking effective notes and organizing them. In this book David...

Student book and eText - the popular choice for Psychology. Key features: Fully comprehensive, with complete coverage of Methodology and Ethics from Parts 3 and 4 of the syllabus. Written to give an international and transdisciplinary perspective. Detailed diagrams and photographs to clearly explain...

Traditional music education centered around the ensemble classroom has often privileged reading music and instrumental technique over creative skills such as composition, improvisation, and learning by ear. As the technological landscape of students' everyday lives rapidly shifts, what schools teach rarely aligns with students'...

The much admired school system of 19th-century Germany served as a model for the educational systems of many other countries, including Britain and the United States. In this illuminating study of German primary schools, Lamberti examines an educational tradition that was the object of...

Helps teachers of young learners introduce and practise grammar in a fun and motivating way. Steers a middle course between grammar-based and communicative approaches to teaching: meaning is the main focus of all language teaching and grammar is an intrinsic part of making meaning...

Clearly explained, motivating activities. Attractive photocopiable worksheets. Age-appropriate subject materials. Language suitable for primary children's level of English. Organized by theme. Subjects have been carefully chosen to suit a wide range of teaching contexts.Author: SvecovaISBN-10: 0194425886ISBN-13: 9780194425889Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2008Pages: 208Format:...

Teachers are often taught that young children are incapable of logical thought. Prone to fantasy and unruffled by inconsistency, preschool children are frequently baffled by the first lessons of early schooling. Trained to gently resist the child's illogic, teachers sometimes create just the incomprehension...

Seven easy steps to differentiating math instruction for busy teachers Staff development expert Leslie Laud provides a clear roadmap for using formative assessment to differentiate mathematics instruction for students in Grades 4-10. She presents a comprehensive framework of seven research-based practices that show teachers...

Descriptosaurus: Ghost Stories builds on the vocabulary and descriptive phrases introduced in the original bestselling Descriptosaurus and, within the context of ghost stories, develops the structure and use of the words and phrases to promote colourful cinematic writing. This essential guide will enable children...

Through stories from kindergarten to sixth grade classrooms where students and teachers have attempted to put a critical edge on their teaching, this book shows critical literacy in action across the curriculum. Readers see students and teachers together using critical literacy discourse to frame...