Education - Elementary

Practice makes perfect This large collection of fun and engaging practice pages is designed to help students master essential skills in reading, writing, vocabulary, math, and more. With more than 300 skill-building practice pages, students are well on their way to succeed in school...

With so many different approaches to teaching reading, how can you make sense of the best paths available? If you begin with Frank Serafini's The Reading Workshop, you can be certain that each step you take will leave a lasting impression. By describing his...

Motivate growing readers with these entertaining 16-page storybooks correlated with guided reading levels I & J! Inside this sturdy storage box, you'll find 80 books (5 copies of 16 titles) plus a big teaching guide packed with lessons, tips, and reproducibles. Each book features...

Counting in Chuukese is a fun and colorful counting book. Through the use of vibrant imagery, this book teaches children to count in Chuukese, which is one of many languages of the people of Micronesia.In Chuukese, each different type of thing or object must...

Teachers all know students who won't take No for an answer, who pester and whine for the things they want, or who get emotional and angry during disagreements with adults and peers. In this companion guide to her picture book, I Just Don't Like...

In Daily Geography Practice, Grade 6+, 36 map lessons introduce basic geography skills and over 130 geography terms. What a perfect hands-on approach to geography instruction! The geography skills presented at Grade 6+ include: globes compass roses map legends map grids and coordinates map...

As teachers, we do indeed live narrative lives, and if you read Engaging Young Writers, Preschool to Grade 1, Matt Glover will help you live out new kinds of stories with the children you teach. I know he's helped me do just that. I'm...

Every grade level is designed with colorful, powerful images and readable text to make Social Studies more relevant than ever before.Author: McGraw-Hill EducationISBN-10: 0021513473ISBN-13: 9780021513475Publisher: MacMillan/McGraw-Hill School DivisionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2007Pages: 128Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 10.90h x 9.20w x 0.50d

More than 40 ready-to-use, skill-building practice pages with easy-to-follow directions and fun, motivating exercises! Perfect for classroom or at-home use, this exciting practice book provides invaluable reinforcement and practice with key math skills including: number sense and concepts reasoning and logic basic operations and...

Start your morning with a daily dose of inspiration! Bestselling author Danny Steele, known for his motivational @steelethoughts tweets, brings you a powerful quote for every day of the year. You'll find quotes on topics such as school culture, supporting your staff, effective leadership,...

����Give your children the opportunity to express their creativity through our Draw and Write Journal.����My First Draw and Write Journal for Kids is carefully made by parents for educational purposes, designed step-by-step along with their kids, so it will not miss any special details...

Join the Revolution Build a resilient Montessori school Montessori in Action: Building Resilient Montessori Schools delivers a practical and actionable method to provide a strong Montessori experience for all children, families and educators. The first of its kind, this book offers readers a collection...

Tech integration for early childhood education as thoughtful as it is wholehearted Technology isn't just a way to innovate instruction; it's also the key to building classrooms that are dynamic, playful, and truly connected. In Innovating Play, early childhood educators Jessica LaBar-Twomey and Christine...

This practical resource will help K-5 teachers incorporate digitally supported disciplinary literacy practices into their classroom instruction. With an emphasis on reaching all learners, the authors present Planning for Elementary Digitally supported Disciplinary Literacy (PEDDL)--a six-phase framework that introduces readers to an approach for...

A subject as moving and powerful as humanity's past should be inviting, and when it is told well, it is. Susan Wise Bauer succeeds in telling the captivating story of history with her best-selling history series. Parents and young readers have fallen in love...

Literacy is a skill for all time, for all people. It is an integral part of our lives, whether we are students or adult professionals. Giving all educators the breadth of knowledge and practical tools that help students strengthen their literacy skills is the...

Put children on the path to reading success with these fun, engaging activity books Each book targets 100 key sight words. Divided into manageable groups, words are introduced and reinforced through inviting activities, puzzles, and games. The activities are carefully designed to touch on...

Here are 224 hands-on science experiments and ideas with step-by-step instructions that will delight and amaze children as they experience nature, the human body, electricity, floating and sinking, and more. Categorized by curriculum areas, each activity includes a list of vocabulary words and easily...

This best-selling book by Viola Spolin offers the most comprehensive theater instruction for all types of students, from small children to young adults. It includes over 130 theater games, plus exercises and instructional strategies. First developed by Spolin, the originator of modern improvisational theater...

Math + Comics = Learning That's Fun! Help students build essential math skills and meet math standards with 80 laugh-out-loud comic strips and companion mini-story problems. Each reproducible comic and problem set reinforces a key math skill: multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, measurement, geometry, and...

Trait expert Ruth Culham has created a diverse set of papers grades K-2, assessed and annotated them, and designed an interactive whiteboard CD of exemplars so teachers and students can use them as the focus of trait-based writing instruction. The papers are highlighted by...

Tap into the power of graphic organizers for classroom success Veteran educator and NCTE trainer Katherine McKnight shows how students can use graphic organizers as an important tool to organize new information. Providing a visual representation that uses symbols to express ideas, concepts, and...

The Literacy Quick Guide provides a concise description of a coherent literacy system in which all instructional contexts are reciprocally connected to improve student outcomes. This information-packed guide provides an important look at reading, writing, talking, and word study, while succinctly describing research-based instructional...

More than 40 ready-to-use, skill-building practice pages with easy-to-follow directions and fun, motivating exercises! Perfect for classroom or at-home use, this exciting practice book provides invaluable reinforcement and practice with key math skills including: number sense and concepts reasoning and logic basic operations and...

Be sure kids test their best on standardized tests in math by familiarizing them with the skills, formats, and language they need to succeed. The 8 ready-to-take practice tests are a great way to boost confidence--and make test prep easy. Also includes bubble-style answer...

Author: Angela Calabrese Barton, Jason L. Ermer, Tanahia A. Burkett-BentonISBN-10: 0807743836ISBN-13: 9780807743836Publisher: Teachers College PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2003Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.22h x 5.98w x 0.47dReview Citation(s): Choice 04/01/2004 pg. 1523

Listed by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)'s Teacher Prep Review as an exemplary text covering all five elements of scientifically based reading instruction! Understand the science of reading and how to implement evidence-based instruction to increase the reading and writing achievement of...

Help students solve word problems with confidence using the proven Singapore bar modeling method. Twenty mini-lessons teach students how to use this effective strategy to tackle problems with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and more. Each lesson comes with four problems that increase in difficulty,...

Jump start your early reading program with this BIG collection of kid-pleasing little books correlated with Guided Reading Level B. Inside the sturdy storage box, you'll find 100 full-color books (5 x 20 titles) PLUS a great teaching guide packed with lessons, tips, and...

Daily Handwriting Practice, Modern Manuscript is more than just a handwriting book; it's a learning tool that helps developing young minds practice basic skills in an interesting and unique way. For example, as students learn to clearly write, "The gray ant is in third...

Saxon math programs produce confident students who are not only able to correctly compute, but also to apply concepts to new situations. These materials gently develop concepts, and the practice of those concepts is extended over a considerable period of time. This is called...

Thes workbooks offer activities for enhancing the vocabulary development of students for grades 2-9. They provide contextualized vocabulary practice and help students understand concepts aligning with Common Core Language Standards for Vocabulary Acquistion and Use.Author: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtISBN-10: 0547625758ISBN-13: 9780547625751Publisher: Steck Vaughn School SupplyLanguage:...

Give kids the repeated practice they need to master must-know sight words and build the automaticity and fluency they need for reading success. This activity-packed collection presents words from the Dolch list in a systematic way, allowing young learners to build and reinforce their...

In our efforts to reform mathematics education, we've learned a tremendous amount about young students' strategies and the ways they construct knowledge, without fully understanding how to support such development over time. The Dutch do. So, funded by the NSF and Exxon Mobil, Mathematics...

This book helps families understand the autism spectrum in a simple, strengths-based way.When I learned my child was autistic, I couldn't even explain what autism meant. I felt scared and helpless. Autism always seemed like something bad. My child was amazing just the way...

Provide effective academic vocabulary instruction for your 2nd grade students with short daily vocabulary lessons! Use these 15-minute lessons to teach your grade 2 students 95 key academic vocabulary words that they are likely to encounter in their daily lessons. These are a few...

Keep learning with this follow up to A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink! One book couldn't possibly be enough to cover the topic of nouns. The cats are back with their comical examples to drive home to readers just what a noun is....

History Pockets-Colonial America, Grades 4-6, contains eight discovery pockets. The introduction pocket gives an overview of the settlement of the thirteen original colonies. The other pockets feature a look at the aspects of colonial life in the northern, middle, and southern colonies. Each pocket...

In Making Sense of Math, Cathy L. Seeley, former president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, shares her insight into how to turn your students into flexible mathematical thinkers and problem solvers. This practical volume concentrates on the following areas: Making sense...

Karen Quinn has successfully taught hundreds of parents how to prepare their children for testing, and Testing For Kindergarten is her ultimate, comprehensive guide to having fun while teaching to the underlying abilities every test assesses. Whether your child is going to a private...

Go global as you tap into both history and geography (and math, of course ) to understand continents, countries, bodies of water, landmasses, and borders. Lessons on topography are interspersed with thought-provoking mini-tutorials on everything from population density and manufacturing to agriculture and climate....

Teaching nutrition to children early and often is the key to developing healthy eating habits. The fourth edition of How to Teach Nutrition to Kids includes over 200 cross-curricular activities featuring the MyPlate food guide, children's books, gardening, recipes, food art, label reading, fitness...

Science Is Simple contains 250 activities spanning 39 kid-pleasing science concepts. From magnets to bubbles, insects to volcanoes, there are experiments to interest each and every child. Budding scientists will "have a ball" learning about objects in motion or feeling the texture of their...

Give students the repeated practice they need to master the reading skill of making inferences, and succeed on tests Each of the 35 reproducible pages features a high-interest fiction and nonfiction reading passage with bubble-test practice questions that target this essential reading comprehension skill....

Much has been written on the topic of guided reading over the last twenty years, but no other leaders in literacy education have championed the topic with such depth and breadth as Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. In the highly anticipated second edition...

Make abstract qualities like tone, detail, and organization easily visible for young writers with Katie Wood Ray's In Pictures and in Words. "If teachers show children how an illustrator's decisions about pictures are a lot like a writer's decisions about words, they form a...

Harvey Daniels' Literature Circles introduced tens of thousands of teachers to the power of student-led book discussions. Nancy Steineke's Reading and Writing Together showed how a teacher can nurture friendship and collaboration among young readers. Now, Daniels and Steineke team up to focus on...

In 1949, a small book had a big impact on education. In just over one hundred pages, Ralph W. Tyler presented the concept that curriculum should be dynamic, a program under constant evaluation and revision. Curriculum had always been thought of as a static,...

Many practical books for music educators who work with special needs students focus on students' disabilities, rather than on the inclusive classroom more generally. In Including Everyone: Creating Music Classrooms Where All Children Learn, veteran teacher and pedagogue Judith Jellison offers a new approach...

As teachers and parents, we often hear that children are the best scientists. Great science teachers tune in to children's interests and observations to create engaging and effective lessons. This focus on the innate curiosity of children, or humans overall is celebrated and used...