Education - Elementary

What would it be like to teach as if life matters? To move beyond the typical regimen of classroom exercises, homework, and standardized tests and to guide students through life's most important lessons? Dissatisfied with traditional educational models, Christopher Uhl and Dana L. Stuchul...

Mind-blowing and fun, this collection of quick hands-on activities motivates students to learn more about science!Get students revved up for science with this collection of 50 quick, mind-blowing experiments that will have them clamoring for more! Designed to pique kids' interest, these learning-rich activities...

In The Languages of Learning Karen Gallas offers a new approach to understanding how young children in early and elementary grades communicate their knowledge of the world and the ways in which that kind of understanding can transform the educative process. In addition to...

Set the stage for new readers to soar with these just-right books that teach the first 25 sight words! This sturdy tub includes 6 copies of 25 titles, each focused on a key sight word from the Fry List: the, of, and, a, to,...

Watch America's favorite teacher of guided reading, Jan Richardson, lead targeted lessons that accelerate the growth of transitional and fluent readers in grade 3 and higher. Jan demonstrates exactly how to plan, teach, check for understanding, and reteach. An easy-to-use View & Do guide...

What makes a good relationship? How does flight influence behavior for humans and birds? Is it ever permissible to lie? Reframing our units and lessons with questions such as these makes learning more exciting for students. Wilhelm debunks the myth that teaching through inquiry...

In an effective writing workshop, young children grow in leaps and bounds, and within just a few months, the changes in their written products can dazzle you. And after 30 years of studying her students' growth in the writing workshop, Lucy Calkins knows one...

Our one-on-one talks with students during writing workshop offer us perfect opportunities to zero in on what each student needs as a writer. As Lead Staff Developer for the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Carl Anderson has provided hundreds of teachers with the...

Math reference for kids ages 10+ Make learning fun--anywhere, anytime--with Carson Dellosa's Be Clever Wherever Break It Down Advanced Fractions Reference Book! Math Books are a great way for fifth and sixth grade students to learn step-by-step strategies to help strengthen their understanding of...

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...

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 fractions.Author: Scholastic Teaching ResourcesISBN-10: 1338798367ISBN-13: 9781338798364Publisher: Scholastic Teaching ResourcesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2022Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize:...

Give students plenty of opportunities to investigate math concepts and skills more deeply. The open-ended activities in this book encourage students to look at math problems from various angles and explore how new concepts fit into what they already know about math. Students expand...

The preschool writing paper Notebook with dotted lines is the The perfect choice for your kidto begin first steps towards learning to write. Practicing handwriting in this lined paper book it is a great way for your kid to learn and preserve memories of...

We live in a three-dimensional world, but many of our learning environments offer few opportunities for three-dimensional exploration and developing the spatial reasoning that is integral to everyday life and to closing the achievement gap. Developing these skills in children will cultivate their curiosity,...

The essential guide to the science behind reading and its practical implications for classroom teaching in primary schools. Teaching children to read is one of the most important tasks in primary education and classroom practice needs to be underpinned by a secure foundation of...

This book reveals the types of homework activity that are most beneficial to pupils' attainment and makes sense of the research on homework and how it can be used most effectively. Suggesting ways in which the impact of homework can be improved, this book...

Following on from the huge success of Boys Don't Try? this essential new book answers nine key questions about how teachers and schools can best tackle boys' academic underperformance. For decades schools have grappled with the most significant barriers to male academic success: a...

Now your students can play with their food These fun mini-books allow students to learn all about fractions by "flipping" up portions of these booklets with a food theme to change the quantity revealed. For example, for the "sandwich" book the students discover that...

This book is a roadmap to the key decisions, processes, and procedures to use when synthesizing qualitative literacy research. Covering the major types of syntheses - including the dissertation literature review, traditional literature review, integrative literature review, meta-synthesis, and meta-ethnography - Compton-Lilly, Rogers, and...

Get the Targeted Practice You Need to Excel on the Math Section of the Mathematics Test Grade 7 Mathematics Practice Workbook Grade 7 is an excellent investment in your future and the best solution for students who want to maximize their score and minimize...

Learning to read can be challenging and a lot of work. Children who learn to read high-frequency words by sight will increase their confidence and fluency in their reading. Teaching sight words through songs, games, and the use of manipulatives makes learning them easy....

Despite efforts toward literacy reform, reading growth commonly flatlines in the secondary years. In Literacy Reframed, the authors offer a game-changing new way to think about--and teach--literacy at all levels. You will gain a dynamic path forward for creating classrooms that fully support students...

This book explores what writing for pleasure means, and how it can be realised as a much-needed pedagogy whose aim is to develop children, young people, and their teachers as extraordinary and life-long writers. The approach described is grounded in what global research has...

PYP How, Where, Who, Share! is an activity-based workbook created just for International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme students. Suitable for use: in class as part of units of inquiry at home for summer bridge activities for homework. This child-friendly workbook helps students to understand...

Introduce diversity and social-emotional learning to elementary students through a wide array of culturally relevant, quality children's literature. This valuable resource shares recommendations for books that explore race, ethnicity, gender, (dis)ability, religion, and more. The authors pair activities with book suggestions to promote healthy...

This text offers readers a holistic view of elementary social studies that instills compassion for all classroom voices and for those outside the classroom. This approach provides a social studies perspective that enables readers to articulate, apply, and defend engaging learning experiences that value...

This is the new Whole Numbers and Integers 2nd Edition, a completely edited version including a handy glossary and resource center.This is where it all starts. Without mastering whole numbers, making further progress in math is impossible. This book leads you through, step-by-step, to...

A teacher lesson plan to further explore the book. May include comprehension questions, group activities, conversation starters, quizzes, language arts activities, and colouring pages. When he is gifted a handmade drum by his mother, Ren learns the teachings of the drum that she also...

The two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Performance provides a resource that musicians, scholars and educators will use as the most important and authoritative overview of work within the areas of music psychology and performance science. The 80 experts from 13 countries who prepared the...

This unique alphabet book is the bridge that will allow the Haitian-Creole language to travel from the lips of the elders to future generations. In this book, Mr. Augustin simplifies the process of learning the Creole alphabets with colorful letters, illustrations, and the phonemic...

Now in its seventh edition, Creativity in the Classroom helps teachers link creativity research and theory to the everyday activities of classroom teaching. Ideal reading for any course dealing wholly or partially with creativity and teaching, this foundational textbook covers definitions, research, and theory...

A perfect Workbook For Children To Learn How To Write Tibetan Alphabets - 30 Tibetan Alphabets - This is a beautiful 122 Page book for children of ages 4+ to learn Tibetan Alphabets through practicing letter tracing. The Book Contains: The book details each...

Developing Reading Comprehension Skills Years 5-6: Classic Children's Literature contains 12 high quality extracts from classic children's stories and is perfect preparation for KS2 SATs and 11+ Reading Comprehension Papers. Each of the extracts is accompanied by eight sets of questions based on the...

What meanings do your students have for key mathematics concepts? What meanings do you wish them to have?　Creating a Language-Rich Math Class offers practical approaches for developing conceptual understandings by connecting concrete, pictorial, verbal, and symbolic representations. The focus is on making mathematics memorable...

This revised and updated third edition offers a range of strategies, activities and ideas to bring mathematics to life in the primary classroom. Taking an innovative and playful approach to maths teaching, this book promotes creativity as a key element of practice and offers...

Most of these melodies are rather unique compared to our other book with the most popular and simple kids songs "Tongue Drum Songbook for Beginner: Play Simple Kids Songs by Number"), but most of these songs will keep your audience listening with great interest...

This book shows how teachers, can orchestrate increased nonfiction writing in every classrooms and, by so doing, raise student achievement in all subject areas. Here you'll find strategies to help you use more nonfiction writing with students, no matter the subject.Author: Angela B. PeeryISBN-10:...

Get the Targeted Practice You Need to Ace the Common Core Math Test Common Core Subject Test Mathematics Grade 5 includes easy-to-follow instructions, helpful examples, and plenty of math practice problems to assist students to master each concept, brush up their problem-solving skills, and...

A thermometer, a water-cycle model, a wave machine, a greenhouse--these are just a few things students can make out of a simple soda bottle. This book features learning-rich, hands-on activities that teach about the weather, motion, changes in matter, ecosystems, and more. A fun...

In Lessons That Change Writers, Nancie has narrowed and deepened her conversation with teachers, to focus on the minilesson as a vehicle for helping students improve their writing. She shares over a hundred of these writing lessons which are described by her students as...

The Fountas & Pinnell Prompting Guide Part 2, for Comprehension: Thinking, Talking, and Writing contains precise language to use when teaching, prompting for, and reinforcing effective strategic actions in reading and writing. Classroom teachers, reading specialists, literacy teachers, and literacy coaches can use the...

Whether youre new to the classroom or merely new to the reading-writing workshop, Getting Started is the concise primer youre looking for that will help you implement these powerful teaching frameworks. Workshop teaching is simple, research based, and rewarding for you and your students....

No matter what grade you teach, what state your school is in, and what level of diversity is present in your classroom, students have the right to be shown real-world examples of the kinds of writing theyre asked to produce. For Katie Wood Ray,...

Nearly the whole of America's partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter...

Discuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up--in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives. Not merely institutions of learning, schools have increasingly become a sign of a...

The changing adolescent voice counts among the most awkward of topics voice teachers and choir directors face. Adolescent voice students already find themselves at a volatile developmental time in their lives, and the stresses and possible embarrassments of unpredictable vocal capabilities make participation in...

Since the mid-twentieth century, Zolt疣 Kod疝y's child-developmental philosophy for teaching music has had significant positive impact on music education around the world, and is now at the core of music teaching in the United States and other English speaking countries. The Kod疝y Today handbook...

The internationally acclaimed children's book writer and educator offers her insights into the learning process, language education, and the pleasure, growth, and power that reading and writing can bring.Author: Mem FoxISBN-10: 015607947XISBN-13: 9780156079471Publisher: Harper PaperbacksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/07/1993Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.10w x...

Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a bound book, use ISBN 0133548635. In this unique guide, classroom teachers, coaches, curriculum coordinators, college students, and teacher...

Collins International Primary English is a six-level, multi-component course for the international market which has been carefully developed to meet the needs of teachers and students. Collins is working with Cambridge International Examinations towards endorsement of these titles. Collins International Primary English is a...