Education - Elementary

There's more to solving math problems than memorizing algorithms. The open-ended activities in this book encourage students to investigate math concepts and skills deeply by looking at problems from various angles. Students expand their understanding through the use of manipulatives or representational drawing as...

School culture is unarguably central to a school's success or failure. While there is no single "correct" school culture, there are lessons to be learned. Culture Rules examines the factors that create an environment where students want to learn, and adults want to teach....

This book provides a variety of strategies for creating, grading, and using assessments in the virtual setting. With more teaching and learning taking place online, teachers are adjusting their strategies for creating, grading, and using virtual assessments. This strategies-based book helps you understand the...

A kindergarten student named Iris teaches K-2 elementary kids about personal pronouns. She identifies the personal pronouns and tells kids how the pronouns relate to gender and number. She teaches the kids in her own "kindergarten talk" by using repetition and rhythm.Author: Lillie OyebanjoISBN-10:...

Parenting in the digital age has never been tougher. It seems the world is changing around us at an ever-increasing speed with new technology, massive amounts of information, and new dangers lurking everywhere--especially online.At school and in our communities our kids are talking about...

How to craft a dynamic personal essay that will get your college application noticed.College admissions--that is, admission to the school of your choice--has become incredibly competitive. Students and their families prepare from grade school onward to shape school "careers" that will give them a...

This book draws attention to the urgent need for early childhood education to critically encounter and pedagogically respond to the entanglements of environmentally damaged places, anti-blackness, and settler colonial legacies. Drawing from the author's multi-year participatory action research with educators and children in suburban...

Find the tools and knowledge you need to build resilience in all children from an early age through appropriate interactions and conversations. Presenting a wide range of research in an accessible format, Positive Interactions with At-Risk Children explains how to understand and assess behaviors...

Who will you be? Hamlet? Claudius? Ophelia? Rosencrantz or Guildenstern? Hamlet like you have never experienced it before: quick, fun, and easy to understand. Designed for 6-20+ actors, kids, families, or anyone who wants to enjoy and perform Shakespeare's classic play. Hamlet for Kids...

2016 Bronze Winner Wishing Shelf Book Award "An inspirational way of helping children to count. A Bronze Medal Winner and highly recommended."'A very clever and fun way to help children to remember numbers. Highly recommended ' -Wishing Shelf Book Review, England- Numbers are my...

Ideal for both beginners and more experienced storytellers, this exhaustive primer includes everything adults need to start sharing the wonder of stories with children, from babies to tweens. The lively text imparts easy-to-follow guidelines and practical advice on how, when, where, and why to...

Author: Robert SmithISBN-10: 0743937309ISBN-13: 9780743937306Publisher: Teacher Created ResourcesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2003Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 10.91h x 8.38w x 0.12d

How does a teacher begin to appreciate and tap the rich creative resources of the fantasy world of children? What social functions do story playing and storytelling serve in the preschool classroom? And how can the child who is trapped in private fantasies be...

From the creators of the popular education blogs Teach Mama and No Time for Flash Cards comes a must-have parents' guide for raising lifelong readers and learners. Written for today's time-crunched parents, this book is filled with easy-to-implement tips for creating a literate environment...

This resource features ready-to-go reproducible pages that target key fifth grade grammar topics-parts of speech, verb tenses, capitalization, punctuation, types of sentences, and more! Each activity includes quick teacher tips, but because most students will be able to complete these exercises independently, they are...

A collection of 25 leveled passages with text-dependent comprehension questions that help students tackle increasingly complex texts and provide the academic rigor called for by the Common Core State Standards.- Each book features passages at various levels of text complexity.- Companion comprehension questions require...

Bring a new dimension to graphic organizers-and increase students' ability to learn and remember important content-area information-with these 20 engaging learning tools. Each organizer comes with a ready-to-go template, easy step-by-step directions, and ideas for using it across the curriculum. The finished three-dimensional products...

Taking a broad approach, Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science and other fields and to an analysis of the world we live in today. It places these issues...

"What is the very best instruction for English learners? How do we capitalize on and further develop the linguistic knowledge and skill of this segment of society? Nonie Lesaux and Julie Harris are exceedingly well qualified to address these questions. On the cutting edge...

"How glad I am that this book has arrived on the scene! It reminds us that teaching towards the Common Core can be some of the most demanding, significant, and bold work you could possibly do. In Teaching Interpretation, you'll join two extraordinary teachers...

Don and Jenny Killgallons' bestselling sentence-composing approach has successfully taught upper-elementary students to write mature and varied sentences through imitating C.S. Lewis, Jerry Spinelli, Suzanne Collins, Gary Paulsen, J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Paolini, Rick Riordan, J. K. Rowling, and many others. Now, in...

"In this wonderfully insightful book, Honi, Christine, and Karren not only describe a vast array of perfectly understandable mathematical misconceptions that students have across the elementary curriculum, they also provide numerous practical instructional strategies and activities for helping remediate and "undo" the misconceptions. The...

Don and Jenny Killgallon's sentence-composing approach has transformed how writing is taught in thousands of elementary classrooms, helping students all across America develop into more proficient and sophisticated writers. Now in this unique, powerful student worktext, the Killgallons use their highly effective method to...

Understanding what students do when they read, and then helping them take the next step, can be easy for an informed teacher. For Sandra Wilde, the key is to focus on the strengths students bring to the process and build from there. With Miscue...

Sharpen skills in a flash with these Sight Words flashcards! Early reading success depends on knowing high-frequency sight words. These full-color flashcards help children master essential sight words in a fun, game-like format. Includes two levels of difficulty and ideas for games and activities...

Read and Understand Science, Grades 1-2 presents stories that range from beginning first to beginning third in readability. The stories for grades 1-2 are comprised of four half pages. Students cut the pages and staple them together to create four-page minibooks. Topics presented include:...

Provide your students with the inspiration they need to develop the vocabulary, ideas, and enthusiasm that will make their writing shine! Creative Writing Ideas comes with a wide variety of creative activities that can be used for prewriting and drafting or as stand-alone activities....

The Absorbent Mind was Maria Montessori's most in-depth work on her educational theory, based on decades of scientific observation of children. Her view on children and their absorbent minds was a landmark departure from the educational model at the time. This book helped start...

THOUSANDS OF COPIES SOLD This is a collection of 50 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics) challenges for kids. This is recommended for ALL GRADES These projects support the engineering-design process and provide learning in technical fields in a fun, hands-on, and sometimes competitive...

The 'BrainCanDo' Handbook of Teaching and Learning provides teachers and school leaders with a concise summary of how some of the latest research in educational neuroscience and psychology can improve learning outcomes. It aims to create a mechanism through which our growing understanding of...

The Literary Life KIDS Commonplace Book (Colored Pencils) features the Literary Life Podcast commonplace book with a colorful array of drawing pencils on the cover and a coordinating interior design. In the book, Cindy Rollins, on behalf of all the podcast hosts, gives kids...

Are you looking for a fun workbook to help you teach your child to read and write? Then you are in the right place Take them on an exciting journey with: Letter Tracing Book For Preschoolers 3-5 And Kindergarten: Perfect Preschool Practice Workbook With...

Guided Math Lessons in Second Grade provides detailed lessons to help you bring guided math groups to life. Based on the bestselling Guided Math in Action, this practical book offers 16 lessons, taught in a round of 3--concrete, pictorial, and abstract. The lessons are...

The Perfect Book for Girls, Boys and Kids who Love spying everything. Lots of fun and educational activities including stocking stuffer ideas for playing, learning and discovering super cute and fun puzzles.Let your kids's ideas run wild Unleash their potentials to discover and learn...

This book is a complete guide to Forest School provision and Nature Pedagogy and it examines the models, methods, worldviews and values that underpin teaching in nature. Cree and Robb show how a robust Nature Pedagogy can support learning, behaviour, and physical and emotional...

Test Prep Books' FTCE Elementary Education K-6 Study Guide: FTCE Elementary Education Exam Prep and Practice Test Questions for the Florida Teacher Certification Exam [3rd Edition] Made by Test Prep Books experts for test takers trying to achieve a great score on the FTCE...

The third edition of this significant and groundbreaking book summarizes current research into how young children learn mathematics and how best to develop foundational knowledge to realize more effective teaching. Using straightforward, practical language, early math experts Douglas Clements and Julie Sarama show how...

Mental health is much more than the absence of mental illness. It also means having self-belief and the resilience to cope with stress and change. In order to teach such skills, teachers and other staff must equip themselves and their workplaces with the procedures,...

Transform the way you start and end the school day with the fun, interactive, and adaptable lessons, exercises, and activities in this easy-to-use classroom management resource designed with busy teachers in mind. Daily classroom routines are proven to engage students, build trust, and support...

Build collaborative teacher teams committed to fostering student self-efficacy and increasing achievement in mathematics. Part of the Every Student Can Learn Mathematics series, this practical resource provides a framework for collectively planning a unit of study in grades 3-5. Grade-level teams will learn how...

Teaching grammar can be overwhelming and is often an overlooked part of effective instruction. The Elementary School Grammar Toolkit to the rescue! Now in its second edition, this comprehensive guide makes grammar instruction fun and meaningful. You will learn how to... - Teach grammar...

This resource features ready-to-go reproducible pages that target key grade-level grammar topics--parts of speech, verb tenses, capitalization, punctuation, types of sentences, and more Each activity includes quick teacher tips, but because most students will be able to complete these exercises independently, they are perfect...

Make developing basic math skills fun and painless With this great collection of over 125 easy-to-use games, puzzles, and activities, teachers and parents can help kids comprehend fundamental math concepts, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, place value, fractions, and more. All games and puzzles...

The key to effective math learning lies not in the regurgitation of isolated facts but in the ablility to reason with and use what is learned--in understanding the concepts. But what does it mean to design a classroom so that understanding is the primary...

"We want math to make sense to our students, and the moving body is a wonderful partner toward that goal." --Malke Rosenfeld Kids love to move. But how do we harness all that kinetic energy effectively for math learning? In Math on the Move,...

"Letter-a-week" may be a ubiquitous approach to teaching alphabet knowledge, but that doesn't mean it's an effective one. In No More Teaching a Letter a Week, early literacy researcher Dr. William Teale helps us understand that alphabet knowledge is more than letter recognition, and...

The first three volumes of this popular series help teachers support children's development in number sense and operation, from addition and subtraction through fractions, decimals, and percents. Catherine Twomey Fosnot and Maarten Dolk's signature approach uses classroom vignettes to illustrate the investigations and minilessons...

Good-bye Round Robin offers numerous practical suggestions for engaging English language learners in meaningful oral-language activities, all connected to wonderful, recently-published books for students of different ages and reading abilities. Opitz' book provides specific strategies teachers can use to help their ELLs develop both...

Growing Musicians: Teaching Music in Middle School and Beyond focuses on teaching adolescents within the context of a music classroom, regardless of content area (orchestra, band, choir, or general music). It provides a look at the importance of music courses in the lives of...

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