Education - Elementary

This fun range of Maths and English activity books really helps to boost your child s progress at every stage of their learning. The series aims to build up important skills in line with their learning at school.Each activity is designed to give your...

Welcome to the whimsical fantasy world with critters that are so strange that they have no permanent name as of yet...so we named them Yets! Just please don't call them dragons.Pull up a chair and some food and meet the Yets!They are eager to...

Young learners can't help but feel motivated when they're reading a funny short poem or story with a partner. Follow this up with skill-building word ladders that focus on phonics and vocabulary, plus an engaging language arts mini-lesson on reading, writing, or word study,...

This practical book draws on Ronit Bird's teaching experience to create detailed strategies and teaching plans for students aged 9-16 who have difficulties with number. Activities and games are used to teach numeracy skills in these key areas: number components, bridging, multiplication, division and...

The early years foundation stage (EYFS) sets standards for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5 years old. All schools and Ofsted-registered early years providers must follow the EYFS, including childminders, preschools, nurseries and school reception classes. This handbook presents...

Test Prep Book's ISEE Lower Level Test Prep: Study Guide & Practice Test Questions for the Independent School Entrance Exam Developed by Test Prep Books for test takers trying to achieve a passing score on the ISEE Lower Level exam, this comprehensive study guide...

Test Prep Book's SSAT Lower Level Prep Book: Study Guide & Practice Test Questions for the SSAT Elementary Level Test Developed by Test Prep Books for test takers trying to achieve a passing score on the SSAT Lower Level exam, this comprehensive study guide...

"Folktales on Stage" is a collection of reader's theater scripts for young readers, adapted by award-winning children's author Aaron Shepard from his own folktale retellings. A wide variety of countries and cultures is represented, including Native America, Africa, the Middle East, Russia, Southeast Asia,...

The Montessori Method (1912) is a work on pedagogy by Maria Montessori. Originally written in her native Italian to describe the work she carried out at the Casa dei Bambini in Rome, the book was translated into English during a period of increasing popularity...

It is important that schools emphasize a problem-solving approach to mathematics beginning in the early years and continuing through high school. Students should learn to value the process of solving problems, as well as getting the correct solutions. The strategies in this book will...

Tens of thousands of teachers have used this skillfully crafted book to build children's word knowledge with engaging categorization activities organized by spelling stages. Featuring rich classroom examples, the revised and expanded second edition gives increased attention to teaching English learners (ELs), among other...

Projects and experiments to inspire and challenge your kids The STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math) are top education priorities in the United States--and they are growing fields with a high demand for jobs. If you want to make sure your children are...

Sharing the Secrets is designed for parents and teachers who are concerned about children's progress in spelling. In sessions designed to last just 15 minutes a day, your child will learn to recognize common spelling patterns and gain a skill to last a lifetime.Author:...

Boost children's vocabulary while introducing them to some of the world's most fascinating creatures. Each weekly packet comes with three reproducible sheets that introduce three vocabulary words through a short, engaging article and reinforce students' learning through a variety of activities. A cumulative assessment...

Join Carol Ann Tomlinson and Caroline Cunningham Eidson in their continuing exploration of how real teachers incorporate differentiation principles and strategies throughout an entire instructional unit. Focusing on the elementary grades, but applicable at all levels, Differentiation in Practice, Grades K-5 will teach anyone...

Author: Emily CalhounISBN-10: 0871203375ISBN-13: 9780871203373Publisher: ASCDLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2000Pages: 132Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d

Military training was a prominent feature of higher education across the nineteenth-century South. Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel, as well as land-grant schools such as Texas A&M, Auburn, and Clemson, organized themselves on a military basis, requiring their male students to wear uniforms,...

This unique book features an array of approaches, strategies, and tools for teaching multiculturally in the early years. The teachers and classrooms portrayed here provide young children with rich educational experiences that empower them to understand themselves in relation to others. You will see...

Co-Teaching in the Differentiated Classroom is a practical hands-on guide that explains how to implement co-teaching programs in mixed-ability classrooms. Based on the authors' award-winning model, this important guide shows how special education teachers can pair with general education teachers to improve classroom functioning...

"Edward Fry has the uncanny as well as canny (choose your word) ability to take a complex concept?in this case vocabulary?and present it in a form useful to students and teachers." Allen Berger, Heckert Professor of Reading and Writing, Miami University "The Vocabulary Teacher's...

A practical, comprehensive guide to help educators go beyond student engagement and differentiation to achieve student empowerment. Student engagement continues to be an important goal for teachers, but it shouldn't end there. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to teaching anymore. School districts that have...

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...

This engaging book offers an in-depth introduction to teaching mathematics through problem-solving, providing lessons and techniques that can be used in classrooms for both primary and lower secondary grades. Based on the innovative and successful Japanese approaches of Teaching Through Problem-solving (TTP) and Collaborative...

Are you looking for a fun workbook to help you teach your child to write? Then you are in the right place Take your child on an exciting journey through the entire ABC with: Letter Tracing Workbook For Preschoolers And Toddlers: A Fun ABC...

80 Awesome Physical Education and Sport Games that Kids, Teachers and Coaches will just LOVE Your sports session just became so much more fun with these awesome indoor and outdoor games and activities that are perfect for elementary and high school students.Developed by Mark...

This US-English edition features ten, unique illustrations throughout.A girl on the sinking liner Lusitania is given a secret packet to save by a mysterious stranger. Pursued by criminals and the British government, she goes missing, leaving amateur detectives Tuppence and Tommy to find her...

Day-by-Day Math Thinking Routines in Kindergarten helps you provide students with a review of the foundational ideas in math, every day of the week! Based on the bestselling Daily Math Thinking Routines in Action, the book follows the simple premise that frequent, rigorous, engaging...

Music education has been scientifically proven to have cognitive benefits; these benefits include: greater attention span, increased ability in geometrical skills, improved performance in mathematical problem solving and spatial tasks, heightened fluency in reading, and greater short-term and long-term memory. These benefits give music...

The first level in a twelve-level series designed to take young students from elementary through high school, Telling God's Story: Year One provides weekly lessons for elementary-grade students, based on the parables and the Gospels. The Instructor Text and Teaching Guide contains pithy, content-filled...

We take many everyday objects for granted. But in a time of ever-tightening school budgets these objects can be invaluable in affording low-cost, high-impact opportunities for learning. With these value-for-money principles in mind, Russell and Helen have packed this practical A to Z handbook...

Prepares Students for the End-of-Grade ELA/Reading Tests This book will develop the reading skills that students need, while preparing students for North Carolina's EOG English Language Arts/Reading tests. It offers a simple and convenient system for ongoing reading comprehension practice, while being focused on...

Book 1 of The Stewart Writing Program sets the tone and the purpose of the entire series, presenting the fundamentals in a clear, conversational style that never loses sight of the ultimate goal of outstanding writing skills. "That's a common noun; make it more...

Heather Cleaver has been teaching in the Catholic Schools for more than ten years through the Archdiocese of Chicago. She has acquired her Master's Degree in Education through the University of Illinois at Chicago. Heather has taught preschool, first grade, and second grade. She...

The strategies you need to teach common standards to diverse learners Realistic and thorough, this teacher-friendly book shows how to help every student, including English Learners, students with disabilities, speakers of nonstandard English, and other struggling learners, meet the Common Core Standards for English...

Make every student fluent in the language of learning. The Common Core and ELD standards provide pathways to academic success through academic language. Using an integrated Curricular Framework, districts, schools and professional learning communities can: Design and implement thematic units for learning Draw from...

Enhance the learning experience by integrating the performing arts Research documents that the performing arts boost learning, build confidence, and motivate students to participate in class. How do we leverage these benefits in the current age of accountability? Rekha S. Rajan offers a practical...

Modern Classroom Assessment offers an applied, student-centered guide to the major research-based approaches to assessment in today's modern classroom. Rather than simply list basic assessment formats with a few examples, as many textbooks do, award-winning professor and scholar Bruce Frey's book fully explores all...

This book provides both teachers and trainee teachers with a complete behaviour management toolkit by exploring real situations, offering practical advice and exploring best practice.Author: Bill RogersISBN-10: 1446295338ISBN-13: 9781446295335Publisher: Sage Publications LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2015Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 7.20w x 0.80d

′This book will make a difference not only to the behaviour of pupils but also to the sanity of teachers.′ -Jane Bellamy, Headteacher, Wold Newton School, Wold Newton, Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire ′It is what we have been waiting for. A delight to...

Children's Fractional Knowledge elegantly tracks the construction of knowledge, both by children learning new methods of reasoning and by the researchers studying their methods. The book challenges the widely held belief that children's whole number knowledge is a distraction from their learning of fractions...

Inclusive of the scope and authoritative references from earlier editions, this edition additionally embraces the digital world and provides practical suggestions for performing the "act of teaching." Teachers of writing at all levels will applaud this edition for its new features designed to help...

Take the mystery out of middle-grade science! The Common Core, a new set of national educational standards, has been adopted by 45 states across the nation. But if you learned about science the "old" way, you may be having a hard time understanding what...

The pictures and word patterns contained in Picture This Too are excellent instructional tools especially for students in the beginning and transitional stages of spelling development. This book provides the bridge from pictures to words. Teachers working with primary students, second language learners, and...

This book is a field guide on how to implement game-based learning and gamification techniques to everyday teaching. It is a survey of best practices aggregated from interviews with experts in the field. Much of the book draws on the author's experiences implementing games...

The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how they make meaning of their Indigenous heritage within the geopolitical space of Eurocentric Canadian culture.Author: Rochelle BrockISBN-10: 1433126087ISBN-13: 9781433126086Publisher: Peter Lang Inc.,...

This book grew out of the desire and necessity to understand just what went on in writing center tutoring sessions. Utilizing previous research - mostly dissertations that have not been widely read - the authors analyze the available data using a grounded theory approach....

Teaching English as a Second Language presents a thorough guide to TEFL/TESL, carefully and meticulously assembled of the course of nine years by author David Chapman, whose experience in TEFL in South Korea and Taiwan form the basis for its material. Chapman offers a...

For us the best thing about this book -apart from the fact that it looks so beautiful-is that every illustration, shows the powerful bond between words and images-a bond that is often dramatic, sometimes affectionate, always passionate. Beautiful illustrations and simple words together convey...

This classroom resource addresses the instructional challenges faced by fourth to eighth grade teachers and provides research-based tools needed to improve students' reading comprehension. These classroom-tested interventions can be used with struggling readers in 5-, 10 to 15-, and 30 to 40-minute settings. Key...

Enchant and motivate beginning readers with poetry that is fun to read and perform! Coauthored by fluency expert, Timothy Rasinski, this creative resource for grade 1 students encourages fluency and word study through playful, original content that will engage both reluctant and skilled readers....