Education - Elementary

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:...

Help budding engineers develop their STEM skills with this colorful collection featuring the steps in the Engineering Design Process. Students will love adding their photos under the We Are Engineers banner. A great addition to any classroom. Includes 56 pieces: - We Are Engineers...

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...

Fifty, 2-page activities to help students build skills in place value, computation and fluency, logic and critical thinking, solving word problems, interpreting data, and more. Students will quickly learn how to follow the routine and jumpstart their learning at the beginning of the day-or...

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...

Set the stage for reading and writing success with these ready-to-use alphabet practice packets Each four-page packet-one for each letter of the alphabet-includes fun, meaningful activities that offer the repeated practice kids need to really learn their letters. Activities teach and reinforce letter recognition,...

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...

A Literature Circle is a group of students reading the same novel, and producing a common goal or projects through cooperative learning. The authors give specific guidelines and procedures to help you establish, administer, and evaluate a successful reading program. Each unit includes a...

Any child can overcome the disadvantages of mediocre math teaching in school and parental math anxiety at home. Math Power offers easy-to-follow and concrete strategies for teaching math concepts. These lively techniques -- including games, questions, conversations, and specific math activities -- are suitable...

Integration occurs when separate parts or elements are combined into a unified whole. A Dramatic Approach to Reading Comprehension focuses on classroom arts integration- equally incorporating skills in drama and reading comprehension into all lessons. Drama and reading comprehension share a multitude of authentic...

Math reference for kids ages 7+ Make learning fun--anywhere, anytime--with Carson Dellosa's Be Clever Wherever Break It Down Intro to Multiplication Reference Book! Math Books are a great way for second and third grade students to learn step-by-step strategies to help strengthen their understanding...

"Follow the science." The message seems straightforward: Identify best practice according to the evidence, and then do it. But it's not quite that simple in the real world. It's also clear that "the science" is constantly contested, both by scientists and the larger public....

Math reference for kids ages 9+ Make learning fun--anywhere, anytime--with Carson Dellosa's Be Clever Wherever Break It Down Intermediate Multiplication Reference Book! Math Books are a great way for fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students to learn step-by-step strategies to help strengthen their understanding...

I Am Me Wherever I Go is the story of a young child's move from the city to the suburbs.Through a child's eyes we take a journey to a new world that appears to be so very different. The child wonders, "How will I...

This book contains 35 short maths tests designed to be completed alongside the lessons in the Key Maths Skills Workbook. Each test of 10 marks contains a range of maths questions which get progressively more difficult as the students progresses through the book. As...

A book of strategies to improve spelling skills making children more confident readers and writers.Teaching children to spell is essential if we want them to become confident writers. Good spellers can write more fluently, as they donʼt have to pause to consider how each...

Starting in early childhood, children are capable of learning sophisticated science and engineering concepts and engage in disciplinary practices. They are deeply curious about the world around them and eager to investigate the many questions they have about their environment. Educators can develop learning...

Scout Goes Camping is a wonderful resource for teaching children basic wilderness safety and a love for the great outdoors. From a camping gear checklist to fun game ideas Scout takes children on an exciting camping trip with his family.Author: Joe RobinetISBN-10: 1543972845ISBN-13: 9781543972849Publisher:...

Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows children to build up...

I Am Me Wherever I Go is the story of a young child's move from the city to the suburbs.Through a child's eyes we take a journey to a new world that appears to be so very different. The child wonders, "How will I...

Health, Safety, and Nutrition Activities A to Z presents a detailed lesson plan format of open-ended activities. Users will enjoy the activities as they explore different options to live a healthy, safe, and nutritious life. The activities are easy-to-understand and follow. Each section will...

This in-depth exploration discusses the need for addressing diversity and multicultural realities in the classroom. It prepares you with the necessary knowledge, skills, and strategies to create a developmentally appropriate, respectful, and culturally responsive classroom and teaching environment. You'll find practical information, ideas, and...

Updated throughout and featuring an emphasis on NAEYC and other standards, GUIDING CHILDREN'S SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING: THEORY AND SKILLS, Ninth Edition, focuses on ways professionals can help children develop both positive feelings about themselves and social competence. You'll find practical, developmentally appropriate strategies...

In a clear and easy-to-understand style, BEGINNINGS AND BEYOND: FOUNDATIONS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, 10th Edition, lays out basic questions any student of early childhood education -- including you -- would want answered. It also presents key concepts, the latest research, and practical examples...

Learning how to use a variety of instructional methods to reach diverse students is vital in schools today. DIVERSITY AND EQUITY IN THE CLASSROOM will teach you how to bridge the gap between theory and practice using a student-centered and culture-centered approach based on...