Education - Elementary

Winner of Storytelling World Award Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Not-Ready-for-Newbery & Recommended Reference Title Pegasus Award As any good storyteller knows, audience participation often makes the difference between a so-so story and a terrific tale. Here, veteran performer Margaret Read MacDonald shares her experience...

Make Social Skills Learning Fun for Your Students!Help children learn the useful skills of asking for permission and making an apology. The activities and games in this book teach the steps to these skills featured in the Sorry, I Forgot to Ask! Storybook. Author...

You're teaching first grade this year. What do you need to know? Margaret Berry Wilson gives you practical information about daily routines, furniture, and much more. She starts with a concise review of first graders' common developmental characteristics and then shows how to adjust...

The best-selling Differentiating Instruction With Menus series has helped teachers nationwide differentiate instruction for their high-ability learners with easy-to-use menus and exciting tools to challenge and reach gifted and advanced students in the classroom. Each book includes an updated, student-friendly rubric that can assess...

Weather Reporter, a second-grade Earth and space science unit, provides students with opportunities in a scenario-based approach to observe, measure, and analyze weather phenomena. The overarching concept of change reinforces students' decisions as they learn about the changes in the Earth's weather and observe,...

Invitation to Invent, a physical science unit for grades 3-4, engages students in investigations and observations that support their learning about simple machines and their uses. Students explore force, motion, and friction as they learn about the six simple machines and how they are...

Grief, fear, and anger are significant emotions-so weighty, in fact, that they often drive children to think irrational thoughts and engage in unreasonable behaviors. Such responses, left unchecked, can easily spiral into destructive actions. If we want children to succeed in life, we must...

Read and Understand, Science, Grades 4-6 presents stories that range from high-third grade to high-sixth grade in readability. Topics presented include: Life Science: the common cold, tide pool life, yeast, diversity of animal eyes, conflict of conservation and tourism, cell structure and diversity, sickle-cell...

Yes I can is a book written for young readers. The chapters use the alphabet to teach simple empowering statements. The book uses traditional methods of psychology and word translations. With each page, young readers will enter a world of adventure. With letters, images,...

A fun and easy way to Practice Multiplication Questions. Micheal Martin Multiplication Practice workbook has more than 105 pages, answer key, math activities and Multiplication tables. The concepts and methods used in this book will engage your children and make learning fun for them....

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...

Discover new and exciting ways to teach STEM content through the arts in your early childhood program with this innovative and comprehensive guidebook. Chapters feature playful activities divided by age band that bridge early academic learning and social, emotional, physical, and mental development with...

All students can benefit from a deeper understanding of how our language works. Playing With Language shows elementary school educators (K-6) how to think about, talk about, and manipulate language out of context. This cognitive skill set, known as metalinguistic awareness, is an important...

Every teacher who needs solutions, everyone thinking about being a teacher, and every parent should read this. It will show a picture of the reality of education that you will never get if you are not in the midst of it.Author: Sara SnowballISBN-10: 0985896191ISBN-13:...

Teachers are bombarded with advice about how to teach. The Fundamentals of Teaching cuts through the confusion by synthesising the key findings from education research and neuroscience to give an authoritative guide. It reveals how learning happens, which methods work best and how to...

Inspired by a love of science, technology, engineering and math and a dream to make learning more fun, Orion, a witty child, was encouraged by his teacher to write his jokes down. 101 jokes later, he is ready to share them with you. Filled...

Integrating Literacy Naturally is a guide for nurturing a love of literacy in both teachers and young children. More than a hundred children's book titles and other resources serve as springboards for cultivating that love and meeting individual literacy needs in developmentally appropriate ways....

Students are lacking in communication skills now more than ever Give your student a competitive edge The Public Speaking for Kids program takes the guesswork out of teaching speech and presentation skills to kids. Level One of the "Public Speaking for Kids" series, was...

A Journal for teachers or educators to write down all the cute, funny, crazy, adorable and witty things their students say. This 5x8" journal is well designed with places to write the date, what your student said as well as the student's name so...

With this workbook, your student will explore how Christmas is celebrated in Australia, Germany, Mexico, Italy, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and France. You'll also learn more about St. Lucia Day in Sweden, Diwali in India, Hanukkah in Israel, Solstice in the...

The New York Times-bestselling author and world-renown teacher offers no-nonsense wisdom for teachers of all ages There's no one teachers trust more to give them classroom advice than Rafe Esquith. After more than thirty years on the job, Esquith still puts in the countless...

Helping Young Children Learn Language and Literacy takes a reader-friendly, child-focused approach to teaching the language arts. It provides pre- and in-service teachers with sound instructional strategies to facilitate children's reading, writing, speaking, and listening development from birth through kindergarten. Recognizing that children are...

Hello Sun Goodbye Moon is a book that teaches and corrects some misconceptions that children most often have about the sun and the moon.Author: Audrey SharpeISBN-10: 1667825100ISBN-13: 9781667825106Publisher: BookbabyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/26/2022Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 8.81h x 6.31w x 0.10d

Hello, You! is a beautifully illustrated children's book celebrating the wonder of being unique and the joy of embracing differences. A timeless message of being wonderfully created by design with special gifts and qualities that encourages a true-blue nature in all of us.This delightful...

Daisy is a beautiful palomino mare. She has the kindest of eyes, and her heart is so loving that anyone who ever meets her cannot help but fall in love with her. She loves all the animals that ever come to live with her...

Are you ready for a rhyming road trip thru the United States? Animated characters help bring to life a coast to coast journey of a lifetime. This book is packed with engaging rhyming facts about landmarks, culture, and interesting sites. Not only does this...

In Do The DAKI, a SEL Program for K-3 Educators, authors Kelly Leslie and Joyce Tam create a year-long instructional resource to facilitate social emotional growth in the classroom. Using the four pillars in the DAKI program: differences, acceptance, kindness, and inclusion, educators will...

Humorous art keeps students focused as they practice traditional cursive handwriting. Addresses all 26 letters of the alphabet through writing letters, words, and sentences. Also includes step-by-step letter formation, writing upper- and lowercase letters, writing numbers, short paragraphs, and more!Author: Scholastic Teaching ResourcesISBN-10: 1338798693ISBN-13:...

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...