Education - Elementary

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...

Build the essential 4--creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking! Go beyond theory and learn how to systematically integrate STEAM and Maker spaces that prepare students for real-world experiences. This engaging resource outlines step-by-step processes to help anyone start their STEAM and Maker journey. Includes...

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...

A fun times table practice book with activities kids love - Stress Free!Let's help your child quickly master the multiplication tables with fun activities instead of just drills, and watch how they grow their mathematical mind! [ Complete practice ] Over 100 pages of...

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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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...

This is my debut children's book, My Whole Heart. In it, a little girl diagnosed at birth with a Congenital Heart Defect, learns about what that means for her as well as her family. It talks about, through a child's perspective, her life leading...

Because fluency practice is not a worksheet. Fluency in mathematics is more than adeptly using basic facts or implementing algorithms. It is not about speed or recall. Real fluency is about choosing strategies that are efficient, flexible, lead to accurate solutions, and are appropriate...

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...

This Book allows teachers and parents to begin discussions, with young children, regarding racism.Author: RufflesISBN-10: 1098373715ISBN-13: 9781098373719Publisher: BookbabyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2021Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 9.05h x 6.07w x 0.32d

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...

An audience already thoroughly interested awaits this translation of a remarkable book. For years no educational document has been so eagerly expected by so large a public, and not many have better merited general anticipation. That this widespread interest exists is due to the...

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