Motivate grade K-3 students to do their best work, and add
pizzazz to writing assignments, when you showcase their reports,
stories, and handwriting with these two-piece forms. In this
newly revised and expanded edition you get "tops and
bottoms" in four different theme areas-storybook characters,
holidays, children around the world, and people at work-a
total of 69 forms in all. Just add your own writing paper
between the top and bottom of these charming writing forms.
Many forms are suitable for enriching science and social studies
writing.
Details of the four theme areas include:
Storybook Characters
Literature references are provided for each of the 18 forms:
monkey, pig, turtle, frog, cat, rabbit, princess, dog, bear,
wolf, old lady, gingerbread boy, prince, chicken, hippo, mouse,
elephant, giant ? Holidays
Story starters are provided for each of the 19 forms: bear
for all seasons, Christopher Columbus, ghost, turkey, Pilgrim
girl, Pilgrim boy, Native American boy, Native American girl,
menorah, Santa, angel, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., groundhog,
Abraham Lincoln, Cupid, George Washington, leprechaun, Easter
bunny, happy birthday cake ? Children Around the World
Cultural information is provided for each of the 20 forms:
Inuit girl, Balinese girl, British boy, Chinese girl, boy
from Ecuador, German boy, Greek boy, Hopi girl, Indian boy,
Irish girl, Japanese girl, boy from Israel, Saami boy, Masai
girl, Mexican boy, girl from Nigeria, boy from Oman, Russian
girl, Samoan boy, Sherpa girl
Tops and bottoms feature crisp, charming line art that invites
students to color with crayons or markers. All 160 pages perforated
for easy removal.
Engaging Lessons and Activities That Help Young Students
Learn Key Reading Strategies--and Become Independent Readers
Put students on the road to reading with this clear and concise
guide to teaching reading strategies to young learners. The
irresistible lessons and activities introduce and model key
strategies--including questioning, reading on, summarizing,
visualizing, and rereading--that will help students become
independent, strategic readers. Packed with reproducibles,
checklists, and a great booklist that matches favorite books
to the strategies they're perfect for teaching, this resource
has everything teachers need to teach reading successfully.
This book is the only book you'll need to teach language
to your primary school-aged child(ren). Ms. Beechick wrote
textbooks and taught in the public schools. She has some very
educated ideas about how children learn and shares them with
us in this book, the two others that go with this series,
and You CAN Teach Your Child Successfully (for grades 4-8).
This book and the others I mentioned are very practical. If
you had only these books you could use them extensively, along
with your library, and your child would get an excellent education
through the eighth grade.
Integrate reading and mathematics while encouraging young
students to think and express themselves creatively. With
enough reproducible activities for each day of the school
year, the Resource Books for grades 1-5 give students ample
opportunity to visually "solve" field-tested word
problems by drawing a picture. A fourth Resource Book for
grades K-3 offers a similar format, based on animal themes.
Several problems have multiple solutions, which helps promote
divergent thinking. The Resource Books are ideal for easy
integration into your current math, reading, or art curriculum.
Student Workbooks for grades K-3 provide 45 new field-tested
word problems to help young students boost reasoning and creative
problem solving--one picture at a time. Animal Resource Book/Grades
K-3
Easy Lessons and Fresh Ideas for Creating Interactive Word
Walls That Build Literacy Skills
Easily integrate word walls into your daily literacy activities!
Sample lessons including photos of real classrooms, show you
how to add to the walls each week, drawing words from poems,
nursery rhymes, morning message and more to keep them fresh,
invaluable reference tools for kids all year long. Develop
kids' phonemic awareness with basic letter-sound correspondences
with the ABC wall; spelling patterns with the Chunking Wall
and many more.
Reproducible Patterns and Writing Prompts for 20 Collaborative
Paper Quilts That Build Important Literacy Skills and Brighten
Up Your Classroom
20 Easy-to-Make Quilts!
Get your students hooked on reading when they create colorful,
easy-to-make, no-sew quilts based on their favorite books.
Children work together to make beautiful paper quilts using
literature-related quilt-block patterns that help reinforce
each book's plot, characters, or setting. Writing prompts
help you assess kids' understanding of the story. This must-have
book offers two literature selections and reproducible quilt-block
patterns for each month of the year.
88 Playful Poems With Easy Lessons That Teach Consonants,
Vowels, Blends, Digraphs, and Much More!
Great for Shared Reading!
Teaching phonics is a delight with this big collection of
irresistible poetry! Each kid-pleasing poem helps kids master
key decoding skills and targets a key letter-sound relationship--consonants,
vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. Includes instant lessons
and activities to build phonemic awareness, oral literacy,
and all the phonics concepts students need to know to help
ensure reading success. Great for shared reading!
Children have a natural affinity for rhythm and rhyme. By
using rhymes and chants, you can tap into that interest to
develop concepts, enrich language development, and motivate
learning. Here are 32 big (11" x 17") charts with
rhyming activities that develop math and vocabulary skills:
counting, computation, fractions, ordinal numbers, geometric
shapes, and more. Rhymes and chants may be used as part of
your daily math program, to further support your whole language
program, or just for the fun of the experience. All pages
are reproducible and ready to display. Subjects include: dragons
at the door, where's the bear, five furry kittens, pizza party,
the subtracting mouse, and more. Plenty of fun illustrations
highlight the presentation. Bookholder template provided.
