Easy strategies and activities that dramatically improve
the reading-writing skills of the author's mixed-ability students.
Includes a rational, real-life models, and more.
Bring science to life through 24 popular children's books
at the primary and intermediate levels! Cross-curricular activities
for each book provide theme-based units. Correlation charts
are included. Grades K-3
Each book is organized into 10 strands including place value,
multiplication, fractions, decimals, and geometry. (Grades
4-6 also includes ratio and percent.) This easy-to-use format
with lessons correlated to the NCTM Standards, blackline masters,
and a section on making manipulatives if needed. Grades K-3
This unique resource uses 40 popular children's books as
springboards to math learning. It's brimming with activities
and reproducibles that focus on number sense, operations,
fractions, patterns, measurement, money, time, probability,
and much more.
Spark your students' interest in science with these fun,
teacher-tested experiments and activities that require only
the simplest of supplies‹and your classroom windowsill!
Favorite topics like seeds and plants, evaporation, light
and shadow, and animal observation will get your students
thinking like scientists!
These easy, exciting projects for book and card making will
help kids produce lively, original publishing formats for
their own writing. Directions for making shape books, pop-up
books, peek-a-books, and books with pages for student writing
are here, with photos of finished projects and easy-to-follow
directions.
Gr 4-6-Tired teachers who practice what McCullough preaches,
"Anyone Can Produce Plays with Kids," should be
pleased with this offering. These skits tackle apostrophe
usage, homonyms and homophones, the metric system, fractions,
flight of birds, magnets, energy, time zones, governments
of the world, Seneca Falls 1848, and recycling-all in tidy
10-minute skits. Each one is complete with concept identification,
activities, discussion questions, and production notes. In
the foreword, the author suggests expanding the skits to fit
one's classroom space or curriculum needs and states, "once
you've got the hang of it, have students write their own plays-."
This is one of the best suggestions offered. Self-produced
skits that sound like kids talking are far more successful
with the intended audience than those written by adults mimicking
them. Expecting "anyone" to handle teaching science,
math, language, and social science with theater arts with
equal success is a tall order, but panicked substitutes with
no lesson plans or a rainy-day recess to cover might try a
skit to focus a class or start a conversation. Most teachers
will be able to get "the hang of it" without all
of McCullough's epistles.
Here are step-by-step lesson plans for ESL with plenty of
reproducibles and fun-filled activities. The 15 one-week student
lessons for both K-1 and Grades 2-3 complement any basal program.
10 Big & Beautiful Seasonal Posters That Build Reading
Skills Around the Year
Collected from the popular Fresh & Fun series!
Brighten your classroom with 10 full-color poetry posters,
one for each month of the school year! Each poster features
a kid-pleasing poem from a favorite poet‹and an opportunity
to build vocabulary, develop an awareness of rhyme and rhythm,
and enjoy word play. You¹ll also find a teaching guide
with fresh and fun activities and reproducibles that build
literacy and help kids get the most from each poster. Great
for bulletin boards!
