Product Description: Centered around Common Core State Standards, Common Core: Elements of Literature is designed to help students understand such complex elements of literature as irony and symbolism. Practice pages, student charts, graphic organizers, research challenges, discussion starters, writing prompts, games, group activities, and recommended reading lists enable students to practice: Pinpointing character, setting, plot, and theme; uncovering common symbols in fiction; detecting similes, metaphors, and other figures of speech; spotting verbal, situational, and dramatic irony; and recognizing allegory, parody, and satire...read more

Product Description: Foster a love of language with students in grades 4 and up using Jumpstarters for Abbreviations: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom! This 48-page resource helps students gain an understanding of abbreviations, such as forms of address, days, months, acronyms, and postal abbreviations...read more

Product Description: Foster a love of language with students in grades 4 and up using Jumpstarters for Synonyms and Antonyms: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom! This 48-page resource helps students recognize and comprehend words in the context of “similar and opposite” to expand vocabulary for better reading and writing skills...read more

Product Description: Facilitate a love of language with students in grades 4 and up using Jumpstarters for Analogies: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom! This 48-page resource reinforces reasoning and logic skills through analogies in language arts, science, geography, health, art, music, and math...read more

Product Description: Teach word patterns to emergent readers using this terrific resource!• Includes reproducibles to teach word families to new and striving readers• Uses all learning modalities to help students make the all-important connection from sounds to written word• Easy-to-use, tied to national standards, and targeted to all students struggling to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) in reading• Reviews basic consonant sounds, blends, and digraphs• Includes take homes for parents to provide reinforcement at homeThis book is a valuable resource for any teacher, librarian, or literacy coach who teaches beginning reading...read more

Product Description: Connect students in grades 4–6 with science using Physical Science: Daily Skill Builders. This 96-page book features two short, reproducible activities per page and includes enough lessons for an entire school year. It covers topics such as simple machines and alternative energy sources, understanding the behavior and uses of electricity, and framing scientific questions and recognizing scientific evidence...read more

Product Description: Discourse analysis encompasses a diversity of approaches which can be applied across disparate monolgues, interactions, settings, and populations.  This special issue reflects this diversity in the qualitative and quantitative approaches to analysis employed, the range of discourse features addressed, and the variety of communicative interactions elicited and sampled...read more

Product Description: Get solid learning results with phonics! Teach students in Grades K-1 the basics of phonemic awareness to increase reading skills. ·These lessons include playful story hour rhymes and activities to provide direct instruction in phonics and phonemic awareness targeted to get solid learning results ·The lessons are easy-to-implement and correlated to national standards...read more

Product Description: The fun, flexible activities in Cooperative Learning Activities use real-life situations and develop problem-solving skills as students work in groups. Tips for teachers include how to set up cooperative learning centers, ways to deal with student conflicts, and assessment rubrics...read more

Product Description: The fun, flexible activities in Cooperative Learning Activities use real-life situations and develop problem-solving skills as students work in groups. Tips for teachers include how to set up cooperative learning centers, ways to deal with student conflcits, and assessment rubrics...read more

Product Description: The fun, flexible activities in Cooperative Learning Activities use real-life situations and develop problem-solving skills as students work in groups. Tips for teachers include how to set up cooperative learning centers, ways to deal with student conflicts, and assessment rubrics...read more

Product Description: This book focuses on counting and simple math, and contains thirty-two original response verses that are designed to teach and reinforce early math skills. Associated with NCTM Standards, these creative activities strengthen the key math skills students are required to master...read more

Product Description: Bundle includes the Reading for Every Child Comprehension, Fluency, Phonics, Vocabulary, and the Phonemic Awareness teacher resource books for first grade. Reproducible pages are included...read more

Product Description: Bring history to life for students in grades 4 and up using Jumpstarters for U.S. History: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom. This 48-page resource covers the land and first Americans, explorers, colonizers, and the United States as a world power...read more

Product Description: Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 56+ contains 27 poem selections organized around these engaging themes: Generations & Legacies, Seasons of Life, Outside My Window, War & Peace, Mirth & Magic. Included are poems by such well-known poets as William Shakespeare, Vachel Lindsay, William Carlos Williams, and Javaka Steptoe...read more

Product Description: Mingle some math into everyday teaching! Fast Ideas for Busy Teachers: Math has hundreds of ideas that will fit into a hectic schedule and enliven fifth-grade students' exploration of mathematics. The book is organized by math skills, which makes it easy to find a topic when it's needed...read more