Product Description: Help your students develop logical reasoning and critical thinking skills. This new book from bestselling authors and popular consultants Tammy Jones and Leslie Texas offers authentic logic-building activities and writing strategies that can be used across all subject areas in grades K–5...read more

Product Description: Project‐Based Learning; it's a term that most educators have heard and probably have heard good things about, Often, though, they aren't quite sure precisely what its defining characteristics are other than involving students in projects that are supposed to somehow result in their learning things of value...read more

Product Description: Children enjoyed it so much they didn’t realise they were being worked so hard.Jo Miles, Learning Support Assistant at Manor Farm Community Junior School, Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire Great speaking and listening activity-setting-up ideas for the Big Write...read more

Product Description: English teachers are always keen to explore new ways of motivating their pupils to engage with reading, both for learning and for pleasure. Literacy Activities for Classic and Contemporary Texts 7-14 is a practical, friendly book which uses the ‘whoosh’ to cover some of our best known classic and contemporary texts and offers a thoroughly enjoyable way for pupils to become part of the story, rather than just passive recipients of it...read more

Product Description: These rib-tickling word family plays will delight children and help them become confident, fluent readers. Each play gives children plenty of practice reading a group of words from the same word family—words that share the same sound and spelling pattern...read more

Product Description: Part of the popular Primary Copy Collection series, Primary Music Box contains songs to help teachers consolidate language learning in an appealing and memorable way. This collection of photocopiable song-based activities, with clear step-by-step instructions, helps teachers cater for different learning styles...read more

Product Description: Book by GRAY-SCHLEGEL MARY ANN

Product Description: Help children build reading and writing skills using Noisy Nora, Emily's First 100 Days of School, Bunny Cakes, and other Rosemary Wells favorites. Use the Before-Reading suggestions to tap prior knowledge, introduce new vocabulary, and teach prediction skills...read more

Product Description: Connect with Words, Grade 3 offers children important vocabulary practice in all subject areas! Children need to understand the basic vocabulary of a subject to be able to learn the skills and concepts of each subject...read more

Product Description: Reinforce basic skills with educationally sound and developmentally appropriate activities! Featuring 160 full-color pages, this resource includes language arts and math activities, activities for year-round learning, a recommended reading list, a list of fun and safe Web sites, skills checklists, awards, mini-books, and a list of contents according to skill area...read more

Provides strategies for making instruction more culturally inclusive for learners at all levels, addressing the needs created by individual, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and economic diversity.

Product Description: Reading Lauren's The Wonder of Word Study reminded me of . . . visits to her early childhood classroom, only this visit lasted a long time and was filled with a master teacher's articulate explanation of her practice. - Shelley Harwayne, Founding Principal, The Manhattan New School There's more to reading than merely identifying words on a page...read more

Presents a collection of stories to be used in circle time activities.

Product Description: Creative activities on everything from nouns to metaphors, from spoonerisms to haiku poetry, with a humorous, offbeat flavor to motivate students to get involved in thinking and expressing themselves in new ways. Lessons include: adverbs, puns, axioms, ambiguity, problem solving, alliteration, paraphrasing, titling and much more...read more

Product Description: Looking for creative ideas to put the "fun" in language fundamentals? Then this is the book for you. The author takes a humorous approach to everyday topics: capitals, nouns, verbs, synonyms, similes, puns, adverbs, spelling, punctuation, malapropism, maxims and much more...read more

Students learn new words through fun-filled activities.

Product Description: Packed with practice pages, this one-of-a-kind resource helps students read independently and confidently. Students practice nine simple strategies for using context clues to figure out the meanings of unknown words- without the help of an adult or a dictionary! Includes helpful strategy sheets for students and teachers and a reproducible strategy mini-poster...read more

Product Description: Improving Early Literacy offers teachers an arsenal of reading strategies for helping struggling emergent readers develop letter-name knowledge, sight word knowledge, phonics, and reading fluency skills. This book provides a comprehensive listing of various strategies incorporated into activities and worksheets and offers a practical introduction to early literacy instruction informal assessment devices based on proven research concepts approaches, strategies, and materials for teaching early literacy skills techniques for developing listening and oral language skills ways to assess and implement letter-name knowledge and sight word knowledge strategies for improving phonic analysis enhancement of structural and contextual analysis ways to expand vocabulary and comprehension techniques for teaching emergent literacy to children with special needs...read more

Product Description: Teaching Reading and Writing Through Children's Literature is a guide that enhances children's enjoyment and understanding of books while focusing on skills instruction. Although there are numerous books published in relation to this topic, this manual is unique in that the exercises are designed for use with any book, rather than assigning a particular title to a lesson...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The reproducible writing exercises in After School Writing Activities are designed for students to enjoy either at home or in an after school program. Each activity was created to be fun while presenting a fundamental writing genre...read more