Product Description: Helping Your Child Succeed in Sixth Grade: A Parent’s Guide to the Common CoreSchools across America are rolling out new, more rigorous curricula in order to meet the demands created by a new set of English and Mathematics standards – known nationally as the Common Core State Learning Standards, or Common Core...read more

Product Description: Helping Your Child Succeed in Fifth Grade: A Parent’s Guide to the Common CoreSchools across America are rolling out new, more rigorous curricula in order to meet the demands created by a new set of English and Mathematics standards – known nationally as the Common Core State Learning Standards, or Common Core...read more

Product Description: Use this guide to explore the story of a boy who is left stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash and must learn to survive with only the help of his hatchet. This instructional guide for literature supports this story and is filled with challenging cross-curricular activities and lessons that work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to better analyze and comprehend literature...read more

Grades K-8   "How can I get my students to revise their writing?"   If this is one of your most frequently asked questions, then this is the book for you – a guide to specific strategies you can teach to enable your students to re-see and re-shape their writing on multiple levels, from word choice to organization.   Longtime writer and writing teacher Georgia Heard knows firsthand what a daunting task revision can seem to both students and teachers. First, she addresses students' confusion about the differences between editing and revision. She shows you how to reassure your students that revision is not an indicator of bad writing, but an integral part of the writing process. Then Heard provides ready-to-use strategies that take the mystery out of teaching revision and help even the most reluctant writers revise.   Using three main Revision Toolboxes–Words, Structure, and Voice–she offers dozens of specific revision tools to inspire students to revisit their work. In addition, Heard includes: a "Revision Lesson" for each tool to show you how to teach that strategy techniques to help students reread their writing from different points of view conferring techniques to guide you when instructing individual students revision examples from students and from Heard's own writing "Revision-at-a-Glance" – a quick-reference sheet for students on every revision tool. Make revision inviting. Make it a part of your students' writing process. Then watch as they fine tune and improve-and the real pleasures of writing and teaching begin.

Product Description: Help fifth grade students master Common Core skills such as making inferences, using verb tenses, rounding decimal numbers, and more with Common Core Language Arts and Math Spectrum workbooks. Take the mystery out of the Common Core with these unique and timely Spectrum 128-page workbooks...read more

Product Description: Help fourth grade students master Common Core skills such as determining a story's theme, using prepositional phrases, understanding fractions, and more with Common Core Language Arts and Math Spectrum workbooks. Take the mystery out of the Common Core with these unique and timely Spectrum 128-page workbooks...read more

Product Description: Help third grade students master Common Core skills such as using prefixes and suffixes, determining the main idea of a text, understanding multiplication, and more with Common Core Language Arts and Math Spectrum for grade 3. Take the mystery out of the Common Core with these unique and timely Spectrum 128-page books...read more

Product Description: Help sixth grade students master Common Core skills such as using maps and other graphics, understanding pronouns, finding percentages, and more with Common Core Language Arts and Math Spectrum workbooks. Take the mystery out of the Common Core with these unique and timely Spectrum 128-page workbooks...read more

Product Description: Help second grade students master Common Core skills such as understanding point of view, forming contractions and possessives, counting by 5s, and more with Common Core Language Arts and Math Spectrum workbooks. Take the mystery out of the Common Core with these unique and timely Spectrum 128-page workbooks...read more

Product Description: Learn how to use children’s literature to engage students in mathematical problem solving. Teaching with children’s literature helps build a positive math environment, encourages students to think abstractly, shows students the real-world purposes of math, builds content-area literacy, and appeals to students with different learning styles and preferences...read more

Product Description: Because nonfiction and young readers are a natural fit! Common Core or not, providing our youngest readers with a thorough grounding in nonfiction is just good teaching. There’s no better way to ensure our students acquire the background knowledge and vocabulary so essential to their understanding of subjects like science and social studies...read more

Product Description: Taking three different perspectives, this book looks at primary school children's language learning motivation and language attitudes. In adopting a longitudinal perspective, the book fills a research gap and provides a macro-level analysis of motivational development over time...read more

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