This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behavior and learning for all students. Each lessonoffers easy strategies for
This collection of weekly homework sheets is designed to give students practice in key writing skills and conventions of print. Students review correct usage of commas, apostrophes, and quotation mark
Kids will flip for these, versatile interactive mini-books that build key vocabulary skills-and help them become better readers and writers. Each humorous mini-book introduces a specific concept: pre
The most daunting tasks of writing-revision and editing-just became easier and more manageable with the publication of this book. Ruth Culham targets specific skills with short, powerful activities th
At the beginning of every school year, we bet you ask yourself, OWhat do I want my students to know and do as readers and writers by the end of this year?O This bookNjust for Grade 4Nmakes that questi
Organized by genre (picture books, traditional literature, modern fantasy, historical fiction, realistic fiction, poetry, and nonfiction), this book places quality children's literature at the heart
Teachers will turn to this treasury of ideas again and again to build key language and literacy skills. Hands-on activities, games, songs and rhymes help kids develop vocabulary, letter knowledge, pho
Watch confidence soar as children master 100 sight words—the words most commonly encountered in any text. Children read more fluently, write with greater ease, and spell more accurately when they know
This ready-to-use resource contains 30 exciting story starters that model good writing and help any student get past writer’s block! The prompts provide scaffolding through rich characters, imaginativ
Whether you're just getting started with the traits or want to invigorate your trait-based writing instruction, the 20 fun and engaging lessons in this resource are just what you need. Classroom-teste
Sure-fire lessons and motivating activities—from a Point-of-View Mock Trial to a Fact-O-Spinner Game—help every learner master the essential comprehension skills of determining point of view and disti
Word Family Tales are humorous read-aloud stories created to build early phonics skills by teaching children to recognize families” of words that share the same spelling pattern. This key
Here is a big, brand-new collection of cross-curricular poems written especially for classroom use. You'll find poems that are perfect for every day of the school year and just right for teaching abo
These whiteboard-ready lessons provide a dynamic tool for helping students master key writing forms. Each lesson presents a must-know format, such as a personal narrative or a summary, and shows step
Let's Learn Readers boost key literacy skills through engaging, easy-to-read stories. Make learning to read a laugh-out-loud experience with these super-fun books! For use with Grades K-2.
An indispensable guide to brain-based learning. Diane Connell summarizes current brain research and discusses the implications for the classroom. She offers tools to identify learning styles and idea
Veteran teacher Karen Kindle offers practical strategies for effectively building children’s vocabulary. She shows teachers how to select robust words from read alouds and infuse them into classroom t
Give children playful opportunities to master must-know phonics skills with ?phonics trees!” These systematic reproducibles give kids plenty of practice with short vowels, long vowels, blends, digraph
Write Better Sentences and Paragraphs is a series of 3 writing workbooks providing varied and interesting tasks to help enhance students writing, enabling them to write creatively, to elaborate and to
Designed for flexible use, these 25 graphic organizers for the overhead boost key reading and writing skills. First, use the transparency for a whole-group lesson; then provide students with the repro
The author of the bestselling Phonics from A-Z now shares the a wealth of practical ideas for helping students become fluent readers. Includes an easy assessment, many fun activities, oral reading st
This resource provides the practice students need to tackle the variety of graphs, charts, and tables they’ll encounter on standardized math tests?including bar graphs, pictographs, pie charts, and li
This big collection of engaging activity pages will give children lots of opportunities to practice and master more than 50 different word families and 100 key sight wordsbuilding blocks that help lay
Research shows that explicit vocabulary instruction and a variety of repeated opportunities to use words leads to a deeper understanding of their meanings—and plays a significant role in student achie
What is Rime Magic? It’s a new decoding resource that’s changing the lives of readers of all ages.Teachers carry out instruction using various sets of cards and lessons found inside the Rime Magic kit
"In this book, award-winning children’s author and acclaimed educator Lester L. Laminack provides guidelines, lessons, and resources for making every read-aloud experience intentional and instructiona
A collection of 25 leveled passages with text-dependent comprehension questions that help students tackle increasingly complex texts and provide the academic rigor called for by the Common Core State
A collection of 25 leveled passages with text-dependent comprehension questions that help students tackle increasingly complex texts and provide the academic rigor called for by the Common Core State
A collection of 25 leveled passages with text-dependent comprehension questions that help students tackle increasingly complex texts and provide the academic rigor called for by the Common Core State
A collection of 25 leveled passages with text-dependent comprehension questions that help students tackle increasingly complex texts and provide the academic rigor called for by the Common Core State
A collection of 25 leveled passages with text-dependent comprehension questions that help students tackle increasingly complex texts and provide the academic rigor called for by the Common Core State
Kids will flip for these versatile, interactive mini-books that teach grammar and punctuation rules-and help them become better readers and writers. Each humorous mini-book introduces a specific conc
Two master teachers share 15 ready-to-use lessons for using engaging picture books to teach literary elements such as point of view, voice, irony, theme, metaphor, simile, and more. For each literary
At the beginning of every school year, we bet you ask yourself, What do I want my students to know and do as readers and writers by the end of this year?O This bookNjust for Grade 5Nmakes that questio
At the beginning of every school year, we bet you ask yourself, OWhat do I want my students to know and do as readers and writers by the end of this year?O This bookNjust for Grade 1Nmakes that questi
In this fully revised and expanded edition of a classic, Isabel L Beck and Margaret G. McKeown share their new findings on Questioning the Author, the approach that galvanized the research field to l
Research shows that literacy?the ability to listen, view, speak, read, and write - begins developing long before children enter elementary school. This book helps early childhood educators nurture tha
How do you teach punctuation in a way that students remember and apply to their own writing? With these mini-lessons, and partner and small-group activities, students catch on to the power of punctuat
