In this practical guide, teacher and brain-based learning expert Sarah Armstrong offers the tools and techniques that make designing tiered lessons manageable. She guides teachers through pre-assessing before a unit, identifying scaffolds necessary to support students, and focusing instruction aroun..
A comprehensive guide to developing a rich vocabulary that helps children access and understand the core curriculum. Within powerful units that focus on conceptual vocabulary and span the school year, the author provides strategies, graphic organizers, ready-to-use overhead transparencies, individua..
Here are dozens and dozens of literacy-building pocket chart poems and lessons to teach and reinforce the alphabet and the numbers 1 to 30, and to build phonemic awareness, phonics, and decoding skills. Simply copy the rhyming poems onto sentence strips and reproduce the picture cards for lively, in..
Help students build fluency and gain confidence as English speakers with this bilingual twist to the classic game. Includes 120 reproducible boards for 15 different themes including: school, home, calendar, animals, transportation, weather and more. A snap to learn and a blast to play! Author: Lucer..
Build essential geographic vocabulary and knowledge with this unique collection of easy-to-make mini-books. Simple text provides a clear definition of each landform, while engaging, interactive formats-such as pop-ups, pull-tabs, and peek-throughs-invite children to explore volcanoes, caves, glacier..
Each creative idea book is filled with on-target reproducible monthly activities that are ready-to-go and make learning fun! Author: Scholastic Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies) Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0439503809 ISBN-13: 9780439503808..
Engaging 16-page books on must-know, inspiring Americans. Features lively text, captions, realistic illustrations, glossaries, diagrams, and more. Correlate with Guided Reading Levels I and J. For use with Grades K-2. Author: Martin, Justin Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategi..
Engaging 16-page books on must-know, inspiring Americans. Features lively text, captions, realistic illustrations, glossaries, diagrams, and more. Correlate with Guided Reading Levels I and J. For use with Grades K-2. Author: Findley, Violet Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strateg..
Engaging 16-page books on must-know, inspiring Americans. Features lively text, captions, realistic illustrations, glossaries, diagrams, and more. Correlate with Guided Reading Levels I and J. For use with Grades K-2. Author: Ghiglieri, Carol Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strate..
An easy-to-use early intervention program that takes only ten minutes each night! Parents and children engage in repeated reading of poems, and then they complete a quick, skillbuilding activity. This ready-to-use, research-proven resource includes more than 100 poems and companion activities, 30 mo..
Make grammar skills stick with dozens and dozens of highly motivating, hands-on games and activities! Packed with reproducible game boards and engaging manipulatives, this resource provides fresh, fun-filled activities on all the key topics: capitalization, punctuation, parts of speech, plurals, con..
Set your child on the path to reading success with this exciting collection of little books on favorite science topics: penguins, bats, whales, apples, leaves, pumpkins, and many more. These level A full-color books feature engaging photos paired with VERY simple text to boost your child’s reading c..
Motivate reluctant readers with this collection of easy-to-read passages that cover a wide range of high-interest topics. Grouped according to the key reading strategies they reinforce, each reproducible passage comes with test-formatted comprehension and vocabulary questions, as well as writing act..
As students progress through the grades, more and more of their reading is done in nonfiction, or expository, materials-content area textbooks, reference books, periodicals, and informative articles on the Internet, for example. Because the main purpose for reading these texts is to acquire informat..
As students progress through the grades, more and more of their reading is done in nonfiction, or expository, materials-content area textbooks, reference books, periodicals, and informative articles on the Internet, for example. Because the main purpose for reading these texts is to acquire informat..
Provides activities and games using a variety of kits to help students develop language arts skills. Author: Novelli, Joan Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies) Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0439537967 ISBN-13: 9780439537964..
Engage students with this collection of creative reading response activities for both fiction and nonfiction. Open-ended prompts (such as, what books might Cinderella have on her bookshelf, or what might a pharaoh's to-do list include ) encourage students to explore and connect with the text in more..
Mentor teacher and reading expert, Laura Robb, shares 12 practical, research-based lessons that teachers can use to help kids navigate the special demands of the text they encounter in science and social studies classes. Strategy lessons include building background knowledge, asking questions, visua..
Kids will be eager to complete these math practice pages to solve the silly riddles that are guaranteed to make them giggle!Leveled for different abilities, each activity sheet reinforces a key math skill and includes a series of math problems that offer kids plenty of practice. Topics include ident..
Students are sure to succeed in standardized tests, thanks to meaningful and relevant hints from the Test Tutor. Designed to resemble various statewide tests, the three practice tests in this book offer different levels of scaffolding that help students understand what to look for in each question a..
Students are sure to succeed in standardized tests, thanks to meaningful and relevant hints from the OTest Tutor.O Designed to resemble various statewide tests, the three practice tests in this book offer different levels of scaffolding that help students understand what to look for in each question..
Give your child a head start in school! Summer Express includes 100 fun-filled activity pages-arranged in a progressive, 10-week format-that reinforce skills and also prepare first graders for second grade.In this learning-packed book, your child will work on the following skills:• Math• Reading• Wr..
Give your child a head start in school! Summer Express includes 100 fun-filled activity pages-arranged in a progressive, 10-week format-that reinforce skills while preparing second graders for third grade.In this learning-packed book, your child will work on the following skills:• Math• Reading• Wri..
Our brains work best under optimal conditions we think more creatively, we absorb information quickly, and we produce better work. So how do we create those conditions in a classroom setting to help all of our students achieve This guide shows teachers how to use simple research-supported strategie..