Internationally renowned literacy expert Dr. Patricia L. Scharer, former president of the Reading Recovery Council of North America, and her co-authors, all members of The Ohio State University Literacy Collaborative® founded by Dr. Gay Su Pinnell, demystify the reader's workshop—and so much more. In this monumental new book, you'll learn how to create an environment that supports both independent reading and writing as well as interactive, shared, and guided reading and writing. Scharer and her co-authors, among the most knowledgeable and respected literacy educators in the world, share in practical and illuminating detail what it takes to implement exemplary literacy instruction.Key Features : i : Create an environment that supports both independent reading and writing as well as interactive, shared, and guided reading and writingii : By Ohio State Univ. Literacy Collaborative, Gay Su Pinnell, Patricia L. Scharer, Editor Patricia L. Schareriii : Pages: 400

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Designed to be a one-stop shop for best practices, Teaching Reading is concise, encyclopedic, and essential. Thirteen interactive modules provide easy to read ideas to support you teaching every child to read very well. Focus on two critical aspects of reading—word recognition and language comprehension. Reading is a thrilling but complex process. It involves a heady mix of skills, schema, self-concept, and social dimensions. To give all students the chance to reap its rewards, we need a go-big kind of resource. This is it.Key Features : i : Focus on two critical aspects of reading—word recognition and language comprehension.ii : Select the best activities to support students in grades K-6 to learn letters and sound relationships.iii : Provide developing readers with the most effective oral, written, and reading experiences.iv : Recharge your confidence and craft with uplifting new research findings from neuroscience, cognitive science, and child development.v : Clear up confusions about phonics progressions, reading fluency, morphology, text selection, grammar, and more.vi : Author: Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Diane Lapp

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Teachers and administrators will learn how to create the respectful, trusting relationships with families necessary to build the educational partnerships that best support children's learning. The book will cover the mindset and core beliefs required to bond with families, and will provide guidance on how to plan engagement opportunities and events throughout the school year that undergird effective partnerships between families and schools.Key Features : i : Offers strategies for introducing and sustaining the mindset and core beliefs required to bond with familiesii : Provides guidance on how to plan engagement opportunities and events throughout the school yeariii : By Karen L. Mapp, Ilene Carver, Jessica Landeriv : Includes online resource bank

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Celebrated author and educator Ralph Fletcher provides a practical and illuminating guide to writing workshop for both new and veteran teachers that details the best ways to get started, the components that are vital, and what it takes to sustain a successful workshop across the school year. Fletcher, a wise and witty writing companion, shows us why encouraging choice, purpose, and play helps students find their voices and produce strong, effective writing.Key Features : i : The Writing Teacher's Companion features indispensable information about how to create, launch, and sustain an effective writer's workshop.ii : Learn what choice, voice, writing purpose, and play have to do with encouraging abundant highly effective student writing.iii : Learn how your writing attitude (and your own experiences as a writer) work to shape your students' developing writing aptitude.

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Motivate your students to excel with teamwork. You'll be amazed at how well your students will work in teams. They'll pay attention, solve problems together, help each other out when a teammate gets stuck, and discuss pre-algebra concepts every day! Master math teacher and celebrated author Becky Bride shares her step-by-step cooperative learning activities and explorations with you. With this terrific resource, Becky takes all the prep work out of teamwork. Chapters cover: whole numbers, integers, decimals, fractions, ratios, proportion, percent, coordinate planes, data analysis, and probability. See why students overwhelmingly prefer working together than working alone. Watch your test scores soar. Book includes reproducible blacklines for transparencies and activities. 312 pagesKey Features : i : Motivate your students to excel with teamwork, You'll be amazed at how well your students will work in teams, They'll pay attention, solve problems together, help each other out when a teammate gets stuck, and discuss pre-algebra concepts every dayii : Designed & organized to reinforce Algebra conceptsiii : Students are actively engaged so they retain more, and achievement goes upiv : Includes exploratory activities that have students discover concepts & remember themv : By celebrated Math author, Becky Bridevi : 464 pages

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Updated to reflect the latest research about how children learn, the revised edition of 125 Brain Games for Babies is a fun-filled collection of ways to develop the brain capacity of infants. Included are everyday opportunities to nurture brain development in the critical period from birth through twelve months. Each game and sensory experience presented includes an annotation on the latest brain research and how the activity promotes brain power in babies.

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This timely book counters the devastatinging effects of racism on children's learning with a focus on "revolutionary love". Sharing ways they've overcome personal and professional challenges in their teaching, the authors show readers how to unpack unconscious biases and examine common, but inherently racist practices that make learning difficult or impossible for many children of color. They offer in return practices that affirm and celebrate all students' identities, languages, and cultures- building a community of engaged, valued, and thoughtful learners. You'll find guidelines for selecting diverse children's books, and ways to use those books in reading and writing lessons that help children identify both glaring and veiled forms of racism and take an anti-racist stance. If you want to create a vibrant classroom community that honors the funds of knowledge that children of color and their families bring to school, this is the book for you.Key Features : i : Provides tools for exploring oneself, one's systems, and one's curriculum to gather baseline information to create more inclusive, culturally sensitive environments for children.ii : Suggests teaching ideas that can be applied seamlessly and smoothly to the existing reading and writing programiii : Offers guidelines for reaching out to families and the community to enhance curriculumiv : Speaks to all concerned teachers, regardless of their own cultural background, geographic location, or class make-upv : Authors have worked as classroom teachers, university researchers, and teacher educators

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Dr. Julia B. Lindsey's evidence-based routines help young readers decode words efficiently so they can spend more energy on comprehending—and enjoying—what they read! Sure to appeal to those following the "science of reading," given its emphasis on the English language and how it works (orthography, morphology, etc.). Follows a clear, developmental continuum, from decoding to crack one-syllable words to chunking to crack multisyllabic words. Contextualizes foundational skills by exploring their connections to fluency and comprehension, cultural responsiveness, and joyful learning. Author has worked as a classroom teacher, university researcher, and teacher educator.Key Features : i : Backed by leading research on effectively early reading instruction practices.ii : Sure to appeal to those following the "science of reading," given its emphasis on the English language and how it works (orthography, morphology, etc.)iii : Follows a clear, developmental continuum, from decoding to crack one-syllable words to chunking to crack multisyllabic wordsiv : Contextualizes foundational skills by exploring their connections to fluency and comprehension, cultural responsiveness, and joyful learning.v : Author has worked as a classroom teacher, university researcher, and teacher educator.

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Algebra 2 just got engaging! Based on the same successful formula as her other popular high school math books, Becky now offers you Algebra 2 set to Kagan's full engagement structures. Your students will have fun, yes fun, as they practice math skills using RallyCoach, Sage-N-Scribe, Quiz-Quiz-Trade, and other interactive structures. More interaction means more learning for everyone. This book is not just a collection of activities. It's a full Algebra 2 curriculum with lessons and activities and projectable pages. Chapters cover: Polynomials and Polynomial Functions, Rational Expressions and Functions, Radical Expressions and Functions, Exponential Functions, Logarithmic Functions, Piecewise and Absolute Functions, Trigonometry, and Sequences and Series.Key Features : i : The modeling of functions is intertwined throughout each chapterii : The book is divided into nine chapters, and each chapter is divideiii : Nearly 200 step-by-step activities and ready-to-use blackline mastersiv : 9 chapters covering essential Algebra 2 conceptsv : Aligned with Common Core State Standardsvi : 464 pages

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This easy-to-implement resource includes accompanying document-based questions that focus on key strategies for breaking down informational text to help students build cross-curricular reading skills. A document-based assessment sheet is also provided for each passage so students can investigate the text in even deeper and more meaningful ways. This resource is aligned to state and national standards and supports the development of college and career readiness skills.Key Features : i : Build students’ comprehension skills and prepare them for standardized testsii : Teacher Resource CD includes reproducible pages of articles, primary source documents, and questionsiii : Prepare for testing with follow-up questions from all levels of Bloom’s Taxonomyiv : Aligned to state and national standards and supports the development of college and career readiness skills

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This easy-to-implement resource includes accompanying document-based questions that focus on key strategies for breaking down informational text to help students build cross-curricular reading skills. A document-based assessment sheet is also provided for each passage so students can investigate the text in even deeper and more meaningful ways. This resource is aligned to state and national standards and supports the development of college and career readiness skills.Key Features : i : Build students’ comprehension skills and prepare them for standardized testsii : Teacher Resource CD includes reproducible pages of articles, primary source documents, and questionsiii : Prepare for testing with follow-up questions from all levels of Bloom’s Taxonomyiv : Aligned to state and national standards and supports the development of college and career readiness skills

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The Junior Learning Pre K Teacher Planner provides weekly and daily lesson plans for the introduction of Letters & Sounds at Pre K. It focuses in detail on the seven aspects of Letters & Sounds and has specific emphasis on language development and phoneme awareness to that children are prepare for decoding when they enter the K grade.Key Features : i : Focuses in detail on the seven aspects of Letters & Sounds and has specific emphasis on language development and phoneme awarenessii : Prepares children for decoding when they enter the K grade.iii : Teacher Lesson Plans for decodable readersiv : Junior Learning Pre K Teacher Planner provides weekly and daily lesson plans for the introduction of Letters & Sounds at Pre K

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The Grade 2 Teacher Planner provides weekly and daily lesson plans for the Grade 2 teaching of Letters & Sounds. Specifically, it covers version of Phase 5.5 (alternative sound families) and Phase 6 (prefix and suffixes). There are also lessons on proof reading and dictionary skills. These complete teacher planner references the associated decodable readers and provides assessment and revision sessions.Key Features : i : Overview for Letters & Sounds Phonics Programii : Decodable Readers Scope and Sequenceiii : Teacher Lesson Plans for decodable readersiv : Covers version of Phase 5.5 (alternative sound families) and Phase 6 (prefix and suffixes)

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This complete teacher planner for Grade K provides over 500 pages of daily lessons and weekly introductions. Visual examples of supplementary resources are presented alongside daily lessons for quick reference. Chapters include: Introduction Phase 2 (first 18 letter sounds) Phase 3 (next 24 letter sounds) Phase 4 (adjacent consonants) Revision and Assessment. Lessons are provided across the school calendar year. Additional resources are also included at the back of the Teacher Planner.Key Features : i : Complete teacher planner for Grade K provides over 500 pages of daily lessons and weekly introductionsii : Visual examples of supplementary resources are presented alongside daily lessons for quick referenceiii : Teacher Lesson Plans for decodable readersiv : Lessons are provided across the school calendar year

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This complete teacher planner for Grade 1 provides over 500 pages of daily lessons and weekly introductions. Visual examples of supplementary resources are presented alongside daily lessons for quick reference. Chapters include: Introduction Phase 5 (vowel sounds) Phase 6 (year 1 suffixes requirement) Phase 5.5 (alternative sounds) Revision and Assessment Lessons are provided across the school calendar year and allow preparation for the phonics screening check. Additional resources are also included at the back of the Teacher Planner.Key Features : i : Teacher planner for Grade 1 provides over 500 pages of daily lessons and weekly introductionsii : Lessons are provided across the school calendar year and allow preparation for the phonics screening check.iii : Teacher Lesson Plans for decodable readersiv : Over 500 pages

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Communities of practice are an age-old phenomenon representing teamwork. Whether it's researchers developing treatments for a disease or educators sharing best practices to enhance early childhood learning, communities of practice are about connection and shared purpose. Growing Together will help you define, create, and promote a community of practice to foster collaborative problem solving and enhance professional learning experiences. You will learn key strategies and techniques to help you: • Develop a shared vision and structure • Leverage tools to invite members and build a community • Build member engagement and investment • Master facilitation and evaluation strategies for ongoing professional learning

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Children are expected to read, write, count, and sit still at younger and younger ages. As these unrealistic expectations mount, family members and teachers alike continue to believe that these activities will prepare young children for school. But there is a better way—one that helps children build school readiness through developmentally appropriate activities. Best of all? The children can have fun! Building on Emergent Curriculum guides preschool teachers to tap into young children's natural inclination for play to build their skills, promote their development, and, ultimately, prepare them for elementary school. Learn: • Why traditional theme-based units don't work • What school readiness really looks like • Wow to recognize and capitalize on the many teachable moments that arise during play • Ways to train teachers and involve families in emergent curriculum Play and learning aren't mutually exclusive. Building on Emergent Curriculum will help readers give preschoolers a solid foundation for elementary school while they do what children do best: play!

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While most activity books encourage indoor explorations, countless adventures and learning opportunities await outside! Going for a walk or exploring the local community can bring about much more than just exercise. Little Walks, Big Adventures helps you teach your toddler about his/her surroundings through fun and adventurous local explorations, outdoor games and activities that promote and enhance learning. Parents and caregivers will help their toddlers enhance their: • Vocabulary • Language skills • Cognitive skills • Motor Skills • And more!

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While the visual and performing arts are powerful curricular companions to early STEM experiences, educators may not have the tools and resources to introduce art beyond painting and drawing. Creative Investigations in Early Art provides them with an inquisitive, explorative approach to boost young learners' creativity and critical-thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills through artistic expression. Each chapter provides educators with practical ideas for intentionally fostering young children's hands-on, minds-on explorations connecting the following areas of the creative arts to STEM: • Music and Movement • Dramatic Arts • Visual Arts • Artists and ArtworksKey Features : i : Each chapter provides educators with practical ideas for intentionally fostering young children's hands-on, minds-on explorationsii : Pages: 112iii : Great for STEM/STEAM learningiv : Ages 4-6

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Children are spending less time being outside in nature, playing, imagining, and learning about their surroundings. Instead, they're spending more time with tablets, televisions, and overly structured routines. Preschool Beyond Walls shows practical and strategic ways educators can create rich, explorative, and interdisciplinary learning through extensive outdoor experiences. Learn how to develop and implement a nature-based curriculum to support children's optimal learning, from start to finish. Whether you're creating a new curriculum or transitioning from a traditional approach, you will learn how to: • Create a program philosophy • Infuse nature into all aspects of your program • Prepare teachers for a nature-centered approach • Implement curriculum and pedagogy that emphasize inquiry-based learning through play and hands-on discovery • Maintain high-quality early childhood practices that support children's development

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Renowned literacy expert Stephanie Harvey teams up with authors/writing consultants Sara Holbrook and Michael Salinger to introduce writing frameworks—short writing scaffolds to support student writing. This innovative writing tool gets strivers engaged and invested in their writing, while providing a launch pad for thrivers to reach new heights. The authors present 27 frameworks with step-by-step lessons that emphasize teacher modeling, repeated reading, discussion, partnered research, writing, revision, and sharing; the lessons build both content knowledge and communication skills.Key Features : i : Based on Stephanie Harvey’s best-selling From Striving to Thriving approach.ii : Holbrook and Salinger have honed their framework approach though years of teaching and learning from tens of thousands of students around the globeiii : Frameworks zero in on practical writing skills and can serve as plug-ins to any writing program including Six Traits or Units of Studyiv : Can be adapted across grades and subject areas to improve and integrate writing across the curriculum. Can serve as a central focus for class discussionsv : Short framework lessons help strivers approach writing with “energy, action, and confidence rather than dread.” (Stephanie Harvey)vi : Provides a step-by-step model for effective writing instruction and helps students prioritize information and clarify their ideas

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Dig In: Outdoor STEM Learning with Young Children provides strategies, ideas, real-life examples, and information to help you get children outside and learning, all while meeting required early learning standards and objectives. Explore the Learning Life Cycle and discover fresh ideas for engaging children in deeper explorations and experiences outdoors that will stick with them into kindergarten and beyond. Have more aha moments, seize learning opportunities, invite questions, and investigate answers—while supporting rich STEM learning.Key Features : i : Develop children's problem-solving and critical-thinking skillsii : Support children's communication and collaboration skillsiii : Inspire children's creativity and innovative thinkingiv : Meet early learning standards in literacy, math, and more

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Child-care environments play an important role in how babies, toddlers, and two-year olds experience learning. Colors, sounds, smells, and the placement of furniture, lighting, and textures all influence how people act and interact inside a classroom. Chock-full of colorful photographs from real-world infant and toddler settings, this book offers fresh ideas for making centers and classrooms inspiring for all of the people who inhabit them. Discover numerous, easy-to-implement strategies to create a well-planned, enticing environment with a thoughtfully implemented curriculum to profoundly influence cognitive development, emotional development and mental health, physical development, social skills and language development, guidance approaches, and caregiver satisfaction.Key Features : i : Child-care environments play an important role in how babies, toddlers, and two-year olds experience learning.ii : Colors, sounds, smells, and the placement of furniture, lighting, and textures all influence how people act and interact inside a classroom.iii : Chock-full of colorful photographs from real-world infant and toddler settings, this book offers fresh ideas for making centers and classrooms inspiring for all of the people who inhabit them.iv : Discover numerous, easy-to-implement strategies to create a well-planned, enticing environment with a thoughtfully implemented curriculum to profoundly influence cognitive development, emotional development and mental health, physical development, social skills and language development, guidance approaches, and caregiver satisfaction.

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Written by a team of top ESL specialists, here is everything you need to teach beginning learners of English as a second language. Games, oral, and visual exercises are used to make learning enjoyable and socially engaging. Complete activities using visual, written, and kinesthetic skills round out the resource. Suitable for students in grades 1-8, care has been taken to ensure the pictures are simple, but realistic so they are both easy to interpret as well as suitable for all ages. Includes a wide variety of everyday nouns, including food, verbs, plurals, is/are, common prepositions, and calendar language. Reproducible worksheets and templates for auditory, written, visual, and game activities. Teacher instructions for planning & implementation. 80 pages.Key Features : i : Now there are even more ways to teach ESLii : Written by a team of top ESL specialists, here is everything you need to teach beginning learners of English as a second languageiii : Includes 80 pagesiv : Grades 1-6

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Engaging families in education not only improves student achievement, but also strengthens families, boosts teacher effectiveness, and builds community. Everyone wins! In this easy-to-use guide, a Harvard-based team uses the latest research to help teachers, administrators, and FACE coordinators design and implement programs wisely and with confidence that all students will benefit.Key Features : i : Provides clear, specific examples of practices that really made a difference, for students, teachers and familiesii : Shows how engaging families with home-school partnerships improves student learning and developmentiii : Supports teacher morale and effectiveness with ways to develop close relationships with students and familiesiv : Whatever schools are doing now will work better when stakeholders add the research-backed practices identified in this bookv : Offers advice for all levels—early childhood through high school

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What if each page of a picture book was guaranteed to enhance a child's reading and writing tenfold? Would you ramp up your read alouds? In this remarkable resource, Maria Walther shares two-page read aloud experiences for 101 picture books that tune you into what to notice, say, and wonder in order to bolster students' literacy exponentially. Celebrate the written (and illustrated) word.Key Features : i : Maria Walther shares two-page read aloud experiences for 101 picture books that tune you into what to notice, say, and wonder in order to bolster students' literacy exponentially.ii : Celebrate the written (and illustrated) wordiii : Build a foundation for future reading and learningiv : Expand vocabulary (with a focus on Tier 2 words)v : Develops basic reading skillsvi : Author: Maria Walther

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The Essential Tips & Tools for Social Skills 81-piece tool kit is designed to support the needs of a general education, special needs, or inclusion classroom. This comprehensive resource features information about essential social skills along with trusted strategies and suggestions to improve students' behavior, social skills, and self-esteem needs. This set includes the following pieces: • (1) 32-page book (8.375" x 10.875") • 30 activity cards (8.5" x 11") • 50 positive affirmation strips (10, 8.5" x 11" sheets; with 5, 8.5" x 2.2" affirmation strips per sheet) The Key Education line provides supplemental special education products designed to support the learning needs of special learners. Whether you're looking for help in general learning, communication, emotions, social skills, behavior management, or life skills, this line has a product to meet and exceed your specific needs. Explore hands-on games and puzzles, photographic learning cards, teacher resource books, workbooks, and more.Key Features : i : Perfect for any teacher who want to improve their students' social skillsii : Offers a wide range of strategies for teaching specific social skillsiii : Supports any social-emotional learning programiv : Includes reproducible forms for informal assessment and student participation

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In this sequel to Cultivating Genius, Gholdy Muhammad adds a fifth pursuit—joy—to her groundbreaking framework. Dr. Muhammad shows how joy, which is rooted in the cultural and historical realities of Black students, can enhance our efforts to cultivate identity, skills, intellect, and criticality for ALL students, giving them a powerful purpose to learn and contribute to the world. Dr. Muhammad's wise implementation advice is paired with model lessons that span subjects and grade levels.Key Features : i : Offers a repeatable model teachers can use for any type of lesson planning—across grades and subject areasii : Shares detailed examples of lessons following Dr. Muhammad's five-pursuit model from teachers in diverse classroomsiii : Includes strategies and tools for assessing students using the five-pursuit modeliv : Includes companion site with classroom videos, model lessons, and tools for designing and assessing your own lessons

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Quiz-Quiz-Trade is a student favorite! Transform need-to-know mathematics curriculum into a fun and interactive quizzing game. Keeps everyone engaged. Each card set includes enough cards for your entire class. Card sets include: area and perimeter, balancing, big numbers, converting fractions, interpreting remainders, equivalent fractions, factors, word problems, ordering decimals, order of operations, place value, rounding, simplifying fractions. 192 pages.Key Features : i : Repeated practice boosts retention!ii : Transform need-to-know content into an interactive game that students love!iii : Quiz cards are also great for other engaging structures including Fan-N-Pick, Showdown, and RallyQuiz.iv : Each card set includes enough ready-to-copy cards for your entire class to play.

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Help your students learn how to communicate effectively, make good choices, and practice appropriate behavior with Social Skills Matter!. This book includes over 80 reproducible mini-books for children to assemble, color, read, and make their own. Each mini-book focuses on a different facet of important social skills including cooperative play, learning about feelings, communication, school-day behavior, manners, and behavior management. Mastery of these essential social skills can be a factor in determining a child's future success, social acceptance, and happiness. Features: • Developmental tasks for communication, emotions, manners, relationships, and daily living skills • Multisensory activities that shape behavior through auditory, visual, and tactile senses.Key Features : i : Help your students learn how to communicate effectively, make good choices, and practice appropriate behavior with Social Skills Matterii : Includes reproducible mini-books for children to assemble, color, read, and make their owniii : Intended to engage and educate young and special learnersiv : Mastery of these essential social skills can be a factor in determining a child's future success, social acceptance, and happinessv : Each mini-book focuses on a different facet of important social skills including cooperative play, learning about feelings, communication, school-day behavior, manners, and behavior management

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These books are designed to help students develop a strong set of social and emotional skills. Students are asked to read, think, and respond to a variety of reading passages that contain character-building scenarios. 128 pages. Each of the 15 units includes: • a 3-page reading passage addressing a different aspect of character development, such as honesty, fairness, respect, and responsibility • thought-provoking questions for teacher-guided discussions • 5 reading comprehension questions • 4 different writing activities to gauge understanding of conceptsKey Features : i : Helps students develop social-emotional skills using situational reading passages and related activitiesii : Includes writing activities that encourage students to use critical-thinking and decision-making skillsiii : Provides thought-provoking questions and discussion opportunities for all studentsiv : Supports SEL instruction in the classroom

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From the creators of the popular education blogs Teach Mama and No Time for Flash Cards comes a must-have parents guide for raising lifelong readers and learners. Written for todays time-crunched parents, this book is filled with easy-to-implement tips for creating a literate environment and fun, quick activities for building children's oral language and early reading and writing skills. Just five minutes a day every day is all it takes to foster a child's love of reading and learning!Key Features : i : From the creators of the popular education blogs Teach Mama and No Time for Flash Cards!ii : 75 Quick Tips for Helping Your Child Develop a Lifelong Love for Readingiii : Quick 5-minute activities for building literacy skillsiv : Author: Amy Mascott, Allison McDonald

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These books are designed to help students develop a strong set of social and emotional skills. Students are asked to read, think, and respond to a variety of reading passages that contain character-building scenarios. 128 pages. Each of the 15 units includes: • a 3-page reading passage addressing a different aspect of character development, such as honesty, fairness, respect, and responsibility • thought-provoking questions for teacher-guided discussions • 5 reading comprehension questions • 4 different writing activities to gauge understanding of conceptsKey Features : i : Helps students develop social-emotional skills using situational reading passages and related activitiesii : Includes writing activities that encourage students to use critical-thinking and decision-making skillsiii : Provides thought-provoking questions and discussion opportunities for all studentsiv : Supports SEL instruction in the classroom

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When it comes to readers who need the most support, teachers can't afford to waste time using fragmented, skill-and-drill interventions that don't work. Literacy specialists Stephanie Harvey and Annie Ward demonstrate how to "table the labels" and use detailed formative assessments to craft targeted, personalized instruction that enable striving readers to do what they need above all - to find books they love and engage in voluminous reading. Loaded with ready-to-go lessons, routines, and "actions," as well as the latest research, this book is a must for any teacher who strives to make every reader a thriving reader.Key Features : i : Table the labels for striving readers, cultivate their curiosity, build classroom libraries that ensure access to and choice of books, and pump up their reading volume, trusting that strivers are more likely to discover the joys of reading with the right books in hand.ii : Match striving readers to books based on multiple considerations beyond just reading level.iii : Demonstrates how to Assess Readers in the Round, gathering and analyzing data from a spectrum of reading behaviors, attitudes, and understandings.iv : By Annie Ward, Stephanie Harvey

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It's time to get your classroom ready...virtually! This Organizing Your Virtual Classroom guide helps you establish your online classroom with confidence. The 4-page guide offers insightful strategies that create a positive, student-focused distance learning environment. Whether you're working with synchronous, asynchronous, or independent learning models, this guide will make setting up an at-home classroom easier by providing specific techniques, general guidance, and the foundations for innovation. From outlining routines and procedures to maintaining a reliable schedule, this At Your Fingertips guide will help you every step of the way. The 8.5" x 11", 2-panel foldout guide (4 pages), is laminated for durability and 3-hole-punched for easy binder storage.Key Features : i : Emphasizes important topics in an easy-to-read formatii : Provides tips and strategies to help educators set up safe virtual learning environmentsiii : Includes suggestions for making students comfortable as well as navigating technologyiv : Made by teachers, and made specifically for the 2020-21 school yearv : Offers easy access to additional teacher resources such as videos, student templates, and educational websites

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Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning By The Hawn Foundation Research-based and tested in dozens of classrooms 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 lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind-set in both school and life. The lessons fit easily into any schedule and require minimal preparation. Classroom management tips and content-area activities help you extend the benefits of MindUP throughout your day, week, and year. Includes a BIG, colorful teaching poster with fascinating facts about the brain! 160 pages + poster 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 Grades 6-8Key Features : i : 160 pages + posterii : Grade 6 thru 8iii : 8-3/8" widthiv : 10-7/8" length

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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 lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind-set in both school and life. The lessons fit easily into any schedule and require minimal preparation. Classroom management tips and content-area activities help you extend the benefits of MindUP throughout your day, week, and year! Includes a full-color, innovative teaching poster with fascinating facts about the brain!Key Features : i : Transforms classrooms into focused learning environmentsii : Helps teachers motivate at-risk learners so each child can thrive—academically, socially, and emotionallyiii : Kids love learning about how their brains work—and how they can help their brains “grow”!iv : Includes high-interest activities to connect MindUP learning to all content areasv : Fosters a cohesive, caring classroom climate that enhances learningvi : Correlates with the social and emotional learning goals created by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

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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 lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind-set in both school and life. The lessons fit easily into any schedule and require minimal preparation. Classroom management tips and content-area activities help you extend the benefits of MindUP throughout your day, week, and year! Includes a full-color, innovative teaching poster with fascinating facts about the brain!Key Features : i : Transforms classrooms into focused learning environmentsii : Helps teachers motivate at-risk learners so each child can thrive—academically, socially, and emotionallyiii : Kids love learning about how their brains work—and how they can help their brains “grow”!iv : Includes high-interest activities to connect MindUP learning to all content areasv : Fosters a cohesive, caring classroom climate that enhances learningvi : Correlates with the social and emotional learning goals created by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

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Picture a class of kindergarteners singing the alphabet song, and teaching phonics seems as easy as one-two, three, A, B, C, right? In a Fresh Look at Phonics, Wiley Blevins explains why it can get tricky, and then delivers a plan so geared for success, that teachers, coaches, and administrators will come to see owning this book as a before and after moment in their professional lives. In this amazing follow up to his renowned resource Phonics From A-Z, Wiley uses the data he has collected over two decades to share which approaches truly work, which have failed, and how teachers can fine-tune their daily instruction for success. You will learn to focus on the seven critical ingredients of phonics teaching that produce the greatest student learning gains— readiness skills, scope and sequence, blending, dictation, word awareness, high frequency words, and reading connected texts. In a final section, Wiley details the ten common reasons instruction fails and shows teachers how to correct these missteps regarding lesson pacing, transitions, decodable texts, writing activities, assessment and more. A Fresh Look at Phonics is the evidence-based solution you have been seeking. Wiley Blevins, Ph.D., is a world-renowned expert on early reading, and author of the seminal book Phonics From A-Z among many other works. He has taught in both the United States and South America, and regularly trains teachers throughout Asia. He holds a Doctorate in Education from Harvard University, and has worked with numerous educational scholars, including Jeanne Chall, Isabel Beck, Marilyn Adams, Louisa Moats, and Dianne August, and othersKey Features : i : Activities, routines, word lists, and lessons that develop solid foundations for readingii : Ideas for differentiation, ELL, and advanced learners to ensure adequate progress for all learnersiii : Help on decodable texts, what not to over-do, and what you can't do enough of for your students' achievementiv : Interactive "Day Clinic" activities that facilitate teacher self-reflection and school wide professional learningv : Author: Wiley Blevins

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50 Strategies for Supporting Multilingual Learners is an innovative resource designed for educators seeking to ensure the success of all students in linguistically diverse classrooms. This guide provides teachers with 50 actionable strategies honed from robust research and real-world classroom success stories. This book starts with fundamental knowledge and offers 50 practical strategies neatly organized into categories: creating a supportive environment, language support, listening, speaking, reading, writing, assessment, and visual literacy. These strategies are designed to be adaptable and practical for diverse classroom settings, providing teachers with effective tools grounded in research and practical application to aid multilingual learners throughout their educational journey in K-12 settings. As a part of the 50 Strategies series from Shell Education, this book is user-friendly, enabling educators to effortlessly navigate and cherry-pick strategies that align seamlessly with their classroom dynamics. Crafted with the busy teacher in mind, the full series of books is easily implementable, encouraging a dynamic and engaging learning environment without the overwhelming prep time.Key Features : i : This guide provides teachers with 50 actionable strategies honed from robust research and real-world classroom success storiesii : Enhance Classroom Dynamics: Utilize these strategies to create an environment where multilingual learners can excel.iii : Minimize Teacher Prep Time: Enables teachers to efficiently select and incorporate strategies that seamlessly align with their teaching goals.iv : Foster Inclusivity: Implement strategies that support the success of multilingual learners.

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Virtual teaching may seem scary, but it does not have to be! Tackle the upcoming school year with confidence and skill by using the insightful material found in 50 Strategies for Your Virtual Classroom. This resource will ease the stress of teaching in distance learning environments by providing a broad range of topics such as building community and engaging students to teaching young readers and English learners. It also provides tips for different learning environments, such as independent and hybrid learning, and includes an annotated list of useful applications and websites as well as student work pages inspired by the strategies.Key Features : i : Offers 50 instruction strategies to aid and inspire virtual teachingii : Covers a broad range of topics, from building community and engaging students to teaching young readers and English learnersiii : Gives tips for different learning environments, such as independent and hybrid learningiv : Provides grade-level differentiation and important reminders for each strategyv : Includes an annotated list of useful applications and websites as well as student work pages inspired by the strategies

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Dr. Julia Lopez-Robertson makes a case for infusing our classrooms with literature by a range of Latin authors and illustrators-voices that reflect our students' experiences and provide a window into the cultures of people from Spanish-speaking countries and communities. She shows how to identify quality literature by checking for bias, stereotypes, and cultural and linguistic authenticity. From there, she explores how to put the literature to work in whole-class lessons, read-alouds, small-group discussions and writing projects to nurture engaged readers.Key Features : i : The author provides a window into the cultures of people from Spanish-speaking countries and communitiesii : Dr. Julia Lopez-Robertson makes a case for infusing our classrooms with literature by a range of Latin authors and illustratorsiii : Book explores how to put the literature to work in whole-class lessons, read-alouds, small-group discussions and writing projects to nurture engaged readersiv : This book quality literature by checking for bias, stereotypes, and cultural and linguistic authenticityv : 144 Pages

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In their hit books Notice and Note and Reading Nonfiction, Kylene Beers and Bob Probst showed teachers how to help students become close readers. Now, in Disrupting Thinking they take teachers a step further and discuss an on-going problem: lack of engagement with reading. They explain that all too often, no matter the strategy shared with students, too many students remain disengaged and reluctant readers. The problem, they suggest, is that we have misrepresented to students why we read and how we ought to approach any text - fiction or nonfiction. With their hallmark humor and their appreciated practicality, Beers and Probst present a vision of what reading and what education across all the grades could be. Hands-on-strategies make it applicable right away for the classroom teacher, and turn-and-talk discussion points make it a guidebook for school-wide conversations. In particular, they share new strategies and ideas for helping classroom teachers: -Create engagement and relevance -Encourage responsive and responsible reading -Deepen comprehension -Develop lifelong reading habits "We think it's time we finally do become a nation of readers, and we know it's time students learn to tell fake news from real news. It's time we help students understand why how they read is so important," explain Beers and Probst. "Disrupting Thinking is, at its heart, an exploration of how we help students become the reader who does so much more than decode, recall, or choose the correct answer from a multiple-choice list. This book shows us how to help students become the critical thinkers our nation needs them to be."Key Features : i : This book includes strategies for: creating engagement, encouraging thoughtfulness and solving confusionsii : Beers and Probst present a vision of what reading and what education across all the grades could beiii : By Robert E. Probst, Kylene Beers

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Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Happiness is the first professional title dedicated to addressing a school's reading culture with a focus on the needs of immigrant and refugee students and families—including learning their target language, English. Dr. Vu presents the research-informed six conditions of culture—Commitment, Collection, Clock, Conversation, Connection, and Celebration—that create a school environment where immigrant and refugee students can thrive. Additionally, Dr. Vu provides practical strategies that most effectively support students who are new to this country.Key Features : i : The first professional title dedicated to addressing a school's reading culture with a focus on the needs of immigrant and refugee students and familiesii : Dr. Vu presents the research-informed six conditions of culture—Commitment, Collection, Clock, Conversation, Connection, and Celebrationiii : Great for developing reading and writing skills

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To support the Beanstalk Book range of decodable readers, we offer comprehensive Teacher Books. Teacher Book for Science includes: overview of Letters & Sounds program; phonics scope and sequence, individual teacher lesson plans for each decodable reader in the set, photocopiable activity pages for each book, screening checks and assessment pages, and a high-frequency word bank.Key Features : i : This book gives an overview for letters & sounds phonics programii : Teacher Book for Science includes: overview of Letters & Sounds program; phonics scope and sequenceiii : Teacher Lesson Plans for 60 decodable readersiv : Photocopiable Activity Pages for each bookv : Assessments and Screening Check

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To support the Beanstalk Book range of decodable readers, we offer comprehensive Teacher Books. Teacher Book for HiLo Diversity includes: overview of Letters & Sounds program; phonics scope and sequence, individual teacher lesson plans for each decodable reader in the set, photocopiable activity pages for each book, screening checks and assessment pages, and a high-frequency word bank.Key Features : i : This book gives an overview for letters & sounds phonics programii : Teacher Book for HiLo Diversity includes: overview of Letters & Sounds program; phonics scope and sequenceiii : Teacher Lesson Plans for 60 decodable readersiv : Photocopiable Activity Pages for each bookv : Assessments and Screening Check

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To support the Beanstalk Book range of decodable readers, we offer comprehensive Teacher Books. Teacher Book for Set 2 Fiction includes: overview of Letters & Sounds program; phonics scope and sequence, individual teacher lesson plans for each decodable reader in the set, photocopiable activity pages for each book, screening checks and assessment pages, and a high-frequency word bank.Key Features : i : This book gives an overview for letters & sounds phonics programii : Set 2 Fiction includes: overview of Letters & Sounds program; phonics scope and sequenceiii : Teacher Lesson Plans for 72 decodable readersiv : Photocopiable Activity Pages for each bookv : Assessments and Screening Check

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To support the Beanstalk Book range of decodable readers, we offer comprehensive Teacher Books. Teacher Book for Set 2 Non-Fiction includes: overview of Letters & Sounds program; phonics scope and sequence, individual teacher lesson plans for each decodable reader in the set, photocopiable activity pages for each book, screening checks and assessment pages, and a high-frequency word bank.Key Features : i : This book gives an overview for letters & sounds phonics programii : Teacher Book for Set 2 Non-Fiction includes: overview of Letters & Sounds program; phonics scope and sequenceiii : Teacher Lesson Plans for 72 decodable readersiv : Photocopiable Activity Pages for each bookv : Assessments and Screening Check

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