To support the Beanstalk Book range of decodable readers, we offer comprehensive Teacher Books. Teacher Book for Set 1 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 1 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 1 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 : Set 1 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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Do you have students who struggle with algebra? Do they find the problems difficult to understand, or of little real-world value? Do they find the repetitive practice boring? The problem may not be algebra. It may be the way students are learning algebra. In this book, master teacher, trainer, and celebrated math author Becky Bride will show you step-by-step, activity-by-activity, and lesson-by-lesson how she used cooperative learning structures to help her students succeed with algebra year after year. When the power of student-to-student interaction is unleashed in algebra, students enjoy learning more and the abstract algebraic concepts become more concrete and understandable. Chapters cover: working with rational numbers, expressions, equations and inequalities, linear functions and vertical lines, linear systems, polynomials, radicals, and quadratic functions. Transform struggling students into successful mathematicians with motivating teamwork activities. Book includes reproducible transparencies and activities. 464 pagesKey Features : i : In this book, master teacher, trainer, and celebrated math author Becky Bride will show you step-by-step, activity-by-activity, and lesson-by-lesson how she used cooperative learning structures to help her students succeed with algebra year after yearii : 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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Make geometry come alive using cooperative learning! In this book, you'll receive something you won't find in any textbook—HOW to teach geometry successfully. You will find over 200 step-by-step activities to enhance geometry exploration and mastery. In the process of working together through these carefully crafted activities, your students will learn more and enjoy geometry more than you ever imagined possible! Topics covered: definitions, angles and lines, constructions, triangles, polygons and quadrilaterals, similarity, Pythagorean theorem and special right triangles, area, volume, and circles. Includes reproducible geometry worksheets and blacklines for transparencies. 440 pagesKey Features : i : Make geometry come alive using cooperative learning! In this book, you'll receive something you won't find in any textbook – HOW to teach geometry successfullyii : 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 : 440 pages

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Kagan Structures are revolutionary teaching strategies. Why? Because they create an unparalleled level of student engagement. Kagan Structures create a cooperative and caring class tone by putting students on the same side as they interact in pairs, small teams, and with classmates. Structures ensure every student is individually accountable so no one can hide and take a free ride. Structures create equal participation, which means all students are engaged a much greater percent of the time. In this must-have Kagan reference guide, you get 59 step-by-step Kagan Structures you'll use time and time again. More structures means more tools in your teaching toolbox to create more student engagement, more student learning, and more success!Key Features : i : Kagan Structures create a cooperative and caring class tone by putting students on the same side as they interact in pairs, small teams, and with classmatesii : Revolutionary teaching strategies to boost engagementiii : Structures ensure every student is individually accountable so no one can hide and take a free rideiv : 59 Ready-to-use activities and resources

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Mastering Math Manipulatives includes everything you need to integrate math manipulatives—both concrete and virtual—into math learning. Each chapter of this richly illustrated, easy-to-use guide focuses on a different powerful tool, such as two-color counters, linking cubes, base ten blocks, fraction manipulatives, pattern blocks, tangrams, geometric solids, and others, and includes a set of activities that demonstrate the many ways teachers can leverage manipulatives to model and reinforce math concepts for all learners.Key Features : i : Classroom strategies for introducing math manipulatives, including commercial, virtual, and hand-made manipulatives, into formal math instruction.ii : Step-by-step instructions for 75 activities that work with any curriculum, including four-color photos, printable work mats, and demonstration videos.iii : Handy charts that sort activities by manipulative type, math topic, domains aligned with standards, and grade-level appropriateness.iv : Each chapter of this richly illustrated, easy-to-use guide focuses on a different powerful tool, such as two-color counters, and includes a set of activities that demonstrate the many ways teachers can leverage manipulatives to model and reinforce math concepts for all learners.v : Author: Sara Delano Moore, Kimberly Rimbey

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The book that started it all—is completely revised! Why would the Kagans update a classic that has sold nearly half a million copies? The answer: So much has changed! Cooperative Learning today is different. This new book presents today's most successful cooperative learning methods. The Kagans make it easier than ever to boost engagement and achievement. You'll still find all the practical and proven Kagan Structures, including Numbered Heads Together, RoundTable, and Three-Step Interview—direct from the man who invented cooperative learning structures. And there's still plenty of ready-to-do teambuilding and classbuilding activities to make your class click. But in this expanded edition, you will find new step-by-step structures, hundreds of helpful management tips, many more teacher-friendly activities and forms, and up-to-date research on proven methods. You hear how schools have used Kagan Cooperative Learning to boost academics, close the achievement gap, improve student relations, and create a more kind and caring school community. After decades of training and working with hundreds of thousands of teachers, Kagan has refined and perfected the most widely used and respected form of cooperative learning ever. The Kagans make it easy for you to dramatically increase engagement and achievement in your class!Key Features : i : This new book presents today's most successful cooperative learning methods, and makes it easy to boost engagement and achievementii : Many step-by-step structures, hundreds of helpful management tips, many more teacher-friendly activities and forms, and up-to-date research on proven methodsiii : Kagan Cooperative Learning to boost academics, close the achievement gap, improve student relations, and create a more kind and caring school community

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What does a harmed child look like? It’s the little girl on the playground who has mysterious bruises on her legs. It’s the three-month-old baby boy who arches his back when you try to hold him. It’s the four-year-old who bites and hits when asked to clean up. These are the faces of traumatized children. As an early childhood professional, you play a key role in the early identification of maltreatment and unhealthy patterns of development. You are also the gateway to healing. In Reaching and Teaching Children Exposed to Trauma, you will find the tools and strategies to connect with harmed children and start them on the path to healing.Key Features : i : Great resource for helping children that have been exposed to traumaii : Provides you with the necessary skills to reach traumatized childreniii : 248 pages

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Award-winning children's author and acclaimed educator Lester L. Laminack provides guidelines, lessons, and resources for making every read-aloud experience intentional and instructional to engage students in deep thinking about fiction and nonfiction books. Central to Laminack's message is his breakthrough thinking about the value and importance of "Best Friend Books"-- a small, carefully curated collection that you repeatedly turn to for specific teaching purposes.Key Features : i : Step-by-step lessons for "first visits" and "return visits" to recommended Best Friend Books- clear guidelines for digging deeply and enriching students' understanding of content and craftii : Links to an online resource bank that contains "Spotlight on Lester" videos, graphic organizers for you, and downloadables for your studentsiii : "What the Research Says" boxes that point to studies supporting Laminack's professional adviceiv : An annotated and alphabetized list of Laminack's favorite Best Friend Booksv : "Home Visit" boxes that contain certain tips and tools for welcoming families into the work

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In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework-one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education. Muhammad's Historically Responsive Literacy Framework is essential for all students, especially youth of color, who traditionally have been marginalized in learning standards, school policies, and classroom practices. The framework promotes four learning goals-or pursuits: • Identity development; defining self; making sense of one's values and beliefs • Skill development; developing proficiencies through reading and writing meaningful content • Intellectual development; gaining knowledge and becoming smarter • Criticality; developing the ability to read texts to understand power, authority, and oppression When these four learning pursuits are taught together-through the Historically Responsive Literacy Framework- all students receive profound opportunities for personal, intellectual, and academic success. Muhammad provides probing, self-reflective questions for both teachers and students as well as bibliographies of culturally responsive text and sample lesson plans across grades and content areas.Key Features : i : Identity Development: Defining self; making sense of one's values and beliefsii : Skill Development: Developing proficiencies through reading and writing meaningful contentiii : Intellectual Development: Gaining knowledge and learning to think deeplyiv : Criticality developing the ability to read texts to understand power, authority and oppressions

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Preschoolers are constantly using their bodies to play and learn, whether you encourage activity or not. You can help them stay active as they grow by providing instruction in physical skills, motivating them to develop strength and fluid movements, and challenging them to improve their skill levels. Not every child will become an athlete, but all children use motor skills to move around their environment, interact with others, play games, and learn. Your guidance can mean the difference between playing confidently and giving up in embarrassment. As in all types of learning, practice helps solidify the lessons learned during physical movement instruction. Motivated by the knowledge and experience you provide, the preschoolers in your care can grow strong bodies, enjoy physical activity, and move with assurance toward a healthy lifestyle.Key Features : i : You can help them stay active as they grow by providing instruction in physical skills, motivating them to develop strength and fluid movements, and challenging them to improve their skill levelsii : As in all types of learning, practice helps solidify the lessons learned during physical movement instructioniii : Motivated by the knowledge and experience you provide, the preschoolers in your care can grow strong bodies, enjoy physical activity, and move with assurance toward a healthy lifestyle.iv : Great way to introduce preschoolers to

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Toddlers are on the move almost constantly! Even though encouraging physical activity is not a problem, you can model new movements and skills and lay the foundation for them to enjoy physical activity as they grow. Toddlers need lots of time to master the basics, such as jumping, rolling, and balancing. As they become more comfortable with their bodies and confident in their ability to be physically active, their desire to participate will increase. They'll enjoy kicking and throwing different types of balls, walking up and down stairs, running outside, and pedaling tricycles. Most of their physical activity involves unstructured play, and rightly so. However, you can also introduce them to new equipment with structured play and then let them explore on their own or with playmates. If you help toddlers understand how to develop physical skills, you will help them build confidence and have fun being active. What a gift for a lifetime!s

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Babies are naturally active, and their movements help them explore their environment. They first move involuntarily, based on reflexes, and then learn to move more independently as their bodies grow stronger and they begin to investigate the world around them. You can encourage their muscle development, strength and balance with simple activities done with infants as young as six weeks old. From tummy time to crawling, scooting and standing, your active involvement will benefit infants in the following ways: • Maintaining a healthy weight • Developing good posture, strength, balance, and tracking skills • Keeping their bodies active and learning about their new environment • Developing their senses of hearing, sight, and touch The first year of life lays the foundation for further development of gross motor skills as a toddler and preschooler. So get those little bodies moving!

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This smart, simple approach ensures that kindergarteners write at or above a first-grade level by the end of the year. Master teacher Randee Bergen shares her yearlong plan for daily writing, providing complete lessons and tips for motivating all learners, managing writing time, and assessing children's work effectively and efficiently. Includes guided lessons for the whole group as well as individualized mini-lessons to support learners exactly where they need help.Key Features : i : Yes, you can help kindergarteners write skillfully and love itii : Everything you need from lessons to student samples to help you teach writing effectively from day oneiii : Minimal preparation and planning-maximum results

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Find concrete ways to support unwilling, unengaged, or struggling readers! This professional resource includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies and activities to help teachers reach reluctant readers. Have your students mastered the art of avoiding reading? Written by English teacher and literacy expert Heidi Crumrine, 50 Strategies for Reluctant Readers gives educators ideas for how to provide a variety of reading opportunities for students who don’t like to read. These quick, accessible strategies are perfect for getting readers engaged and excited. From building literacy to fostering a love of reading, this book offers K–12 teachers the support they need to help reluctant readers thrive.Key Features : i : This professional resource includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies and activities to help teachers reach reluctant readersii : Provides 50 instructional strategies to support and motivate studentsiii : Builds students’ fluency, stamina, and interest in readingiv : Reduces teacher stress and minimizes planning time

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This must-have resource for primary teachers includes dozens of fun activities that help children listen to language and play with sounds- essential readiness skills for phonics instruction. Activity cards can be cut out and laminated to create a handy reference file of fun ideas. A wide selection of reproducibles such as picture cards, word cards, and manipulatives are included. 128 pages.Key Features : i : This must-have resource for primary teachers includes dozens of fun activities that help children listen to language and play with sounds- essential readiness skills for phonics instructionii : Activity cards can be cut out and laminated to create a handy reference file of fun ideasiii : A wide selection of reproducibles such as picture cards, word cards, and manipulatives are included

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Vicki Gibson addresses the special management needs of both elementary and early learning classrooms in these highly readable, practical resources. Topics include: Age-appropriate routines and procedures Teaching students how to self-regulate and work cooperatively with peers Managing whole-group overviews and small-group differentiated instruction Using learning centers for collaborative practice, exploration, and discoveryKey Features : i : This guide uses learning centers for collaborative practice, exploration, and discoveryii : Teaching students how to self-regulate and work cooperatively with peersiii : Managing whole-group overviews and small-group differentiated instruction

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Quiz-Quiz-Trade is a student favorite! Transform your mathematics curriculum into a fun, interactive quizzing game. Your students will be up, moving about the classroom, quizzing each other on essential math skills, and coaching and praising each other. Each set of cards focuses on a need-to-know math concept. Students each receive a quiz card. They pair up and quiz both ways, then trade cards and find a new partner to quiz. Each time they have a new partner and a new quiz question. Keeps everyone engaged! Great for practicing concepts, test prep, and for revisiting concepts throughout the year in a fun quizzing format. Card sets include: balancing the equation, regrouping, time, elapsed time, candy store math, snack shack math, word problems, test prep, and rounding.Key Features : i : Each set of cards focuses on a need-to-know concept.ii : Quiz-Quiz-Trade is a student favorite!iii : Keeps everyone engaged!iv : Great for practicing concepts, test prep, and for revisiting concepts throughout the year in a fun quizzing format.

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This essential teacher resource will guide you in successfully implementing Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) strategies into every day instruction while looking at how to foster your own emotional awareness with support. Learn how to create a classroom community centered around SEL engagement to help students succeed in the classroom and beyond. You will dig into key SEL topics such as the 5 SEL competencies. Perfect for educators with a wide range of experience, this resource will empower you to explore your own SEL skills to make lasting connections in the classroom and school community.Key Features : i : Essential teacher resource will guide you in successfully implementing Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) strategies into every day instruction.ii : Teachers can create a classroom community centered around SEL engagement to help students succeed in the classroom and beyond.iii : Perfect for educators with a wide range of experience.iv : This resource will empower you to explore your own SEL skills to make lasting connections in the classroom and school community.

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Fluency expert Timothy V. Rasinski teams up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, a veteran fifth grade teacher, to help teachers effectively weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction. The book is packed with engaging text and tools, an assessment scale, and high quality ready-to-use lessons including text phrasing and tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more! Given the importance of fluency— and its pivotal relationship to comprehension and word recognition—the potential is high for improving students' overall reading achievement, and their performance in other content areas.Key Features : i : This book will provide an understanding of the building blocks of fluency and its top ten benefitsii : This book will help to assess your students' developing fluency easily and effectivelyiii : Will demonstrate why an emphasis on timed-reading is inappropriate and limiting for students as readersiv : Support your students' reading at home with fluency fun for the entire family

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Introducing 50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement, the latest addition to the highly acclaimed 50 Strategies series. Designed to provide K-8 educators with practical, research-backed ideas to enhance the summer school experience, this book is an invaluable resource for teachers seeking innovative and engaging approaches to summer learning. Summer school offers a unique opportunity for students to accomplish grade-level learning objectives in a more relaxed environment, often with smaller class sizes. 50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement is tailored to make summer learning enjoyable and engaging. The book is your ultimate guide to infusing your summer school sessions with creative, effective teaching strategies. This strategy book is divided into seven main sections, each offering a diverse set of innovative approaches: Playful Practice, Hands-On Learning, Cultivating Community, Multimedia Adventures, Beyond the Classroom, Unleashing Literacy and Drama, and Assessment Quick Checks. With 50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement, you can access a treasure trove of educational ideas that can be swiftly integrated into your summer school program. Whether you are a seasoned educator or just beginning your teaching journey, this book is designed to help you create an engaging, enriching summer school experience for your students. Get ready to transform your summer school sessions into a time of growth, exploration, and fun with this outstanding resource.Key Features : i : Designed to provide K-8 educators with practical, research-backed ideas to enhance the summer school experience, this book is an invaluable resource for teachers seeking innovative and engaging approaches to summer learningii : Infuse your summer school sessions with creative, effective teaching strategies.iii : Ideas that can be swiftly integrated into your summer school program.iv : This strategy book is divided into seven main sections

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This 6-page guide helps you provide a learning environment that fosters mathematical thinking and understanding while meeting the needs of all students. With ready-to-implement strategies centered on seven instructional areas, you can maximize the impact of your mathematics instruction. Promote a classroom environment of numeracy and mathematical discourse with this essential instructional resource for K-12 math teachers!Key Features : i : Help your students thrive using Guided Math! This 6-page guide offers instructional strategies that revolve around seven key instructional components.ii : Emphasizes important topics in an easy-to-read formatiii : Provides tips and strategies to help educators create an environment of numeracyiv : Includes suggestions for using hands-on, problem-solving experiences to teach math in both small group and whole-class instructionv : Offers easy access to additional teacher resources such as videos, student templates, and educational websites

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Make virtual learning effective and meaningful! This bundle includes an essential teacher resource book and three At Your Fingertips guides all designed to help teachers tackle virtual teaching with confidence, using insightful strategies and tips. 50 Strategies for Your Virtual Classroom contains in-depth tips and strategies for today's different learning environments. This resource provides teachers with 50 strategies to make virtual learning effective and meaningful for all students. The three At Your Fingertips guides are easy-to-read, laminated reference pages designed to help teachers immediately implement virtual learning tips and strategies with confidence. These essential reference guides provide key strategies, specific techniques, general guidance, and the foundations for innovation in virtual classrooms. This bundle includes 50 Strategies for Your Virtual Classroom and three At Your Fingertips guides including: Organizing Your Virtual Classroom, Engaging Students in Your Virtual Classroom, and Building Community in Your Virtual Classroom.Key Features : i : Teachers will appreciate grade-level differentiation for each strategy in the resource book, and the student activity pages and technology notes providedii : Specifically created to prepare teachers for virtual learningiii : Provide tips and strategies to improve virtual teachingiv : At Your Fingertips guides are easy-to-read, laminated reference pages designed to help teachers immediately implement virtual learning tips

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Teach students the architecture beneath a successful story—and boost their reading comprehension and writing skills for a lifetime Writing instruction can sometimes seem scattershot, as teachers try to cover a galaxy of craft techniques, ideas, intentions, and genres. The possibilities are endless—and that’s the problem. In Text Structures from Picture Books, elementary and middle grade teachers tap into a well-ordered universe of inspiring and illustrative stories to help students frame their thinking and focus choices. Using the bite-size format of picture books as a starting point, the authors share 50 low-prep, quick-access lessons to help you teach students seven concrete ways to respond to text in any genre. Based on master writing teacher Gretchen Bernabei’s instructional model, the lessons offer a lively, high-impact mix of reading aloud, discussion, modeling, student writing, and peer share. Plus, readers have access to a complete companion website full of text structure reproducibles, reading response prompts, additional lessons and extensions, students samples, and links to demo videos. State tests are now assessing reading and writing together. And that’s a good thing—but we’ve got some catching up to do. Written for students beginning in second grade, Text Structures from Picture Books will help your students swiftly and surely become text-savvy readers and writers.Key Features : i : This book helps students generate their own writing, using a text structure harvested from the work of professional authorsii : The illustrative stories teaches students how to retell a story, using the text structure from the storyiii : Generate reading responses, using structures that support clarityiv : Analyze a story to construct thematic statements, capturing the author's message and bigger themesv : Author: Stephen Briseño, Kayla Briseño, Gretchen Bernabei

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Literacy advocates with a deep passion for books bestselling author Donalyn Miller and 5th grade teacher Colby Sharp showcase the power of children s access to books, providing teachers and administrators with the tools and information they need to increase children s meaningful interaction with books and to launch or sustain book access initiatives in their communities. Through research and testimonials from voices in the field and their own classroom experiences, Miller and Sharp provide practical and resourceful information on a range of topics and areas, (including successful school and classroom libraries, the power of book ownership, the importance of cultural and social access to books, and meaningful family-community reading engagement) designed to help dramatically increase children s access to and life-changing engagement with books.Key Features : i : Brings years of independent reading classroom program know-how and research plus power-library building to educators at every level.  Offers the most essential, practical tips on ways to accelerate readers’ growth and help them build a lasting reading-identity—from a diverse range of educators across the states.ii : Provides connections for meaningful family-community reading engagementiii : Routines, rituals, tips, and lessons for developing a community of readers in your classroom—and beyondiv : Helps educators build kids’ book muscles for life-long learningv : Provides ways to engage students with the least interest books—and make purposeful reading an essential part of their lives.

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Finally. A cooperative learning book specifically for high school mathematics teachers. Includes a rich array of activities for all levels of high school mathematics. You receive half a dozen Kagan cooperative learning structures: Line-Ups, Mix Pair RallyCoach, Mix-N-Match, Inside-Outside Circle, RallyCoach, RoundTable. For each structure you receive numerous activities and blackline masters for Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Trigonometry, and Pre-Calculus. Activities for fractions, geometry definitions, graphs, probability, algebraic expressions, word problems, slope, angle, proofs, equations, functions, parabolas, and much, much more. Nearly 300 activities in all! Your students will work together successfully with these proven cooperative structures. Working together, your students enjoy math more and learn more. 420 pagesKey Features : i : A cooperative learning book specifically for high school mathematics teachers. Includes a rich array of activities for all levels of high school mathematicsii : 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 Bride

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If there's one thing teachers can agree on, it's that social and emotional learning is a hot topic in education. But beyond this, questions still remain. Many educators find themselves wondering, what exactly is SEL? How should it be taught? What does it look like in the classroom? And, is it our job as educators to teach students non-academic life skills? Based on author Dr. Amy Cranston's experiences with implementing SEL from a practical standpoint, this book defines SEL and digs into the real work of how to incorporate SEL in K-12 schools. It makes the connection between research and practical application and the real-life examples and testimonials of SEL in the classroom will help educators effectively implement SEL programming. Featured case studies demonstrate real-world applications of SEL in different types of K-12 learning environments. It addresses students' different interests and varied learning styles and features Mindful Moments that encourage understanding, learning, and reflection. By supporting the emotional needs of students, educators will not only address issues such as discipline problems and absenteeism, but will help their students to be more mindful and self-aware. By encouraging spaces where intrapersonal and interpersonal skills are celebrated and culti(more...)Key Features : i : This resource defines social and emotional learning and digs into the real work of incorporating SEL in K-12 schoolsii : It makes the connection between research and practical application through real-life examples and testimonials of SEL in the classroom.iii : It makes the connection between research and practical application and the real-life examples and testimonials of SEL in the classroom will help educators effectively implement SEL programmingiv : By supporting the emotional needs of students, educators will not only address issues such as discipline problems and absenteeism, but will help their students to be more mindful and self-aware.

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Leading phonics expert Wiley Blevins has updated his best-selling classic to include the latest in phonics instruction and the science of reading, as well as current research on handwriting and on phonemic awareness. This revised edition also offers ideas for maximizing your scope and sequence, practical tips for creating sound walls, a decodable text routine for building comprehension, strategies for differentiating during whole-group lessons while better targeting small-group work, and more.Key Features : i : Updated and revised!ii : Everything you need to teach phonics and reading in the early grades.iii : Includes the latest in the science of reading and phonics instruction.

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This companion to Revolutionary Love presents do-tomorrow, asset-based strategies for preK-grade 2—all grounded in a culturally-responsive framework. A key goal of this book is to activate and energize early childhood educators so that they will view teaching Black students as exhilarating and rewarding—and propel student success.Key Features : i : Provides tools for examining our beliefs and instructional practices and using what we learn to create more inclusive, culturally sensitive environments for young children.ii : Suggests ways to reframe play to be culturally inclusive, and ways to honor and build upon the languages children bring to the classroomiii : Offers guidelines for reaching out to families and the community to enhance the early childhood curriculum and make it more relevant for studentsiv : Speaks to all concerned teachers, regardless of their cultural background, geographic location, or class makeupv : Authors have worked as classroom teachers, university researchers, and teacher educators

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In Shake Up Shared Reading, veteran teacher Maria Walther offers teachers a simple but robust scaffolding for moving from teacher-led demonstration of read aloud to student-led discovery of literacy skills—across the bridge of shared reading. This easily adaptable structure features short, targeted bursts of shared reading that are connected to and planned as a follow-up to a read-aloud experience. Read-aloud experiences drawn from 50 recently published works of children's literature from varied voices, that provide the foundation for the short, intensive shared reading interactions that follow.Key Features : i : Read-aloud experiences drawn from 50 recently published works of children's literature from varied voices, that provide the foundation for the short, intensive shared reading interactions that follow.ii : 100 short, laser-focused bursts of shared reading, two for each title, that invite students to dig deeper, with a precise aim in mind—perfect for a variety of learning contexts including virtual settings.iii : Key vocabulary, kid-friendly definitions, along with a Nudge Toward Independence section for each shared reading interaction help teachers connect shared reading to guided reading lessons and students' independent literacy learning.iv : A companion website offering reproducibles and a Learning Target Chart that gives an at-a-glance view of every read aloud learning target and shared reading focus, along related titles and additional links.v : Author: Maria Walther

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In this resource-rich book, you'll find: All the planning and instructional tools you need to teach guided reading well, from pre-A to fluent, organized around Richardson's proven Assess-Decide-Guide framework. Prompts, discussion starters, teaching points, word lists, intervention suggestions, and more to support all students, including dual language learners and struggling readers. 29 comprehension modules that cover essential strategies—monitoring, retelling, inferring, summarizing, and many others. Plus an online resource bank with dozens of downloadable assessment and record-keeping forms, Richardson's all-new, stage-specific lesson plan templates. More than 40 short videos showing Jan modeling key parts of guided reading lessons for every stage.Key Features : i : Jan Richardson's highly anticipated update to the classic bestseller The Next Step in Guided Reading helps you and your students move forward.ii : Richardson is a bestselling author and in-demand staff developeriii : Includes ALL-NEW, stage-specific lesson plan templatesiv : 29 comprehension modules covering the essentials – monitoring, retelling, inferring, summarizing, and many others

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In this resource-rich book and teacher's prompting guide, you'll find: - All the planning and instructional tools you need to teach guided reading well, from pre-A to fluent, organized around Richardson's proven Assess-Decide-Guide framework. - Prompts, discussion starters, teaching points, word lists, intervention suggestions, and more to support all students, including dual language learners and struggling readers. - 29 comprehension modules that cover essential strategies—monitoring, retelling, inferring, summarizing, and many others. - Plus an online resource bank with dozens of downloadable assessment and record-keeping forms, Richardson's all-new, stage-specific lesson plan templates. - More than 40 short videos showing Jan modeling key parts of guided reading lessons for every stage. - A handy flip-chart guide with prompts, discussion starters, and teaching points for use during guided reading to inform your next step forward.Key Features : i : Set includes The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading and The Guided Reading Teacher's Companionii : Features prompts, discussion starters, teaching points, word lists, intervention suggestions, and more to support all students, including dual language learners and struggling readers.iii : By Jan Richardson

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Educators and parents alike recognize that children don't grow up simply by adding inches and pounds—child development is a much richer mix of physical, cognitive, social, and emotional growth. Though children make progress at their own pace, educators can help them on their individual paths. Understanding the many ways in which children grow forms the essence of good teaching. If you appreciate the ebbs and flows of development, you can teach children with more insight and confidence, and offer support and guidance to their parents and caregivers. Problems can arise, of course, in every child's life. Dr. Mayes's reassuring approach helps educators understand the nature of a problem, how they can address it, and when and where to go for help with concerns such as learning disabilities, bullying, sibling rivalry, depression, anger, and other difficult feelings. This guide will be an incredible resource on every educator's bookshelf.Key Features : i : Helps parents and teachers understand the many ways in which children grow forms the essence of good teachingii : Dr. Mayes's reassuring approach helps educators understand the nature of a problem, how they can address it, and when and where to go for help with concernsiii : This guide will be an incredible resource on every educator's bookshelf.iv : 192 Pages

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Finally, a book on phonics instruction that helps teachers know how to fix up common weaknesses in their curriculum and materials. Expert Wiley Blevins has researched packaged programs, workshop settings, and phonics in a successful literacy classroom, and provides here dozens of practical ideas to make teaching and learning higher impact. Learn to: • Apply the latest scientific research on how we learn to read • Harness the power of the 7 foundations of strong phonics instruction • Tweak your scope and sequence so it contains built-in review and repetition • Ensure that 50% of your daily phonics lessons are devoted to meaningful reading and writing • and so much more! Meaningful Phonics and Word Study will help you implement explicit, systematic phonics—and make it engaging, active, and thought-provoking. Wiley Blevins is an early reading specialist who holds an Ed.M. from Harvard. He taught elementary school in both the United States and South America. Wiley has written and edited many phonics and reading materials, and he is the author of numerous best-selling professional development books.Key Features : i : Learn the essentials of strong, explicit, and systematic phonics instructionii : Practical and useful resourceiii : Puts students on the path to cracking the code to readingiv : Wiley Blevins is an early reading specialist and is the writer of numerous best-selling professional development books.v : 152 pages

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In Rebellious Read Alouds, author Vera Ahiyya—beloved by educators worldwide as The Tutu Teacher (@thetututeacher and @diversereads on Instagram)—empowers teachers to encourage classroom conversations about important and culturally relevant topics using daily read alouds as an entry point. Presenting a broad range of read aloud lessons around current, diverse picture books that can ignite deep conversations and learning about self, others, and the world, this wise and joyful guide prepares educators to tackle "hushed topics" with young children. 45 complete lessons plans around children's books, with prompts and recommended stopping points for conversation, and suggestions for inspiring discussion and scaffolding deep thinking.Key Features : i : Booklists, tools, and recommendations for building an inclusive classroom library of titles written or illustrated by people in traditionally marginalized populationsii : Tips and resources for facilitating diversity conversations in a way that's developmentally appropriate — and meets ELA and social justice standardsiii : 45 complete lessons plans around children's books, with prompts and recommended stopping points for conversation, and suggestions for inspiring discussion and scaffolding deep thinkingiv : Interviews with educators and parents who offer advice from their experience doing rebellious read aloudsv : Suggestions for partnering with administration, parents, and colleagues on this important workvi : Author: Vera Ahiyya

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It takes courage, positivity, and passion to thrive as a teacher. This vivid and inspirational guide offers educators practical wisdom and strategies to promote their wellbeing and balance. Stories of resilience from classroom teachers. Self-care tips and assessments. Reading plans for teachers, teacher teams, and mentor/mentee pairs.Key Features : i : Stories of resilience from classroom teachersii : Self-care tips and assessmentsiii : Podcasts with inspiring teachers and leaders who have lived out the 10 lessonsiv : Reading plans for teachers, teacher teams, and mentor/mentee pairsv : Author: Carol Pelletier Radford

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The Core Reading Skills Program features hundreds of ready-to-use activities designed to help struggling readers become more confident, fluent readers. This essential program includes four sections of skill-specific activities. Section 1 includes 56 high-interest stories, follow-up questions, and cloze reading assessments, along with an Audio CD that reads each story aloud. Section 2 features vocabulary activities like word search puzzles, configurations, and crossword puzzles. Section 3 covers conclusions and inferences through picture matching, sentence matching, and riddles. Section 4 features 10 stories with end-of-line word counts, a fluency chart, and word lists. The 224-pg. binder contains over 200 reading activities, timed reading chart, fluency progress chart, reading levels & word counts chart, words/phrases/sentences lists, and answer key--all included as PDFs on a whiteboard-ready Resource CD. 9 Essential Skills Covered: Building Vocabulary, Drawing Conclusions, Finding Facts, Following Directions, Improving Fluency, Locating Answers, Making Inferences, Understanding Main Idea, and Using Context. Binder Program Includes: - 56 High-Interest Stories with Follow-up Questions & Cloze Reading Assessments - 40 Vocabulary Activities - 29 Conclusions & Inferences Activities - 10 Fluency Stories with End-of-Line Word Counts - 14 Fluency Word/Phrase/Sentence Lists - Reading Level & Word Count Charts - Timed Reading Charts - Fluency Progress Chart - 1 Whiteboard-Ready Resource CD with Reproducible PDFs - 1 Audio CDKey Features : i : The Core Reading Skills Program features hundreds of ready-to-use activities designed to help struggling readers become more confident, fluent readers.ii : This essential program includes four sections of skill-specific activities.iii : 224 page binder contains over 200 reading activities, whiteboard ready CD and printable PDF!iv : For grades 4 and up!

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In this latest addition to Scholastics "Science of Reading in Practice" series, literacy advocate and classroom teacher Lindsay Kemeny shares seven ways K–3 teachers can modify what they are currently doing to transform their reading instruction. Each chapter focuses on a critical area of foundational reading–from the most effective ways to teach phonemic awareness and phonics to the most effective ways to boost comprehension. Kemeny clears up confusing terms and concepts and offers up "do-tomorrow" strategies to help kids acquire reading skills efficiently and successfully, and transfer those skills to their reading. Readers will find routines and lessons Kemeny uses every day with her students, along with links to video demonstrations showing how she puts them into practice.Key Features : i : Invites you into Kemenys classroom with video clips of the routines and lessons in actionii : Can be integrated with any reading curriculum to provide a stronger foundation for kidsiii : Stories features fabulous photos to motivate learning and build comprehension

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In this companion to their bestselling first book, David and Meredith Liben move beyond foundational skills to explore how the mind comprehends texts. They translate research in clear terms to help teachers understand what students truly need to read deeply for pleasure and with purpose. Focusing on vocabulary, knowledge building, and language structures, they provide cutting-edge instructional ideas and ready-to-use tools to help teachers put their understanding into action immediately.Key Features : i : The long-awaited sequel to the Libens' SOR blockbuster, Know Better, Do Better: Teaching the Foundations So Every Child Can Readii : Presents a three-level model of comprehension based on cognitive science teachers can trustiii : Offers easy ways to adapt methods teachers are already using to boost comprehension such as read-aloud, close reading, and journalingiv : Provides classroom anecdotes and videos that show methods in action

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Drawing on research by the Yale Child Study Center, Mayes and Myers show us how trauma affects the developing brain and share classroom-based strategies that use the power of students' and families' own stories to promote social-emotional well-being. Educators learn ways to leverage this student-focused, story-centered work to build key literacy skills.Key Features : i : Connected to the work and research of the Yale Child Study Center-Scholastic Collaborativeii : Each chapter includes interactive lessons and activities connected to the skills in the resilience framework and aligned to key language arts learning goalsiii : Includes stories, model responses, and artifacts from classrooms across the country

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Bring the arts back in the classroom! This book offers built-in teacher support with concrete strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in their classrooms. This book shows teachers how to build students' creativity and critical thinking skills by using the arts in science, math, language arts, and social studies topics.Key Features : i : Provides strategies for integrating storytelling, drama, poetry, music, visual arts, and creative movement in the content areasii : Offers built-in teacher support to simplify implementationiii : Reinforces College and Career Readiness Standardsiv : Includes examples for each grade range to enhance the learning experience

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Use the arts to engage, motivate, and inspire students in math class! This book provides thoughtful strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in mathematics topics.Key Features : i : These teacher-friendly strategies bring mathematics to life while building students' creativity and critical thinking skills.ii : Each helpful strategy in this book is accompanied by a model lesson which includes overview information, standards correlation, discussion questions, reproducibles, and more resources.iii : Includes specific examples for each grade range (K–2, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12) to enhance the learning experience.iv : This research-based, arts integration resource is essential for any teacher looking to build students' creativity and critical thinking skills in math class.

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Use the arts to inspire, engage, and motivate students in language arts class! This book provides meaningful strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in language arts topics. These teacher-friendly strategies bring language arts to life while building students' creativity and critical thinking skills.Key Features : i : These teacher-friendly strategies bring language arts to life while building students' creativity and critical thinking skills.ii : Each helpful strategy in this book is accompanied by a model lesson which includes overview information, standards correlation, discussion questions, reproducibles, and more resources.iii : Includes specific examples for each grade range (K–2, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12) to enhance the learning experience.iv : This research-based, arts integration resource is essential for any teacher looking to build students' creativity and critical thinking skills.

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Use the arts to excite, inspire, and motivate students in social studies class! This book provides useful strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in social studies topics. These teacher-friendly strategies bring social studies to life while building students' critical thinking skills and creativity.Key Features : i : These teacher-friendly strategies bring social studies to life while building students' creativity and critical thinking skills.ii : Each helpful strategy in this book is accompanied by a model lesson which includes overview information, standards correlation, discussion questions, reproducibles, and more resources.iii : Includes specific examples for each grade range (K–2, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12) to enhance the learning experience.iv : This research-based, arts integration resource is essential for any teacher looking to build students' creativity and critical thinking skills.

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Learn how to harness the power of AI in your classroom! This professional resource includes 50 easy-to-implement strategies for using AI technology as a tool for teaching. This book saves teachers valuable time with activities that boost literacy, content knowledge, and student engagement using AI tools. Written by a teacher who specializes in using technology in his own classroom, this professional book introduces artificial intelligence and the many ways it can help educators. These quick, accessible strategies for using AI academically and creatively can be used in any K–12 classroom. From sample prompts for AI to activities that support community building and fun, help teachers save valuable time and implement creative strategies with the tools in this resource!Key Features : i : This professional resource includes 50 easy-to-implement strategies for using AI technology as a tool for teachingii : This professional book introduces artificial intelligence and the many ways it can help educatorsiii : These quick, accessible strategies for using AI academically and creatively can be used in any K–12 classroomiv : Help teachers save valuable time and implement creative strategies with the tools in this resource!

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