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Using Google Earth™: Bring the World Into Your Classroom, Levels 1-2
$29.99
This teacher-friendly series provides step-by-step instructions, lessons, and activities that integrate Google Earth™ technology across the content areas for authentic 21st century learning. Teacher resource CD includes a how-to-guide, easy-to-follow directions, student activity pages, and literature links to make getting started easy. 256 pages + CD.
Guided Reading: Determine Importance, Grades 5-6
$19.99
This small-group guided reading program appeals to students at every reading level.
Guided Reading: Determine Importance for fifth and sixth grades includes 36 Lexile® leveled readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. This reading comprehension resource book features charts and photos, and each reader presents topics such as algae, baseball, crime scenes, and more.
Create a comprehensive guided reading program with Ready to Go Guided Reading: Determine Importance. This differentiated reading resource book offers informational text for students at various reading levels and includes:
- discussion guides
- prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features
- leveled readers with intriguing topics
- graphic organizers and an observation sheet
The readers are separated by below-, on-, and above-level reading skills and feature callout boxes to direct students to apply guided reading strategies to the texts. Each nonfiction reader addresses fascinating topics and includes a writing prompt so students can show what they know.
The Ready to Go: Guided Reading series for first to sixth grades includes everything you need for guided reading organization. Each 80-page book is essentially a guided reading set, containing 36 total readers, six discussion guides, and three reproducible pages. Each grade span includes 8 books, focusing on the following reading comprehension strategies:
- Connect
- Infer
- Question
- Summarize
- Analyze
- Determine Importance
- Synthesize
- Visualize
Each nonfiction reader contains short nonfiction texts, vocabulary banks, photographs, charts, and maps.
Core Standards for Math, Grade 2
$23.99
Lessons for every Common Core State Standard for Mathematics Each 2-page lesson includes step-by-step instruction, modeling, and ample practice opportunities with open-response and multiple-choice items. In addition, problem solving is integrated into every lesson to help students apply skills to real-world situations. 272 pages.
$19.99
The perfect way to begin your students' school day! Cross-curricular daily practice gets your third grade students focused and engaged—and ready to learn. The daily lessons provide practice of language, math, and reading skills that support your core curriculum.
The meaningful 10 to 15 minutes of daily practice helps sharpen students' skills and helps you see where your students need to improve. With a detailed scope and sequence, you will always know the skills that your students are practicing.
Daily Fundamentals lessons are ideal for morning work, bell ringers, homework, and informal assessment. The daily practice and review prepares students for success on assessments and state testing.
How it works:
The meaningful 10 to 15 minutes of daily practice helps sharpen students' skills and helps you see where your students need to improve. With a detailed scope and sequence, you will always know the skills that your students are practicing.
Daily Fundamentals lessons are ideal for morning work, bell ringers, homework, and informal assessment. The daily practice and review prepares students for success on assessments and state testing.
How it works:
- Monday–Friday: Full-page daily activities provide practice of grade-level language, math, and reading skills, focusing on one skill in each subject area.
- The daily lessons progress in difficulty as students move through Day 1 to Day 5, and the weekly units progress in difficulty throughout the year.
- Language: grammar, mechanics, spelling, and vocabulary
- Math: algebraic operations, fractions, measurement, problem solving, geometry, and graphs
- Reading: main idea and details, theme, inference, text organization, genre, literary elements, visual information, and context clues
Know the Lingo! Mastering Academic Vocabulary, Grade 6
$14.99
In order for students to acquire new knowledge and learning, they must be able to understand what they read, hear, and are asked to do in the classroom. This series provides definitions and practice opportunities for specific instructional verbs so students can comprehend and follow directions. Teachers are also given strategies for how to teach academic vocabulary. A glossary, which lists common academic vocabulary used in all subjects, is included. All passages are Lexile leveled. 112 pages.
Pennsylvania Interactive Notebook
$9.99
From KWLs to “foldables” and more, the Pennsylvania Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! resource includes activities that will have students exploring their state's history, geography, people, government, economics, and symbols in a whole new way! A true-time saver, the Pennsylvania Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! includes ready-to-use pages and instructions that make state-studies fun and successful for the whole class.
The Pennsylvania Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is more than just a notebook for taking notes—it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The Pennsylvania Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The Pennsylvania Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!
The Pennsylvania Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is more than just a notebook for taking notes—it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The Pennsylvania Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The Pennsylvania Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!
WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?
Interactive Notebooks are great for students!
- Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
- The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
- Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
- And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.
Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!
- You can easily customize your instruction.
- You direct the learning process and pace.
- You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
- You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
- You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
- And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!
A true time-saver!
- Step-by-step teacher instructions
- Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
- Writing and reflection prompts
- Student letter
- Supply lists
- Rubric
- And more!
This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.
Science Alliance™ Life Science, Set of all 4 titles
$27.96
This award-winning series is a great way to add fun, depth, and critical thinking to science instruction on a variety of topics. Students will learn about the scientific method, tools, inventions, and how technology becomes part of our lives. Each book includes a wide range of experiments, projects, activities, and even a science fair project. Possible careers along with the required skills and education are also presented. 32 pages. Grades 2+. Life Science set includes: Ecosystems, Genetics, Habitats, and Plant Cells and Animal Cells.
$19.99
Comprehensive but not complicated! Math Fundamentals helps your sixth graders navigate the new math. Math Models and analysis questions, plenty of skill practice, and real-world problems guide students in thinking through and solving problems.
To help you target instruction, each unit clearly lists the standards information, mathematical practices, and skills covered.
Within a unit, math lessons are presented simply. Every math lesson includes:
Designed to support new math programs, Math Fundamentals is the perfect easy-to-use supplement to your Common Core math or current math curriculum.
Better together! Use Math Fundamentals with Daily Math Practice for complementary skill practice that ensures your students master grade-level math.
This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.
To help you target instruction, each unit clearly lists the standards information, mathematical practices, and skills covered.
Within a unit, math lessons are presented simply. Every math lesson includes:
- A Math Models reference page that shows students strategies for solving problems. This is helpful for parents and students transitioning to new math.
- Skill practice pages that progress in difficulty.
- A culminating problem-solving task that leads students through the process of solving a real-life problem.
- Use ratios to solve problems
- Divide with fractions
- Compute with decimals and find factors and multiples
- Use positive and negative numbers and absolute value
- Write and evaluate expressions
- Solve equations and inequalities
- Use dependent and independent variables
- Solve area, surface area, and volume problems
- Understand statistical measures
- Use data distributions
Designed to support new math programs, Math Fundamentals is the perfect easy-to-use supplement to your Common Core math or current math curriculum.
Better together! Use Math Fundamentals with Daily Math Practice for complementary skill practice that ensures your students master grade-level math.
This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.
Science Alliance™ Physical Science, Space Science
$6.99
This award-winning series is a great way to add fun, depth, and critical thinking to science instruction on a variety of topics. Students will learn about the scientific method, tools, inventions, and how technology becomes part of our lives. Each book includes a wide range of experiments, projects, activities, and even a science fair project. Possible careers along with the required skills and education are also presented. 32 pages.
Using Apps and the iPad® in the Classroom, Grades 3-6
$13.99
Create effective technology-enhanced lessons using the step-by-step directions provided in this unique resource. Each app description is labeled with handy tags, such as classroom context and other information, to help you choose the right app to meet your specific curriculum needs. Lesson ideas for both stock apps (apps already available on your device) and third-party apps (apps you can download) are provided. 96 pages.
Early Childhood Science Readiness Flip Charts, Pushing, Moving & Pulling
$37.95
Engaging and colorful, these “write-on/wipe-off,” dry-erase activities are ideal for building fundamental, standards-based skills. Flexibly designed for use in whole class, small group and individual scenarios! Each flip chart set includes 10 double-sided, 12" x 18" laminated charts and a teacher's guide featuring step-by-step teaching instructions along with copy-masters and exercises.
$15.95
Dance around the world to other lands, and bring along your parachute, bean bags, and rhythm sticks for additional learning fun, while you move and play to the sounds of multicultural music and guided action songs.