Saturday, October 15, 2005

Math eBooks

Multiplication

from Garlic Press
GLP0052 (Primary, Intermediate)
The Puzzles & Practice Series builds basic math skills and acquaints students with animal science. Practice pages illustrate math skills step-by-step, then provide extended practice. Puzzle pages contain twelve-piece puzzles that when assembled reveals a fascinating animal. The series is also designed to challenge skills associated with following directions, simple logic, visual discrimination (all puzzle assembly skills), and motor skills (cutting and pasting).


Count By 2, 5, 10

from Comp Ed Inc.
CEIMA11 (Primary)
Counting by 2, 5, and 10's have 22 pages including the cover page. Pages include: dot to dot, fill in the missing numbers, number train with numbers missing, and more.


40 Fabulous Math Mysteries Kids Can't Resist

from Scholastic
SCH0439175402 (Intermediate, Challenging)
Fun-Filled Reproducible Mystery Stories That Build Essential Math Problem-Solving Skills
Building serious math skills has never been so much fun!


Addition & Subtraction: With Regroupingt

from Garlic Press
GLP0051 (Primary, Intermediate)
The Puzzles & Practice Series builds basic math skills and acquaints students with animal science. Practice pages illustrate math skills step-by-step, then provide extended practice. Puzzle pages contain twelve-piece puzzles that when assembled reveals a fascinating animal. The series is also designed to challenge skills associated with following directions, simple logic, visual discrimination (all puzzle assembly skills), and motor skills (cutting and pasting).

Friday, October 07, 2005

Six Trait Writing

Using the Six Trait Writing Model

from Teacher Created Resources

TCR3082 (Intermediate)

Teach students to write effectively by focusing on one element at a time. The Six Trait Model covers ideas and content, word choice, fluency, voice, organization, and conventions. Mastering these six traits will help students meet academic standards, score well on standardized tests, and gain skills they can use for life.

Sunday, October 02, 2005

September Top 10 Books

10 Easy Writing Lessons That Get Kids Ready for Writing Assessments
from Scholastic
SCH0590905010 (Primary, Intermediate, Challenging)
Proven Ways to Raise Your Students' Scores on the State Performance Assessments in Writing
With these lessons, you've got what you need to teach students to write effectively and raise their test scores. Easy, sequential lessons mirror the kind of writing students will be asked to do on the tests. Through fun writing prompts such as memorable haircuts and how to eat and Oreo cookie, students learn to craft a five-paragraph essay, organize a story, write an effective expository piece, add elaborations, master persuasive writing, and more.


Career Math
from Remedia Publications
REM0598C (Intermediate, Challenging, High School)
Watch math skills improve as students work through more than 100 real-life math word problems! Career Math is the perfect way to build students' math skills while helping them gain a true appreciation for math in everyday living. Students are introduced to 27 different careers ranging from air traffic controller to zookeeper. They then solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division word problems pertaining to each career. A real, practical application of math!


Graphs and Patterns Grades 1-2
from Teacher Created Resources
TCR3320 (Early Childhood, Primary)
Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this series helps students master skills in reading, mathematics, penmanship, writing, and grammar. Each book provides activities that are great for independent work in class, homework assignments, or extra practice to get ahead. Test practice pages are included!


Daily Handwriting Practice - Modern Manuscript
from Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
EMC0792 (Primary, Intermediate, Challenging)
Incorporated into the writing exercises in Daily Handwriting Practice, Modern manuscript, are many other basic areas of learning important to developing minds. For example, as students learn to clearly write, The gray ant is in third place, they are reinforcing their understanding of colors and ordinal numbers. Students write letters, words, and sentences about a variety of content area topics appropriate for the primary classroom. Monday through Thursday, the weekly subjects for writing exercises range from nutrition to our solar system, pets to vehicles. On Friday, a full-page exercise draws the topic to a close by reviewing what was learned earlier that week.


Ready for Printing
from Kids Can Press
KCP1686 (Early Childhood)
Youngsters love Franklin! Now they can find him in this great primary workbook series featuring a fun collection of activities designed to reinforce basic math, reading and writing skills. In this workbook children develop fine motor skills and learn to manipulate a pencil. Some letters are introduced and related to shapes. Also contains how-to sections on circles and stick-and-ball letters such as a, b and d.


Daily Comprehension: October
from Remedia Publications
REM1102 (Intermediate, Challenging, High School)
A lesson a day for the entire school year! Each 60-page book offers a different non-fiction story for each day of the month, which was chosen because of its particular significance on that date. These high-interest low-vocabulary stories are followed by hands-on activities designed to improve overall reading comprehension while focusing on specific skills. Best of all, you will never run out of usable activites again! High-interest format.


Numbers
from Teacher Created Resources
TCR2238 (Early Childhood)
Use this consumable or reproducible workbook to help children master the skills they need. Cute illustrations add interest to exercises that can be used in school or at home.


Modern Printing
from Teacher Created Resources
TCR3329 (Early Childhood, Primary)
Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this series helps students master skills in reading, mathematics, penmanship, writing, and grammar. Each book provides activities that are great for independent work in class, homework assignments, or extra practice to get ahead.


Alphabet Around the Year
from Teacher Created Resources
TCR0191 (Early Childhood)
Pictures, patterns, and cross-curricular activities link each letter to a particular season or holiday. Each letter unit has a bibliography which includes technology source


All about My Body

from Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
EMC4091 (Early Childhood, Primary)
Children are naturally fascinated by the world around them. This book utilizes that sense of wonder to help your students or children at home learn about their bodies.

Saturday, October 01, 2005

October is Hispanic Heritage Month

October is Hispanic Heritage Month!

As defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, the term Hispanic refers to Spanish-speaking people in the United States of any race. Did you know that more than 35 million people identified themselves as Hispanic on the 2000 Census? Hispanic Heritage month runs from September 15 to October 15. Get your class involved with some great eBook titles from eBookDestination.com!

Here is an excellent title from Gallopade International to help you plan an in-class celebration of Hispanic Heritage!

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage (Gallopade Int’l) All Levels
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage

October Making Books with Pockets

Making October Books with Pockets

Evan-Moor Educational Publishers has a series of excellent monthly themed eBooks that show your students how to create their very own book with plenty of pockets to stuff with kinds of neat discoveries. Each volume contains complete instructions and materials to make three different books with pockets, based on a topic themed with the month.

And this month, this great title is on sale! Visit the following link to learn more, and download a free sample:

October- Making Books With Pockets (Evan-Moor Educational Publishers) Primary
October Making Books with Pockets

Welcome Garlic Press

New Publisher: Welcome Garlic Press!

We are pleased to welcome yet another terrific educational publisher to our eStore this month. Garlic Press has fashioned a reputation in educational circles as a publisher of solid subject matter, with a focus on core curriculum like Math, English, Literature and also sign language. With top quality presentation and a great reputation, many of you had requested that we add Garlic Press to our eBook collection. We are pleased to be able to do just that! Have a look at these two great Math titles, and then visit our entire collection:

Division (Garlic Press) Primary, Intermediate
Division

Multiplication (Garlic Press) Primary, Intermediate
Multiplication

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