Monday, September 11, 2006

August 2006 Top Ten Titles

Quick Quilts Across the Curriculum


from Scholastic
SCH0439234689 (Intermediate, Middle School)

Brighten up your classroom with quick NO-SEW quilts that celebrate and display students' learning. You'll find dozens of cross-curricular project ideas with easy-to-follow directions such as: a Getting to Know You class quilt, an Olympics plastic-bag quilt, a holidays storybook quilt, a shaped poetry quilt, a muffin-tin calendar quilt, an endangered species floor puzzle quilt, and much more.
Grades: 3 - 6


3rd Grade Basic Skills: Reading Comprehension and Reading Skills


from Scholastic
SCH0439503981 (Primary, Intermediate)

Teach and reinforce important basic skills! Features engaging individual activity pages that support the units you teach - also great for homework practice. High-interest, age-appropriate, motivating and challenging. Covers using context clues, classifying, sequencing, grammar skills, reading comprehension, and writing prompts. Includes a complete answer key!

Grades: 3


Leveled Reading: 40 Ready-to-Use Lessons (Grade 2)


from Weekly Reader Publishing
WRPEWR143 (Primary)

High-Interest Leveled Reading Activities. Now children will want to develop and improve their reading skills! The new Leveled Reading series from Weekly Reader combines high-interest nonfiction and fiction in engaging student practice books, written at specific reading levels: 2.0-3.0 for second graders. With Leveled Reading, the five skills of reading are carefully sequenced through high-interest, visually stimulating reading selections, followed by questions that develop strong literacy skills. Grade-appropriate material includes phonics skills for early second grade.

Grades: 2


Creative Classroom Ideas


from Teacher Created Resources
TCR3655 (Early Childhood, Primary, Intermediate, Middle School, High School, Staff Room)

Both veteran and beginning teachers will appreciate these simple and unique ideas to spice up daily routines! Activities cover motivation, review, management, and parent involvement and are general enough to use any time, with all ages and abilities.

Grades: K - 8


Comprehension & Critical Thinking Level 5


from Teacher Created Materials
TCM3375 (Intermediate)

Use these step-by-step guides to build students' comprehension and critical thinking skills as they prepare for standardized tests that feature document-based questions.
Step 1 has students reading high-interest nonfiction articles from TIME For Kids authors. Step 2 has students strengthening comprehension skills by responding to follow-up questions from all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Step 3 has students studying primary source documents (such as maps, census reports, population reports, charts, and graphs) that are related to the articles. Step 4 has students demonstrating critical thinking skills by responding to questions based on these primary sources.

All of the articles, primary source documents, and questions are included as reproducible pages. These lessons are easy-to-use and effective.

Grades: 5


Following Directions


from Remedia Publications
REM0202D (Primary, Intermediate)

Learning a life skill!
At a very young age, children encounter the need to follow verbal directions. As they grow, the directions become more complex.
The 23 lessons in this unit use math, language, art, and listening skills - as well as reasoning, logic, and visualization - to develop critical thinking. The primary purpose of each activity is to focus on following directions.

Example:
Count all the members of your family - even your pets. How many feet are in your family?
The activities featured begin at a fairly simple level and gradually become more difficult.

Grades: 3 - 6


Forensic Science


from Ready-Ed Publications
RED4018 (Intermediate, Middle School)

Contains simple, yet fun, hands-on introductory forensic activities. Tasks may require simple science materials that are readily available in most homes and school science resource centres. Sections focus on examining lip prints, fingerprints, teeth prints, blood drops, DNA, handwriting, identikit pictures, lie detectors, mystery substances, shoe prints and much more.

Grades: 5 - 7


Daily Language Practice (Grade 3)


from Weekly Reader Publishing
WRPEWR162 (Primary, Intermediate)

Focused Language Arts Practice. Reproducibles featuring 180 daily language arts activities, plus 9 monthly reviews. This essential series helps students in grade 3 strengthen their language and editing skills with grade-appropriate activities. Students practice one specific language arts skill per week to reinforce and build strength in that skill. At the end of each month, a full-page review includes all the language arts, skills that were covered in the previous four weeks. Daily Language Practice is an engaging series of language arts books that helps reinforce grade-appropriate skills in punctuation, capitalization, grammar, vocabulary, reading, and spelling, by focusing on one skill at a time, for one week at a time.

Grades: 3


240 Vocabulary Words 3rd Grade Kids Need to Know


from Scholastic
SCH0439280435 (Primary, Intermediate)

Build word power with these 24 ready-to-reproduce, 3-page lessons. Each lesson is packed with fun, research-based activities that help students to explore roots, prefixes, and suffixes; use students' prior knowledge for greater understanding; and give students multiple encounters with new words so they really remember them. Watch reading skills and test scores soar!

Grades: 3


Leveled Reading: 40 Ready-to-Use Lessons (Grade 3)


from Weekly Reader Publishing
WRPEWR144 (Primary, Intermediate)

High-Interest Leveled Reading Activities. Now children will want to develop and improve their reading skills! The new Leveled Reading series from Weekly Reader combines high-interest nonfiction and fiction in engaging student practice books, written at specific reading levels: 3.4-4.0 for third graders. With Leveled Reading, the five skills of reading are carefully sequenced through high-interest, visually stimulating reading selections, followed by questions that develop strong literacy skills. Grade-appropriate material includes inferential comprehension for late third grade.

Grades: 3

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