Wednesday, October 18, 2006

September 2006 Top Ten

Sight Word Poetry Pages

from Scholastic
SCH0439554381 (Early Childhood, Primary)
One hundred fill-in-the-blank practice pages that help kids really learn the top high-frequency words.
Grades: PK - 2


Place Value Grade 3

from Teacher Created Resources
TCR8603 (Primary, Intermediate)
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!
Grades: 3


Vocabulary Builders (Grades 2-3)

from Weekly Reader Publishing
WRPEWR171 (Primary)
Vocabulary Builders are engaging reproducible books that help students in Grades 2-3 develop essential vocabulary and word skills. The books use high-interest articles, taken from the award-winning Weekly Reader magazine, as resources for key language arts practice. Each 2-page lesson features an engaging Weekly Reader magazine article on one page so that students can read the vocabulary words in context. The second page is vocabulary skills practice. Throughout the book, the articles that provide the context for the vocabulary words are identified as A, B, or C lessons to indicate below-level, on-level, or challenging reading.
Grades: 2 - 3


Place Value

from Zephyr Press
ZPR1569762155 (Primary, Intermediate)
Kids can say goodbye to math anxiety with the help of the learning techniques introduced in this series of teacher-aides. Drawing on visual and kinesthetic learning strategies instead of abstract concepts, even students who have always struggled with computation can become math whizzes. Each book is designed to replace the drudgery normally associated with rote memorization with the satisfaction and success gained from engaged, hands-on learning. The key is recognizing visual patterns that exist between numbers when they are arranged in global "wholes." These visual patterns provide multiple pathways for computation and recall and are especially suited for kids who have had little success with traditional learning techniques. These resources are packed with handy blackline masters of worksheets, assessments, and overheads and provide a comprehensive program for elementary math skills.
Grades: 2 - 5


Kindergarten Basic Skills: Alphabet and Fine Motor Skills

from Scholastic
SCH0439500303 (Early Childhood, Primary)
Teach and reinforce important basic skills! These fun activity pages support the units you are teaching. High-interest, age-appropriate, motivating and challenging. Students develop pre-writing skills, learn to recognize and write their letters A to Z, and build fine-motor skills!
Grades: K


Cursive Writing Practice Pages With a Twist!

from Scholastic
SCH0439316634 (Primary, Intermediate)
Take the ho-hum out of teaching cursive writing with lively, learning-filled activities students just can't resist! Dozens of instant reproducibles provide kids with the practice they need to recognize and tackle writing every letter of the cursive alphabet. Includes: letter-formation practice pages, tongue-twister writing pages, skill-building puzzles, games, and more. Great for homework or anytime!
Grades: 2 - 5


Autumn Idea Book

from Scholastic
SCH0439499607 (Early Childhood, Primary)
Autumn patterns, crafts, activities and ideas for the elementary classroom! Dozens of open-ended activities! Celebrate all of the Autumn holidays plus a special chapter for the sport of football! All reproducible!
Grades: PK - 6


Animals ABC: Learning with the Alphabet

from Weekly Reader Publishing
WRPEWR177 (Early Childhood, Primary)
Animals ABC: Learning with the Alphabet is an engaging reproducible book that makes learning fun from A to Z! The enjoyable activities help Pre-K children and kindergarten students build essential language arts skills. With this high-interest book, children will be introduced to each letter of the alphabet with 4 pages of letter practice, tracing, coloring, matching, rhymes, and rhythms. Plus, each letter will be supported by a tear-and-fold minibook that children can take home to keep. The 31 lessons cover the consonants and long and short vowels. The letters are presented in sequence, but may be introduced in any order a teacher chooses.
Grades: PK - K


Cloze Reading (Rdg. Level 2)

from Remedia Publications
REM0412 (Intermediate, Middle School)
Use brief, high-interest stories and cloze procedure to increase comprehension! Besides stories and context clues, each book provides word lists and comprehension questions to promote greater understanding of each selection. A good tool for students who need help with word order or sentence structure.
Grades: 3 - 8


Cloze Reading (Rdg. Level 3)

from Remedia Publications
REM0413 (Intermediate, Middle School)
Use brief, high-interest stories and cloze procedure to increase comprehension! Besides stories and context clues, each book provides word lists and comprehension questions to promote greater understanding of each selection. A good tool for students who need help with word order or sentence structure.
Grades: 3 - 8

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Four Square Writing

Writing Workouts That Work: By the authors of Four Square Writing

from Teaching and Learning Company
TLC10471 (Primary, Intermediate, Middle School)
Build your classroom into a winning team of writers. This manual of writing strategies and focused practice items will be all you need to coach young writers to become more confident authors. Everything you need is in one place: explanations of successful writing techniques, writing samples to discuss as a group and practice pages for small groups or independent work.
Grades: 2 - 6


Four Square: The Personal Writing Coach for Grades 7-9

from Teaching and Learning Company
TLC10448 (Middle School, High School)
This book in the popular Four Square series provides a personal coach for students to help them write.  Included are 13 themed units designed to meet the interests and abilities of writers in grades 7-9.  Each unit brings the prewriting through art, word association, questions, poetry, planning and composition of prose. The exercises will help students learn to be less fearful of writing assignments and actually make them fun!  The topics are personal ones young writers will enjoy:  themselves, their families and friends, their favorite places to go and things to do, etc.
Grades: 7 - 9


Four Square: The Personal Writing Coach for Grades 4-6

from Teaching and Learning Company
TLC10447 (Intermediate, Middle School)
This book in the popular Four Square series provides a personal coach for students to help them write.  Included are 13 themed units designed to meet the interests and abilities of writers in grades 4-6.  Each unit brings the prewriting through art, word association, questions, poetry, planning and composition of prose. The exercises will help students learn to be less fearful of writing assignments and actually make them fun!  The topics are personal ones young writers will enjoy:  themselves, their families and friends, their favorite places to go and things to do, etc.
Grades: 4 - 6


Four Square: The Personal Writing Coach for Grades 1-3

from Teaching and Learning Company
TLC10446 (Primary)
This book in the popular Four Square series provides a personal coach for students to help them write.  Included are 13 themed units designed to meet the interests and abilities of writers in grades 1-3.  Each unit brings the prewriting through art, word association, questions, poetry, planning and composition of prose.  The exercises will help students learn to be less fearful of writing assignments and actually make them fun!  The topics are personal ones young writers will enjoy:  themselves, their families and friends, their favorite places to go and things to do, etc.
Grades: 1 - 3


Four Square: The Total Writing Classroom for Grades 1-4

from Teaching and Learning Company
TLC10333 (Primary, Intermediate)
At last! A companion activity book to the immensely popular Four Square Writing Method. 

Chock-full of projects and ideas that are tailor-made to work with the Four Square Writing Method, this volume includes age-appropriate activities designed to: take advantage of the language-learning connection and help students use what they know to learn new things; introduce ideas for a total writing classroom including management tools and techniques; provide mini lessons, warm-ups and other projects for writing experiences which also address some of the more troublesome student writing habits; improve compositions with examples and exercises drawn from actual student work and classroom experiences!
Grades: 1 - 4


Four Square: The Total Writing Classroom for Grades 5-9

from Teaching and Learning Company
TLC10334 (Intermediate, Middle School)
At last! A companion activity book to the immensely popular Four Square Writing Method. 

Chock-full of projects and ideas that are tailor-made to work with the Four Square Writing Method, this volume includes age-appropriate activities designed to: take advantage of the language-learning connection and help students use what they know to learn new things; introduce ideas for a total writing classroom including management tools and techniques; provide mini lessons, warm-ups and other projects for writing experiences which also address some of the more troublesome student writing habits; improve compositions with examples and exercises drawn from actual student work and classroom experiences!
Grades: 5 - 9


Four Square Writing Method for Grades 1-3

from Teaching and Learning Company
TLC10188 (Primary)
Teach writing skills using this innovative new approach that has been proven to work in classrooms. The Four Square method can be used with all forms of writing and will fit any reading or language arts program. Great for content area writing.
Grades: 1 - 3


Four Square Writing Method for Grades 4-6

from Teaching and Learning Company
TLC10189 (Intermediate, Middle School)
Teach writing skills using this innovative new approach that has been proven to work in classrooms. The Four Square method can be used with all forms of writing and will fit any reading or language arts program. Great for content area writing.
Grades: 4 - 6


Four Square Writing Method for Grades 7-9

from Teaching and Learning Company
TLC10190 (Middle School, High School)
Teach writing skills using this innovative new approach that has been proven to work in classrooms. The Four Square method can be used with all forms of writing and will fit any reading or language arts program. Great for content area writing.
Grades: 7 - 9