Monday, September 27, 2010

Writing Workouts That Work

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.

This enhanced eBook gives you the freedom to copy and paste the content of each page into the format that fits your needs. You can post lessons on your class website, make student copies, and more.

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Publisher: Teaching and Learning Company

Monday, September 20, 2010

Four Square Writing Resources

Four Square: Writing in the Content Areas for Grades 1-4

When you give a writing assignment do your students respond with, I have nothing to write about? Obviously, there are plenty of topics available. What your students need isn't topics, but the skill of organizing and clarifying their thoughts around a topic and developing that content into sentences and then paragraphs. You'll find all the help you and your students need about writing and learning across the curriculum in this book.

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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Texas Symbols Projects

Grades K-8. Features 30 state specific projects for kids to complete-and includes actual state facts. Each project is quick, easy, and inexpensive! Projects include: creating a model of the state bird; building a toothpick railroad track; creating state borders using craft materials; creating a fishbowl with the state fish using jello and gummy fish; and more! Students will have a blast creating projects sure to end up as part of a state symbols & facts resource center-all about your state! Most projects use ordinary, easy-to-access materials. 32 pages. See Texas Symbols Projects at KeyBookshop.com

Publisher: Gallopade International

 

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Bulletin Board Ideas for Teachers - Back to School, Elementary, Middle School

KeyBookshop.com has a wonderful selection of education ebooks geared towards helping teachers design and create bulletin boards for a variety of reasons. Topics include welcome back to school, elementary school, middle school, fall, winter, spring and summer and every month of the year. Click on the links below to discover the ebooks waiting for you.

Bulletin board Ideas for Teachers

Back to School Bulletin Board Ideas

Saturday, September 11, 2010

50 Graphic Organizers for the Interactive Whiteboard (Optimized eBook)

Help students get a better grasp of the content they need to know with this collection of fun and easy-to-use graphic organizers. The book contains 50 classroom-tested reproducible templates that come with easy directions and student samples. Full-color, interactive PDF's of the graphic organizers are also included - great for modeling and can be filled in either by computer or by hand. Perfect for use on your Interactive Whiteboard!


This Optimized eBook includes a PDF file, along with included Notebook files specifically designed to be used on a SMART Board, or other compatible Interactive Whiteboards.

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Friday, September 10, 2010

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - Multiple Critical Perspectives

Probe the depth and richness of your favorite titles and usher your students into an understanding of what really made us want to teach literature in the first place. Each guide offers clear and concise explanations of three different critical perspectives and provides class activities, discussion questions, and writing assignments to help you and your students examine the text from those views. Teach Macbeth from a feminist stance, discuss the use of archetype in The Scarlet Letter, and approach The Awakening from a Marxist position. You know you want to give your students more than simply plot, character, and theme, and now you finally can!

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Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Using Benchmark Papers to Teach Writing With the Traits: Middle Schoo

Trait expert Ruth Culham has created a diverse set of papers, assessed and annotated them, and designed a set of interactive whiteboard exemplars so teachers and students can use them as the focus of trait-based writing instruction. The papers are highlighted by key quality for each trait, making it easy for writers to see what works and what doesn't by simply pressing the color-coded buttons at the bottom of each projected paper on the white board. Can be used with overhead projectors as well.

This enhanced eBook gives you the freedom to copy and paste the content of each page into the format that fits your needs. You can post lessons on your class website, make student copies, extract or rotate pages, and edit the contents of the file.

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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Reminder: Discounts on eBooks for Teachers

Keybookshop.com would like to remind you of the discount on educational ebooks for teachers. From now until September 15 save and additional ten percent on every title in our store. Learn more on the ebook discount.