Books, Nonfiction, Education, Elementary School

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Novel Units, Inc.
Polar Express (Teacher's Edition)
by Novel Units, Inc. (Paperback)

Siegfried; Bruner, Elaine; Haddox, Phyllis Engelmann
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
by Fireside (Paperback)

* Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read? * Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading? * Are you worried that your child will become lost in overcrowded classrooms? * Did you know that early readers hold an advantage over their peers throughout school? * Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you'll do something wrong? SRAs DISTAR® is the most successful beginning reading program available to schools across the country. Research has proven that children taught by the DISTAR® method outperform their peers who receive instruction from other programs. Now for the first time, this program has been adapted for parent and child to use at home. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, step-by-step program that shows patents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read. Twenty minutes a day is all you need, and within 100 teaching days your child will be reading on a solid second-grade ...

Mr.Brown Can Moo! Can You?: Blue Back Book (Dr Seuss Blue Back Book)
by Picture Lions (Paperback)

Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis
Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding
by Stenhouse Publishers (Paperback)

Since its publication in 2000, Strategies That Work has become an indispensable resource for teachers who want to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers. In this revised and expanded edition, Stephanie and Anne have added twenty completely new comprehension lessons, extending the scope of the book and exploring the central role that activating background knowledge plays in understanding. Another major addition is the inclusion of a section on content literacy which describes how to apply comprehension strategies flexibly across the curriculum. The new edition is organized around four sections:Part I highlights what comprehension is and how to teach it, including the principles that guide practice, a review of recent research, and a new section on assessment. A new chapter, Tools for Active Literacy: The Nuts and Bolts of Comprehension Instruction, describes ways to engage students in purposeful talk through ...

Gail Boushey, Joan Moser
Daily Five, The
by Stenhouse Publishers (Paperback)

Do you love teaching but feel exhausted from the energy you expend cajoling, disciplining, and directing students on a daily basis? If so, you'll want to meet “The Sisters”, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser. Based on literacy learning and motivation research, they created a structure called The Daily Five which has been practiced and refined in their own classrooms for ten years, and shared with thousands of teachers throughout the United States. The Daily Five is a series of literacy tasks (reading to self, reading with someone, writing, word work, and listening to reading) which students complete daily while the teacher meets with small groups or confers with individuals.This book not only explains the philosophy behind the structure, but shows you how to carefully and systematically train your students to participate in each of the five components.Explicit modeling practice, reflecting and refining take place during the launching phase, preparing the foundation for a year of ...

Trish Kuffner, Liya Lev Oertel
The Toddler's Busy Book
by Meadowbrook Press (Paperback)

365 fun, creative activities to stimulate your toddler every day of the year.This book contains 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for one-and-a-half to three-year-olds using things found around the home. It shows parents and day-care providers how to:Prevent boredom during the longest stretches of indoor weather with ideas for indoor play, kitchen activities, and arts and crafts projects.Stimulate a child's natural curiosity with entertaining math, language, and motor-skills activities.Encourage a child's physical, mental, and emotional growth with ideas for fun music, food, water, and outdoor activities.Keep toddlers occupied during long car trips or cross-town errands.The Toddler's Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight. It should be required reading for anyone raising or teaching toddlers.

Wayne Weiten
Psychology: Themes and Variations (with Concept Charts)
by Wadsworth Publishing (Hardcover)

Weiten's PSYCHOLOGY: THEMES AND VARIATIONS, EIGHTH EDITION maintains this book's strengths while addressing market changes with new learning objectives, a complete updating, and a fresh new design. The book continues to provide a unique survey of psychology that meets three goals: to demonstrate the unity and diversity of psychology's subject matter, to illuminate the research process and its link to application, and to make the text challenging and thought-provoking yet easy from which to learn. Weiten accomplishes the successful balance of scientific rigor and a user-friendly approach through the integration of seven unifying themes, an unparalleled didactic art program, real-life examples, and a streamlined set of learning aids that help users see beyond research to big-picture concepts. Major topics typically covered in today's courses are included, such as evolutionary psychology, neuropsychology, biological psychology, positive psychology, applied psychology, careers, and ...

Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Shane Templeton, Francine Johnston
Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction
by Merrill Publishing Company (Paperback)

With more than 15 years of extensive observations and experiences in real classrooms, the authors bring keen insight to this activity-based book. They advocate basing student learning on the appropriate developmental level. This philosophy is supported with more than 250 ready-to-use word study, spelling, vocabulary, and phonics activities presented in developmental sequence, from the Emergent through the Derivational Relation stage. For educators and school administrators.

LAURIE SWINWOOD
A Guide for Using The Best Christmas Pageant Ever in the Classroom
by Teacher Created Resources (Paperback) (Release Date: 2004-11-03)

This resource is directly related to its literature equivalent and filled with a variety of cross-curricular lessons to do before, during, and after reading the book. This reproducible book includes sample plans, author information, vocabulary building ideas, cross-curriculum activities, sectional activities and quizzes, unit tests, and ideas for culminating and extending the novel.

My New Baby (New Baby Series)
by Child's Play International (Board book)

This is a story without words which follows the new baby brother or sister, from meeting the family and changing the nappy to playing and bathing.

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