Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension The national standards require that students beginning at fourth grade know common Greek and Latin roots and affixes and use this knowledge to analyze the meaning of complex words. Each of the 30 units in this resource includes a word list, vocabulary sort cards, review game cards, and a vocabulary quiz. Students will learn...

The easy-to-use practice and review pages in Phonics A to Z support the science of reading and are the perfect way to target phonics skills that children need to master to become fluent readers, accurate spellers, and independent writers in the early years of schooling and beyond.Phonics A to Z is designed to help children become proficient with word recognition...

20 Standards-Based Cootie Catchers Using a new twist on the origami fortune tellers, this Cootie Catchers book provides a fun and unique approach to practicing and reviewing standards-based language arts content and academic language. Features 20 reproducible cootie catchers perfect for portable practice, differentiated instruction, classroom center activities, enrichment assignments when regular class work is completed, or for homework. Use...

Discover how short and simple alphabet activities can yield BIG results for your beginning reader! Designed specifically for small-group instruction, Cut & Paste ABCs takes an active learning approach, providing students with multiple hands-on opportunities to develop an array of essential early literacy skills—from concepts about print to recognizing and manipulating individual sounds in words and developing phonemic awareness and...

A Kid's Guide to Dealing with Daily DilemmasThis best-selling character education book has been updated and improved! It is great for helping kids learn how to do the right thing!Over the course of growing up, most children encounter a variety of dilemmas—situations in which they must make decisions.  If children are alone in these situations, they must make decisions and...

A Kid's Guide to Tricky and Sticky SituationsThis best-selling character education book has been updated and improved! It is great for helping kids learn how to do the right thing!Flat bike tires, forgotten homework, obscene phone calls—more than 70 situations kids could encounter when they are on their own. The prompts in this What Would You Do? book are perfect...

Science, technology, engineering, art, and math work together to make learning fun in these STEAM lessons! Perfect for Makerspace! This fifth grade teacher resource book includes: A year's worth of teacher lesson plans STEAM design challenges that turn elementary students into inventors Easy-to-follow lesson format (with standards identified for each lesson) Classroom-tested lessons The STEAM Design Challenges in this book...

Science, technology, engineering, art, and math work together to make learning fun in these STEAM lessons! Perfect for Makerspace! This fourth grade teacher resource book includes: A year's worth of teacher lesson plans STEAM design challenges that turn elementary students into inventors Easy-to-follow lesson format (with standards identified for each lesson) Classroom-tested lessons The STEAM Design Challenges in this book...

Science, technology, engineering, art, and math work together to make learning fun in these STEAM lessons! Perfect for Makerspace! This third grade teacher resource book includes: A year's worth of teacher lesson plans STEAM design challenges that turn elementary students into inventors Easy-to-follow lesson format (with standards identified for each lesson) Classroom-tested lessons The STEAM Design Challenges in this book...

Science, technology, engineering, art, and math work together to make learning fun in these STEAM lessons! Perfect for Makerspace! This second grade teacher resource book includes: A year's worth of teacher lesson plans STEAM design challenges that turn elementary students into inventors Easy-to-follow lesson format (with standards identified for each lesson) Classroom-tested lessons The STEAM Design Challenges in this book...

Science, technology, engineering, art, and math work together to make learning fun in these STEAM lessons! Perfect for Makerspace! This first grade teacher resource book includes: A year's worth of teacher lesson plans STEAM design challenges that turn elementary students into inventors Easy-to-follow lesson format (with standards identified for each lesson) Classroom-tested lessons The STEAM Design Challenges in this book...

Science, technology, engineering, art, and math work together to make learning fun in these STEAM lessons! Perfect for Makerspace! This kindergarten teacher resource book includes: A year's worth of teacher lesson plans STEAM design challenges that turn elementary students into inventors Easy-to-follow lesson format (with standards identified for each lesson) Classroom-tested lessons The STEAM Design Challenges in this book follow...