**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Building Skills by Exploring Maps Maps hold the promise of an adventure. And children really want to know how to read them. At the same time, they still need a lot of practice with the basic map skills of using latitude and longitude, locating places on a grid, estimating distances using scale, using indexes, and...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Twelve Thematic Unites for Hands-On Fun Year-Round Early Childhood Themes is a perfect supplement to any early childhood program. The thematic units in this valuable resource provide a variety of hands-on activities, fingerplays, and songs, as well as family letters and many other timesaving reproducibles. Year-Round Early Childhood Themes includes everything you need to foster...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Building Language Experience through Rhythm and Movement Help young children discover how exciting learning can be with this unique compilation of original and traditional songs and fingerplays. The activities complement preschool curriculums and are designed to bolster young learners' language experience, reading and math readiness skills, as well as develop fine and large motor skills....

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Teachin' Smart offers a collection of teaching tips, center ideas, time- and money-savers, and heartfelt advice. New teachers and experienced educators alike will come away from Teachin' Smart with new ideas and renewed enthusiasm. Add new life to your classroom and curriculum with Teachin' Smart. This book is filled with ideas to make teaching easier,...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Shape Stationery with Writing Prompts and Story Starters "I don't know what to write about!" You need never hear that all-too-familiar moan of frustration from your students again. Writing Center Prompts features motivating "shape stationery" to inspire creative story ideas. Along with the 30 writing shapes, young writers will be motivated by the dozens of...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Multisensory Ways to Teach High-Frequency Words Tired of flipping flash cards to improve students' understanding and retention of basic sight words? This resource provides dozens of hands-on, multi-sensory activities to reinforce recognition of essential sight words necessary for reading and writing fluency. Activities include a variety of learning modalities (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic) to ensure...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Teachers and Students "Sharing the Pen" to Create Meaningful Text Interactive writing is a dynamic process by which teachers and students create meaningful text together. This cutting-edge resource provides background information, student writing samples, and simple guidelines for implementing this powerful strategy in the classroom. In addition, Interactive Writing includes over 30 creative and unique...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Using Word Patterns to Build Beginning Reading Skills Improve students' decoding and comprehension skills by including games that use spinners, dice, and word cards, and whole-group and learning-center activities. Great for ESL/ELL! Includes a 16 3/4" x 21 9/16" colorful pull-out poster.

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Children jump, gallop, wiggle, and leap as they count, measure, estimate, create patterns, skip-count, add, subtract, name shapes, tell time, and work with money. This resource includes over 40 math-and-movement activities, a variety of reproducibles, an assessment checklist, playful chants, and a list of recommended music and literature links.

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Here's the blueprint you need to help early-childhood and ESL students build a strong foundation in each of the four areas of language?listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This resource includes over 60 fun, hands-on games and activities. Each activity encourages students to respond to verbal directions through movement and speech, pronounce, and build new vocabulary...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Getting Sidelined Readers Off the Bench and Back in the Game This resource helps teachers identify "sidelined" readers and offers a strategic plan to help students find success as well as enjoyment in the "game" of reading. Specific lessons are presented to target three key skill areas--phonemic awareness, phonics, and decoding; vocabulary development; and comprehension...

**THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!** Using Student Interaction to Improve Reading Comprehension This resource provides all you need to introduce, implement, and manage literature circle groups in your classroom. It's all here: step-by-step directions for teacher preparation, sample daily schedules, daily task questions, lesson ideas with coordinating reproducibles, teacher and student assessment ideas with reproducible evaluation forms, and synopses of...