Print awareness activities for 12 popular children's tales and stories put fun into learning to read and write. Children create charts or visual displays that involve them in the reading and writing process and encourage them to imitate important literacy behaviors. Provides six stimulating projects for each story. This second edition includes a new section with patterns that make teaching each unit even easier!

Even the youngest gifted children need dynamic, fresh, and challenging activities to stimulate their creativity and enhance higher-level thinking. Creative Activities for Gifted Readers provides that and more. The numerous single-period and multi-week activities are designed to foster involvement across the reading curriculum. Includes activity sheets, word puzzles, analogies, short-term research activities, readers theatre scripts, and a booklist for gifted readers.

Gifted students demand original, fresh, and mind-expanding activities that stimulate their creativity and enhance high-level thinking abilities. Creative Activities for Gifted Readers provides that and more! The numerous single-period and multi-week activities in this book are designed to foster active involvement across the reading curriculum.

Drawing on the combined 47 years of experience as Title 1 resource teachers, this book provides a detailed road map for helping struggling readers. Breaking the process into easily manageable steps, this book shares the systematic and sequential techniques for teaching decoding skills and phonics, while building vocabulary and reading comprehension skills.

Here are 50 brief biographies about people who have made important contributions in the fine arts. These people of the fine arts come from diverse backgrounds, from different parts of the world, and from our past and present. They highlight a wide variety of the fine arts. Reading and social studies activities, and suggestions for further reading are included with each biography.

Introduce children to the alphabet with these 26 reproducible little books, one for each letter, one for every child. Texts are high-interest, easy-to-recite, and clearly illustrated to engage young children in learning. An ideal resource at school or home for children learning to recognize letters and their corresponding sounds.

Math and Stories is brimming with hands-on activities that stem naturally from some of the most awarded and popular books for children, including Color Zoo, Fish Eyes, Jumanji, Walk Two Moons, The Secret Garden, and Dear Mr. Henshaw. There are 29 works covered in each book.

Using the rhythm and rhyme of fun poetry to teach phonics, this collection of 112 poems focuses on more advanced language sounds, such as three-letter blends, diphthongs, and word ending. For each poem there are: word lists, hands-on activities, and unique Focusing Talk activities that help teachers model vocabulary in conversations with children.

Use the rhythm and rhyme of fun poetry to teach phonics! This collection of 115 poems is meant to be read aloud so that children hear a particular language sound again and again, in word after word, all within an exciting and meaningful context. For each poem there are: word lists, hand-on activities, and unique Focusing Talk™ activities that help teachers model vocabulary in conversations with children.

Help foster emergent literacy and teach young children how print relates to their daily lives with a wide variety of hands-on and literacy-related props. Learn hundreds of ways to incorporate print into every aspect of the early childhood curriculum.

Bring science to life using 24 popular children's books. Cross-curricular activities provide theme-based units that engage students in a broad scope of science discovery. Includes activities, student worksheets, extensions, and correlation charts.

Here, in one volume, are 32 graphic organizers that can be used to teach, reinforce, and assess students' mastery of a variety of reading comprehension strategies that are tied to national and state standards. The graphic organizers are simple enough that students can grasp their use easily and then create them on their own with text of their choosing.

So you have to give a speech in class and this time you want to be confident. Here is your personal guide to "no-fault, no-fear" speaking events! The best way to overcome your fear of public speaking is to know ahead of time what you will say and how you will present the material. Designed for middle and high school students, this handbook takes you step-by-step through the process of speech preparation and delivery, from analyzing your audience to the use of your voice.

Literature comes to life as kids act-out the children's poems and stories they love. Step-by-step directions for staging 28 story dramas include ideas for very simple, inexpensive costumes and props. Acting out stories helps children solve problems, develop imagery, explore feelings, and learn about character development.

A rich array of activities get children cutting, pasting, and creating as they learn, recite, and practice the vowel sounds they hear and use every day. Activities range from worksheets to performing skits and appeal to auditory, tactile, and visual learning styles. Covers long, short, and r-controlled vowels. Perfect for school and home.

More than 60 activities show you how to use newspapers, magazines, catalogs, and even junk mail as a never-ending source of activities for developing reading comprehension skills. Great for ESL/ELL too.

Help your students get their creative juices flowing with this rhyming dictionary. Packed with 500 rhyming word families, word origins, misspelled and misused words, plurals, prefixes, suffixes, and spelling advice plus a full complement of writing aids, glassary, specialized indexes, and more! Over 7,000 words in all, it's every young writer's handbook for poetry or narrative, for home or school. Includes a glossary and specialized index.

Help beginning writers get the creative juices flowing with this rhyming dictionary of more than 200 families of rhyming words-4,000 words in all. This easy-to-use guide includes a comprehensive list of synonyms and antonyms, metaphors and similes, homophones and homographs, compound words and contractions, and fun words, plus a glossary and specialized indexes.

This book effectively combines two elements of the middle school curriculum into a focused and strategic process that has both immediate and long-lasting implications across ALL content areas.