Let students' imagination run wild as they learn to draw 17 different letter styles to create unique creations of slimy letters, fuzzy letters, and even super heroes! Ideal for young authors and illustrators, this book demonstrates many special effects and shows how to use these creative alphabets to make personalized books, comic books or comic strips, as well as signs, posters, and banners.

A full 12 months of creative ideas! Involve your students in creating bulletin board displays as you reinforce math, reading, science, social studies, character building, health and safety, listening, and art skills. This resource includes everything you need, including topics and curriculum connections, all pattern pieces, and materials and supplies list.

• Topics and curriculum connections
• All pattern pieces, from Alphabets to Zippers
• Materials and supplies lists for each design

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!

You won't believe what you can draw with these easy-to-follow, step-by-step lessons for drawing animals, people, holiday objects, and characters. Use the special magic of cartooning to illustrate concepts across the curriculum and enhance your classroom environment.

School restructuring movements across the country have spurred national interest in multiage classrooms. At the same time, questions from teachers, administrators, and parents about teaching mixed ages abound. Now, there's a practical guidebook to address your questions and concerns.
Creating the Multiage Classroom provides a complete design for the mixed-age primary classroom-from philosophy and rationale to sample lesson plans and evaluations forms. Teachers and administrators will find answers to all their questions about planning, implementation, environment, curriculum, management, assessment, and evaluation.

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.

This classic conflict resolution guide offers more than 20 proven conflict-resolution techniques. Examples and more than 200 classroom-tested activities and games provide constructive responses to your students' problem behaviors. There are even tips for resolving your own professional conflicts.

Daily Writing Prompts makes writing practice a breeze! There are almost 200 reproducible, ready-to-use writing ideas, enough for every day of the school year. Centered around familiar themes, such as the seasons, animals, and fantasy, each prompt is inspired by quality literature or poetry and provides links to other subject areas.

Get beginning readers on their way to successful reading with 20 reproducible little books for short vowel sounds. Developed by a respected expert in emergent literarcy, each illustrated book is designed to be reproduced, colored, and taken home for sharing with families.

Help children learn by tapping into their fascination with animals of every shape and size. More than 170 open-ended science activities engage children in discovering the world around them by exploring textures and learning intriguing facts about such animals as elephants, porcupines, crocodiles, flamingos, koalas, camels, and anteaters. Children get involved in science, social studies, math, and language arts through these stimulating hands-on activities.

Engage young children in 121 manipulative math experiences that help them discover concepts naturally. Age-appropriate activities use easy-to-find materials. Includes take-home projects to stimulate parent-child interaction. Ages 3-6

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.

Tap into children's natural curiosity about maps by using these fun-to-do games and activities to help them learn about direction, scale, distance, location, symbols, and different kinds of maps.

Pretending is learning with 24 fully developed dramatic play centers, complete with reproducible activities. Children practice literacy-related behaviors, develop interpersonal communication, and learn about the world while playing school, pet store, travel agency, museum, and more!

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.

Get your children hooked on math! More than 60 hands-on activities suggest opportunities in daily life to learn math concepts. Fun but practical activites such as riding in the car, searching through a junk drawer, or playing a game together engage children in critical thinking. Grades K - 2

Winner of this year’s 2009 Teachers’ Choice Award and The 2007 Arizona Book Award! !

Math Poetry invites students to learn math vocabulary and concepts by writing their own word problems in the form of poems. You'll be amazed by the sparks of creativity that fly around the classroom! With crystal clear instructions and easy-to-use activities and templates, Math Poetry provides an innovative way to teach both math and writing.

More Bulletin Boards for Every Month and every wall...offers ideas and activities for every month of the year from September through August, for a wide variety of curriculum subjects-from language arts, math, science, and social studies to health, safety, and holidays, plus many for character building and self-esteem.
The material from this book can also be found in Big Book of Bulletin Boards

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.