Education - Elementary

Award-winning author MaryAnn Kohl offers children ages 5-8 over 100 art experiences that value the process of art more than the final product. Encourage artistic expression at every level, from beginning to advanced, with hard-to-resist activities such as Shimmer Paint, Squeezy Batik, Sunbright Collage,...

Jumpstart reading success with these lively storybooks that teach the top 100 sight words! Includes a BIG teaching guide filled with lessons, practice pages, and reproducible versions of all 25 storybooks.Jumpstart reading success with these lively titles that systematically teach the top 100 sight...

In this book from bestselling author Dr. Nicki Newton, you'll learn how to level math workstations to engage K-2 students in meaningful, purposeful, rigorous practice. We know students don't learn at the same pace, so how do we take into account where they are...

Starting Strong: Evidence-Based Early Literacy Practices shows teachers how to use four proven instructional approaches--standards based, evidenced based, assessment based, and student based--to improve their teaching practice in all areas of early literacy.Author: Katrin Blamey, Katherine A. BeauchatISBN-10: 1571109307ISBN-13: 9781571109309Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/17/2016Pages: 240Format:...

The Sandwich Way: First Day of SchoolDiscover a delightful children's book that celebrates diversity, inclusivity, and the magic of individuality! The Sandwich Way: First Day of School introduces young readers to a group of lovable sandwich friends as they navigate their first day of...

Discover the World of Taxes!Step right into a fun and thrilling adventure where you'll learn all about taxes-what they may be, why we pay them, and the way they assist construct the arena round us. This book is particularly designed for curious kids like...

Make short work of short vowels! Target early spelling patterns with sets of materials that follow an easy-to-implement learning routine. Each set includes an illustrated slider for building common CVC words, a say-write-and-read activity page, and a fun picture find challenge. Repeated practice of...

Grounded in research and theory, Sparking Joyful Learning: A Teacher's Guide to Connecting Play and Reader Response highlights the connections between play and literacy and provides teachers with resources for building upon children's playful reading responses in the PK-3 classroom. Readers will find guidance...

This practical book focuses on five core emerging literacy skills that underpin successful learning for children. Covering key theory and with an extensive downloadable toolkit, it is a crucial resource for early years educators, primary classroom practitioners, educational psychologists, and speech and language therapists.Author:...

Children′s literature is a powerful resource that can inspire a young reader's lifetime love of reading, but how can you ensure that your literacy teaching uses this rich creative world to its fullest? This book gives pre-service primary teachers an in-depth guide to each...

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back,...

What student-- or teacher-- can resist the chance to experiment with Rocket Launchers, Sound Pipes, Drinking Birds, Dropper Poppers, and more? The 35 experiments in Using Physical Science Gadgets and Gizmos, Grades 6- 8, cover topics including pressure and force, thermodynamics, energy, light and...

This is a fun educational book for children that teaches them about insects also known, as minibeasts. Your child will learn how to listen and describe the different minibeasts and then distinguish them by their facts. It is a fun interactive book, that gets...

This title offers children practice to strengthen their early handwriting skills while learning stroke and letter formation.and This series is great for at-home learning so children can master their early learning skills.This book contains all 112 aimed to help my son learnAuthor: Learn KidsISBN-10:...

Developing Your Leadership in the Early Years is the essential handbook for all professionals who are working to become leaders and managers for services that support young children and their families (including childcare, education, health and family support). The authors draw on their own...

Classroom Boredom BustersSpark student curiosity and increase student participation with classroom activities that won't add to your busy workload. In Classroom Boredom Busters, veteran educator Donna Malone shares her proven ideas for exciting kids about learning.Teachers of all content and subject areas in grades...

This new, practical book provides an explanation of each of the eight mathematical practices and gives high school educators specific instructional strategies that align with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Math teachers, curriculum coordinators, and district math supervisors get practical ideas on...

Here at last is a theoretically sound, delightfully readable alternative to commercial phonics kits. Rhymes & Reasons is a smart, up-to-date, all-in-one guide to phonological awareness-what it is, what it isn't, and the best practices for teaching it. Most important, it spotlights the best...

For teachers, reading specialists and special educators in grades 4-12, this practical resource is packed with hundreds of strategies and activities for evaluating and improving students' reading, writing, study, and test-taking skills in all content areas. It first provides several ways to categorize the...

Conquering Fifth Grade is a fun workbook designed to help students master key grade-level skills. This inspiring workbook covers the entire school year in 10 motivating units, making at-home learning quick and easy. Challenge students to expand their reading, writing, language, math, science, and...

Go Figure Exploring Figurative Language highlights a variety of common idioms for learners in grades 2-4. Students will deepen their skills in writing, understanding word meanings, and using context clues with this engaging classroom resource. Based on today's standards, this resource includes 20 content-based...

Conquering Fourth Grade is a fun workbook designed to help students master key grade-level skills. This inspiring workbook covers the entire school year in 10 motivating units, making at-home learning quick and easy. Challenge students to expand their reading, writing, language, math, science, and...

Conquering Second Grade is a fun workbook designed to help students master key grade-level skills. This inspiring workbook covers the entire school year in 10 motivating units, making at-home learning quick and easy. Challenge students to expand their reading, writing, language, math, science, and...

Economics for kids lesson plans paired with fun chapter mysteries. Teach real-life economics with stories that your kids will love Economics doesn't have to be a difficult topic to teach to elementary students. Using the Striker Jones mystery series, you can introduce the topics...

Conquering Third Grade is a fun workbook designed to help students master key grade-level skills. This inspiring workbook covers the entire school year in 10 motivating units, making at-home learning quick and easy. Challenge students to expand their reading, writing, language, math, science, and...

Author: Leroy BakerISBN-10: 1636677428ISBN-13: 9781636677422Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2024Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Many primary school teachers find science a difficult subject to teach. Not only do teachers need to develop their own knowledge of a complex subject, they also need to know how to bring this subject to life in the primary classroom. Science Fix is...

Many primary school teachers find science a difficult subject to teach. Not only do teachers need to develop their own knowledge of a complex subject, they also need to know how to bring this subject to life in the primary classroom. Science Fix is...

Explore young children's remarkable everyday math that can lay the groundwork for formal math education in kindergarten and beyond. Readers will learn how math is embedded in children's everyday lives, how daily routines contribute to the development of important math concepts, and what adults...

Explore young children's remarkable everyday math that can lay the groundwork for formal math education in kindergarten and beyond. Readers will learn how math is embedded in children's everyday lives, how daily routines contribute to the development of important math concepts, and what adults...

In The Purpose-Driven Classroom, author Daniel L. Vollrath uses dispositional teaching to address productivity and promote positive habits in the classroom. He presents seven productive behaviors that general education teachers can teach to all students across all content areas. In utilizing this book's productive...

Howard/Charlesworth's MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN, 9th EDITION, introduces you to engaging math and science experiences for early childhood and early elementary education programs. It provides an organized, sequential approach to creating a developmentally appropriate STEM curriculum. The content aligns with key guidelines...

This book demonstrates the importance of raising multilingual children in the UK, both for the children's own benefit and for the benefit of society as a whole. Against the backdrop of both the rich linguistic diversity already present in the UK and the challenges...

The essential teaching theory and practice text for primary English. This comprehensive and popular text covers the professional knowledge, skills and understanding required to be an effective teacher of primary English. *Practical guidance on the teaching and learning of phonics, the importance of talk...

The essential teaching theory and practice text for primary English. This comprehensive and popular text covers the professional knowledge, skills and understanding required to be an effective teacher of primary English. *Practical guidance on the teaching and learning of phonics, the importance of talk...

Research evidence consistently shows that an outdoor learning environment can improve behaviour, engagement and encourage more active participation in learning. So why keep learning in a classroom? In reality, we know the challenges teachers face. We know the barriers that get in the way...

An interesting book that will teach children and those not so young to know all the steps that have been taken to have the calendar that we currently use. Calendar that helps us to carry out in an organized way all the activities of...

This book examines the ways in which mobile technologies may contribute to or disrupt literacy learning in children. Also explored is the impact mobile technologies may have on literacy definitions and practices; student, parent and teacher roles and interactions; power relations in education; and...

Giving primary teachers the background knowledge they need to plan effective programs of work and answer children′s questions with confidence, the Third Edition of this popular text now also includes a CD containing 200 science investigations, allowing teachers to explore the topics covered in...

"The International Handbook of Psychology in Education" provides researchers, practitioners and advisers working in the fields of psychology and education with an overview of cutting-edge research across a broad spectrum of work within the domain of psychology of education. The chapters in the handbook...

This Second Grade Reading Comprehension Workbook Volume 3 includes 50 Reading Comprehension Stories. Each story has 5 Comprehension Questions. Answer Key Included. All Reading Comprehension Passages are on a Second Grade Level with various difficulty levels. This Volume includes 22 stories dedicated to Phonics...

Conquering First Grade is a fun workbook designed to help students master key grade-level skills. This inspiring workbook covers the entire school year in 10 motivating units, making at-home learning quick and easy. Challenge students to expand their reading, writing, language, math, science, and...

Did you grow up reciting Little Miss Muffet, Jack Be Nimble, and Mary Had a Little Lamb? Mother Goose nursery rhymes have helped generations of children achieve literacy. This third grade classroom resource will help teachers incorporate rhymes into a standards-based curriculum that is...

Did you grow up reciting Little Miss Muffet, Jack Be Nimble, and Mary Had a Little Lamb? Mother Goose nursery rhymes have helped generations of children achieve literacy. This first grade classroom resource will help teachers incorporate rhymes into a standards-based curriculum that is...

Building on recent changes and debates surrounding the use of observation, this fully updated second edition of Classroom Observation explores the role of lesson observation in the preparation, assessment and professional learning of teachers, lecturers and educators at all levels and across all educational...

Describing specific structured methods for developing and improving literacy skills, this work provides detailed advice about successful organization, coupled with photocopiable masters of necessary materials. The methods are designed with the intention that all students and teachers can benefit, regardless of age and ability....

Elementary social studies teachers often struggle to make time to teach social studies. In her book, Rachel Swearengin shows how this can be done in all elementary classrooms with the right tools. Her unit planning process supports teachers as they unpack social studies standards,...

Teachers and Philosophy showcases the potential of education practitioners and philosophers of education working and writing together. Following Mary Louise Pratt, this meeting space is referred to as a "contact zone," and contributors demonstrate the power and benefit of writing from this liminal space....

Maths Anxiety is a very common experience, reported by people around the world. This book will help all teachers of Maths, from primary education to secondary and beyond, to better understand Maths Anxiety and learn how we can address this within our classrooms, creating...

This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education Support knowledge and understanding from the Learner's Book with practical workbooks designed to challenge learners to develop their thinking further. - Save time when planning with ready-made homework or extension exercises. - Challenge learners...