Everyday Success(TM) Activities makes learning fun for children in first grade. Make every day count during your childÕs developmental years. Packed with fun activities that support early learning, each title reinforces the basics of reading and writing with entertaining alphabet activities, number activities, puzzles, and games. Colorful pages feature ÒOne Step FurtherÓ activity ideas that encourage active learning while building the 21st century skills of communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking.

Designed for total learning success by experts in elementary education, Everyday Success First Grade features a variety of essential basic learning skills in a single volume. Specifically for children in grade 1, this workbook reinforces concepts and promotes learning in three key areas: Basic Skills (rhyming, ABC order, riddles, classifying, sequencing, following directions, and more), Math (addition, subtraction, fractions, measurement, graphing, and more), Reading (consonants, vowels, nouns, verbs, adjectives, homonyms, critical thinking, and more). --Take learning one step further! To support independent thinking and discovery, Everyday Success offers a continuation of each learning activity with a suggestion for children to continue each worksheet with a learning activity on their own. This encourages children to take what theyÕve learned and apply it to everyday situations, reinforcing their comprehension of the activity while exploring the world around them. --The Everyday Success(TM) series includes 288 full-color pages that will provide hours of education entertainment and make your child want to come back for more! Each workbook is spiral bound so that pages lay flat, and each book includes a complete answer key.

How can we make sure that our children are learning to be creative thinkers in a world of global competition - and what does that mean for the future of education in the digital age? David Williamson Shaffer offers a fresh and powerful perspective on computer games and learning. How Computer Games Help Children Learn shows how video and computer games can help teach children to build successful futures - but only if we think in new ways about education itself. Shaffer shows how computer and video games can help students learn to think like engineers, urban planners, journalists, lawyers, and other innovative professionals, giving them the tools they need to survive in a changing world. Based on more than a decade of research in technology, game science, and education, How Computer Games Help Children Learn revolutionizes the ongoing debate about the pros and cons of digital learning.

Based on the author's experiences as parents, teacher, economist, and school board member, this book is for teachers, parents, and administrators about the most fundamental, basic element in any good school, the time of a good teacher. Teacher Time's message is simple. American students need more of each teacher's time. Teachers need more time to spend on each student, time to plan, grade papers and make decisions about resources. America must adopt and pay for the model used for public schools in the rest of the developed world, where teachers teach many less class hours. In Teacher Time, classroom stories reveal the nature of the American School, the teacher's job, how little time a teacher has for each child, and how school management affects the quality of the teacher's time with students. A "homework" section helps readers take the book into their school and school district, to take steps toward providing more quality teacher time for each child in America. (The book's) cogent argument and evidence for the centrality of teachers and the time they must have should give readers pause as they listen to the current debate over high-stakes testing, social promotion, and accountability. Larry Cuban, Stanford University.

Mark Shaw offers ideas from the most significant Christian leaders of the last five hundred years, including Martin Luther, John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, William Carey, John Wesley, Richard Baxter and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

The Daily 5, Second Edition retains the core literacy components that made the first edition one of the most widely read books in education and enhances these practices based on years of further experience in classrooms and compelling new brain research. The Daily 5 provides a way for any teacher to structure literacy (and now math) time to increase student independence and allow for individualized attention in small groups and one-on-one. Teachers and schools implementing the Daily 5 will do the following: Spend less time on classroom management and more time teaching Help students develop independence, stamina, and accountability Provide students with abundant time for practicing reading, writing, and math Increase the time teachers spend with students one-on-one and in small groups Improve schoolwide achievement and success in literacy and math. The Daily 5, Second Edition gives teachers everything they need to launch and sustain the Daily 5, including materials and setup, model behaviors, detailed lesson plans, specific tips for implementing each component, and solutions to common challenges. By following this simple and proven structure, teachers can move from a harried classroom toward one that hums with productive and engaged learners. What's new in the second edition: Detailed launch plans for the first three weeks Full color photos, figures, and charts Increased flexibility regarding when and how to introduce each Daily 5 choice New chapter on differentiating instruction by age and stamina Ideas about how to integrate the Daily 5 with the CAFE assessment system New chapter on the Math Daily 3 structure

Essential Knowledge for Teacherskeeps teachers focused and relevant in today’s changing educational landscape.Training and development makes every teacher an instructional specialist. They engage students with their lessons, and they plan activities that maximize academic success. Equally important is the teacher’s role as guide. They set high expectations, assume that everyone can advance, and don’t allow underachievers to fall behind. And because teamwork is a must, they involve parents, peers, and the larger community. The first section, “Wisdom for Your Community,” helps teachers engage students, involve parents, collaborate with colleagues, and present their schools and themselves as capable and professional. “Wisdom for Your Classroom” enhances the student-teacher relationship, and covers administrative details and classroom learning. “Wisdom for Yourself” focuses on teachers and their careers. Short entries present one piece of wisdom, its benefits, and an example of the wisdom in action based on studies, real-world anecdotes, and Dr. Culp’s opinions. Recommendations can be implemented in easy and inexpensive ways. Become a guide, mentor and role model with Words of Wisdom for Teachers.

This book is divided into six units, which deal with such topics as identifying the benefits of studying children; living in families; effective parenting skills; teen pregnancy and parenthood; prenatal development; preparing for birth; the baby's arrival; the physical, emotional, social and intellectual development during the first six years of the child's life; health and safety; special challenges for children (e.g., exceptional children, child abuse and neglect, family stresses); caring for children; and careers relating to children.

180 Days of Language is a fun and effective daily practice workbook designed to help students improve their grammar skills. This easy-to-use third grade workbook is great for at-home learning or in the classroom. The engaging standards-based activities cover grade-level skills with easy to follow instructions and an answer key to quickly assess student understanding. Students will practice punctuation, capitalization, and spelling with daily activity pages. Watch as students improve their grammar and writing skills with these quick independent learning activities.Parents appreciate the teacher-approved activity books that keep their child engaged and learning. Great for homeschooling, to reinforce learning at school, or prevent learning loss over summer.Teachers rely on the daily practice workbooks to save them valuable time. The ready to implement activities are perfect for daily morning review or homework. The activities can also be used for intervention skill building to address learning gaps.

You are designed for success. How can you achieve this success? The answer is straightforward: success comes as a result of few, simple, well-designed habits practised and repeated every day. So why doesn't everybody just do it? The answer is obvious, yet profound, according to John Rohn: it is because the things that are easy to do are also easy not to do. Does this book have the answers to all your life challenges? No! What this book will do is provoke you to think deeper and spur you to immediate, intelligent action. The message in this book is simple: be careful not to neglect doing the small things in your life that make the big things happen. Nothing will change unless you change. Blow the Cap off your Capability is a success and motivational toolbox with practical ideas and wisdom to help change your mindset and motivate you to prompt action so you can achieve your goals and live your best life beginning from right now. The chapters in this book are arranged in alphabetical order, covering a wide range of topics such as attitude, boundaries, comfort-zones, confidence, failure, integrity, leadership, procrastination, relationships and more. Some quotes from this book: Put your eggs in one basket and - watch that basket! (Andrew Carnegie) Success is not what you achieve, it's what you attract by the person you have become. (Jim Rohn) The secret to your success is found in your daily routine. (John Maxwell) The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs is always open (Zig Ziglar) Jump, then grow wings on the way down. (Jack Canfield)