Our Bear Themed Package contains the following units: Bing Bear's Balloons, Colour Bear, Good Shapes for a Hungry Bear, and I Love My Learning Centres. Included are: picture patterns to make a big book; picture patterns to make a little book; hands-on activity for number recognition; hands-on activity for colour recognition; Rebus Chant — Balloons; Bear name tags and word cards. Students will reinforce counting skills of numbers 1-8; will reinforce colour recognition skills; will develop creative thinking skills; will listen to a story; will participate in the telling of the story; will increase vocabulary of "eating" words; and will participate in a bookmaking activity. This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, rebus chants, and big book assembly to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

Facilitate a love of language in students in grades PK–1 using Riotous Rhymes! In this 96-page book, rhymes help young learners build pattern-recognition skills that are essential to early reading development. The activities include Act-It-Out poems, stick-puppet poems, choral/chant poems, finger plays, mini-books, and follow-up activities. The book supports NCTE and NAEYC standards.

Big Books for Tots includes patterns and text to make 3 big books for emerging readers. The stories can be read independently or integrated with a theme study. Their friendly and lively style and easy and repetitive language will encourage your emerging readers to read and reread. "Big Bear's Balloons" reinforces colour recognition and counting skills. Students will also be able to recognize the sequence of events that leads to Bing's predicament. "Dana Banana" is a story about nutrition and one girl's love for bananas. Students will reinforce their knowledge of the days of the week and colour skills. "Twelve Hats for Tina" tells about Tina and her love of hats. Students will reinforce their knowledge of the months of the year and the seasonal holidays and occasions. This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, big book assembly, and word search to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

In order to promote effective learning, individuals must feel fully appreciated within their own unique identities (i.e., ethnicities, language differences, socioeconomic status, gender, religions). Culturally competent educators employ practices that acknowledge and build on cultural diversity and that identify students themselves as resources and honors assets possessed within the context of the school community. Designing Culturally Competent Programming for PK-20 Classrooms is a comprehensive research publication that explores strategies and best practices for designing culturally competent curricula and serves as a courier for stakeholders fostering inclusive and forward-thinking opportunities in PK-20 classrooms. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as ethics, leadership, and organizational development, this book is ideal for educators, administrators, academicians, curriculum developers, instructional designers, researchers, and students.

The most important poetry reference for more than four decades—now fully updated for the twenty-first century Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated for the twenty-first century. Compiled by an entirely new team of editors, the fourth edition—the first new edition in almost twenty years—reflects recent changes in literary and cultural studies, providing up-to-date coverage and giving greater attention to the international aspects of poetry, all while preserving the best of the previous volumes. At well over a million words and more than 1,000 entries, the Encyclopedia has unparalleled breadth and depth. Entries range in length from brief paragraphs to major essays of 15,000 words, offering a more thorough treatment—including expert synthesis and indispensable bibliographies—than conventional handbooks or dictionaries. This is a book that no reader or writer of poetry will want to be without. Thoroughly revised and updated by a new editorial team for twenty-first-century students, scholars, and poets More than 250 new entries cover recent terms, movements, and related topics Broader international coverage includes articles on the poetries of more than 110 nations, regions, and languages Expanded coverage of poetries of the non-Western and developing worlds Updated bibliographies and cross-references New, easier-to-use page design Fully indexed for the first time

Virtual teaching may seem scary, but it does not have to be! Tackle the upcoming school year with confidence and skill by using the insightful material found in 50 Strategies for Your Virtual Classroom. This resource will ease the stress of teaching in distance learning environments by providing a broad range of topics such as building community and engaging students to teaching young readers and English learners. It also provides tips for different learning environments, such as independent and hybrid learning, and includes an annotated list of useful applications and websites as well as student work pages inspired by the strategies.

Facilitate literacy in special-education learners in pre-kindergartenÐkindergarten using Early Literacy Intervention Activities. This 160-page book provides teachers with activities that boost 11 proven literacy skills and intervention strategies. In addition, the book discusses four important interventions, covering early and special-education literacy in great detail. Key Education products are intended to engage and educate young and special learners, as well as assist teachers in building a strong and developmentally appropriate curriculum for these children. The product lineÑcomprised of teacher/parent resource books, photographic learning cards, and other activity- and game-oriented materialsÑis designed to assist in ÒUnlocking the Potential in Every Child.Ó