This fun book uses examples familiar to readers to get them counting using tally charts. Topics include snacks, pets, and how readers and their classmates get to school. Activities encourage practicing making tally charts.

Tally charts are an excellent way to organize, represent, and interpret data, a key skill in today's math classrooms. Readers will learn the components of a tally chart and how each is essential in understanding the information the chart holds. Entertaining topics, questions and answers, and a colorful design make this book a comprehensible companion to the mathematics curriculum.

This Level 2 guided reader teaches how to interpret and create tally charts. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning about counting, skip-counting by 5s, and representing numbers using tally charts.

Photographs and simple text describe how to make and use pie graphs.

The O'Malleys are off to the beach! But it's a long, hot, boring drive. What can Eric, Bridget, and Nell do to keep busy? Play tally games, of course -- counting up all the gray cars or green T-shirts they see. Whoever has the most marks at the end wins the game. Eric wins the first game. Bridget wins the second. It seems like poor Nell will never win a game! But Nell has the luck of the Irish on her side, and a surprise in store for her big brother and sister.

This lesson integrates academic vocabulary instruction into content-area lessons. Two easy-to-implement strategies for teaching academic vocabulary are integrated within the step-by-step, standards-based mathematics lesson.

Tally McNally is an alley cat who loves to tally! He keeps track of all sorts of contests—who wins the most races, who is the tallest, who can climb the most trees, and more. When the results are counted up, Tally is always the winner. One rainy day, Tally competes to become the “wettest cat.” But he goes too far and gets into a jam. Will his friends—who lose to him tally after tally—find a way to save him?

Ben needs to find out what food to grill at the cookout. Examine his tally chart to see how many people want hot dogs, hamburgers, or chicken.

Engage your mathematics students at the beginning of class with this whole-class warm-up activity. This product features a step-by-step lesson, assessment information, and a snapshot of what the warm-up looks like in the classroom.

Integrate academic vocabulary instruction into content-area lessons with this engaging new resource for Level 1, which provides teachers with 12 easy-to-implement strategies for teaching academic vocabulary. Included are 25 step-by-step standards-based lessons that each incorporate two vocabulary strategies. Also included are activity pages and assessments, an answer key, and a Teacher Resource CD.