These valuable, grade-leveled resources incorporate reading skills identified by the National Reading Panel as critical to reading success. They provide standards-based, ready-to-use activities to improve spelling, phonological awareness, comprehension, and more!

Featuring vignettes, graphic organizers, instructional strategies, up-to-date research, and more, this updated bestseller helps educators understand the most effective ways to teach all students to read.

Using games as an instructional strategy in your classroom will make mathematics more inviting and enjoyable to students. Funtastic Math Games provides a wide variety of choices; card games, board games, dice games, and word or picture games; which will r

The redoubtable Grandma--this book is a sequel to Grandma Drove the Snowplow--is at it again. After all her hard work collecting the towns garbage and plowing the roads, Grandma deserves a day off--and what better day than Labor Day. All she has to do is sit back and enjoy a nice boat ride with her littlest grandson Billy while her sons catch the lobsters for the town Lobster Bake. But what happens when the waves get choppy, the fog rolls in, and all the boats are in difficulty? Can Grandma take the helm and get the lobsters back to shore in time? More great fun as our intrepid heroine is again placed at the center of small town life and in the middle of a local celebration.

This insightful and practical book offers teachers at all levels the understanding and motivation they need to teach children to read—especially those students who need help the most.

These valuable, grade-leveled resources incorporate reading skills identified by the National Reading Panel as critical to reading success. They provide standards-based, ready-to-use activities to improve spelling, phonological awareness, comprehension, and more!

Students entering the classroom will notice something is amiss. As they view the area cordoned off with tape they will notice several lunches, an empty thermos, a white powder, cookie crumbs and footprints. This is the beginning of a crime scene investigation that requires experimentation and critical thinking to solve. Through the use of chemistry, observation, and analysis of the scientific data as well as the personal information about the four suspects, students will determine who stole the cookies and chocolate milk out of one of the lunches. As they work to solve this mystery, students will find real-world applications science concepts. Invite students to become a science sleuths. Stage a mystery science investigation in your classroom for maximum learning and motivation. Book jacket.

Tall tale characters like Pecos Bill, Slue Foot Sue, and John Henry put a fun new twist on teaching history, geography, and literature through these engaging activities. Tall Tale Trading Cards instruct about the great rivers, a timeline chronicles the effect of the nation's railroads, and a giant geography poster game makes learning the states a snap!

Help children of all learning styles and strengths improve their critical thinking skills with these creative, cross-curricular activities. Each engaging activity focuses on skills such as recognizing and recalling, evaluating, and analyzing.