Facilitate a love of language in children of all ages with Building Essential Vocabulary! This 96-page book includes more than 400 reproducible photo cards, games, puzzles, and activities that provide vocabulary instruction. The activities cover themes such as actions, colors, shapes, clothing, food, everyday objects, school tools, people, careers, toys, and family. This book is great for classroom activities as well as study and practice at home. The book supports NCTE, NAEYC, and NCTM standards.

This highly regarded work brings together prominent authorities on vocabulary teaching and learning to provide a comprehensive yet concise guide to effective instruction. The book showcases practical ways to teach specific vocabulary words and word-learning strategies and create engaging, word-rich classrooms. Instructional activities and games for diverse learners are brought to life with detailed examples. Drawing on the most rigorous research available, the editors and contributors distill what PreK-8 teachers need to know and do to support all students' ongoing vocabulary growth and enjoyment of reading. New to This Edition*Reflects the latest research and instructional practices.*New section (five chapters) on pressing current issues in the field: assessment, authentic reading experiences, English language learners, uses of multimedia tools, and the vocabularies of narrative and informational texts.*Contributor panel expanded with additional leading researchers.

Help children build the vocabulary needed to become a successful English speaker! This guide contains dozens of strategies for teaching new words through storytelling, songs, pictures books, and more. Includes over 1,000 reproducible picture and word cards with a guide for selecting the appropriate words and tips for supporting young English learners.

Instill a love of language in English Language Learners in grades PK–3 using Vocabulary Building Games and Activities. This 240-page book helps students build vocabulary to become successful English speakers. It provides dozens of strategies for teaching new words through storytelling, songs, and pictures books and includes more than 1,000 reproducible picture and word cards with a guide for selecting the appropriate words. The book also includes tips for supporting young English learners.

“Ellen Galinsky—already the go-to person on interaction between families and the workplace—draws on fresh research to explain what we ought to be teaching our children. This is must-reading for everyone who cares about America’s fate in the 21st century.” — Judy Woodruff, Senior Correspondent for The PBS NewsHour Families and Work Institute President Ellen Galinsky (Ask the Children, The Six Stages of Parenthood) presents a book of groundbreaking advice based on the latest research on child development.

The Big Vocabulary Play Book for Gifted & Talented Children (Ages 9 and up) Over 1,000 words specifically selected 52 successfully tested, engaging activities Includes games, puzzles, cartoons, quizzes, rhymes and tongue twisters that address synonym, antonym, analogy, cloze and category questions in a lively way. A wide variety of activities make learning fun, resulting in easier memorization. All the materials are photocopiable Answer Key and glossary included The young gifted child has a plethora of opportunities to stimulate their natural curiosity toward new words. Many amaze and amuse us as young fluent readers, as they enjoy and discover language. One of the challenges in their insatiable thirst for knowledge, however, is developing an advanced vocabulary, so that they are able to read and comprehend higher level texts. This book has been created for parents or teachers to work with their children to expand their knowledge of higher level vocabulary. The exercises and games have been designed to be more fun and entertaining than word lists, or standard flash cards by themselves. Although some of the activities can be done on their own, the main emphasis is to have a varied set of exercises that are engaging and memorable.

Comprehension Ninja Workbooks are ideal for supporting your child's learning at home. With bespoke non-fiction texts and hundreds of questions, they're packed full of comprehension practice with strong links to the National Curriculum. Created by trusted author and teacher Andrew Jennings, they're perfect for developing those all-important literacy skills at home and for boosting children's confidence in reading comprehension. Key features of Comprehension Ninja Workbook for Ages 9-10: - Covers popular National Curriculum topics currently taught at Key Stage 2, such as fair trade, the solar system and mental health - Features a variety of question types including true or false, fill the gap and multiple choice - Contains illustrations throughout and a fun ninja theme to engage children - Includes advice for parents and answers at the back of the book

When you use Excel Basic Skills: English Workbook Year 4, yo u will be practising recognising and writing many of the text type you l earn at school. Several of the sample texts have been written by student s in Year 4 and are good examples of what a Year 4 student can achieve. The Excel series of English Workbooks for Years 3- ...6 w ill help primary school students with the reading and writing they do ev ery day at school -% in English and in other subjects. Each chapter is set out as a separate unit of work covering a different type of writing (etext type,,) and contains exercises that relate to that particular te xt type. In this book you will find: eleven chapters, each set out as a unit of work covering a particular text type (such a s narratives, letters, speeches and information reports), including a ch apter on writing for school projects exercises and activities i n each chapter which are directly linked to the text type covered practice in skills such as spelling, grammar, vocabulary, punctuation and comprehension interesting and relevant sample texts, inclu ding many written by Year 4 students, with important features highlighte d Answers to all questions at the back of the book

Make math matter to students in all grades using Math Tutor: Multiplication and Division! This 80-page book provides step-by-step instructions of the most common math concepts and includes practice exercises, reviews, and vocabulary definitions. The book covers multiplying and dividing by one-, two-, and three-digit numbers; working with 10, 100, 1,000, and so on; factors; remainders; decimals; and estimation. It aligns with state, national, and Canadian provincial standards.

Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.