Animal Almanac (Gifted & Talented Reference Book Series)

Gift & Talented "RM" Workbooks develop children's natural talents and gifts with curricular activities that enhance critical and creative thinking skills.Story starters will challenge children by providing story-telling and writing activities in the form of story fragments to enhance critical and creative thinking skills. Children will understand the meaning of words even if they cannot yet read or write them.

Teen & Young Adult

Cheney, Martha

Education & Reference

Lowell House

The first title in the brand-new Gifted & Talented Reference Book series, Animal Almanac develops important reference book skills while providing lots of fun and fascinating facts about animals. Topics include: The six different types of animals The different kinds of animals within each species Famous animals from books, movies, and songs And-- just for fun -- animal riddles Challenging questions appear throughout to test children's understanding of the material and develop their critical and creativethinking skills.

Children's Books

Hill, Mary

Gift & Talented RM Workbooks develop children's natural talents and gifts with curricular activities that enhance critical and creative thinking skills.Prompt questions, vivid full-color art, and charming black-and-white illustrations develop important critical and creative thinking skills.

Colors Workbook for Preschoolers (Gifted & Talented)

Activities, Crafts & Games

Gift & Talented RM Workbooks develop children's natural talents and gifts with curricular activities that enhance critical and creative thinking skills.Prompt questions, vivid full-color art, and charming black-and-white illustrations develop important critical and creative thinking skills.

Gifted & Talented: Things That Go Workbook: For Preschoolers (Gifted & Talented)

Saffer, Barbara

Students need to know what kinds of information are available in reference materials and how to find that information quickly. This book consists of activities and explorations designed to familiarize your students with dictionaries, encyclopedias, and atlases.This book is divided into three sections. Each section contains a table of contents, teaching ideas and extension activities. * Dictionary Dynamics - reproducibles in five different formats give hands-on dictionary practice covering word meaning and spelling.* Encyclopedia Explorations - includes 19 "Scavenger Hunt" pages which require students to use an encyclopedia to locate information. Tasks involve finding specific facts, reading charts, maps, and drawings, and practicing higher-level thinking skills.* Atlas Adventures - a variety of activities intended to encourage students to be comfortable and fluent in using an atlas.Special Features: Dictionary - "Label It," students look up words, read the meanings, and then label the correct part of a picture. Unusual words are used - snood, proboscis, crenelation; Encyclopedia - make "info-mobiles"; atlas - "Create a Country," a small group activity. Detailed answer key included. All 64 pages perforated for easy removal.

Reading Reference Materials

Reference

Evan-Moor Corp.

Learning to read newspapers and magazines is important to becoming an informed citizen. They provide us with a portable source of entertainment, as well. This book will help you present newspapers and magazines to students in fun, productive ways. Students learn to think like a reporter and look for the five "Ws" in a story (who, what, where, when, and why). They'll discuss the front page, sports, human interest, and the advice column. The sample magazine article, The Life of Jacques Cousteau, makes for fascinating and educational reading in and of itself. The book is divided into three sections, each with a table of contents, teaching ideas, and numerous involving activities. Sections include: * Newspapers in the Classroom -- parts of the newspaper, creative newspaper activities, create a class newspaper * Using Magazines in the Classroom -- recommended magazines, parts of a magazine, reading a magazine article * Bonus Activities -- Seven extension activities that can relate to either newspapers or magazines -- word search, biographical profile, public opinion poll, news bulletins, make a newsworthy puzzle, the great debate, a real role model, word search Special Features: checklist of skills, newspaper scavenger hunt, and newspaper events time line. Catchy line art accents the presentation throughout. All 64 pages perforated for easy removal.

Read Newspapers and Magazines

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Read and Understand, Celebrating Diversity contains biographies, fiction, and nonfiction stories that present the rich diversity of the people of North America. There are biographies of well-known people of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds, stories about adults and children who must deal with disablilties, and stories that provide a historical perspective. Each of the stories is followed by four pages of activities:\n, comprehension, vocabulary, an activity that all allows students to connect the story to their own lives, a cross-curricular activity Celebrating Diversity, Grades 3-4 contains 20 stories, including:\n, Biographies-Martin Luther King, Jr., Hideo Nomo, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Jackie Robinson, Cesar Chavez, Fiction-Dairy of a Biracial Child, My Name ins Gao Yang, A Day in the Life of an Amish Girl, Nick's Tourette Syndrome, Nonfiction-The Cajuns, Kwanzaa, Diversity

Read and Understand Celebrating Diversity Grades 3-4

Simpson, Kathleen

White, Tekla

Literature & Fiction

Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 2 3 contains 27 poem selections organized around these engaging themes:
-Beasts, Birds, &amp; Bugs -Seasons &amp; Celebrations -Stuff &amp; Nonsense -Step Outside -Poems in Song -A World of Sights &amp; Sounds
Included are poems by such well-known poets as Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, and Pat Mora.
The first follow-up activity emulates the format students are likely to encounter on standardized language arts tests.
Item content covers:
-literal comprehension -sequence -word meaning -context clues &amp; inferences -main idea and details
This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.

Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 2-3

Take a personally guided tour along Glacier National Park’s Going-to-the-Sun Road, with stories and legends of the Kutenai and Blackfeet Indians, as well as from early whites in this region, plus geological information about the landforms—"told" mile-by-mile by 19th-century mountain man Hugh Monroe, adopted by the Blackfeet as Rising Wolf.

Glacier National Park Legends And Lore: Along Going To The Sun Road

History

Guthrie, C. W.

Krage, Diane

Americas

Farcountry Pr

Puzzles & Games for Critical and Creative Thinking: A Workbook for Age 6-8 (The Gifted & Talented Workbooks)

Bockwoldt, Diane

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Animal Almanac (Gifted & Talented Reference Book Series)

Animal Almanac (Gifted & Talented Reference Book Series)

Colors Workbook for Preschoolers (Gifted & Talented)

Gifted & Talented: Things That Go Workbook: For Preschoolers (Gifted & Talented)

Reading Reference Materials

Read Newspapers and Magazines

Read and Understand Celebrating Diversity Grades 3-4

Read and Understand Poetry, Grades 2-3

Glacier National Park Legends And Lore: Along Going To The Sun Road

Puzzles & Games for Critical and Creative Thinking: A Workbook for Age 6-8 (The Gifted & Talented Workbooks)