PETS 2 is an extension of those thinking strategies from the original PETS book. Students now discover how the characters blend their thinking skills as they work together to solve problems. Each section includes read-aloud stories, a series of whole class activities, detailed lesson plans, reproducibles, and additional activities for small groups.

Primary Education Thinking Skills 2

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Dodie Merritt

Jody Nichols

Margaret Wolfe

Sally Thomson

Psychology & Counseling

Pieces of Learning

Look at testing from a different perspective - for ALL students, for students who operate in different learning styles, for those who already test out of standardized tests, for those who need or surpass classroom and district benchmarks. CD includes all rubrics and customizable rubric. The work is done for you! Includes 134 ready-to-use rubrics in all subject areas plus directions for how-to-write your own quality rubrics. Narrative topics include assessment terms, standardized testing, alternative assessment, standards, and benchmarks.

Solving the Assessment Puzzle Piece by Piece

Education & Teaching

Carolyn Coil

Schools & Teaching

Kindergarten P.E.T.S.: -is engaging, informative, and fun for ALL students! -is a systematized enrichment and diagnostic thinking skills program suitable for Kindergarten that introduces students to different ways of thinking. -is aligned to the higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, presenting lessons in convergent analysis, divergent synthesis, and evaluation. -includes 2 whole group lessons for each thinking component and an additional small group lesson for high level thinkers -includes in the 4 Resources &amp; Extension Sections Tiered Question Q'ubesÃ¢Â„Â¢ for each of the kinds of questions with any book -correlates with the components of multiple intelligences -provides opportunities for learners with different thinking strengths to shine. -provides diagnostic checklists for building behavioral portfolios on talented young learners that support a differentiated approach to their education. -can be used as a precursor to the primary P.E.T.S.Ã¢Â„Â¢ program with Dudley the Detective, Isabel the Inventor, Sybil the Scientist, Yolanda the Yarnspinner, Max the Magician, and Jordan the Judge. As you follow the program, ask your librarian to have these books available to read to your students and then follow up with the Whole Group and Small Group Lessons and extension activities. -Ten Black Dots -Curious George's ABCs -How Will We Get to the Beach? -Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? -Seven Blind Mice -When A Line Bends, A Shape Begins -Can I Have a Stegosaurus, Mom? Can I? -The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear Instructions for the Downloadable Digital Content on located inside the back cover.

Kindergarten Primary Education Thinking Skills (P.E.T.S.)

Sandy Wyatt

Rekindle the excitement of learning and build self-esteem through independent study investigations of student choice! Here are the management tools you need to differentiate products, process, and content to meet individual student needs (and not lose your mind!) as they move from structured independence to shared independence to self-guided learning. The Overview has no-nonsense descriptions for using each tool to develop or augment an independent study program from primary through secondary grades. Reproducible materials for each aspect of the independent study process include:- Management - checklists, parent communications, and time control tools;- Planning - graphic organizers and contracts to get work underway;- Researching - forms for managing the resources and notes on an immense body of accumulated information;- Presenting - plans for popular products to help students put their own spin on ideas and information they have collected; and- Assessing - progress sheets, check/points, reflections, and a unit rubric. The expanded edition includes a variety of topical spec sheets for research, and digital content includes all forms in a PDF format.Instructions for downloading the digital content are included inside the back cover.

Independent Study: Expanded Edition - Includes Downloadable Digital Content

Book Lures

This updated revised edition of our Best-Selling assessment book includes 100 rubrics, shows how to use rubrics to assess standards, and describes how to include Product Criteria Cards in complex rubrics.
 The expanded glossary includes 50 of the most important assessment terms, each explained in an understandable and user-friendly fashion. 
 The authors explore the uses of data in driving instruction, the new common core standards, the impact of high-stakes testing, and the uses and benefits of alternative assessments. 
 NEW All book rubrics, Teacher Reflection Pages, and print reproducible forms on the CD are in WORD format customizable to best meet the needs of your school and students.

Solving the Assessment Puzzle Piece by Piece - Revised Edition