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Evan-Moor Educational Publishing

Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Help students build a connection to their environment and the rest of the world with this unit about all the kinds of homes people live in. It begins with the classroom environment and the establishment of a Building Center, which may feature building toys, found objects or actual wood and construction tools. It exists to challenge students to "build" various kinds of houses in miniature. Other topics and activities covered include: Homes Around the World (a poem), House or Home?, An Origami House, Houses Through History, Primative and Modern Houses, Climate Makes a Difference, Location and Use, Building Materials, Houses from Plants, Houses from Wood, Houses from Mud, Houses from Animal Skins, Houses from Clay Brick, Houses from Stone, Houses of Concrete, My House, Houses Underground, Houses that Move About, A House Walk (vocabulary exercise), Name the House, Rooms in a House, Our House (graphing square footage and making a floor plan), Build a Model House, Language Activities, Writing About Houses, House Poems, Houses Around the World (drawing and writing), House Math (geometric shapes), Shapes in Houses, Plane or Solid?, follow-up activities for the book How My Family Lives in America by Susan Kuklin, Think About It -- What Kind of House Would You Build?, Murals, Using Picture Cards with picture cards and descriptions of a variety of dwellings, and Find the Building Material word search and connect-the-dots. Also features a full-color, two-sided pull-out poster with Homes Near and Far on one side and People Build Homes on the other. Teaching suggestions provided. Includes bibliography, and complete step-by-step instructions for all activities. All pages are reproducible and perforated for easy removal.

Homes Near and Far

Education & Teaching

JO ELLEN MOORE

Cindy Davis

Schools & Teaching

From "An Appetizing Apple" to "Zucchini and Zippy Dip," here's the ultimate resource book for teaching letter names and sounds to pre-kindergarten through first grade students. It's brimming with fun lessons, activities, and projects that help young students learn the alphabet more quickly and easily. Includes templates and instructions for 27 student-made books, plus 90 fun activities involving art, games, and cooking. Each letter begins with teaching ideas for introducing it and/or its sound. Then for each letter of the alphabet you will find: * a full-page picture card with capital and lower case letter * a bibliography of suggested literature references about objects beginning with that letter * a simple recipe for a food beginning with that letter; for example, applesauce, rice &amp; raisin pudding, very vegetable soup * a step-by-step drawing lesson of an object beginning with that sound; for example, kite, octopus, wagon * a trace and write reproducible * an art lesson (patterns provided as needed) * a reproducible cut-and-paste activity for additional practice with the letter * a reproducible "little book" containing a four page story to share with students Additional resources include: a reproducible mini-alphabet book, an animal for each letter of the alphabet, reproducible letter and picture cards, upper and lower case letters and seven picture card for each letter, directions for four games to practice letter names and sounds, and directions for setting up five centers. Generously illustrated with cute, instructive line art, suitable for students to color. Includes reproducible "I Know the Alphabet" student award template. All 304 pages perforated for easy removal. Need additional reading and language arts teaching ideas? Consider these other quality Evan-Moor titles: Getting Ready to Read (EMC 389) for students needing practice with motor, visual, and listening skills and Phonics Fundamentals, Vol. 1 (EMC 290) for students ready to move from letter names and sounds to blending and short vowel words.

Jumbo Fun With the Alphabet

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Evan-Moor Corp.

It's easy to help students expand their vocabulary with the quick, daily practices in A Word a Day. Using the same structured format on a daily basis will result in increased word power for all students.

A Word a Day, Grades 4-8

Daily Paragraph Editing, Grade 6 - Student Workbook

Evan-Moor Corporation

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