As Eggbert, an adventurous ball, bounces his way into some very strange places, your first-graders get practice with basic punctuation, spelling, and phonics. Story sentences on the CD are formatted one to a page so you can duplicate them easily or print them out as editing journals for your students. The cloze technique used throughout provides practice with consonant blending and diphthongs. For your convenience, the included supplemental CD contains the Caught'ya sentences formatted in Word for duplication, along with writing suggestions and activities, a complete and easy-to-use grammar reference with examples and teaching tips, and other helpful tools.

Eggbert, the Ball, Bounces by Himself: Caught'ya! Grammar with a Giggle for First Grade

Education & Teaching

Jane Bell Kiester

Schools & Teaching

Maupin House

Jane Bell Kiester transforms the sentence-a-day approach to teaching grammar, usage, and mechanics into an intriguing and easy skill-builder. Teachers of students in grades 3-12 save valuable planning time with these classroom-proven soap opera plots ready for the blackboard or overhead. One story each for elementary, middle, and high school, easily adapted to your own classroom. Includes machine-readable tests, keys, plot outlines, and spin-off activities.

Caught'ya!: Grammar With a Giggle

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Maupin House Publishing

In Juan and Marie Join the Class, third-grade students will have fun learning about the language and customs of Mexico and France as they master vocabulary, punctuation, literary devices, and sentence structure. Clear instructions help you integrate the proven Caught'ya! approach easily into your classroom. And for your convenience, the supplemental CD contains the Caught'ya! sentences formatted in Word for duplication, along with writing suggestions and activities, a complete and easy-to-use grammar reference with examples and teaching tips, and other helpful tools.

Caught'ya! Grammar with a Giggle for Third Grade: Juan and Marie Join the Class (Maupin House)

The Same Classic You Love – Now Expanded and Updated for 2006 Test Requirements! NEW Third Edition In just four easy steps, Jane Bell Kiester gives you all the tools you need to teach your students how to respond to any fiction or non-fiction prompt with superior and creative writing that incorporates solid writing-craft principles. The expanded Third Edition allows you to: simplify the planning process for writing with several graphic organizers; help students use and retain vivid vocabulary with entertaining, classroom-proven activities; encourage and explicitly teach strategies that foster well-organized and elaborated writing that reveals the writer’s voice; teach students how to recognize genre―a difficult skill for many students to master on assessments―with twenty passages from familiar and beloved children’s fiction and non-fiction literature; provide students with practice in all genres with more than 200 practice prompts, plus the newest test addition―quote analysis; assess writing quickly and confidently using the ninety reproducible, student-written responses to descriptive, expository, narrative, and persuasive writing prompts that include rubrics and teacher notes; and conform to your state’s scoring system using either holistic or domain scoring (explanations provided with the student samples).

Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment Test: Four Steps to Better Writing Scores for Students of All Levels with CDROM (Maupin House)

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Fast, fun, and fuss-free! Teach Spelling So It Sticks! offers teachers in grades four through eight an easy-to-use step-book format complete with instructions, assessment tips, a suggested weekly routine, games, activities, and word lists, plus strategies for teaching commonly confused words such as homophones and those dreaded spell-check nightmares. Whether you are looking for a complete approach for explicit spelling instruction or want engaging games and activities that encourage students to remember how to spell new or easily confused words, Teach Spelling So It Sticks! has the solution. Kiester's engaging and humorous ideas are classroom-proven and great for all students--especially struggling spellers, English-language learners, and ESE students. Students won't just learn to spell words for test day--they'll learn to spell them for a lifetime.

Teach Spelling So It Sticks! Quick and Clever Ways That Work for Grades 4-8