Reinforce the math and language arts lessons kids learn at school! Complete with daily activities and funny characters and images to make learning fun, this book is sure to enhance kids understanding. Plus, tips for adults to track and reward progress. Put your sixth grader a step ahead with Brain Builders: Daily Practice for Math and Language Arts!

Brain Builders: Grade 6

Jill Norris

Children's Books

World Book,inc.

One hand tied behind us: The rise of the women's suffrage movement

Politics & Social Sciences

Jill Liddington

Politics & Government

Virago

Book by Marjorie Frank, Jill Norris

Writing Yellow Pages for Students and Teachers.

Marjorie Frank

Social Sciences

Incentive Pubns

Children are naturally fascinated by the world around them. This book utilizes that sense of wonder to help your students or children at home learn how to do science fair projects. List of Concepts: * recognizing scientific questions * developing hypotheses * designing experiments * collecting and analyzing data * displaying experimental results List of Activities: * take the trauma out of "Science Fair". This guide leads children step by step through all the parts of the scientific process necessary to do science fair projects. Provides suggestions for how to decide on what project to do Reproducible forms for recording observations. Features fun, instructive illustrations throughout. Answer key included.

How to Do Science Fair Projects (Grades 4-6)

Joy Evans

Marilyn Evans

Narlene Tavares

Evan-Moor Corp.

Things Weren't Always Like This

Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Do You Know Famous Faces?

Self-reliance, helping others, responsibility, good manners, getting to know community helpers -- these are the things this unit will help young students learn. It begins with ideas on developing an If I were Center and a Helper Center in the classroom, to help students learn to take on new roles and think about what each role might require. It's a perfect opportunity to invite parents and members of your community to your classroom to talk about how they help the community. A seven-page section is devoted to Kenny's Story, a story about helpers, with accompanying activities for your kids. Other topics and activities include: Cooperating with Others, Working Together as a Family, A Helping Family Fingerplay, I Can Do it Myself, Cooperation at School, I Can Help, Be a Helper, Helping Hand (paper) Quilt, Helping Hand Math, School Helpers, Manners Are Important (featuring follow-up activities to the book, The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners), Please and Thank You Tokens, My Good Neighbor -- a dialogue to act out, Helpers in Your Neighborhood, and People Who Help, accompanied by Picture Cards (fireman, bus driver, mail carrier, dentist, construction worker, sanitation worker, doctor, mechanic, police officer and others). In addition to a Pop-Up Helper Book with lots of Helper Riddles to solve, and follow-up activities for the book, Wanda's Roses, by Pat Brisson, there is a full-color, two-sided pull-out poster with a Who Will Help? Poem on one side and Helpers in My Neighborhood 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.

Helping Hands

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

When it comes to art, young children need to experience a variety of media. Crafts for Young Children contains 40 age-appropriate arts and crafts projects for children ages four to six. Projects in this books use paint, paper, molding mediums, crayon, fabric, common household items, and found objects. Types of arts and crafts techniques include: printing, sculpting, painting, sewing, weaving, collage, and 3-D constructions. The wide variety of projects include: crayon resist sailboats, baker's clay snail, an octopus for your bath, an origami mouse, a box puzzle, a pie pan mobile, sun collage, a hairy egg head, a caterpillar from a sock, magic wand, finger puppets, decorated box, bead pin, and more. Each project provides: a materials list, step-by-step illustrated directions, reproducible patterns where needed. Playful, instructional illustrations throughout. All 80 pages perforated for easy removal.

Crafts for Young Children

Arts, Music & Photography

This hands-on resource book for Grade 1 contains 23 reproducible stories and practice materials for a wide spectrum of reading skills. The stories vary in reading difficulty to be appropriate to meet the needs of emerging readers in the average first grade classroom. Each story is followed by four or five pages of activities for practicing reading skills such as: comprehension, vocabulary development, letter-sound association, word families, and rhyming. Each story consists of four half-page sheets, suitable for cutting apart to make little individual books. Page one contains a picture dictionary, illustrating words featured in the story. All stories are fully illustrated. Story topics range from fantasy to the real-life activities experienced by children of this age, and include: on &amp; off, my bed, the busy pond, star man, the ticket, packing my suitcase, and more. Practice activities for every story include: comprehension, vocabulary development, letter-sound associations, word families, and rhyming. Complete answer key provided. Charming line art illustrations throughout. All 144 pages perforated for easy removal.

Read and Understand Stories and Activities, Grade 1

Reference

Evan-Moor Educational Publishing

Words, Language & Grammar

Phonemic awareness is knowing how spoken language works. Playing with and practicing oral language helps children become better readers. This valuable resource provides 34 week-long units, each focusing on a chant, poem, or language game. The lessons increase in difficulty, moving through the five levels of phonemic awareness and finally to letter-sound association. Each lesson is labeled to indicate the phonemic awareness level being addressed. Information for the teacher describes the five levels and defines phonemic awareness. The week-long units follow a consistent three-page structure: 1. the illustrated rhyme or chant 2. teaching ideas - a mini-lesson for every day of the week 3. a reproducible or patterns to use with the activities Also included: alphabet cards, two-page student inventory to assess phonemic awareness level. Fun, instructive illustrations throughout. All 112 pages perforated for easy removal.

Phonemic Awareness Through Language Play

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