This book is a complete fraction curriculum. Your students will delight in building answers to fraction problems with concrete manipulatives and then connecting their work to the symbols we call numbers. You teach for understanding, introducing every fraction concept first at the concrete level, then at the connecting level, and finally at the symbolic level. Designed to meet the NCTM standards. Loaded with blackline masters, fantastic explorations, and classbuilding activities.

Fraction Fun through Cooperative Learning, Grades 2-12

Education & Teaching

Kagan, Laurie

Schools & Teaching

Kagan Cooperative Learning

Create a caring, cooperative class through energizing classbuilding activities! This best-seller includes step-by-step instructions, hints, variations, 100's of activities, and ready-to-use blackline masters for each of 11 favorite cooperative, classbuilding structures like: Mix-N-Match, Stir-the-Class, and Who Am I. A must for the block schedule. Students are quickly and immediately energized ready to tackle any curriculum. If you want to promote a positive class atmosphere with fun and easy activities, this is the source!

Classbuilding

Kagan, Spencer

Kagan, Miguel

Stretch your students many ways of being smart! If you want to make multiple intelligences theory a reality in your classroom, here s your activity guidebook. This book will help you make multiple intelligences come alive in your classroom. It features 10 easy-to-use, use-again structures that engage and develop your students multiple intelligences. Each structure has numerous fun and creative reproducible blackline activities, nearly 200 in all! Your students will be sequencing, sharing, solving problems, singing, lining up, comparing, drawing, writing, cooperating, and taking imaginary guided trips. Also includes easy-to-understand descriptions and indicators for each intelligence to share with your students. A terrific resource for teachers to help students learn in many ways, and to make learning much more engaging. 280 pages.

Multiple Intelligences: Structures and Activities

Expand your youngsters minds with higher-level thinking questions on their favorite literature. You will find hundreds of questions on classic primary literature selections such as: The Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, and Pinocchio, plus 11 others! The questions are designed to engage and develop the range of higher-order thinking skills: Did Jack have the right to take things from the giant s house? If you were the wolf, how would you get the three pigs out of the brick house? What do you think Pinocchio learned from his experiences? Questions are provided in convenient reproducible question card format, perfect for the engaging cooperative questioning activities provided. Also includes reproducible prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions. Hours and hours of timesaving questions and activities to develop your students critical and creative thinking skills using primary literature!

Higher Level Thinking Questions: Primary Literature, Grades K-3

Literature & Fiction

se your students favorite literature books to develop their higher-level thinking skills. Includes over two hundred questions on favorites such as: Charlotte s Web, James and the Giant Peach, Little House on the Prairie, The Great Kapok Tree, and Sarah, Plain and Tall, plus 11 others! Stimulate your students range of thinking skills with these ready-to-use questions: Name the three most important reasons the animals gave the man not to cut down the Kapok tree. Why did you choose those three? If Charlotte had been a city spider instead of a farm spider, how would her life have been different? What might happen in the sequel to the story? Questions are provided in convenient, reproducible, question card format, perfect for the engaging, cooperative questioning activities provided. Also includes reproducible prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions. Release the power of higher-level thinking through your students favorite books!

Higher Level Thinking Questions: Intermediate Literature, Grades 4-8

Chapman, Christa

Dillingham, Judith

Use the hundreds of open-ended higher-level thinking question in this book to venture beyond the basic facts of social studies. Watch as your students voyage into a whole new realm of thinking and learning. Includes intriguing questions for sixteen of the most popular social studies topics and themes including: Culture, Current Events, Explorers, Government, Historical Characters, Historical Events, Native Americans and more! Stretch the many facets of your students' minds with these thought-provoking questions: "What do you think would happen if Congress tried to establish an official religion? What does your culture have in common with this culture? America wasn't discovered, it was stolen from the Native Americans. Do you agree or disagree?" Questions are provided in convenient reproducible question card format, perfect for the engaging cooperative questioning activities provided. Also includes reproducible prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions. Simultaneously explore social studies in depth and promote higher-level thinking!

Higher Level Thinking Questions: Social Studies, Grades 3-12

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Integrate higher-level thinking into your language arts curriculum with this powerful collection of ready-to-use questions. You will find hundreds of use-again questions to promote thinking, writing, and discussion about: Adventure Stories, Book Review, Poetry, Story Characters, Story Plot, Story Setting, Story Structure, Vocabulary, and many more! Questions are provided in convenient, reproducible, question card format, perfect for the engaging, cooperative questioning activities provided. Watch in awe as your students lead themselves through carefully crafted questions guaranteed to promote critical and creative thinking. Also includes reproducible prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions. Mind-stretching questions will transform your language arts class into poetry in motion.

Higher Level Thinking Questions: Language Arts, Grades 3-12

Reference

Vincent, Kimberly

Lopez, Arthur

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Providing For ALL Learners in General Education Classrooms Help ALL students reach the language arts standards! This video and teacher guide will help you reach the standards for all using Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures. In the video, Dr. Spencer and Laurie Kagan take us on a tour of a range of elementary school classrooms using the Kagan Structures to reach the language arts standards. The teacher guide includes chapters on the language arts standards, cooperative learning, reaching the standards for students with disabilities, reaching the standards for second language learners, and reaching the standards through multiple intelligences. The teacher guide highlights the structures previewed in the video and includes step-by-step directions, special adaptations for special populations, and literally hundreds of activity ideas for using the structures to reach the language arts standards. Many structures even include ready-to-use, blackline masters from the video activities.

Reaching Standards Through Cooperative Learning: Providing for All Learners in General Education Classrooms, English/Language Arts

Dude Pub

Kagan Structures are revolutionary teaching strategies. Why? Because they create an unparalleled level of student engagement. Kagan Structures create a cooperative and caring class tone by putting students on the same side as they interact in pairs, small teams, and with classmates. Structures ensure every student is individually accountable so no one can hide and take a free ride. Structures create equal participation, which means all students are engaged a much greater percent of the time. In this must-have Kagan reference guide, you get 59 step-by-step Kagan Structures you'll use time and time again. More structures means more tools in your teaching toolbox to create more student engagement, more student learning, and more success!

59 Kagan Structures

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