Liven up learning and celebrate special days with these interactive, literacy-building pocket-chart poems! Each kid-pleasing poem comes with reproducible art templates and step-by-step lesson plans that support your curriculum each month. Favorite topics include a pumpkin’s life cycle, Thanksgiving, Chinese New Year, 100th Day of school, spring, summer, and more! For use with Grades K-2.

Month-By-Month Pocket Charts: 20 Knock-Your-Socks-Off Pocket Chart Poems With Lessons That Take You Through the Year & Build Skills in Reading, Math, Science & More

Education & Teaching

Schifferdanoff, Valerie

Schools & Teaching

Teaching Resources

Use a Marvelous Monday letter to teach long vowels, introduce homonyms with a Grate Tails letter, or pen a note about pepperoni pizza to reinforce estimation skills. Students will love reading customized letters that make learning fun! In this photo-filled book, you’ll find dozens of model letters and lesson ideas to help you teach phonics, build word recognition, review vocabulary, reinforce math skills, introduce themes, and so much more! Written by a teacher who’s been writing interactive letters to her class for years, this practical resource includes letters and lesson ideas for K, 1, 2, and 3, authentic assessment tips, and curriculum links. For use with Grades K-2.

Beyond Morning Message: Dozens of Dazzling Ideas for Interactive Letters to the Class That Enhance Shared Reading, Writing, Math, and More!

Teaching Strategies

Help kids learn to follow directions with 20 fun and easy pocket chart activities! Simply write the steps on sentence strips, display in a pocket chart, and invite kids to follow the directions to create colorful cut-and-paste art projects. Projects reinforce concepts, such as shapes, colors, and numbers, and connect to favorite themes, such as animals, holidays, seasons, and more. Includes reproducible templates, extension activities, and book links. For use with Grades PreK-1.

Follow-the-Directions Pocket Chart Activities, Grades PreK-1

How can we help English Language Learners adapt and adjust to life in the classroom—and thrive? ELL specialist Valerie SchifferDannoff shares her success strategies for including ELLs in meaningful instruction and classroom life right from the start. This guide also offers lessons adapted for ELLs at different levels of English mastery, tips for immersing them in classroom routines and community, and helpful definitions for language-learning terms. For use with Grades K-5.

Easy Ways to Reach & Teach English Language Learners: Strategies, Lessons, and Tips for Success With ELLs in the Mainstream Classroom (Teaching Resources)

Reference

English as a Second Language

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching

Complete, Thematic, Cross-Curricular Everything you need for your language arts curriculum. Thematic, classroom-tested ideas; literature-based activities, projects, science experiments, hands-on math games, learning centers, poems, reproducible patterns, book lists, and more.

The Scholastic Integrated Language Arts Resource Book (Grades K-2)

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Scholastic Teaching Resources

Math is hands-on and fun with these easy pocket chart lessons that teach counting, subtraction, measurement, shapes, patterns, estimation, and so much more! Simply copy the rhyming poems onto sentence strips, reproduce the picture templates, and you are ready for lively, interactive, manipulative math activities your students will love! Content is correlated with the NCTM Standards. For use with Grades PreK-2.

Pocket Charts For Math (Grades PreK-2)

Motivate beginning writers with this adorable stationery "topped off" with their favorite themes: Back to School, Halloween, Whales, Transportation, Butterflies, Bears, and so much more. Just photocopy, cut, and color to add sparkle to student writing and your own correspondence. Includes lined and unlined sheets to fit the needs of every child! For use with Grades K-2.

Instant Stationery With Thematic Toppers (Grades K-2)

Pyk, Jan

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