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

New and experienced teachers appreciate this easy-to-use yet comprehensive approach to teaching young writers style and genre characteristics, composing skills, conventions, and the writing process itself. The classroom-tested techniques satisfy young writers' need for structure and content while offering them freedom to develop their style, repertoire, and voice. More than 350 classroom-tested models, lessons, procedures and activities, and thirty-seven reproducibles. If you want to create a community of writers who love to write and speak the language of writers, you'll love this book. Bonus! Fold-out "Skills Development Chart" helps your school integrate writing process teaching in grades K-6.

Building a Writing Community (Maupin House)

Reference

Freeman, Marcia S.

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

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)

Designed specifically for all middle-school teachers, The Middle School Writing Toolkit has everything needed to get your writer's workshop up and running?whether you're a language arts teacher looking for new writing workshop ideas or a subject-area teacher who wants to improve the quality of student papers. The Middle School Writing Toolkit addresses the five major writing genres that middle-school students are expected to master?reports, persuasive essays, how-to (procedural) essays, narratives, and literary responses?and provides mini-lessons and tasks to start English teachers well on their way to creating a successful writing program in the classroom. Teachers in other subjects will find plenty of writing tasks on research, informational reports, biographies, and more to work into their daily curriculum, allowing for both subject exploration and writing mastery. Fifty-seven writing mini-lessons and more than 200 differentiated workstation tasks, as well as time-saving forms, charts, and rubrics, make this a complete and useful resource for any middle-school classroom. With The Middle School Writing Toolkit, you can transform your classroom into a successful writer's workshop and students of all abilities can master writing in any genre.

The Middle School Writing Toolkit: Differentiated Instruction across the Content Areas (Maupin House)

Clifford, Tim

Words, Language & Grammar

From Assignments to Applications! Every year, high school English teachers are bombarded with requests for advice on how to write successful college application essays. Often, they wonder if they are really offering the most effective assistance. Mary Jane Reed divides the components of good narrative writing into different chapters (discovering a topic, voice, the importance of details, revision) that you can use to help your students with the skills that they need to focus on. But she also gives information vital for helping you help your students write essays that will get them into the schools of their choice. Much of the information is tailored specifically for teachers with students who are working on college-application essays, but all of it can be customized to help any student with their narrative writing.

Teaching Powerful Personal Narratives: Strategies for College Applications and High School Classrooms (Maupin House)

Reed, Mary Jane

Higher & Continuing Education

Hormone Jungle: Coming of Age in Middle School

Open Christina’s scrapbook and enter a world where girls rule and boys drool, where hormones rage, and where poetry captures the impassioned, lovesick, humiliated, and hilarious voice of the middle school student. College-bound Christina Curtis scrapbooks her years in middle school as a member of the Digital Poets, a group of students who find their voices through verse. Weaving her own narrative into the poems of her peers, Christina tells the story of her friendship with Steven Gilley, the obnoxious, girl-teasing, and “unbearably immature” boy who incites her to write her first poem. But Steven holds a secret that makes him wise beyond his years, leaving Christina to wonder if there isn’t more to this “unbearable” boy than meets the eye. From best friends and crushes, to underarm hair, and an all-out battle-of-the-sexes poetry war, the varied voices of the Digital Poets reflect both the humor and angst of middle school students coming of age in the Hormone Jungle. Hormone Jungle won the Association of Educational Publishers' 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award, the 2007 Independent Publisher Gold Book Award, the 2008 International Reading Association's Young Adults' Choices Award, and the 2009 Gold Mom's Choice Award!

Children's Books

Brod Bagert

Literature & Fiction

Turn your struggling readers into successful readers with literacy centers created especially for middle-school students. This easy-to-use resource provides teacher directions, student directions, and reproducibles for forty center activities structured around the “Big Ten” areas of reading that all students must master: main idea, cause and effect, compare and contrast, vocabulary in context, sequence of events, literature terms, fact and opinion, author’s purpose, reference and research, and summarizing. Using a variety of literature genres, from fiction and autobiographies to newspaper articles and anecdotal records, these ready-to-go, classroom-tested centers allow students to apply, practice, and master the skills and strategies that will make them better readers and writers. A bonus pre-test skill set requires students to synthesize the “Big Ten” skills they’ve learned and provides teachers with a helpful assessment tool to use before students take the state writing test. Suggested strategies, materials lists, and targeted student goals for each center guide teacher preparation, and grading rubrics ensure all students know what is expected of them at each center.

Middle School Literacy Centers: Connecting Struggling Readers to Literature

Prevatte, Lynette

Teen & Young Adult

Move beyond boring word drills and vocabulary quizzes with Active Word Play! The 31 engaging games and activities in Active Word Play encourage students in grades four and up to make new vocabulary words their own. As students actively work with words, the connections they make help them understand and retain the words they are learning. Jane Feber's active-engagement approach infuses Active Word Play with the same enthusiasm your students will experience when they play these games and create make-and-takes that promote long-term retention of new vocabulary words. Step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and templates-as well as lists of common roots, prefixes, and suffixes-make this a ready-to-go resource you'll use over and over. You just choose the words from literature or content-area and basal texts that fit your instructional needs. Students will have as much fun learning the new words as you will teaching them!

Active Word Play: Games and Activities That Build Vocabulary (Maupin House)

Jane Feber

CraftPlus Teacher's Curriculum Guide Grade 1

Marcia S. Freeman

CraftPlus Teacher's Curriculum Guide Grade 2

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