Bring your students poetry-writing skills into full bloom with this exciting book! Featuring more than 40 original poems in 20 different types, Budding Poets will give early learners all they need to master poetic concepts and begin writing their own verse. Low- and high-level poems entertain while introducing different devices and styles. Each poem is complemented by a leveled reproducible activity that reinforces newly learned skills and techniques. 100 cross-curricular extension activities keep the learning going both inside and outside the classroom.

Budding Poets

Jessica Ashworth

Children's Books

Teaching and Learning Company

Teach writing skills using this innovative new approach that has been proven to work in classrooms just like yours. This revised and updated edition of the book also includes an enhanced CD filled with additional Four Square examples, activities, and writing exercises. The Four Square method can be used with all forms of writing and will fit any reading or language arts program. This step-by-step approach is built around a simple graphic organizer that first shows students how to collect ideas and then helps them use those ideas to create clear and polished prose. Open-ended reproducibles make the technique accessible to writers of all ability ranges. Also great for content area writing.

Four Square Writing Method - Early Learners

Judy Gould

Mary F. Burke

Four Square Writing Method Grades 1-3 w/ Enhanced CD

Evan J. Gould

Four Square Writing Method Grades 7-9 w/ Enhanced CD

Evan Jay Gould

It s never too early to teach children manners, courtesy and social skills. From knowing when to say please and thank you at home, in school or in public places, to covering their nose when sneezing, there is a multitude of good manners to teach children at an early age. These engaging hands-on activities are a great way to introduce students to skills they will use for the rest of their lives. A popular children's book title is included with each activity to enhance the lesson. Topics include being grateful, complimenting others, coughing and sneezing, good sportsmanship, having a good attitude, lining up, listening, please and thank you, table manners, tolerance and understanding, and many more.

Mrs. E's Extraordinary Manners, Courtesy and Social Skills Activities

Kathy Etringer

This new addition to the popular Four Square series helps prepare students for the writing assessment. Students will learn an organized, Four Square approach for brainstorming, as well as a simple three-step revision process to use on their initial drafts. On assessment day, teachers cannot confer with students, and students cannot assist one another. The writer must have a method to deliver their best writing on demand. That writing needs to be organized, focused, detailed, and engaging. The writer needs a plan on assessment day, and the Four Square plan is the best way to get the job done.

Four Square for Writing Assessment - Elementary

This new addition to the popular Four Square series helps prepare students for the writing assessment. Students will learn an organized, Four Square approach for brainstorming, as well as a simple three-step revision process to use on their initial drafts. On assessment day, teachers cannot confer with students, and students cannot assist one another. The writer must have a method to deliver their best writing on demand. That writing needs to be organized, focused, detailed, and engaging. The writer needs a plan on assessment day, and the Four Square plan is the best way to get the job done.

Four Square for Writing Assessment - Secondary

Thirty-five engaging and colorful zoo animals will brighten your classroom and bring a big grin to your students’ faces! While your children enjoy the process of creating these familiar figures, you will be building a firm foundation for students’ visual-motor skills, a necessary prerequisite for cognitive development. These cut-and-create projects have also been designed to reinforce basic math skills including grouping, ordering and spacial orientation. Simple, illustrated, step-by-step instructions and patterns are included for each project.

Cut and Create! At the Zoo

Education & Teaching

Nancee McClure

Schools & Teaching

Experience African, Chinese, Jewish, Native American and other cultures through literature, celebrations, games and crafts. Each unit also includes an introduction, discussion of the culture's role in U.S. history, an extensive selection of recommended literature and a calendar presentation of significant events. The book concludes with a wonderful resource--reproducible illustrations of children from all the represented countries and cultures in native dress. / Reproducible Book / Cultures, Homeschool, Social Studies, Summer Learning - July

Learning About Cultures: Literature, Celebrations, Games and Art Activities (Reproducible Book)

John Gust

Activities to stretch imaginations and acquire critical thinking skills. Reproducible prose and poetry exercises for metaphors and similes, limericks, haiku, letters, editorials, tall tales, myths and legends. An extensive Teacher Notes section, literature references, vocabulary and other extras.

Love to Write!: Activities to Sharpen Creative Writing Skills

corbin-hillam

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