Year Round Activities & Mini Books


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Year-Round Nonfiction Mini Books


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Two nonfiction topics have been selected for each month of the year; instructions are given on making mini books of this material.




Successful Strategies for Reading in the Content Areas: Grades PreK-K


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Improve content-area reading with a variety of strategies and a wealth of information to help readers in Grades Pre-K-K improve their comprehension of nonfiction text. This book includes essential reading skills and strategies grouped into 8 categories including: Monitor Comprehension, Activate and Connect, Infer Meaning, Ask Questions, Determine Importance, Visualize, Summarize and Synthesize, and Developing Vocabulary. All of the skills and strategies are covered by providing practical teaching guidelines as well as motivating learner activities. The included ZIP file features graphic organizers and activities pages that can be reproduced and modified. 272pp.




Super Ways to Jumpstart the School Year!


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Provides suggestions for activities to help new classes get acquainted, along with letters to parents, seasonal bulletin boards, and clip art.




Mastering Basic Skills¨ Kindergarten Activity Book


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Mastering Basic Skills(R) Kindergarten includes basic skills and concepts essential to kindergarteners. Topics include sight word vocabulary, reading readiness, time and money, language arts and phonics, handwriting, and math. The Mastering Basic Skills(R) series includes grade-specific math and language arts activities as well as reading lists, skills checklists, awards, and mini books. The comprehensive content and extra features increase the value of this series making it an appealing choice to parents looking for extra at-home practice for their child.




Mastering Basic Skills¨ Third Grade Activity Book


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Mastering Basic Skills(R) Third Grade includes comprehensive content essential to third graders. Topics include reading comprehension, phonics, grammar, writing, dictionary skills, math, time and money. The Mastering Basic Skills(R) series includes grade-specific math and language arts activities as well as reading lists, skills checklists, awards, and mini books. The comprehensive content and extra features increase the value of this series making it an appealing choice to parents looking for extra at-home practice for their child.




Collectible Activities for a Year-Long Memory Book


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Use for Back to School Night, Open House, parent conferences, year-end take-home portfolio use.




Literature-Based Mini-Lessons


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Use the magic of picture books to teach kids essential word skills. This guide features 15 engaging, reproducible lessons to help students become more fluent readers. Illustrations.




Easy Mini-Lessons for Building Vocabulary


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Vocabulary-building exercises for grades 4 through 8.




25 Quick Mini-Lessons to Teach Narrative Writing


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In this collection of engaging mini-lessons and companion reproducible pages, teacher Dave Leochko shares his favorite writing lessons--ones that have really helped his students become better writers. The classroom-tested lessons in this book take young writers through all the steps of the writing process, including getting an idea, revising a story, and conferencing with other writers, while also targeting specific skills, such as using punctuation correctly, varying sentence structure, making characters believable, and developing a plot. The reproducible pages feature activities that let students apply new skills, as well as writing tips and strategies they can collect and use a reference. For use with Grades 4-8.