Alphabet Connections Teacher's Resource Guide


Book Description

This teacher resource book provides instructional strategies, activities, graphic organizers, and assessments to accompany the 26 Alphabet Connections in the Alphabet Connections series. Non-fiction writing, vocabulary development, and tips for differentiating instruction are also included.




Phonics Connections Teacher's Resource Guide


Book Description

This guide includes lessons that allow you to focus on the foundational skills that are so important to emergent readers as they connect sounds to letters, decode words, and develop a bank of sight words and academic vocabulary. In this guide, you will find tools to provide students with explicit and systematic phonemic awareness and phonics instruction. Each lesson links to an engaging studentbook that introduces phonics skills and provides a strong text-to-photo match in order to reinforce comprehension and build content-area knowledge.




Traditional Tales Teacher's Resource Guide


Book Description

A teachers resource tool that includes teaching notes for each of the 40 Traditional Tales readers from emergent to fluent levels. Teaching notes align with Common Core State Standards by providing instruction and activities that focus on story components, genre features found in traditional tales, fairy tales, and legends, and speaking and listening skills. Includes blackline masters for each title.




Alphabet Adventure


Book Description

On their way to school, the little letters of the alphabet have to rescue little "i" and then find his dot before they can proceed.




Orca Soundings Resource Guide


Book Description

This resource guide enables a teacher to implement the Orca Soundings series as part of a comprehensive independent reading and literacy unit.







Key Geography


Book Description

Providing a course for Key Stage 3 and GCSE Geography, this flexible series is designed for pupils of differing abilities and working at different levels. It incorporates a broad range of teaching and learning methods, and each of the pupils' books is accompanied by a teacher's resource guide.




The BIG Book of Alphabet Activities


Book Description

Learning the letters and their sounds is as easy as ABC with this big collection of alphabet activities! Easy-to-make mini-books--one for each letter--hands-on activities, and 156 colourful picture cards give kids lots of opportunities to practice letter recognition, letter-sound relationships, and letter formation skills. Lessons include easy games, crafts, snacks, literature connections, multisensory experiences, and more.Teacher and reinforces letter recognition and letter-sound relationships.Gives practice in forming and writing letters of the alphabet.Includes 156 colourful, cut-apart picture cards--six for each letter!Helps set the stage for success in school.Great for kids of all learning styles.




Math Trailblazers 2E G4 Teacher Implemenation Guide


Book Description

A research based, NSF funded, K5 mathematics program integrating math, science and language arts. Includes a Spanish translantion of instuctional units.




Serving Those Who Served


Book Description

Practical advice on how best to serve veterans, service members, and their families in your community, including effective ways to develop new outreach partnerships and collaborations. Whether you work in a public library, an academic library, a school library, or any other type of library, you are likely to encounter members of the veteran and military communities. This book is a starting point to help librarians, library administrators, and all library employees understand how veterans, service members, and their families can be different from other patrons, recognize important elements of military and veteran culture, and identify strategies for effectively serving the veteran and military communities. In this book, you find tips to help you determine the size and the needs of the veteran and military communities in your local area. You'll learn about some common information requests and information-seeking behavior of veterans and service members. You'll discover how to take the needs and also the unique strengths of the veteran and military communities into account when developing library outreach efforts, programs, services, and collections. And you'll gain insights to help you harness the knowledge, strengths, and experiences of the veteran and military communities in order to help them fulfill their potential as an asset to the library and to the community.