This great series looks at how children can help themselves to stay safe
Snow is falling. all the animals are fast asleep in their animal homes. They awake. They open their eyes. They sniff. They Run. What will they find? This book is as fresh as the first day of spring
Your birthday may only come once a year, but you've got all year long to practice for it. Lana Kittie will walk you through all the steps--what to eat (hint: not pickles and maccaroni), what to wear (anything you want!) and how to enjoy your most special day ever! Don't wait! You've only got 365 days left to practice! Lana Kittie, the irrepressible little sister of everyone's favorite, b…
This book contains ready to use prompts for more than 45 best loved books including many Newberry winners, organized by realistic fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy fiction. It also includes guidelines for using R.A.F.T.S. prompts, reproducible versions to distribute to students, and all the tools you need to create your own prompts.
More than 75 writing prompts for math, social studies, and science, based on NCCTM, NCSS, and NAS standards.
From the experts in trait-based writing instruction comes this collection of time-saving reproducible forms for planning instruction, keeping records, communicating with parents, and-most importantly- helping your students produce their best work.
Teaching the most daunting tasks of writing-revision and editing-just became easier and more manageable with the publication of this book. Ruth Culham targets essential skills with "warm-ups" : short, powerful activities that provide students with real writing practice in revising for ideas, organization, voice, word choice, and sentence fluency, and in editing for conventions. From there, stud…
In this book, the author has compiled more than 200 annotations of new and classic books that will delight you and your students and inspire powerful writing. Each teacher-friendly annotation captures the essence of the book and describes precisely why it works well for the selected trait. In addition, she present 32 step-by-step, trait-focused lessons based on specific books. You'll wonder how…