PRoviding constructive feedback on writing is essential for helping students improve their skills. With this time-saving tool from writing expert Ruth Culham, you'll have more than 100 just-right comments at your fingertips. Correlated with student-friendly scoring guides-also included-and organized by trait, Ruth provides responses to writing at three different levels of achievement. The comme…
Kristy thinks the Baby-sitter Club is a great idea. She and her friends Claudia, Stacey, and Mary Anne all love taking care of kids.
Kristy's mom got married again last summer and now Krosty and her family live in a new neighborhood.
It used to be that Mary Anne had to wear her hair in braids and ask her dad before she did anything.
Dawn has always thought there was a secret passage hidden in her house. But she never thought there was a ghost.. until now.
Teeming with animals to find, count and talk about, this bright picture book provides hours of puzzle-solving fun. The busy scenes bring to life different habitats from around the world.Children will delight in finding all kinds of familiar and exotic animals - from lambs on the farm to armadillos in the rainforest!
Why has the 6+1 TRAIT model had such a tremendous impact on writing instruction? Because it works. In this book, author turns her expert eye to our youngest students. Like her groundbreaking guide for grades 3 and up, her new book contains scoring guides
Look at good writing in any genre, and you'll find clear evidence of these traits. This book-written by the leading auhority on the 6+1 trait model-contain all the tools you need to assess student writing for the traits and plan instruction. You'll find detailed definitions of each trait, scoring guides, sample student papers with running commentary, and focus lessons and activities. No other b…
We're Going Baboony! They climb trees. They scramble up steep mountains. They sit on very sharp and pointy rocks. And they have big, red behinds. What are they? You guessed it they're baboons, one of the coolest monkeys in all of Africa. So Come along with us to Baboon Mountain in Kenya to hang out with these truly awesome creature. And get ready to go baboony!