Positive Teacher Talk for Better Classroom Management
The way teachers talk to students affects how young children learn and how they feel about themselves as learners and members of the classroom community. This book offers strategies for supporting students through the use of positive language and includes hundreds of model phrases and statements for welcoming children, helping children manage their behavior, giving feedback on work, and more. For use with Grades K-2.
130 FAQs and Practical Answers From Scholastic's Teacher Helpline
This reassuring resource contains dozens and dozens of frequently asked questions about everyday teaching issues—collected from Scholastic's Teacher Helpline. A mentor teacher answers a broad range of questions with a voice that is equal parts patient colleague, encouraging mom, and enthusiastic cheerleader. Great for new teachers, experienced instructors, and even administrators, this book provides effective strategies and down-to-earth advice for preparing for the new school year, organizing and managing a classroom, planning curriculum, communicating with parents, and much more.
Frogs: Complete Cross-Curricular Theme Unit That Teaches About these Fascinating Amphibians
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Frogs: Complete Cross-Curricular Theme Unit That Teaches About these Fascinating Amphibians
Take a big leap into science learning with a fresh resource about these remarkable creatures! Frogs are sure to fascinate kids with their unique life cycle, interesting eating habits, special survival strategies, and impressive athletic abilities. Kids will model metamorphosis with tadpole puppets, investigate webbed feet with a water experiment, learn about leaping with a relay race, and more. Includes background information, cross-curricular activities, hands-on reproducibles, art projects, games, literature links!
Sound Systems: Explicit, Systematic Phonics in Early Literacy Contexts
How to teach phonics to young children is one of the most vexing and complex issues for early childhood educators today. Teachers know lockstep commercial phonics programs do not meet the needs of all children. At the same time, teachers who avoid explicit instruction in phonics because they lack linguistic and assessment know-how cannot help students who may need the most support in understanding phonics. Even teachers who are savvy about the latest research and methods for phonics instruction struggle to find time to add more to a full school day.
Planning for Bilingual Learners offers a framework for teachers to include bilingual learners in their curriculum planning. That this is seldom done at present has serious consequences for children's learning. This book considers what is needed for the curriculum to be made accessible to all children and provides the necessary framework for action.
The book will be essential for all schools, primary and secondary, which have pupils who speak a first language other than English, including those where there are only a few such children in each class.
