81 Fresh & Fun Critical Thinking Activities (Grades 4-6)
Creative cross-curricular activities to help students of all learning styles and strengths think critically. Each activity reinforces a specific critical thinking skill such as recognizing and recalling, evaluating, and analyzing. Comes complete with student reproducibles and suggestions for integrating the activities into your curriculum with ease!
Top 25 Easy-to-Make Books, Word Walls, & Charts for Building Literacy (Grades 1-2)
Easy how-to’s for must-have literacy-building books and charts, such as Vowels-in-Our-Names graph, Homonyms book, Write-Your-Version-of-a-Story book, Word-Ending word wall, We-Appreciate-You book, and more. 80 pages.
20 Totally Awesome & Totally Easy Language Arts Bulletin Boards (Grades 4-8)
Boost language arts skills with this collection of decorative—and educational—classroom displays. These bulletin boards feature mostly student creations, saving teachers time, and giving kids a sense of pride in the classroom. Students assemble Eye Spy Collages to help understand the difference between proper and common nouns, create Ornament Books that focus on story elements, make Pop-Up Posters to show story settings, and much, much more!
5 Easy-to-Read Plays Based on Classic Stories (Grades 5 & Up)
Teachers can bring the classics into their classrooms with this selection of fully-reproducible read-aloud plays that have been adapted from well-known stories and novels.
Boost standardized test scores! The new NCTM standards say that students should be able to write about their math thinking. This book helps meet this goal. Students think about and write answers to math-related questions, such as "Would you consider a map a measuring device?" or "How could you estimate how much garbage you throw away every day?" Other fun and quirky writing prompts encourage kids to write in a variety of formats, including letters, journals, stories, and more. Great practice for standardized tests!