Step into this big collection of kid-pleasing classroom poems and discover connections to hundreds of topics! You'll find poems about the alphabet, word families, math skills and concepts, science themes, friendship, holidays and special times, neighborhood and community, character education, and more. The poems will entertain and inspire students while offering endless opportunities to expand their experience with language, foster a love of words, and build reading fluency and confidence. The Big Book of Classroom Poems includes ideas and activities for using the poems in the classroom.
Grammar Practice for third and fourth grades provides teachers with resources, activities, and ideas aimed at introducing students to the basic elements of grammar. The activity pages can be used as a resource around which to build and develop a classroom program.
Playful Poems That Build Reading Skills (Grades 1-3)
Use the magic of poetry to build essential reading skills. Students will love these engaging reproducible poems with companion activity sheets that improve reading comprehension, help kids become better spellers, boost their vocabulary, develop phonics skills, and more. A great way for kids to become better, more fluent readers - independently!
Banish Boring Words!, a must-have collection of 40+ word lists, is packed with synonym choices for the most commonly overused words, such as good and said, as well as dozens of options for strong verbs, smooth transitions, and sensory and emotion words.
This book is a quick-reference guide for teachers and students to use during writing lessons and for independent work.
Teaching Reading Strategies in the Primary Grades (Grades K-3)
Put students on the road to reading with this clear and concise guide to teaching reading strategies to young learners. The irresistible lessons and activities introduce and model key strategies—including questioning, reading on, summarizing, visualizing, and rereading—that will help students become independent, strategic readers. Packed with reproducibles, checklists, and a great booklist that matches favorite books to the strategies they’re perfect for teaching, this resource has everything teachers need to teach reading successfully. For use with Grades K-3.
