Just-Right Writing Mini-Lessons: Grades 4-6: Mini-Lessons to Teach Your Students the Essential Skills and Strategies They Need to Write Fiction and Nonfiction
A rich collection of more than 50 mini-lessons linked to the standards, written by recognized experts in the field. Topics include finding and developing topics, writing with a purpose, planning narrative and expository pieces, drafting, revising, editing, and more. The authors also demonstrate how to integrate writing into the content areas. Graphic organizers and writing checklists round out this indispensable resource. For use with Grades 4-6.
Help students build fluency with the repeated reading practice they need. These high-interest mini-books—in a variety of genres—are leveled to best suit the needs of third graders. Includes research-based mini-lessons, strategies, teaching ideas, rubrics, and checklists to help students read with ease and confidence!
Grammar Puzzles & Games Kids Can't Resist! (Grades 3-6)
At last, a collection of grammar lessons and activities kids will actually clamor for! Your students will love these cool crosswords, codes, mazes and more that teach punctuation, capitalization, parts of speech, agreement, sentence structure, and all of the fundamentals. Comes complete with easy step-by-step mini-lessons to ensure kids finally learn the rules once and for all!
The Big Book of Ready-to-Go Writing Lessons (Grades 3-6)
Help students gain writing confidence with this comprehensive collection of easy, super-engaging lessons that invite them to describe a dream, write a mystery story, create a movie review, compose a business letter, and so many more! Everything you need is here: Complete how-to's, quick mini-lessons, pre-writing graphic organizers, and reproducible assessment forms. A great way to prepare kids to shine on the standardized tests! For use with Grades 3-6.
Practical Portfolios: Reading, Writing, Math, and Life Skills, Grades 3-6
Using portfolios is a great way to build skills, reinforce learning, communicate achievements, and prepare students for future challenges. Packed with reproducibles, mini-lessons, and ideas, this guide provides everything you need to easily launch a successful portfolio program. It gives directions for students on how to assemble, organize, and maintain their portfolios and offers teachers convenient mini-lessons for developing and completing rubrics for evaluation. Guidelines for student-led parent conferences where students learn how to share their portfolios and their accumulated examples of accomplishments are also included. Grades 3-6.
