A new edition of the popular picture dictionary, available in 13 bilingual editions that meet the language needs of young adult and adult students around the world. Level: Beginner to Intermediate (book and CD ROM)
Clock Watchers: Six Steps to Motivating and Engaging Disengaged Students Across Content Areas
Instead of cringing the next time your colleagues utter the words, These students don t care, hand them Clock Watchers. Describe your personal struggles and your experience with the book so they know that you know what they re going through. Then point out a few of your favorite ideas. As you walk away, you ll smile knowing you ve made a difference. Cris TovaniAuthor of I Read It, but I Don t Get ItFor Stevi Quate and John McDermott, this was the missing piece of their teaching: How can I motivate my students and then create a context that will engage them? Clock Watchers is their powerful answer a plan that gets kids to care about learning and truly engage with the curriculum.
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.
Young Mathematicians at Work: Constructing Algebra
In Constructing Algebra Catherine and Bill provide a landscape of learning that helps teachers recognize, support, and celebrate their students' capacity to structure their worlds algebraically. They identify for teachers the models, contexts, and landmarks that facilitate algebraic thinking in young students. This volume will be a welcome resource for classroom teachers, math supervisors, and curriculum coordinators alike. Preparing young children for success in algebra is a crucial topic. Constructing Algebra provides the insightful and practical methods from the most trusted source for teaching mathematics to young students from Kindergarten through grade 8.
Tiny Talk ABC Workbook introduces preschool students to the letters of the alphabet and their basic sounds. The ABC Workbook can be used either independently or as an integrated supplement to the regular Tiny Talk course (in conjunction with Tiny Talk Student Book 3A and Student Book 3B). It introduces new vocabulary using 26 letters and their sounds, and recycles many words already learned in the regular Tiny Talk Student Books. Very young students will enjoy learning the alphabet through words and pictures that are pertinent and interesting to their age group.
The activities have been specially written for 3-6 year olds.
