Books with author Evan Moor

Foster your fifth grader s critical thinking skills and see confidence soar! Children are naturally inquisitive from infancy, yet creative and problem-solving skills need to be nurtured as children grow. Like reading and math skills, critical thinking skills require practiceThe variety of fun and creative activities in this series will challenge your child to use higher-order thinking skills based on Bloom s Taxonomy. Every page provides a new and interesting activity that will help your child:-Think outside the box and use higher-order thinking skills through open-ended questions and challenges-Tap into his or her creativity with art projects and hands-on activities-Become a better learner by practicing critical thinking skills in cross-curricular activities (based on science, math, social studies, and language arts content)The 100+ activities are organized around these 5th grade themes:-Places: At Home; Around Town-Nature: Forests and Deserts; Mountains and Caves-About You: How You Feel; What You Do-Resources: We Use Natural Resources; We Use Man-made ThingsGrade 5 activities include puzzles, word problems, riddles, and drawings that involve critical thinking skills such as: -Analyze-Solve-Determine-Categorize-Create, and more!Plus, each page lists the critical thinking skill(s) so that you know what your child is practicing. Use Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking for enrichment at home and help your child become a confident problem solver!Includes answer key.

Evan-Moor Daily Paragraph Editing Book designed for grade 5 focuses on skills such as capitalization, language usage, punctuation apostrophes, punctuation commas, punctuation periods, punctuation quotation marks, other types of punctuation and spelling. Book models the standard markings used to correct as well as edit text with a page of reproducible proofreading marks. It features editing checklist that helps students to review and revise the writing of a peer or their own writing. Book contains an assessment rubric that guides teachers to conduct a complete evaluation of student writing. Book also features a reproducible student language handbook that offers simple, clear rules and illustrations of their application to help students in right use of the mechanics, grammar and spelling skills.

The Evan-Moor Building Spelling Skills, Grade 2 Teacher's Edition gives gr. 2 students the ability to learn 300 new spelling words, all while using a variety of activities and methods. Second graders will learn to read, write and spell each of the 10 words on the 30 different weekly spelling lists, while also solving puzzles, playing sorting games and completing hidden word exercises to gain additional work with each of the words. Teachers can track the progress of their grade two students with forms included in the teaching resource book as well.300 Spelling Words - Our spelling workbook has 30 weeks of spelling lists, each of which contain 10 different words, so your second graders will gain a mastery of 300 spelling words by the end of the school yearTricky Sounds - Some words are difficult to learn to spell because of tricky ow, ou and oo sounds, but our weekly lists will help young students sort out the differencesFun Puzzles- While they're learning, the grade two students will also have some fun, as they'll be using the spelling words in sorting games and configuration puzzlesDiction Sentences - With each of the spelling words, you'll receive two diction sentences, which help the students learn to recognize the words in contextTracking Progress - Teachers can see how each individual student is performing on the spelling tests with a record form that tracks each type of activity occurring in the spelling activity workbook

Evan-Moor Daily Paragraph Editing Book designed for grade 8 offers 36 weeks of frequent, focused language practice to guide your students in learning the conventions of standard English grammar and usage. Book features concise daily activities that are perfect warm-up exercises to start your language arts block and are adaptable for small-group as well as whole-class instruction. It lets students to apply grade-level language skills to correct a paragraph on Monday through Thursday and when read together, the four paragraphs make a cohesive composition. It offers students with an opportunity to apply the targeted language conventions as a writing prompt on Friday relates to the week's four-paragraph composition. Sold as a set of 5.

The teacher-friendly layout ensures that each art project will be successful. Every lesson includes a full-color photograph of the completed project, a materials list, and easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions. Patterns and templates are included wherever needed.Here are some examples of the projects you ll find in each seasonal section:-Fall (28 projects): sponge-print trees, positive-negative pumpkins, a haunted house, the harvest cornucopia, the Mayflower.-Winter (28 projects): a Santa bag, a kinara for Kwanzaa, Chinese New Year dragon, a chain of hearts, portraits of Washington and Lincoln-Spring (31 projects): a colorful windsock, stormy weather, the mischievous leprechaun, a bunny pop-up, a jumping frog-Summer (18 projects): seascape, dragonfly, under the big top, patriotic mobile, summer memories book

In Daily Geography Practice, Grade 2, 36 map lessons introduce basic geography skills and over 80 geography terms. What a perfect hands-on approach to geography instruction!The geography skills presented at Grade 2 include:-globes-compass roses-map keys-map grids-physical maps-road and street maps-rural, suburb, city, and state maps-population and product maps-tourist and weather maps-political maps of the United States and the world

Provide your third grade students with rigorous reading comprehension practice! Close reading, academic vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities support Common Core learning paths.The informational texts cover grade-level content-area topics and a range of nonfiction text structures, such as compare and contrast, cause and effect, and time order.Each of the 10 units presents a grade-appropriate nonfiction article and supporting activities that are easy to scaffold, including the following:-dictionary page with content and academic vocabulary-close reading activity-reading comprehension activity-vocabulary activity-text structure activityThe unit culminates in a text-based writing assignment that can be used as an informal assessment.Additional teacher support includes:-Common Core State Standards correlations provided for every unit for easy reference-Downloadable home school connection activities and projects to extend learning at home.-Guided reading level to help identify appropriate texts for studentsThe informational texts and structures cover:Science Articles-Big, Wild Cats!Text Structure: Compare and Contrast-Plants of the Rainforest Text Structure: Main Idea and Details-Two Climates Text Structure: Compare and ContrastSocial Studies Articles-It s a Grand Old Flag Text Structure: Main Idea and Details-The Mystery of Mesa Verde Text Structure: Time Order-About Banks Text Structure: Question and AnswerGeography Article-The Great Lakes Text Structure: Cause and EffectBiography Articles-Sandra Day O ConnorText Structure: Time Order-Barack Obama Text Structure: Time OrderTechnology Article-The ZipperText Structure: Cause and Effect

Word Family Stories and Activities, Level A makes it fun and easy to practice predictable patterns within words. The engaging reproducible stories and activities help students make connections with word sounds and spelling patterns.16 word families practiced:-ag, -am, -an, -at, -en,-et, -ig, -in, -ip, -it, -ob,-op, -ot, -ub, -ug, -unBy learning to recognize familiar parts of words, students rapidly increase their reading vocabulary, leading to a positive reading experience.The word family words are made meaningful in the context of engaging, often humorous stories. The comprehension and vocabulary pages take students beyond word recognition, providing practice with test-type comprehension questions and word meaning.Reproducible word-list sliders encourage repeated practice of the word families, leading to increased oral reading fluency.An easy-to-use answer key of reduced pages is also included.This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.

Evan-Moor Grade 1 Daily 6-Trait Writing Book features 125 engaging trait-based lessons, 10 to 15 min writing lessons and 25 weeks of instruction to help students develop writing skills. This book covers 6 traits namely ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, voice and conventions. Each weekly unit includes teacher lesson plan, 4 reproducible student pages and writing prompt. These lessons ideally act as teachers rubric, model many forms of writing and supports any writing program. 160 pages.

Eighth graders will be able to gain a firm grasp on grammar and word usage when they work on the Evan-Moor Daily Language Review Grade 8 Teacher s Edition workbook each day. With these fast-paced language exercises, grade eight students can sharpen their writing skills and their understanding of various words in context. Some of the topics we cover with our gr. 8 booklet include grammar, word usage, word meaning, word relationships, capitalization, punctuation, spelling and using acquired vocabulary in everyday writing.Language Exercise Options Our book focuses on areas of language such as grammar and usage, capitalization, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary word meaningsQuick Warmup Lessons Each practice activity requires only 10 to 15 minutes to complete, meaning it will fit nicely into the work you re already doing in your eighth-grade classroomFull School Year of Work With enough daily activities to cover 36 weeks, our teacher s resource book will keep your students engaged throughout the entire school yearEasy to Understand Because our daily language lessons don t involve a lot of complicated instructions, you can put them to use quickly, and the students will understand what to do right awayWeekly Review Sessions On the last day of each week s unit, kids will be able to review what they ve learned during the week and put it to work in their own writing

History Pockets-Life in Plymouth Colony, Grades 1 3, contains eight discovery pockets.Each of the pockets contains:-a reproducible pocket label-four dictionary words and pictures-a fact sheet of background information for the teacher-a reproducible student information booklet complete with illustrations-arts and crafts projects, plus writing activitiesEvaluation forms are provided at the end of the book to give students a chance to reflect on all they have learned.The eight pockets about Pilgrims and their way of life are:-Voyage to the New World-The New World-Building a Village-Home Sweet Home-The Family-Working in Plymouth Colony-Going to School-What Did the Pilgrims Give Us?This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.