Books with author Jennifer Smith

Weekly Practice: Language Arts for grade 1 provides daily practice for key concepts such as sight words, beginning sounds, ending sounds, parts of speech, story elements, and more. Complete with flash cards and activities, this series supports classroom success by offering extra practice at home.Improve students’ comprehension skills in the classroom while also providing a way to continue the learning process at home. Weekly Practice: Language Arts for grade 1 allows you to reinforce language arts topics at school and at home by offering 40 weeks of standards-based activities and skill review. The unique layout and engaging exercises keep students interested as they build concept knowledge and essential skills. Reproducible at-home activities and flash cards are also included to encourage the home-to-school connection that’s essential for student success.Weekly Practice is the perfect time-saving resource for creating standards-aligned homework packets and keeping students’ skills sharp all year long. The Weekly Practice series for kindergarten to grade 5 provides 40 weeks of comprehensive skill review. Each 192-page supplemental workbook focuses on critical skills and concepts that meet the standards for language arts or math. Designed to help students achieve subject mastery, each book includes four days of practice activities, weekly off-the-page activities, Common Core State Standards alignment matrix, flash cards, and an answer key. Weekly Practice offers an effortless way to integrate language arts or math practice into daily classroom instruction.

Instant Assessments for Data Tracking: Math for first grade transforms the way you monitor student growth with assessments on topics including:-word problems-addition-subtraction-place value-measurement-shapesThese assessments cover the skills and standards for the entire school year.Create an all-in-one data tracking binder with these ready-to-go math assessments. With the help of this teacher resource book, you can collect accurate data on a student’s or class’s skill level with:-formatted tests-exit tickets-pretests-posttests-prompt cards for one-on-one assessments-lists for personalized assessmentsProof of progress is essential in today’s classroom, and tracking student growth in math is easier than ever with Instant Assessments for Data Tracking. This series makes it easy to gather information about students’ understanding―one assessment at a time!

Meet Katie Sutton. She may just look like your average thirteen-year-old girl but in reality, she's the world's leading expert in Grown Up behavior. And you're in luck because in your hands you hold a one-of-a-kind guide to training your parent and becoming highly skilled at: understanding their insane behavior, predicting their next moves, and operating them to your best advantage. So please keep this book out of the way of your grown up, we don't want them going into "grumpy mode" too soon.

The best part about coding is that anyone with a computer can learn how to do it.From education to healthcare to entertainment, software touches almost every aspect of twenty-first century life. Take a high-level perspective on the types of people who create that software—including many jobs that do not involve writing code at all. Learn about the software development cycle and the huge variety of skills developers draw on, including psychology, mathematics, and art, to create amazing apps and programs.Explore why diversity is needed to prevent bias in design. Learn about the different coding languages and what they are used for, how developers choose a language, and tools that simplify coding. Jennifer Connor-Smith breaks down stereotypes about coding as a career that is open only to technology-obsessed gamers, revealing ways people use software to improve medical care, nurture dementia patients, promote social justice, and more. Hands-on activities show you how easy it is to learn to think like a coder.The next generation of coders will require diverse teams, creativity, and ethical codes of conduct to create the best and most successful software. Will you be one of them?

Take a Hawaiian adventure learning new words Island Style. Ever want to take a trip to Hawaii? Take and excursion through the pages of this colorful and fun story while experiencing Hawaiian lifestyle. Each illustration is insightfully drawn to depict the breathtaking array of Hawaiian scenery, and a cast of animal characters indigenous to Hawaii. While touring the pages of this story you will get to experience some of the Hawaiian culture, language and food. So come have a piece of the pie!

Build concept knowledge and review essential skills with this standards-based practice workbook. A time-saving solution for closing the academic achievement gap, Weekly Practice: Math for grade 1 provides 40 weeks of standards-based activities that are designed to improve math skills and academic performance. Structured to emphasize the important school-to-home connection, this series features reproducible activities and flash cards that students can take home for additional practice. Weekly Practice: Math for grade 1 provides daily practice for key concepts such as: addition, subtraction, place value, shapes, measurement, and graphing. Complete with flash cards and activities, this series supports classroom success by offering extra practice at home. Weekly Practice: Math for grade 1 allows you to reinforce math topics at school and at home by offering 40 weeks of standards-based activities and skill review. The unique layout and engaging exercises keep students interested as they build concept knowledge and essential skills. Reproducible at-home activities and flash cards are also included to encourage the home-to-school connection that’s essential for student success. Weekly Practice is the perfect time-saving resource for creating standards-aligned homework packets and keeping students’ skills sharp all year long. The Weekly Practice series for kindergarten to grade 5 provides 40 weeks of comprehensive skill review. Each 192-page supplemental workbook focuses on critical skills and concepts that meet the standards for language arts or math. Designed to help students achieve subject mastery, each book includes: four days of practice activities, weekly off-the-page activities, Common Core State Standards alignment matrix, flash cards, and an answer key. Weekly Practice offers an effortless way to integrate language arts or math practice into daily classroom instruction.