Books with author Jill Morris

The creative and structured lessons in Writing Fabulous Sentences & Paragraphs introduce students to essential writing techniques without losing the imaginative spirit that makes writing fun. From main ideas and topic sentences, to figurative language and descriptive details, this book is filled with activities that help your students develop strong writing skills.You'll love Writing Fabulous Sentences and Paragraphs because it:supports 6-Trait writing. Activities are designed to build skills in each trait -- voice, organization, word choice, conventions, ideas, and sentence fluency. And a trait-based writing guide at the beginning of the book makes it easy to see exactly which skills are being developed.contains scaffolded lessons and activities. Help students progress from writing single sentences to multiple paragraphs!introduces students to important paragraph writing skills. From topic sentences and supporting details to using an outline or web diagram -- it's all covered. There's even a paragraph skills checklist to help track student progress.inspires reluctant writers. Motivating topics and delightful illustrations make writing fun!is correlated to state standards.Scaffolded lessons come in four sections:Sentences:Students practice combining sentences, constructing "super sentences," and using figurative language.Paragraphs:Students practice recognizing the main ideas, topic sentences, supporting details, and unnecessary information within paragraphs.Paragraph Forms:Students use scaffolded forms to organize information into narrative, persuasive, descriptive, compare/contrast, definition, and "how-to" paragraphs.Organizing Information into Paragraphs:Students practice organizing sentences within paragraphs and paragraphs within reports while using webs, notetakers, and outlines.

After 70 years of life and almost 70 translated volumes, it was high time English-speaking readers were offered a hardback collected edition. This first volume contains the first seven adventures of Lucky Luke, previously published as volumes Arizona, Rodeoand Dick Digger’s Gold Mine, and offers an unrivaled insight into the evolution of the character in terms of design as well as personality. The extras available make up a whooping 48 pages of illustrations, photographs, biographies, essays and anecdotes on Morris and the origins of Luke. A must read for any true fan of this legend of the West!

Get kids excited about learning to read with the colorful and engaging stories and activities in Evan-Moor s Skill Sharpeners: Reading.Get kids excited about learning to read with the colorful and engaging stories and activities in Evan-Moor s Skill Sharpeners: Reading. This kindergarten activity book touches on vital reading foundation skills, including phonological awareness, phonics and word analysis. Each letter of the alphabet serves up a fun story that is followed by research-based activities designed to build critical reading skills. Use it to supplement existing kindergarten curriculums or as reinforcement at home. Skill Sharpeners: Reading makes for an excellent companion for a kindergarten homeschool curriculum too.Common Core Top Pick for Reading - Foundational Skills-Phonological Awareness-Phonics and Word AnalysisView all Common Core Top Picks for Reading - Foundational SkillsSkill Sharpeners Reading, Kindergarten provides a one-page story for each letter of the alphabet. For example:-A Any Ants?-D Digging-G Good and Bad-N The New One-P In a Puddle-W Waffle WagonActivity pages include listening for beginning sounds, matching words and pictures, cut-and-paste activities, sentence completion, and following directions.

Brothers Adolph and Arthur Caille are mechanical geniuses. They’ve just created one of the first slot machines and have presented it to their local senator, a notorious gambler. Much taken with the device, he agrees to send them on a tour of American cities to test the machine’s popularity. And, to escort them on this dangerous journey, he calls on his old friend Lucky Luke… So begins the wacky tale of how the one-armed bandit conquered the West!

Why are the Daltons trying to get inside a penitentiary? Transferred to a new penitentiary, the Daltons are put in a cell with Fennimore Buttercup, a counterfeiter who soon begins to regret having such noisy cellmates. To get rid of the annoying brothers, he sends them on the trail of his – made-up – stash: $100,000 buried at the foot of a boulder in Red Rock Junction. One prison escape later, pursued by Lucky Luke, they discover to their horror that the spot they seek ... is inside another penitentiary!The 58th adventure of Lucky Luke, and the Old West at its funniest!

On a cattle drive to New Mexico, Lucky Luke travels through Langtry, home of self-appointed judge Roy Bean. A crook and a cheat who invents laws, Bean arrests Luke and confiscates his herd. But he doesn't count on the arrival of another crook intent on poaching the old man's game. It will be up to our favorite cowboy to sort it out and bring real law west of the Pecos River at last.

EMC3020 Math Centers K—1 has everything you need for 12 centers to practice beginning math skills. These centers, stored in colorful gift bags, are ideal for small group and individual practice.The skills practiced include the following: · sorting· addition· number order· number recognition· counting by 1s· counting by 2s· counting by 5s· counting by 10s· money· geometric shapes· patterning· graphing

How to Report on Books, Grades 5-6 contains everything you need to make reporting on books fun and exciting. This easy-to-use resource contains 16 individual book-report forms, 18 individual book projects, and 10 group book projects. Each has step-by-step directions, book lists for individual book reports, as well as standards-based literature skills.Examples of literature focus skills:-recognizing figurative language-identifying story elements-defining character traits and relationships-identifying symbolism and theme-understanding pourquoi tales-completing a reading interest surveyExamples of book report projects:-graphic organizers-trivia games-interviews-debates-awards-dramaThis resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.

How to Report on Books, Grades 3-4 contains everything you need to make reporting on books fun and exciting. This easy-to-use resource contains 10 individual book report forms, 16 individual book projects, and 5 group book report projects. Each has step-by-step directions, book lists for individual book reports, and standards-based literature skills.Examples of literature focus skills:-retelling a story-sequencing events-identifying problem/solution-identifying facts in fiction-identifying books that are fiction or nonfiction-identifying story elements-recognizing figurative language-understanding fairy talesrecommending and evaluating booksExamples of book report projects:-mobiles-puppets-posters-puzzles-interviews-trivia games-character trait mapsThis resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.