Books with author Joan Novelli

Enrich center time with easy-to-make-and-store kits! These 30 skill-building games and activities help kids practice working with beginning and ending sounds, consonants, long and short vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. Each box can be assembled with readily available materials and includes reproducible labels, easy-to-read student directions, and reproducible game boards, learning mats, and worksheets. Meets Common Core State Standards. For use with Grades K-2.

Help your students grow as writers with the engaging activities in this wonderful resource. They’ll learn how to craft great beginnings, create compelling characters, shape memorable settings, build exciting plots, and lots more. You’ll find literature-based mini-lessons, strategies for encouraging reluctant writers, lively reproducibles, and inspiring passages and tips from favorite children’s book authors such as Karen Hesse, Kevin Henkes, and Eve Bunting. For use with Grades 3-6.

Just-right for young learners! These engaging hands-on activities introduce and reinforce concepts about geometric shapes, patterns, symmetry, spatial relationships, and more. Features reproducible games, movement activities, and literature links to help children learn and understand key concepts, build math vocabulary, problem solve, and connect shapes to their everyday world. Includes whole-class, small group, and learning center activities. For use with Grades PreK-K.

These ""mad lib""-style worksheets are instant math motivators! Each hilarious fill-in story gives kids a fun way to practice solving word problems. Skill topics correlate to the NCTM standards and include one-, two-, three, and four-digit multiplication and division; multiplication with landmark numbers such as 10 and 100; multiplication with money, decimals, and fractions; division with and without remainders; and division with money and simple fractions. Perfect for partner and small-group learning, day starters, or homework. For use with Grades 4–6.