Books with author Judith Stamper

This time-saving resource provides ready-to-use readings organized around high-interest topics connected to the curriculum. The readings are specially formatted to provide practice with text marking, a proven, powerful tool for building comprehension skills, such as finding main idea and details, identifying cause and effect, and using context clues. Each lesson comes with specific instructions and tips to help teachers follow a gradual release instructional approach. Also includes a CD of whiteboard-ready files that provides another great way to model, practice, and apply the technique. For use with Grades 4-8.

Get ready for some serious science fun when the Friz takes the kids on an explosive journey into the heart of a volcano!Hi, I'm Dorothy Ann, one of the kids in Ms. Frizzle's class. When we started learning about volcanoes, I thought we'd just be studying them in books -- but Ms. Frizzle had other ideas. She took us all the way to Hawaii, where we waded through lava and saw a real volcano blow its top. We had a great time -- even though the trip was sometimes almost too hot to handle! One thing's for sure: This was one explosive adventure that none of us will ever forget!

Grammar is one of those important subjects that many students find difficult to swallow. One solution is to offer students grammar practice in small doses. This book is designed to do just that. Each of the grammar activities in this book should take the average kid only five minutes to complete. (Of course, some students may take a little longer, while others may finish sooner.) Kids get quick and much-needed practice in parts of speech, sentence structure, capitalization, punctuation, and much more. How to Use This Book This book contains 180 grammar activities--one for each day of the school year. To use, reproduce each page and cut apart the activities. Then hand each student one activity each day. You may also want to post the activity on your bulletin board, or copy it onto the blackboard. Another option is to make an overhead trans parency of each page. You can focus on one activity by simply covering the others on the page, saving each of these for another day. While the activities were designed for independent work, you can certainly present them to your whole class. You can use each activity to introduce a new topic, to review a topic you've already studied, or to assess how much students have learned. Whichever way you decide to use this book, students are sure to gain a lot from their everyday practice.

Get ready for some serious science fun when the Friz takes the kids on a chilling adventure through the North Pole!Hi, I'm Tim -- one of the kids in Ms. Frizzle's class. When Ms. Frizzle announced that we'd be studying the North Pole, I never thought it would lead us to the top of the world. I also never thought I'd get to see seals, caribou, musk oxen, and polar bears in person, but that was just the beginning. Find out all the bone-chilling facts of our Arctic adventure!