Books published by publisher Creative Teaching Press (2003-06-01)

Written by popular children's author Rozanne Lanczak Williams, each book in this delightful collection introduces a different form of writing. These engaging tales use fun-loving characters to motivate and encourage young readers to want to write on their own. At the end of each book, a ""Your Turn to Write"" page provides entertaining activities designed to build K-2 writing skills. Children simply follow the example of characters in the story to create posters, journal entries, stories, friendly letters, and more! Great for ESL/ELL! Little Monster Becomes an Author emphasizes the writing process writing concept.

Great for teachers and parents alike! The exercises in this book--called "Minutes"--provide practice in every key area of middle-grade math instruction, including basic multiplication and division facts, graphing, problem solving, measurement, fractions, and more. Each "Minute" consists of 10 classroom-tested problems of varying degrees of difficulty to be completed in one minute. Teachers can use the book in a variety of ways such as bell-work, review, assessment, or homework.

The national standards require that students beginning at fouth grade use their knowledge of prefixes and suffixes to determine the meaning of wrods. Each of the 30 units in this resource includes a word list, vocabulary sort cards, review game cards, and a vocabulary quiz. Students will learn over 300 vocabulary words and become more comfortable dissecting words and defining their parts.

Experts are raving about this "must-have" resource for primary teachers that includes dozens of fun activities to help children listen to language and play with sounds. Activity cards can be cut out and laminated to create a handy reference file of fun ideas. A wide selection of reproducibles (picture cards, word cards, and manipulatives) is included.

Using word searches, hidden messages, analogies, anagrams, and creative puzzles, students will learn about history while they apply critical-thinking skills. This resource provides students with opportunities to organize and analyze information and to draw conclusions. Extension activities promote practical, informative, narrative, and expository writing skills to help meet the standards.

Improve Word Recognition and Sight Word Vocabulary These readers are the perfect tool for helping students recognize sight words and providing emergent readers with books they can successfully read on their own. Each book introduces a new sight word within a delightful story. Written by popular children's author Rozanne Lanczak Williams, these fun books are the perfect complement to any emergent reading program!

Written by popular children's author Rozanne Lanczak Williams, each book in this delightful collection introduces a different form of writing. These engaging tales use fun-loving characters to motivate and encourage young readers to want to write on their own. At the end of each book, a ""Your Turn to Write"" page provides entertaining activities designed to build K-2 writing skills. Children simply follow the example of characters in the story to create posters, journal entries, stories, friendly letters, and more! Great for ESL/ELL! My Picture Story emphasizes the who, what, where writing concept.

Now there s a way for students to practice their grammar skills, enhance their overall grammar proficiency, and have fun at the same time! Grammar Minutes Grade 6 provides students with practice in the following areas: nouns and pronouns, verb forms and verb tenses, adjectives and adverbs, prepositional phrases, contractions, compound and complex sentences, appositives and clauses, word usage, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones, pronoun and noun agreement, subject and verb agreement, prefixes and suffixes, Greek and Latin roots and more!Grammar Minutes Grade 6 features 100 Minutes. Each minute consists of 10 grammar questions for students to complete within a short time period. This unique format offers students an ongoing opportunity to improve their own grammar proficiency in a manageable, nonthreatening manner. The quick, timed format, combined with instant feedback, makes this challenging and motivational assignment students will look forward to each day. Students become active learners as they apply grammar skills to a variety of question formats in key areas of sixth-grade grammar instruction.