Books in Teachers' Resources series

Set the stage for success in math with these ready-to-use number practice packets! Each four-page packet—one for each number from 1 to 30—includes fun, meaningful activities that offer the repeated practice kids need to really learn their numbers. Activities teach and reinforce number recognition and number words, counting, creating and comparing sets, number formation, and solving simple word problems. Writing guides, pictures, and sign language diagrams provide extra support for kids of all learning styles. Perfect for independent practice, small groups, learning centers, and homework. For use with Grades PreK-1.

This resource provides the practice students need to tackle the variety of graphs, charts, and tables they’ll encounter on standardized math tests—including bar graphs, schedules, pie charts, and line graphs. Presented in fun, real-world formats, the high-interest exercises will help kids learn how to navigate the different parts of a graph, represent data on graphs, build essential skills in interpreting and analyzing data, and much more. For use with Grades 4-6.

Showcase students’ learning with these 25 fun and easy-to-make presentation formats for any social studies topic! This collection of motivating projects, features the Timeline Tube, Biography Hanger, Fact Fan, and many more hands-on ways for students to share what they’ve studied in class or researched on their own. Includes step-by-step directions, photographs of sample projects, and 150+ topic ideas. For use with Grades 3–6.

Teaching sight words can be pure poetry! These kid-pleasing poems help kids recognize and read words from the Dolch list in a playful, engaging context. Ready-to-use companion lessons include easy games and hands-on activities to teach sight words that are antonyms and synonyms, adjectives and verbs, and more. Features predictable rhyming text perfect for emergent readers!

This resource provides the practice students need to tackle the variety of graphs, charts, and tables they’ll encounter on standardized math tests—including bar graphs, pictographs, pie charts, and line graphs. Presented in fun, real-world formats, the high-interest exercises will help kids learn how to navigate the different parts of a graph, represent data on graphs, build essential skills in interpreting and analyzing data, and much more. For use with Grades 2-3.

Help students increase their word power—in just 10 minutes a day! Each of these instant word-a-day activities features a target word, its meaning and part of speech, and a sentence that demonstrates its use. Say, Do, and Write activities let students interact with the word and apply what they learn. Perfect for introducing new words, building on prior knowledge, and increasing word awareness and for reinforcing reading and writing skills. Great for independent or group work, centers, day starters, or homework! For use with Grades 3–4.

Donald Crews books tap children's fascination with the exciting motion of everyday life; their bold, graphic artwork and simple text make them perfect springboards for teaching early reading skills. These creative lessons and activities help children build background knowledge and language skills and relate what they read to their own experiences. Lessons also focus on concepts of print, using predictable text and picture cues, and more. For use with Grades PreK-1.

Help students succeed on state writing assessments with this collection of weekly homework sheets that give them practice with “on demand” writing. Students learn how to respond to a prompt, write an attention-grabbing introduction, spice up their essay with lively verbs, descriptive adjectives, and figurative language, and more. Homework sheets include a note to parents that explains the skill being studied, lists related standards, provides samples of student work, and offers instructions on how to help their child complete the assignment. A great way to strengthen the home-school connection! For use with Grades 3-5.

This invaluable yearlong resource, rich in hands-on learning experiences, helps teachers meet the science standards and reinforce key process skills. Each month features engaging activities that revolve around two favorite themes, from butterflies and phases of the moon in September, to animal homes and the sun in May. Includes background information, carefully selected picture books for read-aloud and independent reading, reproducible science journal pages, Science-at-Home newsletters, assessment tips, and more. For use with Grades K-3.

Sixteen engaging lessons motivate students to master PowerPoint presentations and show what they have learned about literary elements in the fiction and nonfiction books they read. Each classroom-tested and easy-to-create activity includes teacher tips to introduce and guide students’ work, reproducible student direction pages, and sample PowerPoint activities on CD that provide a model—and make teaching a snap. Lesson topics include character, plot, setting, point of view, theme, foreshadowing, flashback, metaphor, mood, and more. For use with Grades 4-8.