Books published by publisher Scholastic Teaching Resources (Theory an

If you want to teach writing skills without taking the joy out of writing, this teacher-written resource is for you. You'll find easy, ready-to-use activities and thought-provoking prompts that will help your students become inventive and flexible writers. Includes creative and expository writing skills such as organizing ideas, writing focused paragraphs, making transitions, using strong adjective and action verbs, writing dialogue, revising, and much, much more. Developing these skills will help students do better on strandardized tests and approach writing with excitement. Includes engaging reproducibles and a wealth of student samples. For use with Grades 4-8.

This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behavior and learning for all students. Each lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind-set in both school and life. The lessons fit easily into any schedule and require minimal preparation. Classroom management tips and content-area activities help you extend the benefits of MindUP throughout your day, week, and year!Includes a full-color, innovative teaching poster with fascinating facts about the brain! For use with Grades 3-5.

Classroom teacher, Leograndis uses full-color photographs with clear descriptions to show you how you can transform your classroom into a well-organized workshop that supports writing growth. You'll find unique and highly practical ideas for setting up and maintaining record systems and organizing supplies, to teaching workshop routines, building community, and establishing a productive learning environment. This rich resource includes dozens of classroom-tested management and instructional charts and strategic lessons that build day-by-day and week-to-week, as well as lists of mentor texts and read alouds for launching a writing workshop. Great ideas for homework, too. Sold As A Single Unit Elementary-Middle School Grade Level Category: School Supplies / Teacher Resources / Resource Books / Language Arts Excellent reading material for art education Short Name: Book Launching And Writing Workshops: A Step-By-Step Guide In Photographs Book - Game

Motivate reluctant readers with this collection of easy-to-read passages that cover a wide range of high-interest topics. Grouped according to the key reading strategies they reinforce, each reproducible passage comes with test-formatted comprehension and vocabulary questions, as well as writing activities. A great supplement to your reading program! For use with Grades 4-5.

Stella has an opinion: “Second graders should be able to bring a morning snack!” But stating her opinion isn’t enough. She has to support her opinion with reasons, then she has to write a closing to remind everyone why her opinion deserves attention. Reading about Stella’s experience as she develops her piece will help guide students as they write about their own opinions. Includes teaching notes at the back of the book. For use with Grades K-3.

Jumpstart your child’s reading success with comics! Kids will love these hilarious 16-page stories with easy text in speech balloons. They’ll also adore the zany cast of characters: purple cows, pigs, silly snowmen, talking gumballs, dragons, and more! This delightful set, correlated with guided reading levels E & F, is packed with 16 original titles plus a parent guide, mini-workbook, and motivating stickers. A giggle-fueled way to boost essential literacy! For use with Grades K-2.

Leveled passages with ready-to-use assessment pages help teachers quickly screen students for reading problems, such as low word recognition, poor fluency rate, and inadequate comprehension. Rubrics and grade-level norms make interpreting the data simple and easy, and record-keeping forms allow teachers to document and monitor student performance all year long. Meets Reading First guidelines. For use with Grades 5-8.

The traits have revolutionized the way writing is taught. And nobody knows the traits better than Ruth Culham, who has written over 25 books and conducted countless workshops for teachers of all grades. Now, Ruth turns her expert eye to middle school. The Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for Middle School contains classroom-tested materials developed just for teachers of grades 6-8. Brand-new scoring guides, scored sample papers, Think Abouts, warm-up exercises, focus lessons, and activities for each trait, organized by that trait’s key qualities, make it easy to assess writing and deliver targeted instruction. Includes printable reproducible forms! For use with Grades 6-8.

When successful readers encounter unfamiliar words, they utilize strategies— for example, identifying word parts such as syllables and suffixes—to help them figure out pronunciation and meaning. This resource offers dozens of practice pages that give older struggling readers multiple opportunities to review and apply these word-study skills, recognize common spelling patterns, boost their word recognition and vocabulary development, and gain confidence as they read and encounter new words. As a result, students become more fluent readers. For use with Grades 3–6.

Jumpstart reading success with this irresistible little set of 25 books that introduce and reinforce the top 50 must-know sight words. This set consists of 25 delightful tales, each presenting two high-frequency words in a predictable format. These books provide an important foundation for reading success. Each eight page book measures 5.5" x 5.5" Titles you will receive include: Sharing ~ one, two; My Dog ~ you, and; I Did It! ~ did, it; My Bear ~ my, can; That Hat ~ that, pretty; Little and Big ~ little, big; Helpers ~ help, at; Run! ~ run, said; Me Too! ~ me, too; This Is a Peach ~ this, is; City Colors ~ look, for; Ride On! ~ ride, on; That Is Funny! ~ a, funny; Find It! ~ find, the; Three ~ have, three; Play Time ~ play, with; Up and Down ~ up, down; Go, Go ~ they, go; Dinner ~ we, get; New Socks ~ want, new; The Party ~ here, are; Fly Away ~ will, fly; Animals ~ like, to; Guessing Game ~ what, in; and Farm Friends ~ I, see