Books published by publisher Shell Education

Provide students with purposeful practice and fun activities that focus on detecting, manipulating, and interacting with the sounds of language. Purposeful Play for Early Childhood Phonological Awareness offers 70 lessons that are grouped according to phonological skills and include kinesthetic, visual, and aural representations. Through singing songs, engaging in role-playing games, or tossing balls of yarn, students will gain quality speech practice and learn how to isolate sounds and recognize individual words, syllables, rhymes, and phonemes. Alternate suggestions at the end of each activity are also included to make accommodating modifications for diverse learners. This resource is correlated to College and Career Readiness Standards.About Shell Education Rachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher. Both were eager to share their ideas and passion for education with other classroom leaders. What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part-time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into Teacher Created Materials. The story continued in 2004 with the launch of Shell Education and the introduction of professional resources and classroom application books designed to support Teacher Created Materials curriculum resources. Today, Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education are two of the most recognized names in educational publishing around the world.

This second edition provides teachers with practical information and support for meeting the needs of advanced learners in today's classrooms. Included is research about the definitions of giftedness, identification procedures, and the various types of programs developed to specifically address gifted learners’ needs. Featuring classroom scenarios, suggestions for diverse learners, and a variety of lesson ideas, this resource supports the purposeful differentiation of the curriculum across the content areas. A useful guide for all grades, this book will cut through the confusion surrounding what to differentiate and how to differentiate.

Choosing appropriate words to express an idea is important to improve students' reading comprehension and writing composition skills. Vocabulary Ladders: Understanding Words Nuances provides third grade students with fun and engaging vocabulary activities to support word knowledge within reading and writing skills. This resource provides a framework to teach related words using a cluster approach that helps students learn many semantically related words at once. With this series, students will discuss differences between themed words, order words and explain their thinking, use words in context, and use words in writing.

Bring learning mathematical skills into a whole new light for students in 5th grade! This book provides fun and unique skill-based games that encourage whole-group, whole-class, small-group, and partner interaction and collaboration. These activities will reinforce students' knowledge of mathematical skills while keeping learners motivated and engaged. Promote a fun learning environment for students to achieve mathematical success!

Eliminate summer learning loss with this easy-to-use resource for parents. Keeping the skills your child learned in kindergarten sharp while on break from school will help his or her first grade year get off to a great start. This standards-based tool provides 9 weeks of engaging and relevant lessons that support content learning in social studies, writing, reading, science, math, and art. This resource makes summer learning fun by incorporating everyday family activities that are easy for parents to implement. This standards-based resource also addresses shifts in Common Core and other state standards, and the parental-support tools will help parents prepare their children for academic success.

Making learning fun and interactive builds excitment for your social studies students. This book includes game-formatted activities for the study of important events in American history such as Colonial America, The American Revolution, American Indian Experience, The Civil War, the Oregon Trail, Immigration, and the Civil Rights Movement. These hands-on activities are aligned to state and national standards and supports college and career readiness skills. The hands-on lessons foster engagement, teamwork, creativity, and critical thinking. In addition to history-based lessons, this resource includes grading rubrics and ideas for assessment. The games in Hands-on History Activities will help you take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of history. About Shell Education Rachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher. Both were eager to share their ideas and passion for education with other classroom leaders. What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part-time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into Teacher Created Materials. The story continued in 2004 with the launch of Shell Education and the introduction of professional resources and classroom application books designed to support Teacher Created Materials curriculum resources. Today, Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education are two of the most recognized names in educational publishing around the world.

This book is a great resource for grade 2 students to learn grammar skills. It provides daily practice that assists students to become masters in punctuation, capitalization, parts of speech and spelling. Easy-to-use book is ideal for teachers and parents. Includes 180 quick, diagnostic-based activities and data-driven assessment tips. Features digital resources comprising of activity sheets and assessments. Designed to help students build grammar skills quickly and accurately.

Students love the spotlight! Improve Grade 3 students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful reading practice for performance. You'll motivate students with these easy-to-implement reader's theater scripts that also build students' knowledge through grade-level content. Book includes 14 original leveled scripts, graphic organizers, and a Teacher Resource CD including scripts, PDFs, and graphic organizers. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards. 104pp.

Mathematics: it’s a pretty straightforward subject, right? Not necessarily. It’s no surprise that many teachers across the country struggle with implementing the new content standards – primarily because it requires a shift in how we’re teaching mathematics to our students. Mathematical Discourse: Let the Kids Talk! is the resource you need to help with this challenge. Every school and every teacher can benefit from this book! Help create a learning atmosphere in your classroom that promotes discussion, problem solving and learning the sometimes complex subject of mathematics. It can be done with Mathematical Discourse: Let the Kids Talk! About Shell EducationRachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher. Both were eager to share their ideas and passion for education with other classroom leaders. What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part-time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into Teacher Created Materials. The story continued in 2004 with the launch of Shell Education and the introduction of professional resources and classroom application books designed to support Teacher Created Materials curriculum resources. Today, Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education are two of the most recognized names in educational publishing around the world. RESOURCE FOR ALL MATH TEACHERS – Designed to give teachers the tools they need to facilitate mathematical discussions with students, create opportunities for students to think constructively, communicate effectively, and increase proficiency. DAY-BY-DAY GUIDE - Includes a day-by-day guide that answers the questions: How do I get my students to talk mathematically in my classroom? Where do I start? How do I fit this in with all the content that I must cover? SUPPORTS EQUITABLE LEARNING - Supports an equitable learning environment by encouraging active listening, clear communication, justification of perspective, and acknowledgment of students’ experiences. NEW SKILLS AND STRATEGIES - Helps teachers develop a new set of pedagogical skills and strategies to assess, plan, and organize classrooms in a manner that is conducive to mathematical discourse. CREATED BY TEACHERS - Shell Education develops innovative and imaginative educational materials for students worldwide. Everything we do is created by teachers for teachers and students to make teaching more effective and learning more fun.

Focus on the teaching and learning of mathematics through the use of games. Based on current research and correlated to College and Career Readiness and other state standards, this resource provides both teachers and students with rich opportunities to engage in the Standards for Mathematical Practice. Each concept-building game supports students' learning and understanding concepts. Games are provided in the following categories: Counting and Cardinality; Operations and Algebraic Thinking; Expressions and Equations; Functions; Numbers and Operations in Base Ten; Numbers and Operations--Fractions; The Number System; Ratio and Proportional Relationships; Measurement and Data; Geometry; and Statistics and Probability.About Shell Education Rachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher. Both were eager to share their ideas and passion for education with other classroom leaders. What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part-time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into Teacher Created Materials. The story continued in 2004 with the launch of Shell Education and the introduction of professional resources and classroom application books designed to support Teacher Created Materials curriculum resources. Today, Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education are two of the most recognized names in educational publishing around the world.

Build Grade 2 students' comprehension and critical-thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests with high-interest nonfiction articles from TIME For Kids. This easy-to-implement resource includes accompanying document-based questions that focus on key strategies for breaking down informational text to help students build cross-curricular reading skills. A document-based assessment sheet is also provided for each passage so students can investigate the text in even deeper and more meaningful ways. This resource is aligned to state and national standards and supports the development of college and career readiness skills. About Shell Education Rachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher. Both were eager to share their ideas and passion for education with other classroom leaders. What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part-time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into Teacher Created Materials. The story continued in 2004 with the launch of Shell Education and the introduction of professional resources and classroom application books designed to support Teacher Created Materials curriculum resources. Today, Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education are two of the most recognized names in educational publishing around the world.