Books published by publisher Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

How to Teach Art to Children has it all: background information, literature resources, and easy step-by-step directions for 96 art projects. Children learn about the seven elements of art and then use the elements in the styles of famous artists.This beautifully illustrated book is designed to increase children s awareness of different kinds of art and offer a wide range of activities to experience it. Included are downloadable PDFs of famous works of art that you can print and display in your classroom or home or use to create an art journal for children.How to Teach Art to Children is divided into two sections:Learning About the Elements of Art: The first section introduces the seven basic elements of art: line, shape, color, value, texture, form, and space. A series of art activities allow young artists to experiment with each element.Using the Elements of Art: The second section focuses on famous artists and art experiences. Literature resources and examples of the artists work help children learn and appreciate the famous artists techniques. Simple step-by-step directions help children apply similar techniques in their own art projects.You don t have to know a lot about art to teach your children or students using this helpful art book! Art projects are easily adaptable to different ages.-This instructional art book includes:-96 art projects with step-by-step directions-Full-color fine art examples-Downloadable PDFs of the fine art examples to display in your classroom or home-Literature references and background information on famous artists to enhance children's art education-A list of materials needed for easy reference-Reproducible templates to help students understand the elements of artArt activities include:-Using clay to learn about form-Creating a collage to learn about warm and cool colors-Using construction paper and tissue paper to create sunflowers in a vase to learn about Vincent van Gogh s Sunflowers-Creating a paper story quilt in the art experience of Faith Ringgold s quilt paintingsAnd many more!What s New? This edition has been updated to make teaching art to children even easier! The art lessons and activities have simple directions for children learning at home or in the classroom.This new edition also includes: -Additional support for teachers and parents Pictures of cultural works of art and famous artists works make it easy to talk about art forms and artists.-Additional support for students. A downloadable PDF features full-page pictures of cultural works of art and famous artists works of art. You simply print and display the art examples.Give children an art education that they will remember with the meaningful activities in How to Teach Art to Children.

Foster your child s critical thinking skills and see confidence soar! Children are naturally inquisitive from infancy, yet creative and problem-solving skills need to be nurtured as children grow. Like reading and math skills, critical thinking skills require practice.The variety of fun and creative activities in this series will challenge your child to use higher-order thinking skills based on Bloom s Taxonomy. Every page provides a new and interesting activity that will help your child:-Think outside the box and use higher-order thinking skills through open-ended questions and challenges-Tap into his or her creativity with art projects and hands-on activities-Become a better learner by practicing critical thinking skills in cross-curricular activities (based on PreK science, math, social studies, and language arts content)The 100+ activities are organized around these PreK themes:-Insects: Butterflies and Grasshoppers; Honeybees and Ladybugs-Weather: Different Types of Weather; We Dress for the Weather-Transportation: Cars, Trucks, and Buses; Planes, Trains, and Boats-Community: Homes in My Community; Places to VisitPreK activities include tracing, counting, dot-to-dot, and drawings that involve critical thinking skills such as: -Recall and Retell-Analyze-Solve-Determine-Create, and more!Plus, each page lists the critical thinking skill(s) so that you know what your child is practicing.Use Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking for enrichment at home and help your child become a confident problem solver!Includes answer key.

Help your first grade students learn how to understand, respond to, and enjoy what they read!Daily Reading Comprehension presents students with direct instruction and practice of the comprehension strategies and skills they need to become strong and successful readers. 150 original fiction and nonfiction passages with comprehension items help you engage students in reading, thinking about, and responding to a variety of texts. Reproducible pages, included in the teacher s edition, provide visual tools for students to help them apply reading skills to the passages they read. And because activities are presented in an exam format, students practice important test-taking skills while they strengthen comprehension.What s new in the revised edition?-These titles include new visual aid pages. The reproducible pages provide students with a visual tool to help them apply reading skills and strategies to daily passages.Note: The content, including the reading passages and comprehension items, is the same.30 weeks of instruction cover the following reading skills:-Main Idea and Details-Who, What, Where, and When-Sequence-Compare and Contrast-Fantasy vs. Reality-Make Predictions-Phonics-Sight Words-Word MeaningsYou ll love Daily Reading Comprehension because it...-provides students with direct instruction and practice of reading skills and strategies.-supports struggling and reluctant readers.-integrates easily into any language program and any classroom.-works great for test prep.-is correlated to current standards.Engage your students in reading, thinking about, and responding to a variety of passages and texts with Daily Reading Comprehension!

Completely revised in 2019 to reflect grade-level standards, Daily Word Problems is the perfect resource to improve students problem-solving skills. The all-NEW word problems are written to support current math standards and expectations and provide consistent spiral review of math concepts. Students problem-solving skills improve as they participate in meaningful, real-life math practice.The 36 weeks of activities provide practice of grade-level math concepts such as addition, multiplication, fractions, logic, algebra, and more.Each week focuses on a theme and provides a daily word problem within the context of a real-life situation. -Monday Thursday s activities provide a one- or two-step word problem.-Friday s format is more extensive and requires multiple steps. The multi-step problems require students to incorporate higher-order thinking skills by applying their understanding within a different context.-Reproducible pages provide plenty of room for students to solve using the strategy of their choice.What s new in the revised edition of Daily Word Problems?-All-new word problems to support current standards-New weekly themes that present problems in the context of real life-Day-by-day skills list to help teachers identify skills practicedGrade 1 math skill practice includes: -addition and subtraction facts-column addition-2- and 3-digit addition and subtraction-counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s-place value-making comparisons-writing number sentences-shapes, length, equal shares-graphs, charts, tally marks-ordering numbers-patterns-fractions-time-money-measurementIncludes scope and sequence chart and an answer key.

Foster your fifth grader s critical thinking skills and see confidence soar! Children are naturally inquisitive from infancy, yet creative and problem-solving skills need to be nurtured as children grow. Like reading and math skills, critical thinking skills require practiceThe variety of fun and creative activities in this series will challenge your child to use higher-order thinking skills based on Bloom s Taxonomy. Every page provides a new and interesting activity that will help your child:-Think outside the box and use higher-order thinking skills through open-ended questions and challenges-Tap into his or her creativity with art projects and hands-on activities-Become a better learner by practicing critical thinking skills in cross-curricular activities (based on science, math, social studies, and language arts content)The 100+ activities are organized around these 5th grade themes:-Places: At Home; Around Town-Nature: Forests and Deserts; Mountains and Caves-About You: How You Feel; What You Do-Resources: We Use Natural Resources; We Use Man-made ThingsGrade 5 activities include puzzles, word problems, riddles, and drawings that involve critical thinking skills such as: -Analyze-Solve-Determine-Categorize-Create, and more!Plus, each page lists the critical thinking skill(s) so that you know what your child is practicing. Use Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking for enrichment at home and help your child become a confident problem solver!Includes answer key.

The Evan-Moor Skill Sharpeners Spell & Write, Grade 5 Activity Book is the perfect option for a supplemental teacher's resource in the classroom or to keep a fifth grader's grammar and vocabulary skills sharp in the summer. Our grammar workbook allows gr. 5 students to gain skills in spelling, writing and reading that can help them now and as they advance in school. Each themed unit in the spelling workbook includes creative writing practice and application of punctuation rules that grade five kids will enjoy. To conclude each unit, we've included an assessment page for a measurement of success. Learning Punctuation Rules - The writing skills of fifth graders have advanced enough that they can begin to use punctuation to convey emotion, and our lessons help them figure out when different marks are appropriate to use 144 Workbook Pages - Whether you're using this vocabulary workbook in the classroom as a supplement or as summer work at home, the variety of grammar lessons will keep kids busy Creative Writing Exercises - Young students can show off their creativity with our writing exercises that help them focus their thoughts Themed Units - Each writing workbook has 12 themed units, which allows kids to stay focused throughout the groups of lessons Assessment Tests - At the end of each unit, grade five students will take a spelling test and complete other tasks that reinforce the skills they've gained during their work on the unit

Fit standards-based science instruction into your curriculum!Help your grade 3 students develop a genuine understanding of standards-based scientific concepts and vocabulary using the 150 engaging activities in Daily Science! A variety of rich resources, including vocabulary practice, hands-on science activities, and comprehension tests in multiple-choice format, help you successfully introduce students to earth, life, and physical science concepts.

Evan-Moor Daily Paragraph Editing Book designed for grade 5 focuses on skills such as capitalization, language usage, punctuation apostrophes, punctuation commas, punctuation periods, punctuation quotation marks, other types of punctuation and spelling. Book models the standard markings used to correct as well as edit text with a page of reproducible proofreading marks. It features editing checklist that helps students to review and revise the writing of a peer or their own writing. Book contains an assessment rubric that guides teachers to conduct a complete evaluation of student writing. Book also features a reproducible student language handbook that offers simple, clear rules and illustrations of their application to help students in right use of the mechanics, grammar and spelling skills.

This important period of our country s history will come to life when students create the exciting projects presented in The American Revolution. You get information pages, maps, a timeline, arts and crafts projects, reading and writing connections, and evaluation forms. The teacher pages feature step-by-step project directions and photographs of the completed projects.The topics presented are:-Introduction to the American Revolution-Causes of the War-Famous Patriots-A Soldier s Life-Battles-Spies and Traitors-Birth of a NationFront cover bullets:-Historical background facts-Timeline and maps-Arts and crafts projects-Reading and writing connections -Evaluation formsThis resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.

The Evan-Moor Building Spelling Skills, Grade 2 Teacher's Edition gives gr. 2 students the ability to learn 300 new spelling words, all while using a variety of activities and methods. Second graders will learn to read, write and spell each of the 10 words on the 30 different weekly spelling lists, while also solving puzzles, playing sorting games and completing hidden word exercises to gain additional work with each of the words. Teachers can track the progress of their grade two students with forms included in the teaching resource book as well.300 Spelling Words - Our spelling workbook has 30 weeks of spelling lists, each of which contain 10 different words, so your second graders will gain a mastery of 300 spelling words by the end of the school yearTricky Sounds - Some words are difficult to learn to spell because of tricky ow, ou and oo sounds, but our weekly lists will help young students sort out the differencesFun Puzzles- While they're learning, the grade two students will also have some fun, as they'll be using the spelling words in sorting games and configuration puzzlesDiction Sentences - With each of the spelling words, you'll receive two diction sentences, which help the students learn to recognize the words in contextTracking Progress - Teachers can see how each individual student is performing on the spelling tests with a record form that tracks each type of activity occurring in the spelling activity workbook

Evan-Moor Daily Paragraph Editing Book designed for grade 8 offers 36 weeks of frequent, focused language practice to guide your students in learning the conventions of standard English grammar and usage. Book features concise daily activities that are perfect warm-up exercises to start your language arts block and are adaptable for small-group as well as whole-class instruction. It lets students to apply grade-level language skills to correct a paragraph on Monday through Thursday and when read together, the four paragraphs make a cohesive composition. It offers students with an opportunity to apply the targeted language conventions as a writing prompt on Friday relates to the week's four-paragraph composition. Sold as a set of 5.