Books published by publisher Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies)

Jump start your early reading program with this BIG collection of kid-pleasing little books correlated with Guided Reading Level B. Inside the sturdy storage box, you’ll find 100 full-color books (5 x 20 titles) PLUS a great teaching guide packed with lessons, tips, and literacy-boosting reproducibles. A great value and a must-have resource for every preK–2 classroom! Includes 5 copies of these 20 titles: 1. What Jumps? 2. In My Pocket 3. WHAT DO MONSTERS EAT? 4. ANIMAL CRACKERS 5. FARM TWINS 6. THE MISSING MONSTER 7. MY MEATBALL 8. GROWING UP 9. I WISH I WERE A BIRD 10. TINY THINGS 11. GINGERBREAD BOY 12. WHAT FLIES? 13. BIGGER 14. I LIKE SOCKS 15. MEET MY BABY BROTHER 16. COME OVER 17. PARTY SHAPES 18. THE WHEELS ON THE BUS 19. CLOUD PICTURES 20. ICE CREAM SCOOPS

Junior tour guides Jordan and Jamie take second graders along on a trip that includes mapping neighborhoods and states, using a compass and designing maps with keys and symbols, working with grids and scales, and understanding national boundaries (political maps) and landforms. Activities are both challenging and fun, putting to use kids’ math, reading, science, and critical thinking skills! For use with Grade 2.

Meet Stella, a precocious second grader whose adventures in writing class are sure to inspire students and motivate them to write across genres―whether it’s narrative, informative, opinion, or poetry. A joyful peer model whom children can relate to, Stella shares her experiences as she decides what to write about, researches and develops her topic, drafts and revises her piece, and publishes it. An excellent resource for teachers and students to refer to throughout their year of writing! For use with Grades K-3.

In an era of Common Core State Standards and accountability, students need to use the time they spend in school focused on academics and ready to learn. However, middle school has always presented special challenges. This is a time when students can spend a lot of time grappling with physical changes, forging interpersonal relationships, managing increased responsibility, and more—all of which can distract them from the primary purpose of school. The researched-based lessons in this book will help teachers delve into key social and emotional learning topics, such asSelf EsteemEmotionsCognitionPeer RelationshipsBulliesStressOverall, this book will give teachers not only an understanding of the basic issues and research underlying social and emotional learning but also practical tools for introducing the topic into the curriculum. For use with Grades 5 & Up.

Eight ready-to-go activity packets sharpen students' Word-study skills and boost their vocabularies. In each packet, students learn five common Greek and Latin roots and 15 new words formed from these roots. Crossword puzzles, word searches, and other fun activities provide repeated practice to make new vocabulary stick. Perfect for Independent work or for homework.

Kids will clamor to complete the charming poems on these ready-to-go pages. As they fill in missing letter or letter combinations to complete each poem, children have repeated opportunities to spell, write, and read words containing the targeted sound-spelling pattern. Poems feature predictable, rhyming text and tie in with popular themes such as seasons, animals, all about me, following directions, and numbers. Skills include short and long vowels, vowel combinations, blends, digraphs, and more. Also perfect for independent reading or read-aloud practice! For use with Grades K-2.

Students climb to new heights in reading and writing with these fun, engaging, reproducible word-building games! Students read clues on each rung, then change and rearrange letters to create words until they reach the top. All the while, they’re analyzing sound-symbol relationships, developing phonemic awareness, broadening their vocabulary, and building spelling skills to become better readers. For use with Grades K-1.

Set the stage for young learners to become able readers, writers, and spellers with these just-right poems that teach 100 key words from the Dolch list! Each poem includes simple text and rebus pictures so students can master these must-know sight words—independently. Includes a day-by-day classroom routine to ensure success. For use with Grades K-2.

Build word power with these 24 ready-to-reproduce, 3-page lessons. Each lesson includes research-based activities that tap students' prior knowledge for greater understanding and give them multiple encounters with new words so they really remember them. Lesson topics include synonyms, antonyms, compound words, content area vocabulary related to key science and social studies topics, and much more. Watch reading skills soar! For use with Grade 1.

A step-by-step, book-by-book program that guides children through the early stages of reading. Each book, carefully evaluated by a reading specialist to correlate with the Guided Reading Levels, is leveled to address the early stages of a child's reading development. Inside each box set you'll find 75 storybooks (5 copies of 15 titles) on topics children love, which makes them perfect for group learning. Each set also includes a mini-teaching guide. For use with Grades PreK-2.

With the rigorous reading standards called for in the Common Core State Standards, teachers need easy access to reading passages at an increasing level of complexity so students will have opportunities to read closely and stretch their skills as the school year progresses. This collection of passages offers just that. Each of the 25 passages comes with text-dependent comprehension questions, including open-ended questions that require students to use higher-order thinking skills when writing their responses. The lessons include teaching tips that target the challenges students will encounter in the passage and provide text-complexity information— quantitative (Lexile level), qualitative, and reader and task considerations—to help teachers meet the needs of their class. For use with Grade 5.

According to the Common Core State Standards, students should be able to read closely to determine what a text says explicitly, make logical references from it, and cite specific textual evidence to support conclusions drawn from the text.Each of the 40 short, fiction and nonfiction passages in this collection includes companion comprehension questions that target these critical reading skills and give students the repeated practice they need to build mastery in identifying main idea and details, using context clues, distinguishing between fact and opinion, and more. For use with Grade 3.