Writing Strategies for Fiction ebook

The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop

Newbery Medal-winning author Kwame Alexander shows how to shake up the traditional writing workshop to make writing fun again. Using his techniques and strategies, you'll invigorate the writing workshop and motivate even the most reluctant writers.

Making and Writing Words: Grades K-1 ebook

Making and Writing Words: Grades 2-3 ebook

The Road to Independent Reading and Writing

Transform young learners into independent readers and writers. This easy-to-use classroom resource is packed with routines, lessons, centers, charts, resources, and teaching tips. Break key literacy concepts and skills into manageable, teachable pieces.

180 Days™: Writing for Kindergarten (Spanish)

Help kindergarteners improve their writing skills with fun and effective daily Spanish practice activities. Guides students through the five steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing with fun daily activities.

180 Days™: Writing for First Grade (Spanish)

Help first graders improve their writing skills with fun and effective daily Spanish practice activities. Guides students through the five steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing with fun daily activities.

Reading Strategies for Fiction ebook

Created to support current standards, this book provides an in-depth research base about literacy instruction, and includes key strategies to help students read and comprehend fiction.

TDQs: Strategies for Building Text-Dependent Questions

Use effective questions across all grade levels to improve comprehension. This innovative resource provides teachers with the tools needed to effectively instruct using text-dependent questions.

Connect to Text: Strategies for Close Reading and Writing ebook

Dive into the use of close reading in classroom instruction with this practical, standards-based resource featuring easy-to-use lessons that focus on informational/explanatory, argumentative, or narrative text samples to improve students' reading skills.

Strategies for Writing from Sources ebook

This how-to guide provides teachers with all of the information they need to help their students write from sources. This book is divided into sections based on five different types of sources that students are expected to use in their writing.

180 Days™: Problem Solving for Kindergarten

Help kindergarten students improve critical-thinking and reasoning skills with fun and effective daily practice activities. Focusing on one skill each week, students will learn the problem-solving process: think, plan, solve, and explain.

180 Days™: High-Frequency Words for Kindergarten

Help Kindergarten students recognize sight words instantly with fun and effective daily practice activities. Focusing on 3 words each week, students quickly start to recognize sight words and read independently.

Short Texts, Big Impact: 35 Strategies for Strengthening Reading and Writing Skills

Unlock the potential of short texts in your classroom with this comprehensive guide for K-12 teachers. This book delves into the power of short texts to significantly enhance student reading and writing outcomes. You'll explore core reading strategies such as annotation, quick writing, and analyzing the writer's craft, and core writing strategies, including micro writing, mentor texts, and sticky note revision. Additionally, discover creative approaches such as the three-word summary, song rewriting, and storyboarding for prewriting. The book offers classroom tested step-by-step guidance for all of the strategies and is packed with models of the strategies in use, sample texts, examples of anchor charts, and more. Whether you want to improve students' engagement, refine their writing process, or assess their progress, this resource has practical strategies to elevate your teaching and boost student success in reading and writing.

50 Strategies for Supporting Multilingual Learners

50 actionable strategies for multilingual learner success in diverse classrooms, backed by robust research.

180 Days™: Math for Seventh Grade

Help seventh grade students build math skills with effective and meaningful daily practice activities. The daily mathematics practice in this workbook includes a range of complex math concepts, organized in units focused on standards-based topics.

180 Days™: Math for Eighth Grade

Help eighth grade students improve math skills with motivating and effective daily practice activities. The daily mathematics practice in this workbook covers a variety of complex math concepts, organized in units focused on standards-based topics.

Catch-Up Math: 3rd Grade

Get your child back on track in math class! This book supports third grade students who are struggling in math. The full-color book includes instructional pages, coaching videos, examples, practice, and reviews to help students master key math concepts.

Catch-Up Math: 4th Grade

Get your child back on track in math class! This book supports fourth grade students who are struggling in math. The full-color book provides instructional pages, coaching videos, examples, practice, and reviews to help students master key math concepts.

Catch-Up Math: 5th Grade

Get your child back on track in math class! This book supports fifth grade students who are struggling in math. The full-color book offers instructional pages, coaching videos, examples, practice, and reviews to help students understand key math concepts.

Catch-Up Math: 6th Grade

Get your child back on track in math class! This book supports sixth grade students who are struggling in math. The full-color book offers instructional pages, coaching videos, examples, practice, and reviews to help students understand key math concepts.

Catch-Up Math: Kindergarten

Get your child back on track in math class! This book supports Kindergarten students who are struggling in math. The full-color book provides instructional pages, coaching videos, examples, practice, and reviews to help students master key math concepts.

Catch-Up Math: 1st Grade

Get your child back on track in math class! This book supports first grade students who are struggling in math. The full-color book provides instructional pages, coaching videos, examples, practice, and reviews to help students master key math concepts.

Catch-Up Math: 2nd Grade

Get your child back on track in math class! This book supports second grade students who are struggling in math. The full-color book provides instructional pages, coaching videos, examples, practice, and reviews to help students master key math concepts.

Sparking Learning in Young Children: Classroom Best Practices

Transform early childhood learning with expert guidance for inclusive and developmentally appropriate teaching in your classroom.

50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement

Designed to provide K-8 educators with practical, research-backed ideas to enhance the summer school experience, this book is an invaluable resource for teachers seeking innovative and engaging approaches to summer learning.

Nurturing Your Child's Well-Being: Early Elementary

Nurturing Your Well-Being: Early Elementary offers tips and ideas to help ensure your young child's well-being.In today's fast-paced world, equipping children with the tools to navigate their emotions and relationships with their peers and the adults in their lives is more important than ever.

Nurturing Your Child's Well-Being: Upper Elementary

Nurturing Your Child's Well-Being: Upper Elementary is a short and accessible parent guide that provides ideas and activities for developing social and emotional learning (SEL) in children in grades 3-5. Based on the concepts in the authors' popular teacher resource, Social-Emotional Learning Starts with Us, this book empowers parents to support children's self-awareness, emotional literacy, social connection, and general well-being. Self-reflection questions and exercises help parents connect the book's insights to their own lives. With clear explanations and plenty of visuals, the Nurturing Your Child's Well-Being collection makes it simple for adults and children to grow and thrive together.

Nurturing Your Child's Well-Being: Middle School

Nurturing Your Child's Well-Being: Middle School is a short and accessible parent guide that provides ideas and activities for developing social and emotional learning (SEL) in children in grades 6-8. Based on the concepts in the authors' popular teacher resource, Social-Emotional Learning Starts with Us, this book empowers parents to support children's self-awareness, emotional literacy, social connection, and general well-being. Self-reflection questions and exercises help parents connect the book's insights to their own lives. With clear explanations and plenty of visuals, the Nurturing Your Child's Well-Being collection makes it simple for adults and children to grow and thrive together.

The Everything Guide to Phonics

The Everything Guide to Phonics is a comprehensive resource every teacher needs to implement effective phonics instruction in today's diverse classrooms.

50 Strategies for Learning without Screens

In a world buzzing with screens, 50 Strategies for Learning without Screens offers engaging, hands-on, screen-free, future-ready learning experiences.

50 Strategies for Cooperative Learning

Unlock the power of collaboration in the classroom! This guide includes easy-to-implement strategies for fostering an academically engaging and emotionally supportive learning environment where every student can thrive.

180 Days™: Math PK-8: 10-Book Set

This comprehensive bundle includes a 180 Days™: Math book for grades beginning with PK and going up to 8th grade.

This Book Is a Black Hole

Strap in for an intergalactic adventure through the cosmos-but beware! We're picking up an unexplainable gravitational pull . . . coming directly from this book! With more than 100 activities bursting with official NASA photography, these pages will suck you in for hours of interplanetary play.Ignite a love for space and science with:• 100+ intergalactic activities - from star maps to gravitational pull.• Official NASA photography and scientific renderings.• A macro-to-micro perspective of space, from our home here on Earth to the farthest stretches of the universe.

This Book Has Legs

Grab your magnifying glass and get ready to unleash your inner field scientist! From buzzing bees and wriggling worms to spooky stingers and beetles that glow in the dark, learn all about the countless critters that make big impacts on our planet! Celebrate all things icky-ucky, ooky-spooky, and creepy-crawly with nature-inspired activities and fun facts about insects, arachnids, and more!With more than 100 activities crawling with legs, don't take your eyes off this book for long, or it might skitter away!

This Book Is Your Passport

Travel the globe without leaving home with this adventurous, activity-filled book. From popular travel destinations to can't miss historical sites, this book is your guide to hours of fun.With more than 100 activities, this book is perfect for journeys of every kind or general entertainment. There are no travel delays with this book - begin today!

This Book Series 3-Book Set

Go on an activity-filled adventure with this three-book set. Titles included in this set are This Book is a Black Hole, This Book Has Legs, and This Book is Your Passport. Each book includes 100 engaging activities. It's a long imagination-fueled trip you won't want to end-good thing there are more than 300 fun activities throughout the series!

Catch-Up Math: Grade K-6: Complete 7-Book Set

The Ultimate Math Catch-Up Set. This 7-Book Set includes one book per grade beginning with Kindergarten.Families appreciate that these full-color books offers simple step-by-step explanations of each topic and includes access to instructional videos created by math experts. The examples and practice activities help students master grade-level math concepts such as division, fractions, and angles. In addition, the review pages cement foundational mathematics skills, ensuring that students are ready to tackle more difficult math concepts going forward.

Academic Intervention Success: A Whole-Child Approach to K-5 Achievement

Drawing on decades of academic and action research, the authors, who work as an elementary intervention specialist and education professor, provide a comprehensive framework for developing effective intervention programs. Incorporating real-world examples and stories from the field, this resource offers school leaders and educators insightful guidance for creating a site-based intervention program to foster academic and emotional success in their students.

Back-to-School Backpack: Starting Prekindergarten

Gear up for a great year with this back-to-school take-home backpack designed to promote school readiness and strengthen family engagement. Prepare rising prekindergarten students and their families in South Carolina for a successful school year!

Back-to-School Backpack: Starting Kindergarten

Gear up for a great year with this back-to-school take-home backpack designed to promote school readiness and strengthen family engagement. Prepare rising kindergarten students and their families in South Carolina for a successful school year!

Back-to-School Backpack: Starting Grade 1

Gear up for a great year with this back-to-school take-home backpack designed to promote school readiness and strengthen family engagement. Prepare rising first grade students and families in South Carolina for a successful school year!

Back-to-School Backpack: Starting Grade 2

Gear up for a great year with this back-to-school take-home backpack designed to promote school readiness and strengthen family engagement. Prepare rising second grade students and families in South Carolina for a successful school year!