The program is flexible and easy to use in the classroom. Among the helpful features are the following:• a tiered storage box that makes the titles easily identifiable• six copies of each book, allowing for both independent reading and group instruction• this guide to support and enhance your teaching plans• two student reproducibles for each … Read more
Research has repeatedly shown that direct phonics instruction is an important part of literacy learning, and that word family instruction is a highly valuable way to teach sound-spelling relationships. An astounding number of the words children will encounter in their reading fall into common word families, and within these families, words that use the same … Read more
What This Book Won’t DoAlthough this book is crammed with useful ideas and information about developing literacy, it will not show you how to teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons before she is 3. It will not give you evidence to claim that your child is the best and brightest at the … Read more
Recognizing and Using Nouns Activity Fill each of these two baskets with nouns related to the word on the handle. A proper noun names a particular person, place, or thing. Fill each of these two baskets with proper nouns. A plural noun names more than one of something. Fill each of these two baskets with … Read more
Of course, this kind of focus and ease with change is not easy to teach. Some of us may actually dread transitions because children can lose control and focus. I remember as a new teacher having moments when I thought I would never regain the children’s attention. That’s when I discovered that singing a song, … Read more
Mini Books Directions Research a topic and write and edit the information you will share in the book. Create a storyboard to know how many pages will be needed in the book. Choose Classic Accents® to use as a book cover and template for making the book’s pages. Trace around the Classic Accents® on the … Read more
Procedure:Sing the Apple Annie song on page 22. Review with the children that Annie Apple likes apples. Explain they will pretend to pick apples from Annie’s tree. Pass a mat, unifex cubes (apples) and container to children. Explain the cubes are apples. Place them in the tree. The bowl is the apple basket. Place it … Read more
Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, What Should We Do? Characters• Queen• Guard 1• Guard 2• Mouse• Cat Queen: There’s a mouse under my chair. It has the hiccups.Mouse: Hiccup! Hiccup! HICCUP!Queen: Guards! Stop those hiccups now!Guard 1: Oh my! What should we do?Guard 2: I know! Here, Little Mouse. Drink a cup of water.Mouse: Okay. Hiccup! … Read more
Class Record Why is the library the tallest building in town?Because it has the most stories! Birthdays Records (List the names and dates of student birthdays for each month) JanuaryJan. 12, 1412 — Joan of Arc, warrior, saint FebruaryFeb. 6, 1895 — Babe Ruth, baseball player MarchMar. 14, 1879 — Albert Einstein, scientist AprilApr. 21, … Read more
The read-along story and act-it-out play are presented in simple, repetitive formats that are easy for children to read and are rich in learning. While children work with the masks and printed materials, they’ll develop reading fluency skills through sight word recognition, repetitive text, and expressive phrases. Other skills that can be emphasized include decoding … Read more
CHART A TREESelect a deciduous tree on the school grounds. Have your students visit the tree in autumn, winter and spring noting the changes each season. Ask them to draw pictures of each change or take photographs and display them on the class bulletin board. SEASONAL IMPROVISATION Ask your students to act out the life … Read more
In 1628, the Massachusetts Bay Colony started. This town was about 50 miles north of Plymouth. The Puritans started this colony. Boston was started in 1630. By 1700, Boston was the most important city in New England. The first public park and public school in the country were in Boston. So were the first college, … Read more
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is one of the major methods of tracking students’ literacy achievement across the country. Since its beginnings in 1969, it has been administered periodically to fourth- and eighth grade students. The most recent results, published in 2005, indicate that there was no significant change in reading performance between … Read more
Play the “Mr. Pencil’s ABC’s” song for the students to march back to their tables. Have the students ask their parents or guardians to help find one item around the house beginning with the same first letter and sound as the letter in the students’ names. (Ex: Greg’s grapes, Catherine’s cap, etc.) Language Development: Oral … Read more
DAY 2Eyes, ears, socks, and shoes all come in pairs. Help Ostrich think of other things that come in 2’s. Possible answers: hands, feet, wings, antennae, chopsticks, skates, mittens, etc. DAY 3There are 3 letters in Cow’s name. Can you think of more animals with 3-letter names? Possible answers: dog, cat, pig, hen, owl, bat, … Read more
GeographyAn understanding of geography can help people interpret events from the past and understand cultures. American HistoryThere were similarities between the early societies of the Americas and Ancient Egypt. Links to Reading/Language ArtsComprehension InferenceVocabulary Meaning MapsPhonics/Word Study Variant Consonants/Context CluesText Feature MapsLiterary Analysis SettingNonfiction Genre Expository Text Vocabulary Linksagriculture (noun) the production of crops and … Read more
Fly north over the Pacific to Alaska and see snow-covered Mt. McKinley— the highest mountain in North America. See huge forests, glaciers, and the tundra. Then head back over the Northwest to see the giant trees and orchards of Washington and Oregon. Fly east over the Rocky Mountains—the longest mountain range in North America. In … Read more
Physical ScienceSimple machines or tools such as levers, pulleys, and wedges make work easier. Some animals have the ability to use tools, and some can even make tools. Earth ScienceAnimals can adapt to changing conditions in their native environments, and some animals can find their way home using Earth’s magnetic field. Links to Reading/Language ArtsComprehension … Read more
This book is organized into three sections:I. All About Reports describes the different types of reports and their purposes. It teaches the components needed to write an effective report.II. Writing Reports teaches the writing process steps or prewriting, drafting, editing, and publishing. It gives practice researching, documenting, and analyzing data. This section also allows the … Read more
● The universe is made up of all the galaxies and the millions of stars in each galaxy. Scientists believe there are billions of galaxies. To make one billion, they would need one million sheets with 1,000 galaxies on each and that still wouldn’t be enough! The universe contains billions of galaxies. ● Our Solar … Read more
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