Elementary category: 2214 books
by Peter Burrows
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This book offers a whole school approach to the teaching of grammar and punctuation that is fully matched to the demands of the English grammar and punctuation test and the new curriculum. With the shift towards elegant, well-constructed sentences, it offers the busy teacher three simple steps to...
Universal Design for Learning in the Early Childhood Classroom
Teaching Children of all Languages, Cultures, and Abilities, Birth – 8 Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Universal Design for Learning in the Early Childhood Classroom focuses on proactively designing PreK through Grade 3 classroom environments, instruction, and assessments that are flexible enough to ensure that teachers can accommodate the needs of all the students in their classrooms. Typically developing...
Spotlight on Your Inclusive Classroom
A Teacher's Toolkit of Instant Inclusive Activities
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Spotlight on Your Inclusive Classroom offers teachers an interesting miscellany of topics and activities to stimulate, engage, challenge, entertain and extend all pupils’ thinking skills and knowledge base.
This extremely practical resource provides busy teachers and teaching assistants with...
Teaching Academic Vocabulary K-8
Effective Practices across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
This book showcases effective ways to build the vocabulary knowledge K-8 learners need to engage meaningfully in reading, writing, and discussion on academic subjects. The distinguished authors draw on decades of classroom experience to explain what academic vocabulary is, how it fits into the Common...
by Dugan, Christine
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Encourage second-grade students to build their reading comprehension and word study skills using daily practice activities. Great for after school, intervention, or homework, teachers and parents can help students gain regular practice through these quick, diagnostic-based activities that are correlated...
by Greg Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
If your child is struggling with math, then this book is for you; the short book covers the topic and also contains 30 practice problems to work with.
This subject comes from the book “Second Grade Math (For Home School or Extra Practice)”; it more thoroughly...
Raising African-American Males
Strategies and Interventions for Successful Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Raising African American Males is comprised of strategies and interventions that can assist and improve African American males' achievement in all areas of academics as well as in their everyday lives. Theresa Harris and George Taylor provide pedagogical strategies that employ various instructional...
The Knowledge Deficit
Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The Knowledge Deficit illuminates the real issue in education today -- without an effective curriculum, American students are losing the global education race. In this persuasive book, the esteemed education critic, activist, and best-selling author E.D. Hirsch, Jr., shows that although schools are...
CoTeaching and Other Collaborative Practices in The EFL/ESL Classroom
Rationale, Research, Reflections, And Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Much has been written about the cognitive and academic language needs of those learning English as a new language (be it a second language in the United States or other Englishspeaking countries or as a foreign language in all other parts of the world). Many guidebooks and professional development...
Early Childhood Teacher Research
From Questions to Results
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
What is early childhood teacher research and why is it important? How does a teacher researcher formulate a research question and a plan for doing research? How do teachers apply research results to effect change? Early Childhood Teacher Research is an exciting new resource that will address the sorts...
by Sandra Mulvany
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Healthy Cooking for Primary Schools, Book 1 contains 12 easy-to-follow, photocopiable recipes to encourage pupils to become lifelong healthy eaters. The recipes are presented in both a traditional recipe format and in a visual, step-by-step format, to suit pupils of differing reading abilities. All...
Bringing Words to Life, Second Edition
Robust Vocabulary Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K–12 students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using new words. Grounded in research, the book explains how to select words for instruction, introduce their meanings, and create...
Children's Literature in the Classroom
Engaging Lifelong Readers
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Many reading programs today overlook an essential component of literacy instruction—helping children develop an enduring love of reading. This authoritative and accessible guide provides a wealth of ideas for incorporating high-quality children's books of all kinds into K–6 classrooms. Numerous...
Differentiated Reading Instruction
Strategies for the Primary Grades
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This book provides a research-based framework for making differentiated instruction work in the primary grades. It includes scientifically validated techniques for teaching each component of the beginning reading program. The authors describe how to use assessment to form differentiated small groups...