Teacher Resources

ESL:

Matching Books & Readers: Helping English Learners in Grades K-6

- Nancy L. Hadaway and Terrell A. Young
Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum. Criteria and guiding questions are presented for matching books and readers based on text features, literacy and language proficiency, and student background knowledge and interests. --from publisher description

Literacy:

Inclusive Literacy: Lessons for Early Childhood - Pam Schiller and Clarissa Willis

A collection of one hundred literacy lessons designed to introduce, develop, and help children practice literacy skills and concepts. The lessons also include adaptations for children with special needs and for second language learners.

I See What You Mean: Visual Literacy K-8 - Steve Moline
Some educators may view diagrams, pictures, and charts as nice add-on tools for students who are visual thinkers. But Steve Moline sees visual literacy as fundamental to learning and to what it means to be human. --from publisher description

Math:
Dice Activities for Algebraic Thinking - Chet Delani and Mary Saltus
 "Activities ... created to engage students in developing fluency with the mathematical concepts of square number, square root, prime number, factorials, summation, integers, and exponential notation"--P. iii (for grades 5-8)

Geometric Constructions and Investigations with a Mira™
- Ernest Woodward and Thomas Hamel
Reproducible book features 21 lessons. Each lesson includes full teaching notes, answers, and reproducible transparency and worksheet masters. Lessons include an introduction to the MIRA™, reflections of lines and triangles, symmetry, and congruence(for grades 6 and up)

Mira™ Math Activities for Elementary School
Look at geometry through a child’s eye. The many illustrated games and puzzles use the MIRA™ to introduce concepts of symmetry, congruence, parallel and perpendicular lines, angles, and other ideas.

MIRA™ Math Activities for High School
A sequenced review of transformational geometry with the MIRA™, starting at a 7th grade level and moving upward. Topics include properties of perpendicular lines, reflection, symmetry, and motion.

Science & STEM:
Hands-On Engineering: Real-World Projects for the Classroom - Beth L. Andrews
The author presents 26 projects--each with a teacher's guide, photocopiable worksheet, and additional project ideas--for which students use design and engineering methodologies to investigate and build their own solutions. (for grades 4-7)

Bringing Outdoor Science In: Thrifty Classroom Lessons - Steve Rich
Presents more than fifty science lessons for grades K through 6, arranged in six units: greening the school, insects, plants, rocks and soils, water, and in the sky. (for grades K-8)

Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers: Using Nonfiction to Promote Science Literacy
- Jessica Fries-Gaither and Terry Shiverdecker
Provides guidance and resources for using nonfiction text to teach science in grades three through five, including instructions for eight units, an annotated list of books, student worksheets, and more.(for grades 3-5)