With this unique hands-on resource, students grab their hundred boards to explore counting and ordering numbers, place value, number patterns, and beginning addition and subtraction. Book features 60 games and activities with accompanying teacher notes. Correlated to the Common Core State Standards.
Armed with 25-pin geoboard and the activities in this book, students calculate area and perimeter; explore the properties of quadrilaterals, triangles, and other polygons; discover formulas; and work with number patterns, the coordinate plane, and rotations and symmetry. When it's time to investigate circle geometry, students simply turn their geoboards over and work with the circular pin array on the reverse side.
Science
25 new formative assessment probes for grades K-2. What ideas do young children bring to their science learning, and how does their thinking change as the engage in "science talk?" Find out using the 25 field-tested probes in the newest volume of Page Keeley's best selling "Uncovering Student Ideas in Science Series," the first targeted to grades K-2.
Uncovering Student Ideas in Earth and environmental Science: 32 New Formative Assessment ProbesIf you're new to formative assessment probes, you'll love the latest book in the bestselling Uncovering Student Ideas in Science series. Authors Page Keeley and Laura Tucker give you 32 engaging questions, or probes, that can reveal what your students already know-or think they know-about core Earth and environmental science concepts.
Language Arts
For anyone interested in preventing, detecting, and overcoming reading problems in children, this book offers strategies, diagnostic tools, activities, and resources for teaching reading from infancy through first grade and beyond. The book's content is in compliance with the major study on reading released in mid-2000 by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Students in early childhood settings don't always get the benefits of shared book reading-a strategy proven to boost language skills and content knowledge. Prepare the next generation of teachers to make the most of shared reading with this accessible textbook, a complete guide to building vocabulary-rich science and social studies lessons and discussions around storybooks and informational texts. Field-tested with children in high-poverty school settings, this instructional approach is valuable for any young learners at risk for comprehension difficulties.
Presenting beautifully illustrated picture book biographies, this book pairs narrative nonfiction biographies rich in language and illustrations with national content standards in the social studies, science, and the arts. Provides more than 100 picture book biographies (primarily from 2010 to the present) that offer the newest in engaging literature. Supplies lessons and units of instruction--including technology and web tools--that can be used to teach collaboratively with content area teachers. Links directly to national content area standards to ensure rigorous teaching. Provides clear evidence of the value of using higher-level picture books with middle grade students. Lends the unique perspective of authors who hold graduate degrees in children's literature, have been book reviewers for many years, have presented at state and national conferences on children's literature, and possess extensive experience with review committees of children's resources at the state and national levels on the subject of determining the quality of books for children.
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