Educator Resources

*Seasonal*
*Reproducible*
Grades PreK-K
Add pizzazz to your favorite seasonal and monthly themes with hundreds of curriculum-based ideas. We've included skill lines and a handy index, plus you'll have access to a brand-new Internet site that will allow you to fill out forms online and print patterns and reproducibles easily. Includes literature links for seasonal and holiday books; monthly science, math, and writing activities; games and learning centers; class projects; and highlights for special days. Topics include lions and lambs, leprechauns, Dr. Seuss, bubble gum, peanuts, kites, plants, nutrition, and more!
*Alphabet
*Peanut Butter
*Safety
*Book Week
*Space
*Turkies
*American Thanksgiving
*Animals in Winter

*Seasonal*
*Reproducibles*
Grades PreK-K
Add pizzazz to your favorite seasonal and monthly themes with hundreds of curriculum-based ideas. We've included skill lines and a handy index, plus you'll have access to a brand-new Internet site that will allow you to fill out forms online and print patterns and reproducibles easily. Includes literature links for seasonal and holiday books; monthly science, math, and writing activities; games and learning centers; class projects; and highlights for special days. Topics include lions and lambs, leprechauns, Dr. Seuss, bubble gum, peanuts, kites, plants, nutrition, and more!
*Gingerbread
*Hanukkah
*Trains
*Mice
*Noise
*Cooking
*Giving
*Evergreen Trees
*Christmas/Alphabet
*Kwanzaa

*Reproducibles*
This series is made for teachers of young children. The hands-on activities in these books will provide children with fun learning experiences throughout the year.

*Seasonal*
*Reproducible*
Grades PreK-K
Add pizzazz to your favorite seasonal and monthly themes with hundreds of curriculum-based ideas. We've included skill lines and a handy index, plus you'll have access to a brand-new Internet site that will allow you to fill out forms online and print patterns and reproducibles easily. Includes literature links for seasonal and holiday books; monthly science, math, and writing activities; games and learning centers; class projects; and highlights for special days. Topics include lions and lambs, leprechauns, Dr. Seuss, bubble gum, peanuts, kites, plants, nutrition, and more!
*Alphabet
*Peanut Butter
*Safety
*Book Week
*Space
*Turkies
*American Thanksgiving
*Animals in Winter

*Seasonal*
*Reproducibles*
Grades PreK-K
Add pizzazz to your favorite seasonal and monthly themes with hundreds of curriculum-based ideas. We've included skill lines and a handy index, plus you'll have access to a brand-new Internet site that will allow you to fill out forms online and print patterns and reproducibles easily. Includes literature links for seasonal and holiday books; monthly science, math, and writing activities; games and learning centers; class projects; and highlights for special days. Topics include lions and lambs, leprechauns, Dr. Seuss, bubble gum, peanuts, kites, plants, nutrition, and more!
*Gingerbread
*Hanukkah
*Trains
*Mice
*Noise
*Cooking
*Giving
*Evergreen Trees
*Christmas/Alphabet
*Kwanzaa

*Workbook*
~Non-Circulating Reference~
Kindergarten
Jam-packed with hundreds of curriculum-based activities, exercises and games in every subject, Brain Quest Kindergarten Workbook reinforces what kids are learning in the classroom. The workbook 's lively layout and easy-to-follow explanations make learning fun, interactive, and concrete. Plus it 's written to help parents follow and explain key concepts. Includes ABCs, 123s, mazes, paint by letters, sorting games, phonics, shapes and colors, money, telling time, and much, much more.

*Reproducibles*
Experts are raving about this "must-have" resource for primary teachers that includes dozens of fun activities to help children listen to language and play with sounds. Activity cards can be cut out and laminated to create a handy reference file of fun ideas. A wide selection of reproducibles (picture cards, word cards, and manipulatives) is included.

Grades K-5
Designed to be a set of national educational standards, the Common Core has been adopted by 45 states across the nation. But if you're accustomed to traditional English courses, you may be having a hard time understanding what your kids are bringing home from school--and why.

Grades K-8
Bring text and its meaning alive for your students! This collection brings together the perspectives of classroom teachers, researchers, and children's book authors on the power of character study and how to use it to guide elementary- and middle-grade students through creating, reading, and comprehending text. The contributors evaluate character-rich books and offer instructional strategies that will help you become a more insightful teacher as you implement character study in your classroom.

First Grade
*Workbook*
Meets common core state standards, makes learning easy and fun, builds and boosts key skills

*Workbook*
Grades 1-2
This giant kid-friendly workbook features well-loved video game characters and settings to encourage kids to learn principles of math, reading, and handwriting. Colorfully illustrated pages bring their most beloved video game to life and entice learners (even the most reluctant ones) to take part in an educational adventure. With practice pages and content spanning across subjects, they’ll find everything they need to develop their education and their confidence in the classroom. Included within this book:
-Handwriting skills:
Clear stroke formation guidelines to support learning
Uppercase and lowercase letter practice
Minecrafting-themed word and sentence practice for added skill building.
-Math skills:
Addition and subtraction skills
Word problems
-Math facts:
Learning shapes, time, money, charts, tables, graphs, and more
-Reading skills:
Phonics
Speech
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension

*Workbook*
Grades 2-4
This collection of 40 short quotes—including favorites about friendship, respect, and generosity—helps young writers build beginning cursive skills while encouraging positive behavior and good citizenship in the classroom. Each practice page includes a memorable quote, printed in DeNealian script, plus tips for letter formation and spacing skills. When students have copied the quote, they can cut along the dotted line and add the new page to a cursive quote mini-book.

*Workbook*
Fourth Grade
Fun, fresh, and focused learning. Helps develop strong English skills. Boost your child's word power and lay the groundwork for academic success with this new addition to the acclaimed 10 Minutes A Day series of workbooks. In 10 Minutes A Day: Vocabulary 4th Grade imaginative, bite-size exercises, in line with current curricula, familiarize your child with hundreds of words and word types including homophones, adverbs, and contractions, plus key terms in science, math, geography, art, music and more, allowing kids to boost their word skills across the board.

Elementary School
"Ways of Writing with Young Kids " presents ideas and strategies for teaching children how to write creatively in fiction, nonfiction and poetry, conventionally using standard spelling, punctuation and sentence structures, and confidently as they learn the roles and rules of written language. "Ways of Writing with Young Kids " is uniquely organized in twenty-three ways of writing that expand beyond one particular area. Giving readers a new perspective, the authors adhere to a unique and easy-to-follow system-"The Five C's of Children's Writing" (Coaching, Creativity, Conventions, Choice and Confidence). Written in an easy-to-read format, the book explains writing ideas and strategies clearly and concisely in an open-ended, easy-to-do, and engaging style that offers readers lots of flexibility of how to use the activities with their children.

*Reproducibles*
Experts are raving about this "must-have" resource for primary teachers that includes dozens of fun activities to help children listen to language and play with sounds. Activity cards can be cut out and laminated to create a handy reference file of fun ideas. A wide selection of reproducibles (picture cards, word cards, and manipulatives) is included.

*Workbook*
Grades 3-4
Colorfully illustrated pages bring their most beloved video game to life and entice learners (even the most reluctant ones) to take part in an educational adventure. With practice pages and content spanning across subjects, they’ll find everything they need to develop their education and their confidence in the classroom. Included within this book:
-Handwriting skills:
Clear stroke formation guidelines
Uppercase and lowercase letter practice
Minecrafting-themed word and sentence practice for added skill building
-Math skills:
Multiplication and division
Math facts and word problems
Fractions and geometric shapes
-Reading skills:
Phonics
Speech
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension

Grades K-5
Designed to be a set of national educational standards, the Common Core has been adopted by 45 states across the nation. But if you're accustomed to traditional English courses, you may be having a hard time understanding what your kids are bringing home from school--and why.

*Reproducibles*
Grades 4-6
Best Buy Bargain Books: Writing, Grades 4-6 features fun-filled activities that reinforce essential writing skills! This must have 128 page book covers a wide range of topics – from writing a research report or letter to sequencing directions and writing dialogue for cartoons. Children will enjoy completing these motivating activities that include easy-to-understand directions and a complete answer key. Features:
• Reproducible activities
• Activity pages can be used individually or as part of a unit
• Answer key

*Reproducibles*
Grades 4-6
The clear, comprehensive, easy-to-use activities in Informative Writing guide your students in creating illuminating news articles, investigative interviews, in-depth surveys, and thorough "how tos" beyond what you thought possible.

*Reproducibles*
Grades 4-6
The clear, thorough, easy-to-use activities in Narrative Writing guide your students to creating innovative fables, dramatic ballads, in-depth biographical sketches and fantastic tall tales like you never thought possible.

*Reproducibles*
Grades 4-6
The clear, comprehensive, easy-to-use actives in Persuasive Writing guide your students in creating thorough book reviews, compelling advertisements, convincing persuasive essays, and inspiriting campaign speeches beyond what you thought possible.

Grades 4-8
Designed for elementary and middle school teachers (grades 4-8) Poetry and Prose Prompts is a collection of outstanding and effective lessons that will engage students in the art of writing. This is the ideal resource for turning average writers into stellar authors. Throughout the book, Ken Rivenbark uses foolproof methods based on successful poetry and prose models to demonstrate and enhance writing skills. He shows teachers how to address standards while fostering students' individual style and helping them find their voices as authors. Poetry and Prose Prompts also includes valuable testing prompts and examples from original or student-generated fiction.

Grades K-8
Bring text and its meaning alive for your students! This collection brings together the perspectives of classroom teachers, researchers, and children's book authors on the power of character study and how to use it to guide elementary- and middle-grade students through creating, reading, and comprehending text. The contributors evaluate character-rich books and offer instructional strategies that will help you become a more insightful teacher as you implement character study in your classroom.

*Reproducibles*
Grades 4-6
Best Buy Bargain Books: Writing, Grades 4-6 features fun-filled activities that reinforce essential writing skills! This must have 128 page book covers a wide range of topics – from writing a research report or letter to sequencing directions and writing dialogue for cartoons. Children will enjoy completing these motivating activities that include easy-to-understand directions and a complete answer key. Features:
• Reproducible activities
• Activity pages can be used individually or as part of a unit
• Answer key

*Reproducibles*
Grades 4-6
The clear, comprehensive, easy-to-use activities in Informative Writing guide your students in creating illuminating news articles, investigative interviews, in-depth surveys, and thorough "how tos" beyond what you thought possible.

*Reproducibles*
Grades 4-6
The clear, thorough, easy-to-use activities in Narrative Writing guide your students to creating innovative fables, dramatic ballads, in-depth biographical sketches and fantastic tall tales like you never thought possible.

*Reproducibles*
Grades 4-6
The clear, comprehensive, easy-to-use actives in Persuasive Writing guide your students in creating thorough book reviews, compelling advertisements, convincing persuasive essays, and inspiriting campaign speeches beyond what you thought possible.

Grades 4-8
Designed for elementary and middle school teachers (grades 4-8) Poetry and Prose Prompts is a collection of outstanding and effective lessons that will engage students in the art of writing. This is the ideal resource for turning average writers into stellar authors. Throughout the book, Ken Rivenbark uses foolproof methods based on successful poetry and prose models to demonstrate and enhance writing skills. He shows teachers how to address standards while fostering students' individual style and helping them find their voices as authors. Poetry and Prose Prompts also includes valuable testing prompts and examples from original or student-generated fiction.

*Workbook*
Grades 6-8
Emphasizing reading as a resource for writing. The lessons in this book invite students to model the writers' habits for generating and developing ideas for writing, as well as systematically recording and organizing their material in notebooks and journals.

Middle School
Discover a unique instructional approach that enables students to read literature they enjoy while developing critical consciousness and addressing issues of social justice. By teaching critical terms, the concept of literature circles, and literary theories, you'll be able to help students explore issues of identity, power, oppression, diversity, and context. Questions for classroom discussions, excerpts from selected young adult literature and suggested readings, and examples of classroom discussions give you a starting point for your instructional approach.

Middle School
The author points out ways in which recognizing sound and letter patterns makes spelling easier. Also important are recognition of diphthongs, silent letters, compound and abbreviated words, contractions, homophones, homographs, prefixes, suffixes, and base words. “Brain tickler” problems challenge students’ imaginations and test their learning progress.

Middle School
An illustrated notebook of definitions, diagrams, key concepts, and mnemonic devices geared to help middle school students learn about reading, writing and the English language.

Grades K-8
Bring text and its meaning alive for your students! This collection brings together the perspectives of classroom teachers, researchers, and children's book authors on the power of character study and how to use it to guide elementary- and middle-grade students through creating, reading, and comprehending text. The contributors evaluate character-rich books and offer instructional strategies that will help you become a more insightful teacher as you implement character study in your classroom.