Educator Resources

Grades PreK-1
With parallel activities in English and Spanish, this dual-language resource is perfect for learners in a variety of settings. Students in bilingual classrooms and English as a Second Language programs benefit from the practice activities in this series. Spanish / English Early Learning Activities provides age-appropriate practice for skills such as following directions, cut & paste, and sequencing.

The ESL/ ELL Teacher's Survival Guide is a much-needed resource for teaching English to all learners. The number of English language learners in U. S. schools is projected to grow to twenty-five percent by 2025. Most teachers have English learners in their classrooms, from kindergarten through college. The English as a Second Language / English Language Learner Teacher's Survival Guide offers educators practical strategies for setting up an ESL-friendly classroom, motivating and interacting with students, communicating with parents of English learners, and navigating the challenges inherent in teaching ESL students. This hands-on resource will give all teachers at all levels the information they need to be effective ESL instructors.

English learners are the fastest growing student population in the United States. Many of these students are placed in classrooms with teachers who lack the preparation to help culturally and linguistically diverse children excel. This book helps bridge the gap between students' needs and teachers' preparation, offering an overview of English learners and practitioner-focused strategies for -curriculum and planning, -reading instruction, and -oral-language and writing development. You'll discover ways to help English learners develop the language and literacy skills necessary for success in today's standards-based classrooms.

This new addition to the Kids InSight series show educators, that regardless of statistics, teachers with the necessary knowledge base and positive dispositions toward diversity can provide meaningful learning contexts for all their students. The authors give teachers an insider's perspective on the literacy learning process of one English-language learner to help them develop a deeper understanding about working with these learners in a mainstream classroom. Teachers will discover the power of listening to and learning from their students as the acquisition and its impact on instruction for the English-language learners. Effective ways to structure classroom learning contexts and use literature are discussed.

Touch your students' hearts, engage their minds, and build their skill with 28 activities that enhance self-awareness, compassion, and leadership.

Early Childhood/PreK
*Seasonal*
Toddlers experience the joy of learning all year long with these hands-on, seasonal activities. Cynthia Catlin, who worked with toddlers for over ten years, brings you fun, easy-to-do activities geared toward the toddler's unique stage of development.

Early Childhood - Kindergarten
Presents a variety of activities which build learning readiness for exploring and understanding the five senses.

*Seasonal*
*Reproducibles*
Grades PreK-K
Fine-Motor Fun is full of creative ideas for building youngster's fine-motor skills! We've included crafts, center ideas, fingerplays, snacks, and so much more!
*Easter
*Christmas
*Cricus
*Community Helpers
*Dinosaurs
*Fairy Tales
*Fall Harvest
*Family
*Farm
*Senses
*Friends
*Garden
*Health & Safety
*Leaves
*New Year
*Nursery Rhymes
*Nutrition
*OCean
*Rain
*Snow
*Space
*Spiders & Bats
*Thanksgiving
*Transportation
*Valentine's Day
*Zoo

*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. Tons of bulletin board, arts-and-crafts, and across-the-curriculum ideas. Hands-on discovery suggestions, language experiences, manipulative math suggestions, and patterns and reproducibles are included. Topics for April are transportation, pond life, bubbles, seeds, eggs, rain, and more!
*Groundhogs
*Dental Health
*Valentine's Day
*Pancakes
*Chocolate
*Whales

*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. Tons of bulletin board, arts-and-crafts, and across-the-curriculum ideas. Hands-on discovery suggestions, language experiences, manipulative math suggestions, and patterns and reproducibles are included. Topics for April are transportation, pond life, bubbles, seeds, eggs, rain, and more!
*Seeds
*Rain
*Rabbits
*Soap/Bubbles
*Ponds (Turtles & Frogs)
*Transportation
*Chicks
*Eggs
*Recycling
*Ants
*Baby Animals

*Seasonal*
*Reproducibles*
Grades PreK-K
Hundreds of never-before-published ideas. Tons of bulletin board, arts-and-crafts, and across-the-curriculum ideas. Hands-on discovery suggestions, language experiences, manipulative math suggestions, and patterns and reproducibles are included. Topics for August are sunflowers, the grocery store, green grass, pets, boats, teddy bears, and more!
*Sunshine
*Outdoors
*Feet
*Ladybugs
*Dairy Month
*Sharks
*Libraries
*Summer
*Camping
*Worms & Snails
*Fruit

*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!
*Birthdays
*Friends
*Grandparents' Day
*Apples
*Animals
*Mexico's Independence Day
*Mother Goose

*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

*Seasonal*
Part of the Busy Kids Series from Mailbox Magazine. Ideas for developing gross-motor skills. Fun themes include: circus, dinosaurs, family, garden, leaves, nursery rhymes, ocean, self-awareness, spiders and bats, thanksgiving, transportation, zoo.

Grades PreK-Third Grade
The tools you need to teach literacy are all around you! Everyday Literacy has over 100 activities that use ordinary objects such as cereal boxes, traffic signs, and toy labels to help children build essential reading skills.

*Seasonal*
Each book contains around-the-curriculum activities organized into imaginative units. Great resources for implementing child-directed programs. Reproducibles included.More than 76 great themes that teach young children through their five senses!

*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.

Working in the Reggio Way helps teachers of young children bring the innovative practices of the schools in Reggio Emilia, Italy, to American classrooms. Written by an educator who observed and worked in the world-famous schools, this groundbreaking resource presents the key tools that will allow American teachers to transform their classrooms, including these:

Organization of time and space
Documentation of children’s work
Observation and questioning
Attention to children’s environments

This workbook also contains interactive activities for individual or group reflection.

*Seasonal*
*Reproducibles*
Grade K
Superbook The Mailbox« Superbook Kindergarten is your complete resource for an entire year of success. Reinforce and enhance your kindergarten curriculum with creative, fun-filled lessons on basic skills. Choose from grade level-appropriate, original, and kid-appealing reproducibles. This great collection of year-round materials is the one resource that you can't be without -- a great back-to-school buy! Kindergarten. 320 pages.

Dr. Russell Barkley, internationally respected expert on ADHD, draws on his 40 years of clinical work with thousands of students, teachers and schools to create a definitive resource for the most effective methods in overcoming impairments for children and teens with ADHD. Managing ADHD in Schools details more than 100 evidence-based recommendations to help teachers and clinicians increase the success of children and teens with ADHD. This manual goes beyond the "what" to explain "why" the problems are likely occurring, followed up with the most effective interventions.
+ Classroom strategies for managing ADHD
+ Reward systems for good behavior
+ Downloadable assessment guide and report cards
+ Proven discipline methods
+ Medications and how they work
+ Tips for teen management

WHY won't he stay in his seat?WHY does she flap her hands?And WHAT should I do?? As inclusion becomes the norm in general education, teachers are faced with behaviors they have never seen before. Special needs educators may recognize the telltale symptom of a sensory need or a textbook-case of an avoidance behavior, but this is all new territory for the general-ed crowd! Written by Director of Special Education Peter Gennaro, occupational therapist Beth Aune, and special needs mom and advocate Beth Burt, this book illuminates possible causes of those mysterious behaviors, and more importantly, provides solutions! Teachers can quickly look up an in-the-moment solution and learn about what the child is communicating, and why.

Now in a revised and updated second edition, Early Visual Skills is a practical manual for use with children and young people who have underdeveloped visual perceptual skills. Twelve clear and easy-to-follow sections, focusing on skills such as attention, discrimination, sequencing, concentration and memory, are filled with carefully designed activities to stimulate visual attention and discrimination skills in children with a range of developmental levels and abilities. Features include:
A wide range of activities suited to both the early years and home settings Links to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework and topics reflecting the EYFS and the Key Stage 1 curriculum Photocopiable materials designed to document the child's development over time As most of the activities are non-verbal, they are well suited for children with limited spoken language, including EAL (English as an Additional Language) learners, the deaf, sensory impaired, or those with autism or learning difficulties. Whilst primarily designed for early years practitioners, SENCOs (Special Educational Needs Coordinator), specialist teachers, therapists and other professionals, there are activity sheets and guidance for parents to provide them practical advice on how to stimulate visual perceptual skills at home, turning their child's everyday routines into opportunities to stimulate visual awareness.

From sunup to sundown, "extra busy" children have an endless supply of energy and remain on the move throughout the day. Ants in Their Pants offers successful and tested techniques to help caregivers, educators, and parents provide the best support to active learners so they can thrive in the classroom and at home. These ideas—from a teacher of both special and general education who is a parent of an extra busy child—provide information on how to help extra busy children use their energy to learn while helping teacher understand children who need to move.

*Seasonal*
Each book contains around-the-curriculum activities organized into imaginative units. Great resources for implementing child-directed programs. Reproducibles included.More than 76 great themes that teach young children through their five senses!

Grades PreK-Third Grade
The tools you need to teach literacy are all around you! Everyday Literacy has over 100 activities that use ordinary objects such as cereal boxes, traffic signs, and toy labels to help children build essential reading skills.

Grades K-2
Collects artisitic activities based on the illustration styles in such popular picture books as Leo Lionni's Swimmy, Eric Carle's Draw Me a Star, and Lois Ehlert's Draw Me a Rainbow.

*Reproducibles*
This delightful collection of activities is based on 28 popular nursery rhymes! Each rhyme includes suggested themes, activities, craft projects, exercises to develop rhythmic movement, additional reading resources, and reproducible storytelling patterns.

The First Days of School is the often recommended go-to guide for new teachers. Learn about expectations, classroom management, and lesson mastery.

WHY won't he stay in his seat? WHY does she flap her hands? And WHAT should I do?? As inclusion becomes the norm in general education, teachers are faced with behaviors they have never seen before. Special needs educators may recognize the telltale symptom of a sensory need or a textbook-case of an avoidance behavior, but this is all new territory for the general-ed crowd! Written by Director of Special Education Peter Gennaro, occupational therapist Beth Aune, and special needs mom and advocate Beth Burt, this book illuminates possible causes of those mysterious behaviors, and more importantly, provides solutions! Teachers can quickly look up an in-the-moment solution and learn about what the child is communicating, and why.

Building a Better Teacher introduces a new generation of educators exploring the intricate science underlying their art. A former principal studies the country’s star teachers and discovers a set of common techniques that help children pay attention. Two math teachers videotape a year of lessons and develop an approach that has nine-year-olds writing sophisticated mathematical proofs. A former high school teacher works with a top English instructor to pinpoint the key interactions a teacher must foster to initiate a rich classroom discussion. Through their stories, and the hilarious and heartbreaking theater that unfolds in the classroom every day, Elizabeth Green takes us on a journey into the heart of a profession that impacts every child in America.

Working in the Reggio Way helps teachers of young children bring the innovative practices of the schools in Reggio Emilia, Italy, to American classrooms. Written by an educator who observed and worked in the world-famous schools, this groundbreaking resource presents the key tools that will allow American teachers to transform their classrooms, including these:

Organization of time and space
Documentation of children’s work
Observation and questioning
Attention to children’s environments

This workbook also contains interactive activities for individual or group reflection.