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Punctuation Tales: A Motivating Collection of Super-Funny Storybooks That Help Kids Master the Mechanics of Writing [With Teacher's Guide]
Scholastic Teaching Boxed Set WB Price: $59.95
Mastering tricky mechanics is a snap with these humorous storybooks that teach kids everything they need to know about capitalization, exclamation points, question marks, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, abbreviations, and more! Includes a BIG teaching guide filled with lessons, engaging worksheets, and mini-book versions of all eight storybooks! The 8 books include:1. Henry Goes to Hollywood (capitalization) 2. The Legend of Johnny Comma (comma) 3. The Awesome Apostrophe Show (apostrophes)4. Little Red Hen Bakes a Cake (periods, exclamation mark, questions mark 5. The New Mayor of Dogville (quotation marks) 6. The Island of Talking Cows (colons and semicolons) 7. The Amazing Abbreviation Machine (abbreviations) 8. Super Sentence Girl (sentence structure) For use with Grades 25.31.24 cms L x 16.26 cms W (1.07 kgs)

Making Words
ISBN 0866538062 EAN 9780866538060 Good Apple Paperback WB Price: $29.95
Children are encouraged to explore words, letter-sound relationships, and letter patterns through Making Words. This fast-paced approach to combining phonics and spelling includes 160 hands-on activities, as well as guidelines for creating your own treasury of lessons. Your students will delight in using each lesson's designated letters to make 12 to 15 words, beginning with short words and working their way to longer words. And they'll be eager to make the final word, which includes all of the letters. A wonderful tool for strengthening spelling skills! 27.86 cms L x 21.29 cms W (0.44 kgs) 178 pages

Making More Words
ISBN 1564179001 EAN: 9781564179005 Good Apple Paperback WB Price: $32.95
This sequel to the best-selling Making Words offers 140 fun activities to help children learn new words and develop spelling skills. Each 15-20 minute lesson invites students to explore words, letter-sound relationships and letter patterns. Includes 10 "warm-up" lessons, thematic tie-ins for cross-curricular use, reproducible letter cards, take-home sheets, and more! Primary Levels.27.61 cms L x 20.96 cms W (0.40 kgs) 208 pages

More Than Letters
ISBN 1884834981 EAN: 9781884834981 edleaf Paperback WB Price: $51.95
There is perhaps nothing more important in a child's education than the development of literacy skills. From the moment they are exposed to books, children are beginning to understand that what is spoken can also be written. These important discoveries aid in the construction of a child's earliest literacy concepts and make the prospect of reading and writing attainable and exciting.The latest in a series of discovery and activity books, More Than Letters is filled with over 100 fun and effective activities designed to make literacy adventurous and meaningful for children. More Than Letters contains an extensive whole-language curriculum that creates classroom environments that surround children with meaningful print.Each activity is accompanied by a photograph and a detailed explanation of how to set up the activity and construct materials. Also included are suggestions for comments and questions teachers can use to encourage phonetic awareness in their children.26.82 cms L x 20.37 cms W (0.68 kgs) 312 pages

Multi-Sensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills
ISBN 1557667233 EAN 9781557667236 Brookes Paperback WB Price: $51.95
Are you looking for a new kind of guide to classroom management--one that teaches you how to understand each of your students' personalities? In this book, you'll find what thousands of other teachers have already learned from the authors' seminars: that once you identify a student's primary personality type (reactor, workaholic, persister, dreamer, rebel, or promoter), you'll know the secret to teaching and interacting with that student. This breakthrough guide gives in-service or preservice educators- forms that help you pinpoint a student's personality structure, motivational needs, and strengths and challenges- narratives that illuminate each personality type- ideas to help you blend personality-based teaching with existing learner-centered approaches in all types of classrooms- charts for quick reference on ways to adapt teaching styles for each personality- logs to track the success of your intervention strategies.With this easy-to-use guidebook, adapted from the concepts in Dr. Taibi Kahler's best-selling The Mastery of Management, you'll build better relationships with all students and keep your classroom's focus where it belongs--on learning!More and more teacher education programs are mandating multisensory teaching. Why? Because multisensory teaching works in any classroom is compatible with multiple intelligences theories, and produces positive outcomes with students learning to read, write, or spell. Based on 50 years of research and clinical experience with children and adults with specific language disabilities, this popular text explains how and why multisensory methods work. You'll learn specific teaching approaches that promote-phonological awareness- alphabet skills- spelling- grammar- reading accuracy and fluency- reading comprehension- handwriting- math skills- composition- organization and study skillsYou'll get test materials, activities, and observation and assessment models you can use right away, as well as an extensive glossary and recommended tests, curricula, and supplies. Discover how to teach all your students--no matter what their learning style--with this highly effective instructional technique! 27.33 cms L x 21.49 cms W (0.59 kgs) 193 pages

Short Story Sequencing (P1-2)
ISBN 1557990298 EAN: 9781557990297 Evan Moor Paperback 
WB Price: $10.95
Give your students practice in understanding story sequence. Cut apart sentences, arrange in order, and paste on fully illustrated sheets for a complete story. 27.9 cms L x 21.69 cms W (0.09 kgs) 20 pages

How To Write A Story (P1-2)
ISBN 1557998019 EAN: 9781557998019 Evan Moor Paperback 
WB Price: $24.95
: The contents of this rich resource include: Setting the Stage for Writing: reading to your class, word walls, story walls-Teaching the Parts of a Story.Step-by-Step Writing Units: dogs, a bike ride, a loose tooth, a giant for each topic teacher directions are provided for writing group, guided, and independent stories,student planning forms to outline character & setting, action, and conclusion forms on which to write the completed stories.More Story Writing Ideas: teacher directions and reproducible forms for four additional story-writing experiences retell a fairy tale,a pattern story,a circle story,a sequence-and-write story,A Story Writing Center: directions, forms, and patterns for 5 story-writing centers,Who, What, Where, When to Start with a Picture,Story Starters,Story Parts,Train Tales: each train car represents a different part of the story.28 cms L x 21.56 cms W (0.25 kgs) 96 pages

Paragraph Writing
ISBN 1557996083 EAN: 9781557996084 Evan Moor Paperback
WB Price: $25.95
Teach beginning paragraph writing skills. Includes: teaching ideas, reproducible forms, center with ready-to-use materials. Topics: parts of a paragraph, types of paragraphs, and planning paragraphs.27.86 cms L x 21.69 cms W (0.25 kgs) 80 pages