Poetry Journal

Includes 26 easy to recite and read alphabet poems and small color photos of actual poetry cards.  Make a poetry journal for each child in your class.  Circle the focus letters and any high frequency words your children know! Make large poetry cards out of construction paper and introduce and practice these poems.  At the end of the school year, take a photo of each child holding their favorite poetry card for the cover of their book!

Home and Back with Sight Word Packs
This 80 page resource book features instructions, family letters, and reproducible to create 24 quick and easy literacy kits that reinforce practice of critical sight words through motivating and fun hands-on projects. Written by the author of the ever-popular Home and Back with Books, this is the solution for involving the family in support of the reading process. Cross curriculum projects support skills in: Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Science.

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Jazzing Up Journals
This 112 page resource book helps you incorporate the benefits of journal writing into every aspect of your curriculum. you will find simple directions for making a dozen unique cross-curricular journals; practical ideas for managing journal writing time; and tips for conferencing, publishing, and keeping children motivated to do their best work.

Calendar and Beyond

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This book offers innovative ideas for expanding one of your most reliable and essential primary classroom teaching tools - the daily calendar.  This book shows you how to customize a calendar program that takes students beyond a discussion about the days of the week and allows you to teach and review key skills and concepts on a daily basis.  Learn how to make over 30 interactive displays and implement hands-on activities that encourage students to observe patterns in their world; explore place value, graphing, and telling time; decode and generate new words; recite poetry; and more.

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Home and Back with Books
60 Creative take-home kits make homework a treat!  Your students will anxiously await their turn to take home the Bug Bucket, Seed Sack, or Helping Handbag to share with their families.  Materials for each kit include a family letter, activity idea, and suggestions for books and simple manipulatives.  Families will enjoy reading pattern stories in the Pattern Hunting Pack and then finding patterns in their homes.  Children will love bringing home the Birthday Backpack to celebrate their special day.  With the handy check-out system and other management tips, you will have a motivating family homework program that just can't miss!

Bookmaking Bonanza
Children love stories-especially those they write themselves. Bookmaking Bonanza includes more than 50 research-based, classroom-tested bookmaking activities that expand writing time into a literacy adventure! Students will transform empty cereal boxes, paper napkins, cardboard tubes, and other household objects into books that explore the five critical areas of balanced reading instruction. 80 pages. READING FIRST; Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, Text Comprehension.

Interactive Writing
Interactive writing is a dynamic process by which teachers and students create meaningful text together. This cutting-edge resource provides background information, student writing samples, and simple guidelines for implementing this powerful strategy in the classroom. In addition, Interactive Writing includes over 30 creative and unique cross-curriculum activity ideas, extensions, and tips for integrating this writing component into a balanced literacy program. Great for teachers at all levels of experience. 96 pages.

Sight Word Books
Level One
Each book includes 30 cross-curricular mini-books with fun, predictable text that students personalize to make their very own set of beginning readers. These mini-books give students repeated practice not only reading but also writing and learning to spell over 50 words that most commonly appear in print. Each resource book includes tips for making "reading sticks" to help students track words as they read. These delightful collections of sight word books are also great tools for boosting comprehension skills, improving fluency, and expanding vocabulary. 144 pages each. READING FIRST; Fluency, Vocabulary, Text Comprehension.

The Stepping Into Standards Series!

Looking for a more exciting way to teach the standards? Immerse your students in imaginative, innovative activities as you incorporate balanced literacy and academic subjects into theme teaching. Each 64-page book includes:
· Language arts, math, science, & social studies standards information
· More than 30 creative activities
· Easy-to-use reproducibles
· PLUS a full-color overhead transparency you can use to create an instant
  learning environment in your classroom

Six titles to choose from:

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The Stepping Into Standards Series!
Down On the Farm
Looking for a more exciting way to teach the standards? Immerse your students in imaginative, innovative activities as you incorporate balanced literacy and academic subjects into theme teaching. Each 64-page book includes: Language arts, math, science, & social studies standards information; More than 30 creative activities; Easy-to-use reproducibles; PLUS a full-color overhead transparency you can use to create an instant learning environment in your classroom.

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