Teaching resources

Presents suggestions for literature-related activities that may be used as alternatives to book reports, encouraging students to demonstrate comprehension through culture kits, plays, pictures, and other projects.

Contains 180 reproducible riddle poems designed to help build early reading and listening skills in children from prekindergarten through first grade; grouped by the months of the school year, from September to June.

Contains fourteen easy-to-read plays based on classic tales, such as "The Three Little Pigs" and "The Little Red Hen," and includes fluency building tips, extension activities, and reproducible pages.

Contains over sixty primary source documents for use with the interactive whiteboard that provide information about Colonial America, the Westward Movement, and the Civil War, with background information, guiding questions, and activities for students in grades four to eight.

Contains twenty writing samples and mini-lessons teachers may use on the whiteboard to teach the elements of writing to students in second through fourth grade, and includes a CD.

Contains forty ready-to-use lessons and activities for interactive whiteboards designed to help students in grades three through six improve their persuasive writing skills.

Contains classroom-tested lessons, suggested activities, reproducible pages, sample paragraphs, and graphic organizers aimed at improving the note-taking skills of students in fifth grade and up.

Contains twenty writing samples and mini-lessons teachers may use on the whiteboard to teach the elements of writing to students in grades five and up, and includes a CD.

A large, colorful teaching tool that defines and discusses six parts of writing--ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions--and illustrates for students how to do them well, presenting a rubric and high- and low-scoring writing samples for each.