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This comprehensive pack features 15 engaging topics—including animal senses, dinosaurs, wild weather, earthquakes, forces, and properties of matter—that support the Next Generation Science Standards. Each topic comes in a self-contained folder with an anchor text for building background knowledge, multiple copies of two hands-on investigations, companion reproducible recording sheets, management tips, plus links to an online video and bonus activities. A must-have resource for every classroom!

Includes Each kit contains 15 self-contained folders, one for each science topic. Each folder includes:
• a science article
• 5 double-sided, laminated task cards - each side features hands on investigation
• 2 reproducible recording sheets (one for each investigation)
• Management tips
• Links to an anchor video and additional online activities

Assigning class jobs is a snap with this charming bulletin board set. Easy fold-and-tape format creates handy pockets.

Includes 88 pieces:
• banner (12" x 5.25")
• 13 class job pockets (4" x 5")
• 9 pockets to customize (4" x 5")
• 65 name labels
• teaching guide

Make this planner as unique as you are with full pages and doodles to color throughout the year. Express your creativity as you organize your teaching schedule with monthly and weekly planning pages, a student roster, birthday and holiday pages, and more. A cool way to combine organization and relaxation. Includes 140 pages.

Manage your class schedule with this modern planner interspersed with pages featuring inspirational sayings. Monthly and weekly planning pages, a student roster, and birthday and holiday pages will keep you on track throughout the year. A colorful way to stay organized and motivated. Includes 140 pages.

By Bill Singer

Deluxe planner with extra-large planning pages, sturdy storage pockets, and helpful resource pages, including a multi-year calendar, reproducible forms, student planning pages, national standards, Bloom's Taxonomy, and much more!

96 pages, spiral bound 13" x 11"
Sold as a pack of 2 identical books.

A wonderful resource for teaching social studies, geography, cultures, and more! For grades PreK-5.

Includes 5 pieces:
• United States political map
• United States physical map
• United States regions
• World political map
• World physical map

Create Unstoppable Teams through Collaborative Coaching!

When teachers, coaches, mentors, and administrators successfully work together in a collaborative coaching partnership, everyone's effectiveness increases-and student achievement grows. The Coaching Partnership provides educators with a unique perspective and approach to instructional coaching centered on mutual and reciprocal accountability for continuous improvement. This essential resource provides the guidance and tools educators need to implement a coaching partnership system in their schools and achieve their ultimate goal: improved student learning outcomes.

Drawing on their extensive experience and years of research, the authors identify all the necessary components for a successful coaching partnership, and show teachers, coaches, mentors, and administrators how to:

• Optimize coaching partnerships with clearly defined processes and roles
• Foster a culture of generative thinking to encourage learning, inquiry, and lasting change
• Build trust to create successful collaborative, equitable relationships
• Use frameworks to implement an evidence-based approach to coaching
• Leverage academic language and adult communication strategies as drivers of success
• Commit to an effective coaching system that makes improved performance last

In addition to clear and effective strategies, each chapter contains real-life vignettes from the field, coaching-in-action videos, ideas for productive partnerships, reflective practice questions, and helpful definitions. Plus, a Coaching System Planning Tool will help each member of the coaching team reflect, collaborate, and take purposeful, immediate action-all with the goal of creating a learning environment where students thrive.

Grounded in research, this accessible guide offers a practical and systematic approach for creating a vital coaching culture at any school!

Terrific plan book specifically designed for the preschool teacher! 120 pages for planning the entire year! Unique pages for planning early childhood interest centers. Sample plan pages and numerous helpful hints included!

Terrific plan book specifically designed for the preschool teacher! 120 pages for planning the entire year! Unique pages for planning early childhood interest centers. Sample plan pages and numerous helpful hints included! Sold as a pack of 2 identical books.

Fluency expert Timothy V. Rasinski teams up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, a veteran fifth grade teacher, to help teachers effectively weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction. The book is packed with engaging text and tools, an assessment scale, and high quality ready-to-use lessons including text phrasing and tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more! Given the importance of fluency— and its pivotal relationship to comprehension and word recognition—the potential is high for improving students' overall reading achievement, and their performance in other content areas.

Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning

By The Hawn Foundation

Research-based and tested in dozens of classrooms
This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behavior and learning for all students. Each lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind-set in both school and life. The lessons fit easily into any schedule and require minimal preparation. Classroom management tips and content-area activities help you extend the benefits of MindUP throughout your day, week, and year. Includes a BIG, colorful teaching poster with fascinating facts about the brain!

160 pages + poster 8 3/8 x 10 7/8

Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning

By The Hawn Foundation

Research-based and tested in dozens of classrooms
This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behavior and learning for all students. Each lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind-set in both school and life. The lessons fit easily into any schedule and require minimal preparation. Classroom management tips and content-area activities help you extend the benefits of MindUP throughout your day, week, and year. Includes a BIG, colorful teaching poster with fascinating facts about the brain!

160 pages + poster 8 3/8 x 10 7/8
Grades 6-8

In this resource-rich book, you'll find: All the planning and instructional tools you need to teach guided reading well, from pre-A to fluent, organized around Richardson's proven Assess-Decide-Guide framework. Prompts, discussion starters, teaching points, word lists, intervention suggestions, and more to support all students, including dual language learners and struggling readers. 29 comprehension modules that cover essential strategies—monitoring, retelling, inferring, summarizing, and many others. Plus an online resource bank with dozens of downloadable assessment and record-keeping forms, Richardson's all-new, stage-specific lesson plan templates. More than 40 short videos showing Jan modeling key parts of guided reading lessons for every stage.

Literacy intervention should be swift and powerful-and this approach by Jan Richardson and Ellen Lewis provides fast results! After only 6-8 weeks of intervention, students can gain the confidence, proficiency, and skills they need to excel as readers and exit intervention! Based on Jan's bestselling The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading, this companion volume is intended to be used together in order to best implement the RISE framework. The Next Step Forward in Reading Intervention offers intensive, short-term, targeted instruction in reading, writing, word study, and comprehension. It's a step-by-step handbook for literacy teachers, literacy coaches, and reading specialists who are looking for a proven reading invention program that really works.

Running records point the way to responsive instruction, particularly when informed teachers are able to mine them for patterns that reveal the problem-solving strategies children are using as they process text. Running records are windows on each child's reading process.

Guided reading experts Jan Richardson and Michele Dufresne provide teachers with clear, concise, and practical instructions and resources for planning and teaching developmentally appropriate word study and phonics lessons. Learn how students solve words, how to assess what students know and need to learn next, and what sequence, materials, and activities to use to help students become proficient word solvers and independent readers.

By Bill Singer

Deluxe planner with extra-large planning pages, sturdy storage pockets, and helpful resource pages, including a multi-year calendar, reproducible forms, student planning pages, national standards, Bloom's Taxonomy, and much more!

96 pages, spiral bound 13" x 11"

Teachers can stress less with this planner that keeps them organized and offers useful tips to promote mindfulness and prevent burnout. This sturdy planner is thoughtfully designed with everything a busy teacher needs, plus stress-relieving activities and inspirational quotes to keep her engaged and inspired throughout the year.

Award-winning children's author and acclaimed educator Lester L. Laminack provides guidelines, lessons, and resources for making every read-aloud experience intentional and instructional to engage students in deep thinking about fiction and nonfiction books. Central to Laminack's message is his breakthrough thinking about the value and importance of "Best Friend Books"-- a small, carefully curated collection that you repeatedly turn to for specific teaching purposes.

Dr. Sanderlin ("Dr. Jackie") believes that all schools, especially those in communities with few resources, should develop a "Why Not?" attitude when it comes to what can be accomplished by their students. Where do funding and other resources come from to realize students' dreams? The partnerships that schools can form in their own communities with businesses and organizations. Sanderlin shares 10 practical steps what will enable readers to seek out, develop, and sustain powerful partnerships that will help their students in so many ways.

Educators and parents alike recognize that children don't grow up simply by adding inches and pounds—child development is a much richer mix of physical, cognitive, social, and emotional growth. Though children make progress at their own pace, educators can help them on their individual paths. Understanding the many ways in which children grow forms the essence of good teaching. If you appreciate the ebbs and flows of development, you can teach children with more insight and confidence, and offer support and guidance to their parents and caregivers. Problems can arise, of course, in every child's life. Dr. Mayes's reassuring approach helps educators understand the nature of a problem, how they can address it, and when and where to go for help with concerns such as learning disabilities, bullying, sibling rivalry, depression, anger, and other difficult feelings. This guide will be an incredible resource on every educator's bookshelf.

Teach a lesson on civics by establishing what it means to be a good citizen of your classroom. This bulletin board set includes seven cards featuring the traits and behaviors of good citizens, a chart about the rights and responsibilities of citizens, a write-on/wipe-off Good Citizen Award poster, and 30 stars to personalize with student names. Perfect for social studies and social-emotional learning lessons.

Includes 40 pieces:
• We Are Good Classroom Citizens banner (23" x 4.5")
• Rights and Responsibilities chart (15" x 22")
• 7 Good Citizens trait cards
• Good Citizen Award poster (10.75" x 13.75")
• 30 star accents (3.25")
• Teaching guide

30 Reproducible High-Interest Passages for Kids to Read Aloud at Home, With Companion Activities

By Mary Rose

Short passages, comprehension activities, and parent tips, perfect reading homework!
In this follow-up to the best-selling Week-by-Week Homework for Building Reading Comprehension and Fluency, Mary Rose has selected short passages perfect for second and third graders. Kids take these home with the companion comprehension activity and practice reading with the support of a grown-up. Includes easy parent tips. The results are phenomenal! Teachers, parents, and students alike rave about this simple, effective way to boost reading skills. Great for building the home-school connection.

96 pages 8.5" x 11"
Grades 2-3

Bestselling author Mary Rose has selected short readings perfect for first graders. Kids take these home with the companion comprehension activity and practice reading with the support of a grown-up. Easy tips for parents help them help their kids learn to read. The results are phenomenal! Teachers, parents, and students alike rave about this simple, effective way to boost reading skills. Great for building the home-school connection!

How to use this product:
Beginning readers are usually excited about their new reading skills. They are anxious to practice them and proud to show off what they can do. This book capitalizes on their enthusiasm and gives them their moment in the spotlight every week!

By: Mary Rose

35 Mini-Lessons With Skill-Building Activities to Help Students Tackle Multisyllabic Words and Improve Their Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension

By Wiley Blevins

Includes classroom-tested strategies that help struggling readers succeed.
Short, weekly fluency-building activities designed by phonics expert Wiley Blevins give teachers of grades 3­6 the tools they need to help struggling readers decode multisyllabic words and read grade-level texts with confidence. Each set of activities includes a skill-building mini-lesson targeting multisyllabic words, follow-up practice pages to help students apply what they've learned, a speed drill, and an activity that helps students master the top 322 syllables, ten at a time.

160 pages 8 3/8 x 10 7/8
Grades 3-6

These easy-to-manage, ready-to-reproduce practice packets are a perfect way to target the phonics skills children need to master. Activities include word-shape recognition puzzles, fill-in rhymes, riddles, and stories, word searches, scrambled sentences, word sorts, and much more. Children can work through the packets independently and at their own pace. Perfect for in-class use or homework. An effective tool for supporting second-language learners and RTI instruction.


How to use this product:
Fluency Word Lists: Have children copy words from each packet in list form and practice reading them with a partner and independently. Children can add to the list with each packet they complete, revisiting words from previous packets to continue to build word recognition and fluency while also practicing new words.

Boost children's vocabulary while introducing them to some of the world's most fascinating creatures. Each weekly packet comes with three reproducible sheets that introduce three vocabulary words through a short, engaging article and reinforce students' learning through a variety of activities. A cumulative assessment and a fun, multi-sensory enrichment activity wrap up each month's vocabulary instruction. A great way to integrate science into your language arts curriculum.

Watch students' vocabulary flourish as they read high-interest science text passages. Each weekly packet comes with three reproducible sheets that introduce four vocabulary words through a short, engaging article and reinforce students' learning through a variety of activities. A cumulative assessment and a fun, multi-sensory enrichment activity wrap up each month's vocabulary instruction. A great way to integrate science into your language arts curriculum.

Explore lively, unique celebrations around the world while also expanding students' vocabulary. Each weekly packet comes with three reproducible sheets that introduce six vocabulary words through a short, engaging article and reinforce students' learning through a variety of activities. A cumulative assessment and a fun, multi-sensory enrichment activity wrap up each month's vocabulary instruction. A great way to integrate social studies into your language arts curriculum.

How many ways can you answer a math question? In this book filled with open-ended problems, there is no one correct answer. Children learn to look at the same math problem in different ways and solve it using manipulatives, drawing, or writing. Because there is no single correct answer, each reproducible activity page can be reused multiple times as children's math skills grow throughout the year. A fun and engaging way to promote mathematical thinking!

Help young children develop critical thinking skills with open-ended problems, for which there is no one correct answer. Working in small groups, children use readily available manipulatives to explore various solutions and describe their answers through writing and drawing. Each activity page can be reused multiple times, using larger numbers as children become more adept at working with small numbers. A fun and engaging way to promote mathematical thinking!