Education: Resources by Grade

Blast away learning loss for rising first grade students with fun theme-based units including language arts, mathematics, and critical and creative thinking activities. Support parents with everyday learning ideas and a handbook about today's standards.

Increase students' writing abilities in various text types through these easy-to-use activities. In creative, theme-based units, students will learn about the writing process through mentor texts and then apply what they have learned to their own writing.

Boost first-graders' reading comprehension and word study skills using 180 daily practice activities. Teachers and parents will find this resource perfect to use in the classroom or at home.

Provide first grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through the quick, diagnostic-based activities in this workbook.

A collection of fundamental knowledge of a wide range of subject areas, from language arts to technology, for first graders.

In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca's likably irreverent questioning, he also reveals his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools. Letters to a Young Teacherreignites a numberof the controversial issues Jonathan has powerfully addressed in recent years: the mania of high-stakes testing that turns many classrooms into test-prep factories where spontaneity and critical intelligence are no longer valued, the invasion of our public schools by predatory private corporations, and the inequalities of urban schools that are once again almost as segregated as they were a century ago. But most of all, these letters are rich with the happiness of teaching children, the curiosity and jubilant excitement children bring into the classroom at an early age, and their ability to overcome their insecurities when they are in the hands of an adoring and hard-working teacher.

Keep students sharp during the summer months with fun theme-based units including language arts, mathematics, and critical and creative thinking activities. Support parents with everyday learning ideas and a handbook about today's standards.

Increase students' writing abilities in various text types through these easy-to-use activities. In creative, theme-based units, students will learn about the writing process through mentor texts and then apply what they have learned to their own writing.

Provide second grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through the quick, diagnostic-based activities in this workbook.

What will your child be expected to learn in the second grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these all-important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that hundreds of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American second graders. Designed for parents and teachers to enjoy with children, featuring a new Introduction, this second-grade volume of the Core Knowledge Series presents the knowledge and skills that should be at the core of a challenging second-grade education.

Prepare students for third grade with fun theme-based units including language arts, mathematics, and critical and creative thinking activities. Support parents with everyday learning ideas and a handbook about successfully navigating today's standards.

This resource provides third grade teachers and parents of third grade students with 180 daily practice activities to build and gauge students reading comprehension and word study skills. Great for after school and intervention programs, students gain regular practice through these quick diagnostic-based activities.

Increase students' writing abilities in various text types through these easy-to-use activities. In creative, theme-based units, students will learn about the writing process through mentor texts and then apply what they have learned to their own writing.

Provide third grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through the quick, diagnostic-based activities in this workbook.

Are you interested in using argument-driven inquiry (ADI) for elementary instruction but just aren't sure how to do it? You aren't alone. Argument-Driven Inquiry in Third-Grade Science will provide you with both the information and instructional materials you need to start using this method right away. The book is a one-stop source of expertise, advice, and investigations. It's designed to help your third graders work the way scientists do while integrating literacy and math at the same time.

Blast away summer learning loss with fun theme-based units including language arts, mathematics, and critical and creative thinking activities. Support parents with everyday learning ideas and a handbook about today's standards.

Fourth grade is ground zero in the fierce debates about education reform in America. It's when kids (well, some of them) make the shift from 'learning to read' to 'reading to learn, ' and tomes have been written about the fourth-grade year by educators, administrators, philosophers, and pundits. Now ... Inda Schaenen adds the voices of actual fourth-grade kids to the conversation

Increase students' writing abilities in various text types through these easy-to-use activities. In creative, theme-based units, students will learn about the writing process through mentor texts and then apply what they have learned to their own writing.

Provide fourth grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through the quick, diagnostic-based activities in this workbook.

Provides essential knowledge for fourth grade children, including subject areas of language arts, fine arts, history, geography, mathematics, science, and technology.

Prevent learning loss and prepare students for fifth grade with fun theme-based units including language arts, mathematics, and critical and creative thinking activities. Support parents with everyday learning ideas and a handbook about today's standards.

Increase students' writing abilities in various text types through these easy-to-use activities. In creative, theme-based units, students will learn about the writing process through mentor texts and then apply what they have learned to their own writing.

Provide fifth grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through the quick, diagnostic-based activities in this workbook.

Provides descriptive cases, accompanied by analytic commentaries, of nine upper-elementary grade mathematics lessons that represent an array of sound teaching practices.

Increase students' writing abilities in various text types through these easy-to-use activities. In creative, theme-based units, students will learn about the writing process through mentor texts and then apply what they have learned to their own writing.

Provide sixth grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through the quick, diagnostic-based activities in this workbook.

Addressing the issues of educational equity and social class diversity, Donna Marie San Antonio documents the challenges adolescents face when making the transition from elementary school to middle school. The book explores the values, resources, and ways of interacting that students from diverse economic backgrounds bring from their families and communities, and how they are enabled or discouraged from integrating these assets in their new school environment.

Middle school is a time in children's lives when they experience tremendous changes: physically, emotionally, and socially. It is a very vulnerable stage when children are exposed to risky behaviors, intense peer pressure, and a possible academic decline. Parents need to be aware of the issues and challenges that their children face so that they can help to solve problems in a proactive manner. When parents work closely with school personnel, young adolescents are guided more effectively. The author, who has worked as a middle school counselor, reveals actual problems that a school counselor might encounter among students and provides vignettes of student situations and conversations with parents.

Student-friendly worksheets for grade 6 students reinforce classroom practices, and provides practice tests that pinpoint the student's strengths and weaknesses.

This book shows administrators and teachers what they can do to make their students' ninth grade experience a successful one. Practical and research-based, this book showcases strategies to help you reduce your dropout rate, enhance student achievement, and provide a safe environment for your ninth grade students.

Teaching Again exposes the very human core of the teaching experience. This book is not just about teaching English/language arts; it is about the heart and soul of the vocation that is teaching. It is also not just about Tom Poetter, the English teacher; it is about every individual who has ever tried to educate, whether that act has taken place in a classroom, a church or synagogue, a museum, or at the kitchen table. Teaching Again brings to life the dance of questions that vie for attention in the mind of a teacher: How do I convince students that they want to learn to what I'm trying to teach? How do I make them understand that this is really actually important to them? And, perhaps most important, how do I get them to like me, and my discipline, in the process? These are the questions that all good teachers ask themselves at the beginning, middle, and end of every single day of their professional lives. Every moment of teaching is a human transaction, and Tom brings us right into the middle of that transaction. He allows the reader to see and hear and feel the tension of the tightrope he has chosen to walk with these students. The reader is right there for the thrilling "ah-ha!" moments, and we experience the anguish of his defeats.

In this module, students learn about health through the perspectives of a cell biologist, nutrition scientist, biochemist, physiologist, public health practitioner, consumer, and citizen. Messages about being healthy permeate society. Students will develop an in-depth understanding of what the body needs to function properly by closely examining the topics of cell metabolism and structure. Students will work in teams to investigate healthy lifestyle, examining the physiological effects of exercise and nutrition on health. Further, students will identify factors that inhibit and enhance health and interview key stakeholders in their communities.

An experienced teacher and author, Carol Behrman helps students develop the sound foundation they need to become proficient writers throughout their lives. Included are a variety of easy--to--use reproducible activity sheets to provide review and application of basic language skills as well as extensive practice in producing the types of writing called for in standardized tests. The steps of the writing process are emphasized throughout.