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This practical guide provides easy-to-follow directions for making 30 irresistible pocket charts. Build early literacy skills with poems, songs, predictable stories, and more..
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Are Yellow Spotted Lizards real? Is there a real rock formation called God's Thumb? Is there even a desert in Texas? Use this Cross-Curricular Guide for Holes to drive your students across the curriculum solving questions about the book as you go. The fuel for the trip is student enthusiasm. Natural student curiosity about the book compels students to learn more about everything related to it. Cross-curricular lessons are better than literature guides alone, since kids will see the interrelatedness of things and learn to build connections like that on their own. Holes, a fascinating book by author Louis Sachar, has received numerous awards including the John Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and is an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. The reasons for the book's popularity are clear-it is an intriguing, engrossing tale that grabs the reader's attention from the first page and never lets go until the end. The premise for a companion manual to use with Holes was the same-create lessons that keep students engrossed with one foot in the story as they put the other foot on new material. That way, they tackle new information and ideas as if they are old friends. The energy students have for the book carries over into these lessons.

This manual was written by two teachers and is simple to use. Materials are classroom-tested, kid approved, and fun! Activities are multicultural, multi-level and require students to use their higher-level thinking skills in intriguing ways. Clear instructions are given for hands-on projects, centers, Internet research, teambuilding, core subject lessons and art. Standard and alternative methods of assessment have been included. All lessons are teacher and substitute friendly..
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The lives and music of the great composers come alive with the Composers' Specials Video Series, and this innovative, easy-to-use teacher's guide lets you create an entire curriculum for your elementary and middle school music classes The guide offers a variety of lesson plans to accompany the video stories of these world-famous composers: Bach, Handel, Rossini, Liszt, Strauss and Bizet. You and your students will enjoy dozens of creative activities, including easy-to-follow listening maps that highlight selections of music from each of the soundtrack CDs. These and many more reproducible student activities give you all you need for an entire unit of study that makes learning fun and motivational! The Composers' Specials Video Series (from Devine Entertainment) includes: Bach's Fight For Freedom, Handel's Last Chance, Rossini's Ghost, Liszt's Rhapsody, Strauss: The King of Three-Quarter Time, and Bizet's Dream..
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This collection of books features educationally-based articles and stories that will appeal to students of all ages and are appropriate for specific grade levels. This innovative series is designed to give the substitute teacher an excellent system for measuring each student s efforts with teaching material that meets the criteria for the National Standards objectives in the classroom. Each story/article presents interesting and fun facts pertaining to the subject addressed. With the purchase of each focused book, permission is granted to make copies of each article and the included exercises and activities for every student in the class. Also, as purchaser (one book per teacher), you may take the books with you from class to class or even school to school as needed. Opportunities are provided for challenging those students who finish quickly or for the class that wishes to learn more about the article s subject matter. Through pencil to paper activities, website research, reading comprehension, geographic and math questions, it is possible to use the articles for either a quick break between other subjects or as complete, comprehensive units. Flexibility and accountability are the ingredients that make this series the perfect solution for the substitute teacher s needs the moment they walk into a new classroom - and be successful!.
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Around The World Through Holidays: Cross Curricular Readers Theatre includes scripts for twelve plays adaptable for any of the reading or performance methods of Readers Theatre presentation. Each play introduces students to a specific world culture by looking at holidays celebrated in that culture. The structure of the book introduces holidays chronologically throughout a calendar year--one play per month. The focus is on literacy and social studies, so the book is not tied to the traditional nine-month school calendar. Any play can be read when the student is studying its culture, rather than during the month in which the holiday is celebrated. In addition to social studies and literacy activities, science and math activities are also included. Suggestions for creating a classroom party to celebrate each holiday and helpful appendices are included as well. Grade level 4-6..
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