StoryCraft

Author: Martha Seif Simpson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786492155
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
While storytelling is a great favorite of preschoolers, many elementary age children are more drawn to crafts and other activities. StoryCraft is an award-winning library program that combines storytelling with crafts in an exciting and engaging activity for children in first through third grades. Each one-hour program includes storytelling, a craft, movement, activities, music, and discussion. This collection of StoryCraft programs presents 50 fun and educational theme-based sessions. Each includes suggestions for promotion, music, crafts, activities, and stories. The sessions also include bibliographies to help direct young readers toward additional reading, as well as diagrams, detailed instructions, and supply lists for the crafts. The themes range from a Jungle Safari to Math Mayhem to a Western Roundup, all encouraging children to enjoy reading in a variety of ways. Each session has plenty of suggestions, so that the program can be customized. Helpful Hints for implementing the program can help any librarian, volunteer, or parent turn a ho-hum storytime into a dazzling StoryCraft time.

Family Involvement in Education

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Category : Experiential learning
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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The Science Chef Travels Around the World

Author: Karen E. D'Amico
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 9780471117797
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Discover the delicious answers as you satisfy your hunger forscience! The Science Chef Travels Around the World is serving up a feast offun with over 60 easy-to-do food experiments and recipes. Come andjoin the adventure! You'll travel to 14 fascinatingcountries--starting in Canada and ending in Ghana--and along theway you'll explore the science secrets of food. Why does orange soda fizz? Do vegetables really die when you pickthem? What makes peanut butter smooth? You'll discover thescientific answers to these and dozens of other yummy mysteries.Plus you'll get to make and eat Sizzling Mexican Chicken Fajitas,tasty Italian Cannoli, Awesome Chinese Egg Rolls, and many otherdelicious dishes. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced cook, you can become anInternational Science Chef, too. All experiments and recipes arekid-tested, include metric equivalents, and require only commoningredients and kitchen utensils. The Science Chef Travels Aroundthe World also includes rules for kitchen safety and a completenutrition guide.

How to Get Your Child to Love Reading

Author: Esmé Raji Codell
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 9781565123083
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 548

Book Description
Offers advice and guidelines on how to expand a child's world through books and reading, introducing three thousand teacher-recommended book titles, craft ideas, projects, recipes, and reading club tips.

The Complete Home Learning Sourcebook

Author: Rebecca Rupp
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
ISBN: 0609801090
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 882

Book Description
Lists all the resources needed to create a balanced curriculum for homeschooling--from preschool to high school level.

Bringing Math Home

Author: Suzanne L. Churchman
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569766886
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
This ultimate parents' guide to elementary school math features projects, games, and activities children and parents can do together to increase their understanding of basic math concepts. Fun activities such as mapping a child's bedroom for practice in measurements or keeping a diary of numeric items like vacation mileage and expenses reinforce the math skills outlined in each lesson. Using the standards issued by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics as a foundation, this book covers both content and process standards for areas such as algebra, geometry, measurement, problem solving, and reasoning/proofs. It also includes a glossary of math terms and dozens of suggestions for additional children's reading to further math understanding.

The Common Core Approach to Building Literacy in Boys

Author: Liz Knowles
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610696360
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Written with a focus on the English Language Arts Common Core Standards, this book provides a complete plan for developing a literacy program that focuses on boys pre-K through grade 12. Despite the fact that reading and literacy among boys has been an area of concern for years, this issue remains unresolved today. Additionally, the emphasis and focus have changed due to the implementation of the English Language Arts Common Core Standards. How can educators best encourage male students to read, and what new technologies and techniques can serve this objective? The Common Core Approach to Building Literacy in Boys is an essential resource and reference for teachers, librarians, and parents seeking to encourage reading in boys from preschool to 12th grade. Providing a wide array of useful, up-to-date information that emphasizes the English Language Arts Common Core Standards, the bibliographies and descriptions of effective strategies in this book will enable you to boost reading interest and performance in boys. The chapters cover 16 different topics of interest to boys, all accompanied by a complete bibliography for each subject area, discussion questions, writing connections, and annotated new and classic nonfiction titles. Information on specific magazines, annotated professional titles, books made into film, websites, and apps that will help you get boys interested in reading is also included.

Math Is Everywhere

Author: Gene Pease
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1475830491
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 175

Book Description
Math is Everywhere has 365 math activities you can do with your kids, right now! You could watch bugs, listen to music, or ride a bike. You’ll find ideas to entertain with math while waiting for a dentist appointment! You can make flubber or a real dirt cake that you can eat! You will not find any worksheets or artificial word problems, but your child probably will want to create some, so beware! You won’t need to buy a thing, unless it’s the groceries you and your child will use to make dinner. Math is Everywhere is a book for anyone who wants to answer the question, “When am I ever going to use this math?”

ENC Focus

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Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 1120

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Differentiated Instruction for the Middle School Math Teacher

Author: Karen E. D'Amico
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 078798468X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
Differentiated Instruction for the Middle School Math Teacher is a practical and easy-to-use resource for teaching a standards-based math curriculum to all learners. It gives you effective ways to present math concepts, shows how to provide opportunities for guided practice, and offers ideas for modifying the material to provide access to the same content standard for all students in the inclusive classroom. This book also contains key strategies for collaborating with other professionals, suggestions for involving the students' families by tying math concepts to students' everyday lives, and valuable assessment strategies. The lessons in the book cover middle school math topics correlated to the standards of the National Council of Teachers of Math, ranging from numbers and operations to problem solving and reasoning. Each lesson includes: Instructions for presenting the lesson to the whole class Worksheets designed to help review and reinforce theconcepts presented in each lesson A section on how to adapt the lesson for the inclusive classroom, including descriptions of different stations for different learners A home-school connection with family-based everyday math activities Suggestions for how to assess students' grasp of the concepts presented in the lesson