Writing Poetry with Childrenhas everything you need to help children write poetry. This valuable resource includes these poetry forms: - couplets - cinquain - haiku - limericks - shape poems - acrostic poems Each poetry lesson provide samples of the poetry form and step-by-step lessons on three levels of difficulty: - Level 1--students are guided through all the steps to write a poem - Lever 2--students are guided through the first few steps and then complete the poem independently - Level 3--students write independently, following the guides on a "How to" chart and a reproducible...

Provide your first-grade students with 10 to 15 minutes of daily math practice specifically developed to meet Common Core The frequent, focused practice improves math skills, and each title includes downloadable home-school connection activities. How it works: Students complete five short math problems on days 1-4. The day 5 activity provides more extensive practice and asks students to think critically.

We're Doing What for Summer Vacation? is a nonfiction story told by Ali, a typical ten-year-old American girl who spent the summer traveling on a budget across Borneo with her older brother and parents. Ali just wanted to be a normal kid with a normal family spending summer vacation at the beach in Florida. Unfortunately, she has former hippie parents that wanted a big summer adventure. This was not her idea of summer fun On her adventure, she lived in a tree house, experienced bedbugs, learned a little about Muslim culture, ate strange food, went white-water rafting, got trapped in a...

We're Doing What for Summer Vacation? is a nonfiction story told by Ali, a typical ten-year-old American girl who spent the summer traveling on a budget across Borneo with her older brother and parents. Ali just wanted to be a normal kid with a normal family spending summer vacation at the beach in Florida. Unfortunately, she has former hippie parents that wanted a big summer adventure. This was not her idea of summer fun On her adventure, she lived in a tree house, experienced bedbugs, learned a little about Muslim culture, ate strange food, went white-water rafting, got trapped in a...

Thirteen-year-old Ernestine Wilson--call her Ernie or else--and her family move into a spooky oceanfront house. Rumors of ghosts abound. Ernie doesn't believe the rumors until she comes face to face with a ghost who begs for help finding her killer. Ernie is soon up to her baseball cap in Whales: a mysterious whale-watching boat, whale buttons, silver whale jewelry and a stolen whale pin. Which are important? Which not? There are just too many whales