This book contains 20 stories of familiar "How to" activities, each told in four or six brief segments, that your students can cut and paste into a logical sequence. Each of the 20 stories is illustrated with line art of a fuzzy bear doing fun things like washing his dog, painting a fence or eating a pizza. The stories are written in simple sentences using pictures to illustrate difficult vocabulary.

Write a Super Sentence offers a classroom-tested method for improving basic sentence writing skills. Through step-by-step guided lessons students brainstorm adjectives, nouns, verbs, and where and when phrases, and use them to expand a simple sentence. Each of the 15 lessons contains: - a teacher resource page - a reproducible form on which students write their "super sentences." Suggested sentence topics range from: - kites - pizzas - spaceships - elephants - dinosaurs - bees - many more Additional features include: - directions for a super sentence writing center - directions for a ""silly...

The materials in Paragraph Writing are meant to be used for modeling and practicing the basic skills of paragraph writing. Teaching ideas, student reproducibles, and writing forms cover these topics: - identifying parts of a paragraph: main idea/topic sentence, supporting details - writing various types of paragraphs: descriptive, narrative, directions, compare & contrast - planning paragraphs using a web and an outline 21 different writing forms are provided. The writing center includes ready-to-use materials such as: - sentences to sequence to make paragraphs - picture cards to write about...

Second grade students practice language skills covering punctuation, verb tense, conjunctions, word meaning, and more in ten- to fifteen-minute daily lessons. This new edition has been completely updated to support Common Core methodology and skill practice, and includes: Practice of the Conventions of Standard English, Knowledge of Language, and Vocabulary Acquisition and Use for grade 2 Using language in the context of writing and reading Increased practice of academic and idiomatic vocabulary Exposure to sentences from all Common Core writing types (informational, narrative, and...

Provide your second-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.

Provide your third-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.

How to Write a Story, includes: - Setting the Stage for Writing-reading to your class, word walls, story walls - Teaching the Parts of a Story - Step-by-Step Writing Units Story Writing Ideas: - retell a fairy tale - a pattern story - a circle story - a sequence-and-write story A Story Writing Center: directions, forms, and patterns for 5 story-writing centers - Who, What, Where, When - Start with a Picture - Story Starters - Story Parts - Train Tales--each train car represents a different part of the story

How to Write a Story, Grades 4-6 is packed with easy-to-execute ideas and dozens of writing forms that will assist student in refining their sentence writing skills. Lessons and reproducibles to help students learn the parts of a story cover: - characters - setting - plot - conclusion Guidelines are presented for writing in six different genres: - realistic fiction - historical fiction - mystery - adventure - fantasy - science fiction

Each of the 23 topics in Draw...Then Write, Grades 4-6, contain the same four components. Use all four parts or customize the lessons to the needs of your students. After students have had some experience with the lessons, you may choose to place the lessons in a center. The 4 components are: - A chart showing the drawing steps - A reproducible with the drawing steps and space to draw - A reproducible with 3 variations on the topic and space to draw - A reproducible form that provides space for an original drawing of the subject, accompanied by directions and writing lines for writing a...

In Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice, Grade 2, students will learn 10 spelling words per week (300 total). Two sentences for dictation are provided for each list. Spelling lists include the following: - short and long vowel words - contractions - blends and digraphs - spellings for /er/ - variant vowel sounds such as ow, ou, oo - adding ed and ing Practice pages include the following: - a spelling list with spaces to read, write, and spell each word - a configuration puzzle for every spelling list - word sorting - word meaning (filling in missing spelling words in sentences) - exercises...