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A unique, proven approach to anger management for elementary and middle-school aged children.
Anger is a natural human emotion, but if it isn't managed properly its effects can be devastating. Seeing Red is a curriculum designed to help elementary and middle-school aged students better understand their anger so they can make healthy and successful choices and build strong relationships. This completely revised and updated edition includes a comprehensive...
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MATH MAGIC revised edition is for all of us who need and want to improve our understanding of math. Flansburg makes math what you may never have imagined it to be: easy and fun.
Scott Flansburg's heartfelt belief is that there are no “mathematical illiterates,” just people who have not learned how to make math work for them. But millions of otherwise successful adults are afraid to balance their checkbooks and don't know how to figure...
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Studies show that short, 5- to 15-minute math activities at the beginning of class significantly increase student performance, class participation and overall number sense. This book offers teachers a go-to resource for these number talks with tons of ready-to-use activities that teachers can implement immediately.
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Change your child's future starting today: Learn how to use Stephen R. Covey's proven 7 Habits to create a leadership program for kids of all ages so they can be more effective, more goal oriented, and more successful. In today's world, we are inundated with information about who to be, what to do, and how to live. But what if there was a way to learn not just what to think about, but how to think? A program that taught how to manage priorities, focus...
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Scribble art is packed full of more than 200 open-ended process art activities that use common art supplies and household items. Process art builds children's confidence in their own ideas and choices by allowing them to choose from a selection of art supplies, and then embark on exploration, invention, free choice, and play with art. Children immerse themselves in the process of creating rather than following a predetermined outcome or product, a...
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"Classroom-ready number talks for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade teachers includes: number talk how-tos, questions to build understanding, grade-level specific strategies, visual and numerical examples, common core alignments, scaffolding suggestions." --Back cover.
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Not all children learn in the same way. Written by two educators, How Your Child is Smart identifies six patterns of learning and teaches parents how to help their children learn and communicate most effectively. Through simple questions, activities, and charts, parents can identify their child's pattern and learn how he or she can best be taught in school.
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A teacher discovers how reading, writing, and imagining can help children grow, change, and even sometimes survive
A few years back, children's-book writer Sam Swope gave a workshop to a third-grade class in Queens. So enchanted was he with his twenty-eight students that he "adopted" the class for three years, teaching them to write stories and poems. Almost all were new Americans (his class included students fom twenty-one countries) and Swope was...
14) The BIG Problem (and the squirrel who eventually solved it): understanding adjectives and adverbs
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"Introduces adjectives and adverbs as parts of speech through the telling of an original story"--
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If you learned science the "old" way, you may be having a hard time understanding what your kids are bringing home from school-- and why. Bloomfield explains the new requirements for learning concepts and applying them in practical ways, as well as tips for helping your child with homework and studying.
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What happens when an idealist volunteers to introduce Shakespeare to a group of unruly kids? Bedlam. Tears. And, hard lessons learned.
Convinced that children can relate to Shakespeare's themes- power, revenge, love- Mel Ryane launches The Shakespeare Club at a Los Angeles public school. Teaching Will is a riotous cautionary tale of high hopes and goodwill crashing into the realities of classroom chaos. Every week, Mel encounters unexpected comedy...
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