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Boost student interest and understanding in the physical sciences!
Teaching physical science in the elementary and middle grades can be challenging for busy teachers faced with growing demands and limited resources. Robert Prigo provides fun and engaging activities using safe, available materials that educators can easily incorporate into lesson plans. Extensive examples, sample inquiry questions, and ideas for initiating units are readily available...
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Give your students the opportunity to think, discover, and learn together in social studies!
Teamwork helps students strengthen individual retention, improve performance, and promote meaning-making in the classroom. To give adolescent minds practice in critical thinking, the authors use their considerable teaching experience to present more than 40 problem-solving activities that are ready for immediate use in the social studies classroom.
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The Common Core is an important tool that schools use to help students get the most out of everything they read. The ability to summarize text is one that is needed from the earliest reading comprehension lesson up through high school, college, and beyond. Lengthy nonfiction passages are included in this comprehensive volume, along with expert reader advice, quiz questions, and charts that help to guide the reader through using his or her newly discovered...
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Newbery Medal-winning author Kwame Alexander shows how to shake up the traditional writing workshop using poetry and make writing fun again. Using his techniques and strategies, you'll invigorate the writing workshop and motivate even the most reluctant writers.
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Do you like to argue? Do you have any strong beliefs? Maybe you'd like to show other people your side of an issue-and you'd like to do it in writing. This book takes you through the steps of writing a persuasive piece from beginning to end. Learn how to find sources, gather the best possible evidence, and organize your evidence for maximum impact. Once you've done that, check out writing techniques that will make your readers take notice. Along the...
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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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"Book for middle school educators that focuses on building respectful and compassionate school environments and addresses prejudice, anger, exclusion, and bullying among students. Research-based lessons in the book teach students how to accept differences, resolve conflicts, stand up for others, and prevent peer bullying. Digital content includes student handouts"--
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Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high school English teacher Kelly Gallagher shares how he gets his students to stand next to and pay close attention to model writers, and how doing so elevates his students' writing abilities. --from publisher description
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Feeding students a steady diet of fiction is all too common in the classroom. Yet informational literacy is critical to success in school and beyond. In Make it Real, Linda Hoyt provides a practical, classroom-friendly guide to unlocking the treasures of informational texts. What's more, she demonstrates that reading and writing nonfiction can overcome the gender gap, allowing girls and boys to share interests in any subject from bugs and magnets...
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