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For primary-grade teachers who want to weave the traits into their writing program but are unsure where to begin, help has arrived! This book contain just what they need to get started: trait-focused lessons, activities, reproducibles, scoring guides, conference comments, scored sample papers, children's book lists, and teaching tips. But Culham and Coutu do more than provide ""stuff""; they provide reliable, levelheaded, easy-to-follow advice on applying the traits so teachers begin seeing results in their students' work from day one.For use with Grades K–2. ... Read more

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The activities in "Realistic Stories (7-9)" enable children to: identify characteristic features of realistic story writing; understand narrative structure - opening, conflict, development, and resolution; choose an issue to write about; develop the issue through the inclusion of dialogue; and, create strong believable characters who encourage empathy. ... Read more

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News Stories for ages 7-9 includes: *Opening sentences - who, what, when, where, how and why *Using quotations *Is it fact or opinion *Generating headlines *Laying out the front page ... Read more

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Each Scholastic Writing Guide focuses on one type of writing. You'll find titles for three different age groups: Instructions for ages 5-7 include: *The features of instructions *Using imperative verbs *Using diagrams *Writing recipes, games rules and safety instructions ... Read more

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Adventure Stories for ages 7-9 includes: *Devising exciting plots *Introducing uncertainty or danger *Controlling the pace *Using figurative language to create tension *Using cliffhangers ... Read more

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Realistic Stories for ages 9-11 includes: *Choosing an issue *Creating Strong, believable characters *Writing dramatic dialogue *Resolving the conflict *Creating realistic settings ... Read more

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The books in this series offer ready-made photocopiable activities plus teacher guidance that help teachers to do shared and guided writing with whole class and groups. Each book covers one specific writing type and aims to improve teacher confidence and knowledge about shared and guided writing, whilst providing them with the teaching resources they need to improve practice. Each book has four sections: Using Good Examples - two extracts to explore in shared writing activities to enable children (and teachers) to develop knowledge and understanding of the text type; Developing Writing - activities for exploring, practicing and planning elements of the text type; Writing - projects to help children to put their writing ideas and planning into written work; Review - ideas and photocopiables to get children to redraft, assess and improve their own writing. The activities in this title enable children to: structure subject matter; understand the characteristics of report writing (non-chronological, moves from general to particular, final summary); break away from accounting to reporting; create a picture in words; use comparative language. ... Read more

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The books in this series offer ready-made photocopiable activities plus teacher guidance that help teachers to do shared and guided writing with whole class and groups. Each book covers one specific writing type and aims to improve teacher confidence and knowledge about shared and guided writing, whilst providing them with the teaching resources they need to improve practice. Each book has four sections: Using Good Examples - two extracts to explore in shared writing activities to enable children (and teachers) to develop knowledge and understanding of the text type; Developing Writing - activities for exploring, practicing and planning elements of the text type; Writing - projects to help children to put their writing ideas and planning into written work; Review - ideas and photocopiables to get children to redraft, assess and improve their own writing.The activities in this title enable children to: identify characteristic features of persuasive writing; explore a variety of forms and purposes of persuasive writing; develop critical reading/writing skills, particularly in relation to identifying fact and opinion; experiment with manipulating reader response; put forward, argue and justify a point of view. ... Read more

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This is a series of books of ready-made photocopiable activities plus teacher guidance that help teachers to do shared and guided writing within a particular text type. Each book covers one specific writing type and aims to improve teacher confidence and knowledge and provide them with the teaching resources they need. Each book has 4 sections: Using Good Examples - two extracts to explore in shared writing activities to enable children (and teachers) to develop knowledge and understanding of the text type; Developing Writing - activities for exploring, practising and planning elements of the text type; Writing - projects to help children to put their writing ideas and planning together into written work; and, Review - ideas and photocopiables to get children to redraft, assess and improve their own writing. The activities in "Persuasive Writing (7-9)" enable children to: write advertisements, articles, letters, fliers and leaflets; structure an argument; identify fact and opinion; justify a point of view; and, manipulate their reader. ... Read more

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This book offers lively literacy lessons for children aged 5 to 11, including imagination and visualization, picture books, photographs, paintings, films and television, and comics. ... Read more

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This unique book was created to provide practice exercises for students as they learn cursive writing. Practice material is provided for cursive writers of all levels: those making the transition from manuscript; those needing practice withconnective strokes and upper- and lower-case letters; and those whose cursive just needs practice and polish. The book is filled with fun illustrations to capture your students' interest. ... Read more

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Leap Frog is AWESOME
I got this workbook, along with the Pre-K version and both the K and Pre-K Math and Basic Skills workbooks, for my 4- and 5-yr-old sons.

My older son, who will be starting kindergarten next month, has resisted anything having to do with school, he'd rather play.He's also hyperactive and has been delayed in speech and other development.But he and his little brother LOVE doing these.

We have a huge Leap Frog collection, and it's all because we have seen how well the kids are entertained AND learn a lot from it.

I would absolutely reccommend these workbooks to anyone with preschool or young elementary school kids.They're one of the few "educational" toys/books/videos that actually deliver. ... Read more

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An activity book for children at Reception level, designed to develop literacy. It is part of a series of seven volumes which cover the Word level, Sentence level and Text level objectives of the National Literacy Strategy Framework for Teaching from Reception to Year 6. Each title develops the children's skills in reading comprehension and writing composition for a variety of non-fiction texts. There are simple teaching notes in the introduction of the book, which should be useful for non-specialists and parents. ... Read more

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Each title in the "Writing Guides" series provides teachers with subject knowledge and photocopiable activities for shared, guided and independent writing on one particular genre. Each book has 4 sections: Using Good Examples - two extracts to explore in shared writing activities to enable children (and teachers) to develop knowledge and understanding of the text type; Developing Writing - activities for exploring, practising and planning elements of the text type; Writing - projects to help children to put their writing ideas and planning together into written work; and, Review - ideas and photocopiables to get children to redraft, assess and improve their own writing. The activities in "Poetry (5-7 yrs)" enable children to: write different verse forms, including rhymed, descriptive, alliterative poems; write short verses and tongue-twisters; enjoy wordplay and nonsense verse; create riddles; and, explore patterned verse using traditional and original counting-rhyme structures. ... Read more

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Tray Tasking teaches parents and educators how to engage children in activities that promote whole body preparation for reading and writing skills while having fun. Children use common household items in new ways that lead to strengthened eye and hand coordination for future reading and writing success. A child manipulates the items organized on a tray using movements that require them to engage their eyes, arms and hands in left-to-right and top-to-bottom directions—the same directions used for reading and writing. The tray arrangements promote respect for materials and orderliness in a child’s world, and they reinforces that there is a place for everything and everything should be in its place. Teachers will value the opportunities tray tasks provide for authentically assessing children, and they’ll find the Tray Task Chart useful in tracking children’s progress. This book guides parents and teachers in involving children in activities that promote whole body preparation for reading and writing skills while having fun. ... Read more

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Great tool for early chilhood teachers
This is a text book for my Science, Math, and Literacy class.It is really great and a must have.I took this to work with me and everyone wants one.I have to share it and I'm the one with homework! lol.We are implementing 3 activities next week.All these activites lead to language development.I like how a lot of the tasks get the children to cross the midline.What I like most is that it tells and shows you how to set up the activities so that a child that hasn't decided on which hand they like to use can choose for himself.If you set tools on the right side, the child will naturally pick it up with their right hand.If you set them on top then the child will have to think about which hand to use.

This book is long overdue!
At last not only a "workbook" for the early childhood professional but one that parents can share with their children. Great learning tools with everyday items found around the house. I saw Dr. Folds on the Health Network several years ago and it is about time she shared her endless well of ideas with early childhood pros and parents. ... Read more

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This is a series of books of ready-made photocopiable activities plus teacher guidance that help teachers to do shared and guided writing within a particular text type. Each book covers one specific writing type and aims to improve teacher confidence and knowledge and provide them with the teaching resources they need. Each book has 4 sections: Using Good Examples - two extracts to explore in shared writing activities to enable children (and teachers) to develop knowledge and understanding of the text type; Developing Writing - activities for exploring, practising and planning elements of the text type; Writing - projects to help children to put their writing ideas and planning together into written work; and, Review - ideas and photocopiables to get children to redraft, assess and improve their own writing. The activities in "Explanations (9-11 yrs)" enable children to: identify the characteristic features of explanation texts; make texts clear and interesting by sequencing the text; use causal and temporal connectives; and, use diagrams and technical terminology. ... Read more