This PM Story Book Teachers' Guide will help teachers and children gain the maximum benefit from the 18 books at Silver Level. The guide features: ' activities which focus on meaning in the story ' suggestions for across-the-curriculum activities ' blackline masters for the children to complete ' lists of books to share and compare ' examples and pro formas of reading record sheets and language monitoring checks to assist busy teachers with assessment.
The PM Teacher's Guides offer invaluable support and guidance to help you gain the maximum benefit from each of the Story Books, Non-fiction Books and Traditional Tales and Plays.
The PM Plus Teachers' Guide Red Levels 3-5 provides suggestions for small-group teaching using the chapter books and non-fiction titles. Each set of teachers notes includes a text features of each book including key vocabulary, grammatical conventions, spelling and visual literacy components a a variety of comprehension questions at the literal, inferential and critical levels a suggested activities for going beyond the text a two blackline masters for each text designed to provide practice in specific reading and writing skills a a computer task blackline master to enhance students' understanding of the text using ICT skills The Teachers' Guide also provides ideas for assessment and an overview of a balanced reading program.
The PM Teacher's Guides offer invaluable support and guidance to help you gain the maximum benefit from each of the Story Books, Non-fiction Books and Traditional Tales and Plays.
This PM Traditional Tales and Plays Teachers' Guide will help teachers and children gain the maximum benefit from the six well-known traditional tales at Silver Level. The guide features: ' suggestions for introducing children to the tale at the guided reading level ' a double page of activities for each book to extend children's language, including books to share and compare ' suggestions for using the plays as acting scripts by children who are just beginning to be fluent readers ' blackline masters of templates for making masks for the characters in the plays.
This PM Animal Facts: Polar Animals Teachers' Guide will help teachers and children gain the maximum benefit from the six books at Silver Level. The guide features: ' direction for introducing children to non-fiction text ' a double page of activities for each book which focus on meaning in the text ' lists of books to share and compare.
The PM Teacher's Guides offer invaluable support and guidance to help you gain the maximum benefit from each of the Story Books, Non-fiction Books and Traditional Tales and Plays.
Play is serious business. Whether it's reenacting a favorite book (comprehension and close reading), negotiating the rules for a game (speaking and listening), or collaborating over building blocks (college and career readiness and STEM), Kristi Mraz, Alison Porcelli, and Cheryl Tyler see every day how play helps students reach standards and goals in ways that in-their-seat instruction alone can't do. And not just during playtimes. "We believe there is play in work and work in play," they write. "It helps to have practical ways to carry that mindset into all aspects of the curriculum." In Purposeful Play, they share ways to: optimize and balance different types of play to deepen regular classroom learning teach into play to foster social-emotional skills and a growth mindset bring the impact of play into all your lessons across the day. "We believe that play is one type of environment where children can be rigorous in their learning," Kristi, Alison, and Cheryl write. So they provide a host of lessons, suggestions for classroom setups, helpful tools and charts, curriculum connections, teaching points, and teaching language to help you foster mature play that makes every moment in your classroom instructional. Play doesn't only happen when work is over. Children show us time and time again that play is the way they work. In Purposeful Play, you'll find research-driven methods for making play an engine for rigorous learning in your classroom.
The important thing about The Important Book -- is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to). For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things -- like rain and wind, apples and daisies -- is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. 'A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.' -- K.
