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.
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.
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.
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.
It was springtime in the far north, and the winter snow was melting. Inside her den, a mother wolf gave birth to a litter of cubs. Two of them survived Silver and Prince. Prince was stronger and always won fights against Sliver. But would Prince grow up to be leader of the pack?
Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
This is a bank of ideas designed to help teachers to develop the writing of primary-school pupils. It is concerned mainly with the compositional aspects of writing, rather than spelling, handwriting and punctuation, and consists of five main sections, dealing with writing stories and poems, writing for information, writing from reading, writing from personal experience, and redrafting and proof-reading.
Extensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level reading material for younger learners. Mr Bean is popular with children around the world for his eccentric and hilarious behaviour. In Mr Bean's Guide to London Mr Bean and Teddy visit all their favourite London sights, including the London Eye, Madame Tussaud's and Buckingham Palace!
