Triangles
Author: Sarah L. Schuette
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780736850636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSimple text and illustrations show triangles in everyday objects. Includes an activity.
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Triangle for Adaora
Author: Ifeoma Onyefulu
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
Published: 2007-03-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1845077385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Adaora asks to see something in the shape of a triangle, her cousin goes on a search through his African village where he shows her various shapes on the different plants, animals, and other things around them. Reprint.
Using Paired Text to Meet the Common Core
Author: William Bintz
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Published: 2014-12-17
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1462519016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTeaching students to make connections across related texts promotes engagement and improves reading comprehension and content learning. This practical guide explains how to select and teach a wide range of picture books as paired text--two books related by topic, theme, or genre--in grades K-8. The author provides mini-lessons across the content areas, along with hundreds of recommendations for paired text, each linked to specific Common Core standards for reading literature and informational texts. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 22 reproducible graphic organizers and other useful tools. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.
Stepping Stones to Creativity
Author: Judith Harris
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Published: 2013-04-17
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 190910101X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis guide contains four books-worth of creative activities for the early years in one bumper-value guide. Perfect to dip into, this gem of a guide features: - Hundreds of easy-to-follow activities that cover 40 of the most popular early years topics - Each topic contains ideas for singing, dance, movement, storytelling, art and design, and drama - An easy-reference key showing which of the Creative Development Early Learning Goals are being explored An essential for anyone wanting new and creative ideas for use in topic work with the early years. This book is a compendium of all the activities from the following four Stepping Stones to Creativity titles: Dance and Movement; Design, Art and Modelling; Stories, Songs and Rhymes and Drama and Role Play.
Let’s Learn and Play!, Ages 2 - 5
Author: Gunzenhauser
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Published: 2010-06-11
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1602689326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrepare opportunities for purposeful play with students in grades PK–K using Let's Learn and Play! This 160-page book is a comprehensive resource for creating purposeful play centers that help students solve problems, experiment, navigate social situations, and prepare for learning. These well-designed, modifiable center ideas allow teachers to put a personal stamp on the classroom. The book supports NAEYC standards.
Educating African American Students
Author: Gloria Swindler Boutte
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-08-20
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1317485327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocused on preparing educators to teach African American students, this straightforward and teacher-friendly text features a careful balance of published scholarship, a framework for culturally relevant and critical pedagogy, research-based case studies of model teachers, and tested culturally relevant practical strategies and actionable steps teachers can adopt. Its premise is that teachers who understand Black culture as an asset rather than a liability and utilize teaching techniques that have been shown to work can and do have specific positive impacts on the educational experiences of African American children.
YogaKids
Author: Marsha Wenig
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 161312807X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe innovative YogaKids® program offers more than just poses: It blends traditional yoga and its benefits with new theories of multiple learning styles in a comprehensive, imaginative, and playful approach to education. The best-selling YogaKids® video (a Parent's Choice award winner) has been helping kids—and their parents—discover the pleasures and benefits of yoga for more than seven years. With this book, Marsha Wenig's fun and child-friendly course is expanded and enriched for parents, teachers, and caregivers. YogaKids® presents more than 50 carefully selected poses, in clear, easy-to-follow, color photographs, paired with special activities that stimulate children's verbal, spatial, and artistic skills. The book includes special yoga routines to cover a multitude of common situations, such as calming down, getting ready for a test, or even riding in a car, as well as help for children with special needs. Parents learn the physical and emotional benefits of each pose; children discover that learning is fun, that exercise feels good, and that taking care of their bodies is easy. - Designed for kids and adults to use together - Integrates yoga with verbal, spatial, and mathematical learning - Follow-up to the best-selling YogaKids® video, a Parents' Choice award winner - Two new videos to be released this fall - National author tour - National print and broadcast publicity - Online marketing
Hey Kids! Out the Door, Let's Explore!
Author: Rhoda Redleaf
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1933653914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInfluenced by the Reggio approach to expose children to their community through inexpensive walking trips.
Enriching Mathematics in the Primary Curriculum
Author: Sue Pope
Publisher: Learning Matters
Published: 2019-03-11
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1526489686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do I enrich children′s learning of primary mathematics to bring the subject to life? This book inspires and supports you, the new and beginning teacher, to use talk-rich and open tasks that bring mathematics to life in your classroom. Tried and loved practical tasks that engage and motivate Supports you to create confident and resilient mathematicians in your classroom Explores ways to engage children in mathematics across the primary curriculum Focuses on understanding key mathematical concepts and the connections between them
A Picture Book Primer
Author: Denise I. Matulka
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2008-09-30
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 0313363560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEverything you want to know about picture books can be found in this simple and straightforward guide. After defining the picture book and describing its history and technological evolution, the author helps you better understand and appreciate picture books by describing how they're made-their anatomy, types of illustration, layouts, design elements, and typography-various types of picture books (genres, formats, styles), how picture books work (the art of the story), and how they relate to child development and literacy. Picture book reviews, building a collection, using picture books with various age groups, and issues such as multicultural literature, classics, and controversial titles are some of the other topics covered.
