Kids love to draw! "Let’s Draw Dogs and Cats" provides easy-to-follow, step-by-step illustrations to help kids draw 10 different kinds of dogs and 5 different kinds of cats. Favorites include: Scottish Terrier, Siberian Husky, Dalmatian, German Shepherd, Bulldog, White Persian, Calico, and the Black Silver Mackerel Tabby! Kids will spend hours of fun drawing and then coloring in their new creations. Also included are tips on learning to draw which will help kids meet success!
Learn how to draw your favorite furry friend! With these simple templates from Chris Hart, the world's bestselling art instruction author, any pet owner can do it. Hart's templates work for pups and kitties of just about any shape and size--from dachshunds and Bernese Mountain Dogs to tabbies and Siamese. You'll get adorable results worthy of framing . . . no matter your skill level.
A valuable, one-stop guide to collection development and finding ideal subject-specific activities and projects for children and teens. For busy librarians and educators, finding instructions for projects, activities, sports, and games that children and teens will find interesting is a constant challenge. This guide is a time-saving, one-stop resource for locating this type of information—one that also serves as a valuable collection development tool that identifies the best among thousands of choices, and can be used for program planning, reference and readers' advisory, and curriculum support. Build It, Make It, Do It, Play It! identifies hundreds of books that provide step-by-step instructions for creating arts and crafts, building objects, finding ways to help the disadvantaged, or engaging in other activities ranging from gardening to playing games and sports. Organized by broad subject areas—arts and crafts, recreation and sports (including indoor activities and games), and so forth—the entries are further logically organized by specific subject, ensuring quick and easy use.
Master the Essentials of Illustrating Your Favorite Animals! Grab your pencil, whip out your sketchbook and get ready to draw! In this must-have book for beginners, beloved artist Jennifer Rae Phillips showcases her best step-by-step tutorials to take your animal drawings to the next level. Learn to break down each species’ complicated anatomy into basic shapes with ease and watch as your illustrations come to life. Start off with simple structures of adorable dogs and feisty felines as they lounge, sit and stretch. Then capture more dynamic poses with projects featuring animals in motion, such as a bucking bronco or an eagle in flight. You can also use the mini-tutorials at the end of the chapters to understand how adjusting certain features, like the width of a muzzle or the tips of feathers, will allow you to create any breed—real or imagined! Take the next step in your artistic journey with this menagerie of classic animal tutorials, and let your imagination run wild.
Excellent line drawings and annotations of anatomical structure provide the beginning artist with just about everything one needs to know about drawing all parts of the human anatomy. 179 black-and-white illustrations.
180 Days of Problem Solving is a fun and effective daily practice workbook designed to help students improve critical-thinking and reasoning skills. This easy-to-use kindergarten workbook is great for at-home learning or in the classroom. The engaging standards-based activities cover grade-level skills with easy to follow instructions and an answer key to quickly assess student understanding. Students will focus on one skill each week to learn the problem-solving process: think, plan, solve, and explain. Watch as students build problem solving skills with these quick learning activities.Parents appreciate the teacher-approved activity books that keep their child engaged and learning. Great for homeschooling, to reinforce learning at school, or prevent learning loss over summer.Teachers rely on the daily practice workbooks to save them valuable time. The ready to implement activities are perfect for daily morning review or homework. The activities can also be used for intervention skill building to address learning gaps.
With the Cats & Kittens Drawing & Activity Book, learn how to draw 17 different breeds of cats and kittens by tracing, grid drawing, and step-by-step drawing! This interactive drawing and activity book features a variety of cats and kittens you can learn to draw, from Persians and Ragdolls to Bengals and British Shorthairs. Filled with fun facts, quizzes, and puzzles, the Cats & Kittens Drawing & Activity Book provides hours of feline entertainment! Inside, three different drawing methods are featured: tracing, grid drawing, and step-by-step drawing. Five tracing pages are included so you can trace. Then try the grid method—just copy the lines and shapes into the corresponding square on the blank practice grid provided. You will also learn the same step-by-step method used by professional artists: the basic shapes method. To draw cats like the pros do, just follow the illustrations that show how each step builds upon the last to create a finished piece of artwork. Look closely at the new lines in each step and draw the cat on the practice page provided after each basic shapes project. Find the technique that works the best for you, and draw your favorite cats and kittens over and over again! Plus, learn some fun facts about the different cat breeds as you learn to draw them. Activities include a cat breed word search, a sudoku, and a maze to help a playful kitten find its way to a toy mouse. With fascinating facts, fun activities, and practice pages encouraging you to get started directly in the pages of the book, Cats & Kittens Drawing & Activity Book is the purrrfect book for curious budding artists.
To be successful, students must be able to comprehend the nonfiction material they encounter in textbooks, reference materials, and testing situations. The ability to interpret nonfiction information depends on the development of several key skills and strategies: Main Idea/Supporting Details Using Text Organizers Summarizing/Paraphrasing Using Parts of the Book Developing Vocabulary Making Inferences Prior Knowledge/Making Connections Setting the Purpose Author's Point of View Questioning Structural Patterns Visualizing This systematic approach to reading instruction, coupled with repeated exposure to a wide variety of nonfiction reading materials, provides a structure in which students can achieve significant growth. Each book has a CD with graphic organizers (for use with Inspiration®) and activity templates (for use with Microsoft Word®).