Resource/Activity Books

This math resource for first grade teachers provides everything you need to implement math workshop in your classroom.

Math Workshop for first grade provides complete small-group math instruction for these important topics:

• addition concepts
• time
• composing shapes
• making ten

Simple and easy-to-use, this teacher resource for first grade teachers complements any curriculum.

Like reading and writing workshops, math workshop is an instructional model that combines whole-group lessons with leveled guided math groups and independent practice. It allows teachers to give students direct, leveled instruction while providing opportunities for practice and skill review. Math Workshop for first grade simplifies the workshop method with a comprehensive introduction and over 25 step-by-step lessons. This teacher resource for first grade math also includes these helpful features:

• comprehensive lesson plans
• leveled practice pages
• hands-on activities for every lesson

The Math Workshop series for kindergarten through fifth grades gives teachers everything they need to implement the math workshop method. Each book contains 28 complete lessons, a thorough introduction, and reproducible game templates. Each lesson begins with an essential question, a warm-up activity, and a whole-group lesson. It is followed by three leveled small-group lessons and a short assessment. Lessons are rounded out with a practice worksheet for each small group and an activity to practice the skill. Teachers are also provided with math talk questions and a math journal prompt to extend learning. The Math Workshop series gives teachers the flexible tools needed to begin small-group math instruction.

Time-Saving interactive notebook templates that allow students to show what they know!

Interactive Notebooks: Science for first grade is a fun way to teach and reinforce effective note taking for students. Students become a part of the learning process with activities about living and nonliving things, habitats, states of matter, light, soil, weather, and more!

This book is an essential resource that will guide you through setting up, creating, and maintaining interactive notebooks for skill retention in the classroom. High-interest and hands-on, interactive notebooks effectively engage students in learning new concepts. Students are encouraged to personalize interactive notebooks to fit their specific learning needs by creating fun, colorful pages for each topic. With this note-taking process, students will learn organization, color coding, summarizing, and other important skills while creating personalized portfolios of their individual learning that they can reference throughout the year.

Spanning grades kindergarten to grade 8, the Interactive Notebooks series focuses on grade-specific math, language arts, or science skills. Aligned to meet current state standards, every 96-page book in this series offers lesson plans to keep the process focused. Reproducibles are included to create notebook pages on a variety of topics, making this series a fun, one-of-a-kind learning experience.

Features:

• Reproducible Rights

Parents are eager to help their children learn, but teaching young children complicated scientific and mathematical concepts can be intimidating. Simple STEAM helps parents realize they don't need to be engineers or scientists to support STEAM learning.

• Help children explore STEAM concepts with fun and engaging activities
• Discover STEAM learning opportunities in everyday activities and experiences
• Prepare children for kindergarten
• Build crucial 21st century learning skills, including collaboration, communication, creativity and problem solving, curiosity, and critical thinking

Enhance classroom data tracking for kindergarten language arts with instant assessments to record student growth.

Improve the way you monitor student progress in the classroom with Instant Assessments for Data Tracking: Language Arts for kindergarten. This book provides a variety of language arts assessments on grade-specific topics such as

• reading comprehension
• parts of speech
• phonics

Filled with ready-to-go language arts assessments, this teacher resource book simplifies data collection and gives you the tools you need to gather information to create an all-in-one data tracking binder. It features a variety of assessments that cover the skills and standards for the entire school year and helps you determine a student's or a class's skill level. This book includes:

• unit tests
• exit tickets
• traditional tests
• prompt cards for one-on-one assessments

Tracking a student's growth in language arts is easier than ever with Instant Assessments for Data Tracking. This series helps you stay ahead by offering a simple way to show proof of student growth—one assessment at a time!

• Monday–Friday: Full-page daily activities provide practice of grade-level language, math, and reading skills, focusing on one skill in each subject area.
• The daily lessons progress in difficulty as students move through Day 1 to Day 5, and the weekly units progress in difficulty throughout the year.

• Language: grammar, mechanics, usage, and syntax
• Math: algebraic expressions, ratios, rational numbers, problem solving, coordinate planes, graphing patterns, and statistics
• Reading: reading: theme/main idea, author's purpose, literary elements, author craft, inference, and analysis