Developing Number Sense

Developing Number Sense
Author: Rusty Bresser
Publisher: Math Solutions
Total Pages: 191
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0941355233

Imaginative lessons give students practice with mental computation, basic operations, navigating the number system, and estimation. Content is crafted to show that number sense is not a specific skill, but encompasses a student’s ability to think and reason flexibly and make sound numerical judgments.

Teaching Beginner ELLs Using Picture Books

Teaching Beginner ELLs Using Picture Books
Author: Ana Lado
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-09-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452279594

Picture your beginning ELLs reading their way to success! For beginning ELLs, a picture really is worth a thousand words! Picture books are useful tools for building important language and social foundations that students may miss through traditional instruction. Ana Lado provides all the tools you’ll need to engage ELLs of any age with picture books, including how to: Design lessons around picture books Select appropriate titles using specific criteria Incorporate fun and engaging strategies like singing and reenacting Access the book’s searchable online database to find the right book Integrate picture-book learning to facilitate development of English Language Proficiency

Place Value, Grades K - 6

Place Value, Grades K - 6
Author: Graham
Publisher: Key Education Publishing
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2010-06-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 160268927X

Make math matter to students in grades K–6 using Place Value! This 64-page book helps students, especially struggling learners, understand the base-ten system. This book contains reproducible base-ten models, practice pages, assessments, games, and Web sites. It covers topics such as naming and writing numerals, counting, using expanded notation, ordering and comparing numbers, and applying knowledge about numbers. The book supports NCTM standards.

Hands-On Social Studies for Manitoba, Grade 2

Hands-On Social Studies for Manitoba, Grade 2
Author: Jennifer Lawson
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1553790057

This teacher resource offers a detailed introduction to the program, which includes its guiding principles, implementation guidelines, an overview of the social studies skills that grade 2 students use and develop, and a classroom assessment plan complete with record-keeping templates and connections to the Achievement Levels outlined in the WCNP Social Studies Curriculum. The resource has three instructional units: Unit 1: Our Local Community Unit 2: Communities in Canada: Lunenburg Unit 3: The Canadian Community Each unit is divided into lessons that focus on specific curricular outcomes. Each lesson has materials lists activity descriptions questioning techniques activity centre and extension ideas assessment suggestions activity sheets and visuals

Good Books Matter

Good Books Matter
Author: Shelley Stagg Peterson
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1551382326

Based on extensive research on the features that make children's books appealing and appropriate, this valuable teacher resource offers guidance on selecting books, strategies for specific grade levels, suggestions for extension, and tips for assessment. This teacher-friendly book is organized around the major genres -- traditional literature, picture books, nonfiction, poetry, and multicultural texts -- that will inspire young readers. Throughout the book, teachers will find suggestions for using literature to implement shared reading, reading aloud, and response strategies with emergent, developing, and independent readers.

New Visions for Linking Literature and Mathematics

New Visions for Linking Literature and Mathematics
Author: David Jackman Whitin
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Features math-related literature and offers suggestions for using it effectively in the K-6 classroom. Also includes specific criteria for evaluating math-related books and explicit connections between mathematics and English language arts Standards.

How Long or How Wide?

How Long or How Wide?
Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: Lerner Digital ™
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1512478768

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Brian Cleary and Brian Gable bring their trademark sense of humor to the subject of measuring length. A rhyming text filled with funny examples explains how to use and compare metric and U.S. customary units of length. Readers are also introduced to the tools they need to measure length—rulers, metersticks, and more.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Author: Brian Selznick
Publisher: Scholastic
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2015-09-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1407166573

An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopardy. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!

A Little Life

A Little Life
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804172706

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.