Our Crazy Class Election

Our Crazy Class Election
Author: Timothy Roland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780545004015

While trying to find material for his school newspaper comic strip, fifth-grader Guy Maloney finds himself running for homeroom president against Tank, the school's biggest bully, and Ollie, the science room pet monkey.

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Dear Mr. Henshaw
Author: Beverly Cleary
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0061972150

Newbery Medal Winner * Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children * ALA Notable Children’s Book Beverly Cleary’s timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecurity, and bullying through the thoughts and emotions of a sixth-grade boy as he writes to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw. After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father, Leigh loses himself in a class assignment in which he must write to his favorite author. When Mr. Henshaw responds, the two form an unexpected friendship that will change Leigh’s life forever. From the beloved author of the Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse series comes an epistolary novel about how to navigate and heal from life’s growing pains.

A Letter from Your Teacher

A Letter from Your Teacher
Author: Shannon Olsen
Publisher: Life Between Summers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-03
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781735414140

From the author and illustrator of Our Class is a Family, this touching picture book expresses a teacher's sentiments and well wishes on the last day of school. Serving as a follow up to the letter in A Letter From Your Teacher: On the First Day of School, it's a read aloud for teachers to bid a special farewell to their students at the end of the school year. Through a letter written from the teacher's point of view, the class is invited to reflect back on memories made, connections formed, and challenges met. The letter expresses how proud their teacher is of them, and how much they will be missed. Students will also leave on that last day knowing that their teacher is cheering them on for all of the exciting things to come in the future. There is a blank space on the last page for teachers to sign their own name, so that students know that the letter in the book is coming straight from them. With its sincere message and inclusive illustrations, A Letter From Your Teacher: On the Last Day of School is a valuable addition to any elementary school teacher's classroom library.

Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension

Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension
Author: Classroom Complete Press
Publisher: Classroom Complete Press
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1771673834

58 color reproducible graphic organizers to help your students comprehend any book or piece of literature in a visual way. Our graphic organizers enable readers to see how ideas fit together, and can be used to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your students' thought processes. Our graphic organizers are essential learning tools that will help your students construct meaning and understand what they are reading. They will help you observe your students' thinking process on what you read as a class, as a group, or independently, and can be used for assessment. They include: Story Maps, Plot Development, Character Webs, Predicting Outcomes, Inferencing, Foreshadowing, Characterization, Sequencing Maps, Cause-Effect Timelines, Themes, Story Summaries and Venn Diagrams.

Productive Math Struggle

Productive Math Struggle
Author: John J. SanGiovanni
Publisher: Corwin
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2020-03-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1544369433

All students face struggle, and they should—it is how they learn and grow. The teacher’s job is not to remove struggle, but rather to value and harness it, helping students develop good habits of productive struggle. But what’s missing for many educators is an action plan for how to achieve this, especially when it comes to math. This book guides teachers through six specific actions—including valuing, fostering, building, planning, supporting, and reflecting on struggle—to create a game plan for overcoming obstacles by sharing · Actionable steps, activities, and tools for implementation · Instructional tasks representative of each grade level · Real-world examples showcasing classroom photos and student work

Big Nate Makes the Grade

Big Nate Makes the Grade
Author: Lincoln Peirce
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1449425666

Nate goes up against Gina, the class brainiac.

Snowman's Story

Snowman's Story
Author: Will Hillenbrand
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781477847879

A wordless picture book in which a snowman comes to life with the help of his animal friends and a very special black hat.

Reinventing Comics

Reinventing Comics
Author: Scott McCloud
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2000-07-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0060953500

In 1993, Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture with the acclaimed international hit Understanding Comics, a massive comic book that explored the inner workings of the worlds most misunderstood art form. Now, McCloud takes comics to te next leavle, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are created, read, and preceived today, and how they're poised to conquer the new millennium. Part One of this fascinating and in-depth book includes: The life of comics as an art form and as literture The battle for creators' rights Reinventing the business of comics The volatile and shifting public percptions of comics Sexual and ethnic representation on comics Then in Part Two, McCloud paints a brethtaling picture of comics' digital revolutions, including: The intricacies of digital production The exploding world of online delivery The ultimate challenges of the infinite digital canvas

Ditch That Textbook

Ditch That Textbook
Author: Matt Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-04-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781946444257

Textbooks are symbols of centuries-old education. They're often outdated as soon as they hit students' desks. Acting "by the textbook" implies compliance and a lack of creativity. It's time to ditch those textbooks--and those textbook assumptions about learning In Ditch That Textbook, teacher and blogger Matt Miller encourages educators to throw out meaningless, pedestrian teaching and learning practices. He empowers them to evolve and improve on old, standard, teaching methods. Ditch That Textbook is a support system, toolbox, and manifesto to help educators free their teaching and revolutionize their classrooms.

Summertime Learning, Grade 3

Summertime Learning, Grade 3
Author: Teacher Created Resources, Inc
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2010-04
Genre: Language arts (Primary)
ISBN: 142068843X

Heres the question parents ask at the end of every school year: How can we help our kids prepare for the next school year, while allowing them to enjoy their summer vacation? Heres the perfect answer: short lessons presented in a daily schedule for 8 weeks. The MondayThursday lessons cover a variety of grade-appropriate subjects. Fridays lessons are fun, brain-teasing kinds of activities. All of the lessons can be done in about 30 minutes, leaving children with plenty of time for play. Each book includes over 300 stickers that can be used to track progress and reward good work.