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 They're often outdated as soon as they hit students' desks.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.

50 Ways to Teach Social Studies for Elementary Teachers

50 Ways to Teach Social Studies for Elementary Teachers
Author: S. Kay Gandy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2021-06-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475860706

If you are searching for ideas to teach social studies in fun and meaningful ways, 50 Ways to Teach Social Studies is a book that provides a plethora of ideas of practical lessons connected to real-world topics that will save the busy teacher time and effort. The activities in this book are housed under themes and include content connections (civics, history, geography, economics), guiding questions, and literacy connections. From community, primary sources, and music to food, visual media, and experiential learning, this book will inspire you to make connections in your own environment to expand the teaching of social studies.

Comic Strip Conversations

Comic Strip Conversations
Author: Carol Gray
Publisher: Future Horizons
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1994
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781885477224

Carol Gray combines stick-figures with "conversation symbols" to illustrate what people say and think during conversations. Showing what people are thinking reinforces that others have independent thoughts--a concept that spectrum children don't intuitively understand. Children can also recognize that, although people say one thing, they may think something quite different--another concept foreign to "concrete-thinking" children. Children can draw their own "comic strips" to show what they are thinking and feeling about events or people. Different colors can represent different states of mind. These deceptively simple comic strips can reveal as well as convey quite a lot of substantive information. The author delves into topics such as: What is a Comic Strip Conversation? The Comic Strip Symbols Dictionary Drawing "small talk" Drawing about a given situation Drawing about an upcoming situation Feelings and COLOR

Presidents' Day Activities

Presidents' Day Activities
Author: Teacher Created Materials
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Total Pages: 19
Release: 1996
Genre: Creative activities and seat work
ISBN: 1557347891

Comic Coloring Book

Comic Coloring Book
Author: Matt Steel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2015-11-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781518854057

Comic Book inspired coloring book I Love Onomatopoeia! by Matt Steel. Enter the world of comic onomatopoeia on an inky challenge to color over 70 comic book inspired onomatopoeia designs!Includes FREE wallpaper app and member website ILoveOnomatopoeia.com

Reading With Pictures

Reading With Pictures
Author: Josh Elder
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2014-08-05
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1449460194

Comics have gone from "scourge of the classroom" to legitimate teaching tools, and the Common Core State Standards for scholastic achievement now explicitly recommend their use in the classroom. Reading With Pictures: Comics That Make Kids Smarter unites the finest creative talents in the comics industry with the nation's leading experts in visual literacy to create a game-changing tool for the classroom and beyond. This full-color volume features more than a dozen short stories (both fiction and nonfiction) that address topics in Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, and Science, while offering an immersive textual and visual experience that kids will enjoy. Highlights include George Washington: Action President by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey, Doctor Sputnik: Man of Science by Roger Langridge, The Power of Print by Katie Cook, and many more. Includes a foreword by Printz and Eisner Award-winning author Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Boxers and Saints). A downloadable Teachers' Guide includes standards-correlated lesson plans customized to each story, research-based justifications for using comics in the classroom, a guide to establishing best classroom practices, and a comprehensive listing of educational resources.

The History Teacher's Joke Book

The History Teacher's Joke Book
Author: Richard Di Giacomo
Publisher: Richard Di Giacomo
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2014-12-31
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0970623739

These jokes help add a little excitement to your classes and help students to have fun with history. They include geography puns, corny history jokes, and famous student flubs. You'll have them rolling in the aisles!

Patcho and Pigeon: Dynamic Duo!

Patcho and Pigeon: Dynamic Duo!
Author: Twinkl Originals
Publisher: Twinkl
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2021-02-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

MESSAGE INCOMING Help us, Patcho and Pigeon! It’s the day of the ice cream festival and the evil Dr Jelly is causing trouble. We need you, our city’s finest superheroes, to come and save the day! Download the full eBook and explore supporting teaching materials at www.twinkl.com/originals Join Twinkl Book Club to receive printed story books every half-term at www.twinkl.co.uk/book-club (UK only).

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.

What If Everybody Did That?

What If Everybody Did That?
Author: Ellen Javernick
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780761456865

"Text first published in 1990 by Children's Press, Inc."