Make It: Unusual Art Guided Reading 6-Pack

Make It: Unusual Art Guided Reading 6-Pack
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Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1493881574

When you think of art, perhaps you imagine a painting in a museum. But artists use many types of materials including wood, metal, sand, and even food to turn their ideas into art. With TIME For Kids content, this nonfiction book features exact text-to-image relationships to help beginning readers develop their foundational literacy skills. Text features include a glossary and bold font to increase understanding and build vocabulary. With vibrant images and simple text, this book will keep students reading from cover to cover. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this Level J title and a lesson plan that specifically supports Guided Reading instruction.

Art and Culture: American Indian Artifacts: 2-D Shapes Guided Reading 6-Pack

Art and Culture: American Indian Artifacts: 2-D Shapes Guided Reading 6-Pack
Author:
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2022-02-21
Genre:
ISBN: 1087689627

A trip to a museum becomes an adventure in learning geometry! Students will explore mathematics in a meaningful way by examining the geometric shapes and patterns of American Indian artwork. This 6-Pack of grade 4 math readers builds literacy and math content knowledge while introducing students to new concepts and vocabulary terms like parallelogram, rhombus, quadrilateral, scalene, isosceles, and equilateral. Let's Explore Math sidebars, the Problem Solving section, and the mathematical charts and diagrams provide extensive opportunities for students to practice what they have learned. Text features such as a glossary, index, bold print, and a table of contents increase understanding and build academic vocabulary. The DOK-leveled Math Talk section includes questions that facilitate mathematical discourse and activities that students can respond to at home or school. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

Art and Culture: Exploring Mexican Artifacts: Measurement Guided Reading 6-Pack

Art and Culture: Exploring Mexican Artifacts: Measurement Guided Reading 6-Pack
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Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2022-02-21
Genre:
ISBN: 1087689937

Mexico has a diverse culture that goes back 2,500 years! Throughout history, the people of Mexico have made beautiful art, innovative tools, and incredible statues. Thanks to these artifacts, we can look back into history and see how these people lived. By integrating math and literacy skills, this 6-Pack of math readers makes learning measurement easy and fun as students are engaged in reading about Mexico's culture and history. With detailed images, clear diagrams, easy-to-read text, and real-world examples of problem solving, this informational text will teach students to apply math to their everyday lives. Text features include a table of contents, glossary, index, and captions to build critical literacy skills and academic vocabulary. The challenging Problem Solving section and Let's Explore Math sidebars provide numerous opportunities for students to practice their developing math skills. The DOK-leveled Math Talk section includes questions that facilitate mathematical discourse. Aligned to Common Core State Standards, TESOL/WIDA, and other standards, this exciting title will engage grade 5 students in learning. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

The Art Lesson

The Art Lesson
Author: Tomie dePaola
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2001-12-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0698115724

Tommy knows he wants to be an artist when he grows up. He can't wait to get to school and have real art lessons. When Tommy gets to school and finds out that the art lessons are full of "rules", he is surprised and dismayed. How the wise art teacher finds a way to give Tommy the freedom to create and stay within the "rules" makes a wonderfully perceptive picture book about growing up and keeping one's individuality. Tomie dePaola is the author and illustrator of many beloved books for children, including the Caldecott Honor Book Strega Nona. Fans of all ages will be pleased to hear that The Art Lesson is, in fact, based on the artist's own experiences growing up, and offers a welcome glimpse into his past. This bright picture book is as covered with drawings as the walls of Tommy's parents' and grandparents' houses, and sends an inspirational message to budding artists and individualists. Break out the crayons!

The Shape of Things

The Shape of Things
Author: Dayle Ann Dodds
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Geometry
ISBN: 9780606290098

A square is just a square until it becomes a house in this clever book. A circle becomes a spinning ferris wheel, and when some string and a tail are added, it becomes a kite flying high in the sky. With sprightly rhymes and energetic illustrations, this book reveals that shapes are everywhere. Full color.

Sweet: Inside a Bakery Guided Reading 6-Pack

Sweet: Inside a Bakery Guided Reading 6-Pack
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Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1425831273

Learn the secrets to artful cupcakes, oven-fresh bread, and other delicious baked goods in this delightful nonfiction title. Readers will learn how mathematics helps bakers measure their ingredients to make tasteful treats. Featuring vibrant images and charts, informative text, and fun, intriguing facts, children will be fascinated by all the details that go into baking their favorite treats--like doughnuts and cookies! This 6-Pack includes six copies of this Level P title and a lesson plan that specifically supports Guided Reading instruction.

Leveled Books (K-8)

Leveled Books (K-8)
Author: Irene C. Fountas
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN:

For ten years and in two classic books, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have described how to analyze the characteristics of texts and select just-right books to use for guided reading instruction. Now, for the first time, all of their thinking and research has been updated and brought together into Leveled Books, K-8 to form the ultimate guide to choosing and using books from kindergarten through middle school. Fountas and Pinnell take you through every aspect of leveled books, describing how to select and use them for different purposes in your literacy program and offering prototype descriptions of fiction and nonfiction books at each level. They share advice on: the role of leveled books in reading instruction, analyzing the characteristics of fiction and nonfiction texts, using benchmark books to assess instructional levels for guided reading, selecting books for both guided and independent reading, organizing high-quality classroom libraries, acquiring books and writing proposals to fund classroom-library purchases, creating a school book room. In addition, Fountas and Pinnell explain the leveling process in detail so that you can tentatively level any appropriate book that you want to use in your instruction. Best of all, Leveled Books, K-8 is one half of a new duo of resources that will change how you look at leveled books. Its companion-www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com-is a searchable and frequently updated website that includes more than 18,000 titles. With Leveled Books, K-8 you'll know how and why to choose books for your readers, and with www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com, you'll have the ideal tool at your fingertips for finding appropriate books for guided reading. Book jacket.

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.