Smart Start, Grade K

Smart Start, Grade K
Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre:
ISBN: 9781629384030
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Children get a Smart Start with colorful activities that practice science, math, reading, geography, and thinking skills. Fun art projects provide opportunities for hands-on activities such as cutting, gluing, coloring, and more! Children practice foundational skills such as following directions, using picture clues, and problem solving. There are six certificates for children to display and a full sheet of stickers to mark their achievements!

Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words, Grade K

Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words, Grade K
Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2021
Genre:
ISBN: 9781645140870
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Accelerate children''s reading skills by helping them learn to read sight words and high-frequency words!The ability to read sight words and high-frequency words is necessary for fluent reading and is one of the most important components of language learning! Since many sight words and high-frequency words are not phonetic, children need repeated practice to recognize these words on sight. The stories and activities in this book help children read Dolch Sight Words and high-frequency words quickly and accurately.Each full-color Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words activity book guides young children in practicing and learning important sight words from the Dolch Sight Word List as well as the most commonly used high-frequency words.Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words:* Provides strong reading foundations: 18 units build high-frequency and sight word identification and increase reading fluency.* Creative and fun lessons: Entertain your child while he or she learns important foundational reading tools.* Reward stickers: Motivate your child to complete the activities.Accelerate children''s reading skills by helping them learn to read sight words and high-frequency words! The ability to read sight words and high-frequency words is necessary for fluent reading and is one of the most important components of language learning! Since many sight words and high-frequency words are not phonetic, children need repeated practice to recognize these words on sight. The stories and activities in this book help children read Dolch Sight Words and high-frequency words quickly and accurately. Each full-color Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words activity book guides young children in practicing and learning important sight words from the Dolch Sight Word List as well as the most commonly used high-frequency words. Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words:* Provides strong reading foundations: 18 units build high-frequency and sight word identification and increase reading fluency. * Creative and fun lessons: Entertain your child while he or she learns important foundational reading tools.* Reward stickers: Motivate your child to complete the activities.* Audio stories: Provide an option to listen to the audio story with your child and model correct pronunciation. Each unit''s story provides specific practice of carefully chosen words children have practiced and learned in previous units.Each unit provides structured activities to help children practice and learn "must-know" sight words and high-frequency words. The carefully controlled vocabulary within each unit provides: * Learn New Words: Introduction to new words* Practice New Words: Practice activities to reinforce children''s learning* Story: Audio read-aloud story to model fluency * Review: Word-list practice sliders to help children review words at any timePractice important kindergarten sight words and high-frequency words such as: * Sight Words and High-Frequency Words: farm, going, hill, live, more, top, when, brother, from, give, know, put, sister, your* Story Vocabulary: grass, sheep, box, dog, rain, snow, sun, windPerfect for language learners and early learners, these activities provide a strong foundation for reading and recognizing common English words.Pair Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words with Smart Start: Read and Write and turn your child into a successful reader. Includes answer key.* Audio stories: Provide an option to listen to the audio story with your child and model correct pronunciation.Each unit''s story provides specific practice of carefully chosen words children have practiced and learned in previous units. Each unit provides structured activities to help children practice and learn "must-know" sight words and high-frequency words. The carefully controlled vocabulary within each unit provides:* Learn New Words: Introduction to new words* Practice New Words: Practice activities to reinforce children''s learning* Story: Audio read-aloud story to model fluency* Review: Word-list practice sliders to help children review words at any timePractice important kindergarten sight words and high-frequency words such as:* Sight Words and High-Frequency Words: farm, going, hill, live, more, top, when, brother, from, give, know, put, sister, your* Story Vocabulary: grass, sheep, box, dog, rain, snow, sun, windPerfect for language learners and early learners, these activities provide a strong foundation for reading and recognizing common English words.Pair Smart Start: Sight Words and High-Frequency Words with Smart Start: Read and Write and turn your child into a successful reader. Check out Smart Start: STEM activity books for fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills.Includes answer key.

Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities, Grade Prek

Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities, Grade Prek
Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2021
Genre:
ISBN: 9781645141501
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Give your child positive math experiences and strong math foundations with Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities. The colorful activities introduce math concepts in creative ways using math stories to help children recognize number relationships in the world around them. Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities workbooks provide structured weekly activities to help children practice and learn numbers, counting, measurement, addition and subtraction, shape recognition, and graphing. Audio story read-alouds with colorful illustrations help students learn math concepts and make connections to the real world. Illustrated activities provide meaningful practice in a variety of formats, giving children multiple opportunities to achieve understanding. Math activities: - Provide strong math foundations that teach the most important math skills. - Include creative and fun lessons that help children create positive math connections. - Provide reward stickers to motivate children to complete the activities. - Include audio stories that incorporate reading comprehension and vocabulary to demonstrate how math works in the real world. Smart Start: Math: Stories and Activities is organized into weekly lessons around one math skill or strategy. Each unit begins with activities that have simple tasks that help children better understand the concept. Children gain confidence as they compete each activity and gradually progress to completing more difficult math tasks. Each unit includes: - Math stories: audio read-aloud stories help children experience math with real-world problem solving. - Math practice activities: introduce one skill/concept per week. - Write It! activities: build math vocabulary, beginning writing, and fine motor skills. Throughout this early learning series, children will practice essential foundational math skills, such as: - Beginning counting - Shapes - Patterns - Measurement - Addition and subtraction Includes answer key.

Wonders Reading/Writing Workshop Start Smart, Grade K

Wonders Reading/Writing Workshop Start Smart, Grade K
Author: Donald Bear
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2015-05-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780076795598
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The Reading/Writing Workshop provides students with powerful systematic support for the close reading of short complex texts with core lessons all in one place. Each volume introduces the week’s concept with photographs, interactive graphic organizers, videos, and more; teaches and models elements of close reading with shared short complex texts; allows for flexibility and efficient use of instructional time; and includes a grammar handbook in every volume starting at Grade 2.

Smart Start: Beginning Coding Stories and Activities, Grade Prek

Smart Start: Beginning Coding Stories and Activities, Grade Prek
Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2022
Genre:
ISBN: 9781645141532
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Give your preschooler a strong computer science foundation with Smart Start: Beginning Coding Stories and Activities. Children will learn important coding concepts with engaging stories and practice activities. Based on the K-12 Computer Science Framework, this dynamic early learning series helps children understand coding concepts to develop a strong foundation in computer science, including computational thinking, problem solving, and critical thinking. Each full-color activity book is organized into eight themed units around one coding concept and includes: - Coding stories that demonstrate what coders do and include an audio read-aloud feature - Concept pages that connect coding concepts to real-world situations - Practice activities that reinforce important coding rules - Review pages for every coding concept practiced - Coding projects with print-based games and puzzles - Mini coding handbook with key terms Computer science concepts and skills help early learners become critical thinkers by practicing the building blocks of thinking such as: - Algorithms that design simple steps to solve problems - Decomposition that shows how to break down complex problems into smaller ones - Sequencing that demonstrates how the order of things is important - Pattern recognition that makes connections between similar problems Programming language concepts such as: - Debugging that shows how to look for mistakes and correct them - Loops that can be used to save time by instructing a computer to repeat an action Children will also practice a variety of readiness skills such as print awareness, visual discrimination, following directions, and fine-motor skills. *Includes answer key

Smart Start: Read & Write, Grade K

Smart Start: Read & Write, Grade K
Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2019
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781629389820
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Help your child become a reader and writer with Smart Start: Read and Write! Developed by teachers, the colorful activities provide the perfect combination of fun and practice to give your child the foundation needed for academic success. The kindergarten Smart Start: Read and Write workbook helps your child connect letters to beginning and ending sounds, print upper- and lowercase letters, read simple sentences, and practice story comprehension skills Accelerate your child's reading progress: 20 easy-to-follow weekly lessons build alphabet awareness and develop reading readiness skills. Creative and fun lessons: Keep your child entertained while learning. Reward stickers: Motivate your child to complete the activities. Audio stories: Provide an option to listen to the audio story with your child. The activity book is organized into weekly lessons around story themes such as "Bear Cub Cave" and "Pete Sheep." Activities focus on beginning and ending letter sounds in simple words. Every themed unit follows a similar format and includes: Alphabet stories: Focus on one letter sound and alphabet character and include an audio read-aloud option. Listen for It! activities: Focus on identifying beginning and ending letter sounds. Read It! activities: Provide reading practice around the sound of the week and reading simple sentences. Let's Review! activities: This simple review activity helps you evaluate your child's understanding of each alphabet letter and beginning sound. I Know It! activities: Provides review activities that practice beginning and ending sounds, writing letters, and reading simple sentences. Beginning and Ending Sound Game! activities: This fun card game helps your child match beginning and ending sounds. Practice important kindergarten skills in Smart Start: Read and Write, such as: Writing uppercase and lowercase letters and beginning words Identifying beginning and ending sounds Visual discrimination Following directions Fine motor skills Sequencing Includes answer key. Check out Smart Start: STEM activity books for fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

Learning to Write and Loving It! Preschool–Kindergarten

Learning to Write and Loving It! Preschool–Kindergarten
Author: Miriam P. Trehearne
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-08-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 145220313X
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"Learning to Write and Loving It! equips teachers of young children with practical strategies, assessment tools, and motivating writing activities that are based on current research and proven practice and are easily applicable to all kinds of learning environments. Included are many authentic writing samples and photos to illustrate effective, developmentally appropriate instructional methods, mini-lessons, and activities. Sought-after author and speaker Miriam P. Trehearne demonstrates how to scaffold play and literacy learning and how to easily link assessment to instruction. Key features: differentiate using effective instructional approaches for teaching writing and supporting inquiry and play; assess and document student writing seamlessly throughout the day; motivate and engage children in writing fiction (narrative), nonfiction, poetry, and song; enjoy learning with a powerful collection of vignettes from real classrooms, and use teacher-friendly guidelines for effectively integrating technology and selecting software for young children. A companion CD offers modifiable reproducibles, observation checklists, assessments, and projects for parents to do with their young children. Learn how to successfully scaffold writing, and, in the process, foster cross-curricular skills in science, social studies, and math. Research shows that writing provides a strong foundation for literacy development. Further, writing helps children express themselves, clarify their thinking, communicate ideas, and integrate new information into their knowledge base."--Publisher.

Starting Strong

Starting Strong
Author: Katrin Blamey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2023-10-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1003842852
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Starting Strong: Evidence-Based Early Literacy Practices shows teachers how to use four proven instructional approaches-;standards based, evidenced based, assessment based, and student based-;to improve their teaching practice in all areas of early literacy.Authors Katrin Blamey and Katherine Beauchat draw on their years of experience and early literacy expertise to guide you in figuring out what to teach and how to find the most instructionally sound method to teach it. They help you determine the instructional needs of your classroom and take full advantage of what you know about your students so you can engage them in learning.With chapters on oral language, vocabulary, phonological awareness, word recognition, comprehension, and writing skills, this comprehensive book explains each skill and provides research-based strategies for targeting each area. Supported by evidence-based research and aligned to key tenets of the Common Core, the book also includes classroom-tested activities and children's literature suggestions for each area of literacy.Starting Strong is an essential resource that any early literacy teacher or coach using a balanced literacy approach can use to build a solid foundation for their students.

Nonfiction Writing Strategies Using Content-Area Mentor Texts

Nonfiction Writing Strategies Using Content-Area Mentor Texts
Author: Marcia S. Freeman
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2014
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1625215126
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"How can you enhance the quality and effectiveness of instruction in both the content areas and in writing? By integrating content in both social studies and science with the strategies of writing that are so important for students to master as they craft nonfiction. This book shows teachers how to use mentor texts in an integrative approach for teaching both content and informational writing. As you explore the pages of this book, you'll find strategies for teaching writing craft fundamentals with step-by-step instructions that make writing instruction come alive in content-area classes. Models make the instructional strategies clear. The book also includes a variety of expository techniques and advice on preparing writers for success on performance-based tests."

Give Our Kids a Real Head Start

Give Our Kids a Real Head Start
Author: Samantha W. Davis
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2011-04-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1456756745
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Give Our Kids A Real Head Start written by Samantha Davis, has just the kind of practical advice that parents everywhere need to help them give their children a real head start in school. It will also inspire, encourage, motivate, and cheer parents on as they work with their children at home. This book also includes 100 websites to keep your child smart and part of the proceeds collected from the sale of this book will go to Literacy, Inc. at www.literacyinc.com/donate.html