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Each book in this series provides a variety of motivating, interactive activities to help young students master concepts and content. The "cut and paste" format allows students to try a variety of possibilities before gluing down their final answers.
"Offers a variety of exercises that will help your child practice scissor skills and other readiness basics, such as story order, counting, matching, and beginning sounds. The interesting activities with clear directions will provide hours of educational fun for your child"--Page 4 of cover
This book comes with collection of downloadable PDF books that will help your child make an excellent start to his/her education. Books are designed to improve hand-eye coordination, develop fine and gross motor control, develop visuo-spatial skills, and to help children sustain attention.
This is the 'Cut and Glue' workbook for children 4 and above to practice their scissor and glue skills (hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills). Children will cut shapes and then glue them to the background to create a marvelous picture. This book consists of two parts. The first part has all backgrounds with a square at the top right corner of the page that shows how the picture should look like. The second part has all the details that need to be cut and glued to the background. All these parts are simple geometrical shapes that easy to cut. There are 13 projects that have increasing levels of difficulty. It ranges from a cute panda to a smiling fish and a wise owl! We hope that this book brings lots of fun to you and your child!
Collage is at the cutting edge of visual design, and can be seen everywhere from advertisements, magazine editorials and fashion stories to street art, album covers, animation and website design. Cut & Paste brings together over 250 images from more than 40 contemporary collage artists, including Serge Bloch, Borsodi Bela, Sara Fanelli, Julian House, Christoph Niemann, John Stezaker and Sergei Sviatchenko.
This book offers essential guidance to preservice and inservice teachers seeking to create, revise, or add new strategies to the teaching of the language arts block. The focus is on how to implement effective strategies in the context of a well-planned classroom and a smoothly choreographed daily schedule. In a series of vivid case studies, Lesley Mandel Morrow brings to life the methods used by exemplary teachers to create rich, student-friendly learning environments for children in grades K-4. No component of organizing the language arts block is omitted, including setting up and running classroom learning centers, assessing different instructional needs, conducting whole-class and small group meetings, and linking language arts to content area instruction. Enhancing the practical utility of the book are sample daily schedules and classroom management tips for each grade level, along with dozens of reproducible learning activities, lesson plans, and assessment and record-keeping tools.
In this 2nd edition of Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning, Mike Schmoker extends and updates the case that our schools could be on the cusp of swift, unparalleled improvements. But we are stymied by a systemwide failure to simplify and prioritize; we have yet to focus our limited time and energy on the most essential, widely acknowledged, evidence-based practices that could have more impact than all other initiatives combined. They are: simple, coherent curricula; straightforward, traditional literacy practices; and lessons built around just a few hugely effective elements of good teaching. As Schmoker demonstrates, the case for these practices—and the need for them—has grown prodigiously. In every chapter, you’ll find late-breaking discoveries and practical advice on how to simplify the implementation of new state standards in the subject areas; on the hidden pitfalls of our most popular, but unproven instructional fads and programs; and on simple, versatile strategies for building curriculum, planning lessons, and integrating literacy into every discipline. All of these strategies and findings are supported with exciting new evidence from actual schools. Their success confirms, as Michael Fullan writes, that a focus on the best "high-leverage practices" won’t only improve student performance; they will produce "stunningly powerful consequences" in our schools.
This insightful book shows teacher how reading and writing instruction has evolved — where we were, where we are, and where we can go in literacy learning. It looks at a wealth of literacy techniques that range from group reading, to whole language, to synthetic phonics, to reading and writing workshops.
Language Arts, Math, and Science in the Elementary Music Classroom provides a practical guide to help music teachers incorporate elementary classroom subjects into their curriculum using STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math)-inspired strategies, with added emphasis on social studies. It includes a complete elementary music curriculum for kindergarten, first, and second grades, and has cross-referencing charts for regular elementary classroom teachers to find music activities for their classroom. Importantly, it shows teachers how to include the artistic processes of creating, performing, responding, and connecting in their lessons. These processes make up the new music standards featured in NAfME's new Core Arts Music Standards. In order to maximize comprehension, the book includes assessment tests, sheet music, work sheet templates, and brainstorming activities centered on using technology to enhance composition projects. Lesson plans are organized by the calendar year, each inspired by the seasons, American culture, and world culture. These lessons may be used as is or used to generate new curricula altogether.
