aids and devices

Presents step-by-step instructions and projects designed to teach fourth through eighth graders how to create PowerPoint presentations, covering such aspects as adding graphics, using drawing tools, playing sounds, importing movies, and producing animation.

Provides instructions and patterns for making twenty-four card, shape, and pop-up books with such themes as animals and the seasons, designed for kindergarten through third grade, and includes teaching ideas for each.

"An essential resource for intermediate, middle, and high school librarians that guides the planning, learning, and implementation of a school library makerspace"--.

Contains fifteen reproducible, high interest, true stories appropriate for students in fourth through eighth grade and designed to enhance their comprehension skills.

Provides practical guidance and activities for multilevel instruction of kindergarten reading and writing, arranging the activities month by month and covering the desire for literacy, language and print concepts, phonemic awareness, interesting words, and letters and sounds.

Explains how to help third grade students become fluent readers and writers through systematic, multilevel instruction, with easy-to-follow activities that reinforce five critical fluency goals.

Provides month-by-month phonics activities designed to be used as the Working with Words component of the Four-Blocks method of literacy instruction in the second grade classroom.

A collection of ten short theater scripts to help students in grades three through five develop fluency.

Contains more than two hundred reproducible activities teachers can use to increase reading proficiency in students in grades seven through twelve.

Collects eight story books that introduces and explains idiomatic expressions, with each story containing sayings using terms from a particular subject, such as sports, from which the idioms "drop the ball" and "skating on thin ice" are derived, and includes a teacher's guide that contains reproducible mini-books, lessons, and activities.