creative activities

Contains mini lessons and a CD designed to be used with the Smart Board, an interactive whiteboard that teachers can use in the classroom to motivate students, featuring narrative writing exercises designed to help students learn essential writing skills.

Presents trifolds for forty novels such as "Holes" and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" designed to help fourth through sixth graders develop reading strategies such as evaluating, formulating questions, using context clues, and analyzing cause and effect.

Presents fifteen short reproducible fiction and nonfiction mini-books for the first grade-reading classroom that helps students develop word recognition, fluency, and comprehension.

Contains thirty hands-on activities, crafts, and experiments designed to teach students about the geography of New York state.

Combines a literature-based teaching unit with art projects and cooking activities, designed to help students understand and enjoy the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.

Suggests a variety of both indoor and outdoor activities which relate to nature, the environment, ecology, music, sky watching, backyard fun, the neighborhood, and the wider world.

Presents twenty-five projects designed to help kids learn about the food they eat, the role it plays in daily life, the importance of a healthy diet, and the history of food.

Presents a collection of one hundred eighty-six outdoor activities about the earth and its environment and contains stories and related learning activities.

Introduces the history, customs, and contributions to society of Native Americans, including profiles of Jim Thorpe, Maria Tallchief, Wes Studi, and other prominent Native Americans, and twenty-one hands-on projects.

An instructional guide for Cynthia Rylant's book "Henry and Mudge, the First Book" that provides close reading tasks, text-based vocabulary practice, cross-curricular activities, text-dependent questions, reader response writing prompts, and more.