english language

Presents a comprehensive curriculum program designed to help teachers of kindergarten through second grade aid in their students' development as readers, writers, and language users, with resources for planning, assessment, evaluation, discussion, and trouble shooting.

Includes "quick and easy literature-based lessons and activities that help students write super stories."--Cover.

A guide to teaching writing to students in the fifth through eighth grades, focusing on workshop teaching.

"[Provides an] approach to word study that illustrates how to integrate and teach children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills"--Provided by publisher.

Provides assessments, reproducible sorts, and instructions for teachers to adopt a hands-on approach to word study for emergent spellers, offering targeted lessons and literature connections, and covering phonemic awareness, rhyming, syllabication, and sound play.

Unique, think-ahead concept book uses the alphabet to demonstrate where things come from with clever, well chosen combinations. "A is for seed" followed by "tomorrow's apple".

A companion to "Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction," that includes five lessons with reviews of initial consonants, introduces same-vowel word families and r-influenced vowels, covers digraphs and blends, and includes teaching tips, suggestions for literature connections and games, and black line masters for sorts.

Identifies the characteristics of different types of writing through a look at the efforts of the student editors of "Wordswork" to meet Professor Plot's challenge to showcase four different types of writing in the magazine, including comparative, personal narrative, explanatory, and persuasive.