Teaching resources

Twenty-six reproducible interactive three-dimensional maps on American history for grades four through eight designed to develop students' understanding of historical events and facts.

Explains for grades four and up how memory works and how and when to review information for the best recall, discussing such strategies as mnemonics and presenting several reproducible review games.

Contains over fifty poems designed to help students in grades five and six develop reading fluency skills.

Presents tips and reproducible materials for teaching Harry Allard's "Miss Nelson Has a Field Day" in kindergarten, first grade, or second grade, including author details, discussion questions, and activities.

Presents five audio CDs containing over eighty educational songs for children in preschool through second grade, covering the alphabet, seasonal topics, direction following, math, and concepts such as opposites and the five senses, and provides a text with lyrics, related activities, and teaching ideas.

Contains twenty-five poems that teach Dolch sight words on an oversized flip chart, and includes a CD with printable poems.

Help build students' reading fluency and build awareness of important people in U.S. history through fact-based, original plays about 22 famous Americans. These read-aloud biographical plays provide kids with the repeated practice they need to read with speed, automaticity, and expression-the key elements of fluency. Background information, discussion questions, extension activities, and literature links round out this versatile resource. A great way to connect social studies content with reading.

Presents a reproducible resource packet on ancient civilizations for the fifth and up Social Studies classroom, and contains background information, map activities, games and more on ancient China, India, Africa, and Mesopotamia.

Presents a collection of reproducible activity pages for the kindergarten and first-grade classroom to help children learn to follow directions.