Scholastic professional books

Contains activities based on fifteen books about Clifford the Big Red Dog designed to help build students' literacy skills.

Presents reproducible activity sheets that may be used to introduce map and geography skills to students in grades one through three.

Contains thirty reproducible cartoons with related maps and questions that are designed to help students build their map skills.

Provides writing learning center tools and guidance for first through third grade teachers, presenting prewriting warmups and creativity connections with lessons, tips for teaching early writers, and brief sample writings from real students.

Presents 180 quotes from a variety of people and sources--one for each day of the school year--each with a prompt designed to encourage student writing.

Presents more than twenty classroom activities for grades two through five that teach about one million and other big numbers; includes reproducible pages.

Describes twenty-five activities that may be used to help students in grades four through eight identify and understand the literary elements in fiction and nonfiction books, including poetry, each with a list of suggested short stories that can be used to model the activity.

Contains strategies, activities, comparison charts, art ideas, and relationship maps to help teachers and students develop an author studies program.

Presents twelve lessons on topics of importance to children in kindergarten and first grade, based on Paulette Bourgeois's Franklin the turtle stories, each with a summary, suggested learning themes, discussion tips, activities, and book links.

Presents over fifty graphic organizers and activity sheets that may be used for differentiated reading instruction in grades four through eight.