Pets and farm animals are fun, familiar subjects for beginner drawing projects. Young readers follow clear text instructions and corresponding pictures as they create their own cute and colorful artwork. These step-by-step instructions allow readers of all skill levels to feel like real artists. Readers can even compare their works of art to the charming illustrations used as examples. With each turn of the page, they learn to draw a variety of pets—from dogs and cats to spiders and snakes. They also learn to draw a barnyard full of farm animals and a farmer to take care of them!

Pets and farm animals are often portrayed as friendly companions. Readers of this art book will find it simple and fun to create their own friendly companions. Colorful and charming illustrations guide young artists in making their own unique masterpieces. Readers will learn that they don't need tons of fancy art supplies to make great artwork with the classic paint form of fingerprinting. Each project is easy to follow and sure to be a hit with young artists of many levels.

Essential Skills and Practice for your first grade student supports Common Core State Standards and provides essential practice in language arts, math, science, and social studies. Fun and educational pages include important first grade topics such as nouns and verbs, punctuation, addition and subtraction, and telling time. You’ll find all the skills and practice your first grader needs for school success! Essential Skills and Practice is your all-in-one source for school success! A variety of learning activities support Common Core State Standards and provide academic enrichment for young children in pre-kindergarten through grade 2. Black-and-white pages include high-interest reading passages, math challenge questions, science experiments, crossword puzzles, word searches, and more. Essential Skills and Practice will please parents and children alike with plenty of fun and educational activities.

Exploring Nonfiction with Young Learners explores the four basic nonfiction structures that the youngest learners are most likely to encounter: descriptive, recount/collection, procedural, and explanatory texts. This book also includes information to help teach four, more complex structures that younger readers sometimes encounter during read-alouds: comparison, response, causation/cause and effect, and persuasive genres. This book is organized to help plan lessons using each type of nonfiction structure. Strategies and suggestions for activities to use before, during and after reading are included. Templates and graphic organizers are also provided in order to facilitate planning, and offer additional resources. Detailed information about each text structure as well as mentor texts to illustrate each type is included. Text structures, as well as text access features, are defined and located in easy reference charts. Whole class and small group planning ideas are included throughout the book in order to allow for differentiation. Additionally, assessment ideas, sample think-alouds, lesson planning templates, and sample lessons with completed graphic organizers are included for each text structure.

Keep students engaged with Learning Centers in Kindergarten. This 176-page book includes suggestions for how to set up learning centers, arrange the room with appropriate furniture, determine the number of students at each center, move in and between centers, develop activities, and find materials. It supports the Four-Blocks(R) Literacy Model and includes ideas for center time and month-by-month activities for eight centers.

SHOW-HOW GUIDES: DRAWING ANIMALS is a primer for curious minds with a clear, fun graphic style that invites any kid to get started drawing super-cute pets, forest creatures, farm animals, and more. This pocket-sized 101 includes a curated collection of essential drawing techniques and 19 adorable animals to draw. Every step is illustrated, allowing kids to easily master the basics, regardless of how they learn. Readers will learn to draw a cat, dog, hamster, bird, cow, pig, llama, horse, fox, bear, squirrel, hedgehog, elephant, giraffe, snake, frog, lizard, fish, and whale. SHOW-HOW GUIDES is a collectible, visual, step-by-step series that teaches the skills every kid should know, at a shockingly affordable price. They're the perfect stocking stuffer, birthday gift, or impulse buy.