The fun and educational activities in the Two-in-One book, Choose Your Challenge, for grades one and two, encourage creativity and reinforce basic skills. The first 32 pages include a variety of puzzles and learning activities, then flip the book over for the next 32 pages of brand new activities! --Choose Your Challenge provides learning fun in four areas: mazes, dot-to-dots, doodles, and hidden pictures. Jokes and riddles accompany the wacky mazes and silly dot-to-dots to make learning fun. Fun prompts encourage children to use their imagination to create a variety of fun doodles. Children will also practice their vowel sounds and rhyming words when searching for the hidden pictures.

The fun and educational activities in the Two-in-One book, Choose Your Challenge, for kindergarten and first grade, encourage creativity and reinforce basic skills. The first 32 pages include a variety of puzzles and learning activities, then flip the book over for the next 32 pages of brand new activities! --Choose Your Challenge provides learning fun in four areas: mazes, dot-to-dots, doodles, and hidden pictures. Jokes and riddles accompany the wacky mazes and silly dot-to-dots to make learning fun. Fun prompts encourage children to use their imagination to create a variety of fun doodles. Children will also practice their vowel sounds and rhyming words when searching for the hidden pictures.

Let’s Get Real About PBL Does project-based learning (PBL) feel just out of reach in in your secondary classroom? Is project-planning an overwhelming project in and of itself? Dr. Jennifer Pieratt, a consultant and former teacher, knows firsthand how challenging designing projects can be, especially for secondary teachers with large caseloads and short class periods to engage in meaningful teaching and learning. In this hands-on, interactive guide, Pieratt supports secondary teachers through the iterative process of planning authentic project-based learning experiences. Using backward design, she gives teachers ready to use strategies for identifying the best concepts to tackle in PBL experiences, brainstorming realistic projects, facilitating meaningful learning, and creating formative and summative assessments. The book is visually accessible in style and features #realtalk soundbites that tackle the challenges to implementing PBL Tips and resources to support the project-planning process Planning forms to guide you through planning your projects Key terminology and acronyms in PBL Exercises to help you reflect and process throughout your project plans Master PBL planning with this clear, efficient, and easy-to-use guide to creating enriching experiences for your students!

Contains lessons that guide chldren through the writing of numerous types of letters-- friendly and business letters, request letters, letters of concern, invitations, thank-you notes, greeting cards, e-mail messages, and postcards.

"In my extensive experience with differentiated education, I have not seen a work on lesson planning that is as compact, concise, and creative as this one." —Joseph Staub, Resource Specialist Teacher Thomas Starr King Middle School, Los Angeles, CA "Full of good ideas and strategies for differentiation. I like the way the authors emphasize the idea of teaching to a specific benchmark or objective rather than letting the text determine what students do and learn." —Kathie F. Nunley, Educational Psychologist Brains.org Use these easy techniques to deliver high-quality lessons that target all learners! In today′s increasingly diverse classrooms, teachers are expected to address a whirlwind of initiatives. With their characteristically joyful and conversational tone that celebrates learning and diverse students, Kathleen Kryza, Alicia Duncan, and S. Joy Stephens offer teachers dozens of practical strategies for designing and delivering differentiated lessons to reach all learners. Based on the authors′ popular, memorable, and doable C U KAN and the Chunk, Chew, and Check frameworks, this book makes it easy for teachers to implement effective, differentiated instruction. This ready-to-go resource helps educators identify a clear learning target, get to know their students as people and as learners, and understand how to vary the learning pathways to the same target for different learners. Rooted in real practice and real classrooms, this how-to guide: Includes abundant illustrations, vignettes, and examples across grade levels Offers adaptations for ESL students and students with special needs Presents samples of standalone lessons, weeklong lessons, and lesson units Provides differentiated techniques for individual or whole-group instruction This book is an easy-to-read, application-oriented text for novice and preservice teachers on differentiating lessons to target all learners.

Give all learners in Grades K-2 the opportunity for success in the classroom! This newly updated resource will teach you how to differentiate your lessons through content, process, and product in order to effectively accommodate all learning levels and styles of learning. Globally-focused social studies sample lessons and additional templates for use in lesson planning have been included in this latest edition. A variety of instructional strategies are featured including: Choices, Inquiry-Based Learning, Multiple Intelligences, Questioning, Self-Paced Strategies, and Tiered Assignments. All of.

Chart a course to innovation using educational technology. Let’s go on an edventure! Do you want to innovate and take risks in your teaching? Looking for ways to troubleshoot common classroom challenges? Jennie Magiera charts a course for you to discover your own version of innovation, using the limitless possibilities of educational technology. Packed with lesson plans, examples, and solutions, Courageous Edventures will show you: How to create your own Teacher-IEP (Innovation Exploration Plan) Strategies and solutions for tackling common educational technology problems Methods for putting learning into the hands of students How to find innovation in everyday places