Every minute counts when the classroom clock is ticking! Fresh Starts and Fast Finishes offers math and language arts activities for teachers of grades 3–5 to use at the beginning or end of the day or during those few minutes before lunch or recess. The book includes more than 50 quick-and-easy games and activities that teach vocabulary development, dictionary skills, word building, calendar skills, numeration, and computation skills. This 48-page book includes reproducibles and supports NCTM Standards.

Trainee and beginning teachers often find the teaching of grammar, punctuation and spelling especially challenging as they are not confident in their own knowledge. This popular text explores and provides the subject knowledge you will need to teach grammar, punctuation and spelling and gives guidance on how to teach it. The text is really accessible and includes lots of examples and teaching ideas, enabling you to approach teaching with ease. Detailed examples of effective lessons show you how to engage children’s interest in some of the more formal aspects of writing and throughout, activities and practical examples demonstrate how you can translate this learning into the classroom. This third edition has been updated to include more examples of children′s work. A new chapter is added on ′Teaching grammar across the curriculum′ to support an integrated approach to the teaching of grammar.

Sharpen fifth graders' critical-thinking skills with these brain-teasing activities. Parents, students, and teachers will love these fun challenges, puzzles, and logical thinking pages. They're a great way to practice higher-order thinking skills.