Kindergarten Writing Workbook for kids ages 5-7 Support your child’s educational journey with the Spectrum writing workbook that teaches basic handwriting skills to kindergarteners and preschoolers. Writing Kindergarten Workbooks are a great way for your kindergartener to learn basic writing skills such as writing alphabet letters, kindergarten sight words, a story, a letter, and more through a variety of activities that are both fun AND educational! Why You’ll Love This Kindergarten Activity Book Engaging and educational writing activities. “Letter tracing”, “writing a friendly letter”, and “writing and drawing stories” are a few of the fun activities that incorporate writing practice for kindergarten students into everyday settings to help inspire learning into your child’s kindergarten curriculum. Testing progress along the way. Post-tests are included at the end of every chapter to test student knowledge. A writer’s handbook and answer key are included in the back of the kindergarten book to track your kindergartener’s progress along the way before moving on to new and exciting activities. Practically sized for every activity The 128-page writing workbook is sized at about 8 inches x 11 inches—giving your child plenty of space to complete each exercise. About Spectrum For more than 20 years, Spectrum has provided solutions for parents who want to help their children get ahead, and for teachers who want their students to meet and exceed set learning goals—providing workbooks that are a great resource for both homeschooling and classroom curriculum. The Writing Book Contains: 4 chapters full of vibrant activities and illustrations End-of-chapter tests, an answer key, and writer’s handbook Perfectly sized at about 8" x 11"

Take an active role in your childÕs education by providing a strong learning foundation for the school years ahead with Spectrum Learn with Me: Math Basics. This invaluable activity book prepares children in all skill areas required for school success, and allows you to teach the math basics of counting, patterns, shapes, sorting, and matching. It features 80 pages of activities with easy instructions, hints, and tips.

What are the real “basics” of writing, how should they be taught, and what do they look like in children’s worlds? In her new book, Anne Haas Dyson shows how highly scripted writing curricula and regimented class routines work against young children’s natural social learning processes. Readers will have a front-row seat in Mrs. Bee’s kindergarten and Mrs. Kay’s 1st-grade class, where these dedicated teachers taught writing basics in schools serving predominately low-income children of color. The children, it turns out, had their own expectations for one another’s actions during writing time. Driven by desires for companionship and meaning, they used available linguistic and multimodal resources to construct their shared lives. In so doing, they stretch, enrich, and ultimately transform our own understandings of the basics. ReWRITING the Basics goes beyond critiquing traditional writing basics to place them in the linguistic diversity and multimodal texts of children’s everyday worlds. This engaging work: Illustrates how scripted, uniform curricula can reduce the resources of so-called “at-risk” children.Provides insight into how children may situate writing within the relational ethics and social structures of childhood cultures. Offers guiding principles for creating a program that will expand children’s possibilities in ways that are compatible with human sociability. Includes examples of children’s writing, reflections on research methods, and demographic tables. “Dyson’s ethnographies offer new ways of thinking about writing time and remind us of the importance of play, talk, and social relationships in children’s literacy learning. If every literacy researcher could write like Dyson, teachers would want to read about research! If policymakers took her insights on board, classrooms might become more respectful and enjoyable spaces for literacy teaching and learning that soar way above the basics.” —Barbara Comber, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

This powerful collection will inspire new and veteran teachers to “make space” for children’s interests, for teaching as relational and intellectual work, and for new insights and ideas. The authors introduce the Prospect Center’s Descriptive Review of Practice, a collaborative inquiry process that provides an opportunity for teachers to examine their practice and gain new perspectives from other participants. The contributors to this volume respond to each child’s modes of thinking as they develop curriculum or find “wiggle room” in curricula they are given. By demonstrating how it is possible to pursue careful knowledge of craft, this book offers ways of teaching that allow for continuing growth and change. Book Features: An inquiry methodology that assists teachers to reflect on the classroom and develop curriculum that responds to children’s interests and needs. Specific examples of a variety of sources teachers can draw on and think about to improve practice. A method of data collection that can inform practice while allowing for the unevenness, messiness, and essential humanness of teaching and learning. “Making Space for Active Learning is a collection that stands alone and gets to the heart of what we mean by learning and teaching. Each contribution reminded me of how much I miss being in the classroom and how much we're missing in current so-called school reform discourse. Keep this book handy. A chapter at a time will restore some needed sanity about what's important.” —Deborah Meier, author and education activist “This book is a moving and powerful collection of teachers' work that holds the possibility of inspiring and changing new teachers' practice.” —Kathy Schultz, Dean and Professor, School of Education, Mills College “This book will add significantly to the expanding and important literature about The Prospect Processes which were developed over many years at the Prospect School and Center in Vermont. The chapters, all by experienced educators, profit from the back-and-forth between inquiry and stories of classroom life, each informing the other.” —Brenda S. Engel, associate professor, retired, Lesley University

From the Author of the Popular Super Series Comes The Next Chapter in This Unconventional Superhero’s Story Audrey Hart has been a Super all of her life. Even with her underwhelming powers, incessant procrastination, and neverending laziness, she has somehow managed to hold onto her Super license all of these years. But after her latest brush with authority, the Council has assigned her supervised probation under the highest ranking Super in her district, Nathaniel Kane. Audrey has never worked with another Super before. Between Nathaniel’s 107-point action plan and his ambitious vision for their district, Audrey doesn’t know whether she’s coming or going. And if he doesn’t like her progress, she skips from supervised probation to permanent punishment. Can Audrey save her district and save herself at the same time? Supervised is the fourth novel in the Super series, a series of books about an unconventional superhero trying to live an extraordinary life in an ordinary world. It will be available January 27, 2016. For more information on Princess Jones and the Super series, go to www.princessjones.com/super.

Anywhere you go, in any climate, bring these 400 super puzzles along with you. In front of a fireplace during a blizzard or lying in the sun at the beach, you’re going to love these not-too-hard, not-too-easy crosswords, edited by master puzzler Stanley Newman. This book is guaranteed to be fun all year round!

Sipping a cup of tea and enjoying an easy New York Times crossword puzzle is one of life's simple pleasures. This second volume of our new "Coffee and Crosswords" series, Tea Time Tuesday, collects all your favorite easy Tuesday puzzles. Features: * Seventy five of the Times's easy Tuesday crosswords * Convenient trade paperback for easy transport * Edited by Will Shortz.