The perfect resource for teaching young children important basic skills! Each of these 32-page activity books is packed with age-appropriate reproducible activity sheets. Activities build upon one another, allowing young learners to add to existing knowledge while applying newly-acquired skills and concepts. Appealing art makes each page fun! A skills matrix is included with each title.

Early Childhood Centers

Reading and writing are the most important skills a child acquires during his or her lifetime--and it all begins in the early childhood classroom, where creative play, discovery and time to explore are at the heart of a developmentally appropriate and child-centered curriculum. Striking a balance between these often competing priorities can challenge even the most experienced educator.

A specially designed program using rules, patterns and memory techniques similar to those found in language arts to teach difficult math concepts to children. Included in this bonus book are 10 all new lesson plans, including worksheets, take-home pages and a variety of support materials to teach fractions and decimals.

In just minutes a day, students can master math facts with this specially designed program. Using rules, patterns and memory tools similar to those used in language arts, Math Phonics (tm) is great for introducing concepts or providing alternative techniques.

"The second edition of Elaine McEwan′s book is a user-friendly guide that integrates research into practice. It carefully explains the research behind reading development and provides truly clear, no-nonsense steps to implement the best practices of instruction. McEwan does not sugar-coat how difficult teaching reading can be, but she provides powerful methods for achieving it." —Jennifer Sandberg, Curriculum/Reading Coordinator Sutherland Public School, NE Provide effective reading instruction for every student in your classroom and schoolwide! To successfully teach reading, teachers have to first believe that all children can learn to read—and then they have to turn that belief into a reality. In this thoroughly updated and revised version of her best-selling book, Elaine K. McEwan guides educators through the challenging but crucial work of teaching every child how to read. Written for all teachers as well as administrators, this resource covers strategies for nine essential components of effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, fluency, developing a reading culture, providing opportunities to read, writing, word knowledge, and comprehension. This second edition features: The most up-to-date research in reading instruction Effective instructional practices and strategies Brief vignettes and graphic organizers that illustrate and summarize key concepts A comprehensive case study of one district′s remarkable success This resource reveals precisely how educators in successful schools are teaching students to read—and how all educators can achieve the same results in their schools!