WHAT IT IS: This and hilarious fun musical play helps you teach the standards while bringing your classroom to life! Easy-to-do play comes with script, audio CD, and teacher's guide. NO music or drama experience is required¿you don't have to sing or play a note! Go big and perform on stage, keep it simple with a classroom performance, or simply do reader's theater in class. No fancy sets, costumes, or performance spaces are needed, so it's all up to you! Flexible casting for 8-40 students and permission to edit the script and songs make it easy to tailor the play to the needs of your class and community. Your purchase of one copy per teacher includes permission to photocopy the script for students. /// WHAT IT TEACHES: "Pirates From Grammar Island" introduces us to a group of scurvy dogs who scour uncharted waters for grammatical gold! With a map in one hand and a dictionary in the other, these brigands hunt for complete sentences, parts of speech, contractions, subject-verb agreement, and correct punctuation and capitalization. 25 minutes; grades 2-6. /// WHAT IT DOES: "Pirates From Grammar Island" is a great complement to your curriculum resources in language arts. And, like all Bad Wolf Press plays, this show can be used to improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, performance and speaking skills, class camaraderie and teamwork, and school engagement and parental involvement¿all while enabling students to be part of a truly fun and creative experience they will never forget!

When their island kingdom falls under siege, royal brothers Noa and Dagan must follow a magical map and confront the legendary one-eyed pirate before evil takes over their world.

"Using the metaphor of marriage, this lighthearted, highly practical, and teacher-friendly resource from the author of Collaborative Teaching in Secondary Schools provides readers with the tools to successfully set up, conduct, and successfully maintain co-teaching partnerships in any learning environment. Based on the author's extensive experience, this book blends solid educational research and literature with lighthearted humor to help readers nurture co-teaching partnerships through the stages of co-planning, co-instructing, and co-assessing. Divided into four relationship stages, each section offers: Case studies and scenarios of co-teachers in action, Field-tested instructional and behavioral strategies with authentic examples, Self-assessments to determine teachers' readiness to proceed to the next step in the co-teaching relationship, Information on the role of the administrator and how to communicate with parents, Numerous reproducibles, helpful Web sites, and a list of teacher resources. Collaborative Teaching in Elementary Schools is an easy-to-access, one-stop guide for schools getting started with co-teaching or looking to refine their existing programs."--Page 4 de la couv.

Pirates of the Caribbean, Treasure Island, and Mutiny on the Bounty rolled into one thrilling adventure with a pair of feisty, independent female characters at the helm! A MURDER. A MAP. A MUTINY. You can't run away from yourself... The year is 1720 and two young women are about to find themselves in more trouble than they could ever have imagined possible. Cat Meadows is a smuggler who's built her reputation on the backs of unsuspecting souls. Lily Exquemelin has been left nothing by her father but his troubles and his treasure map. Forced to make a desperate escape, they each find themselves on a Trans-Atlantic adventure that will pit them against pirates, mutineers, lost treasure, and each other! Can they learn to trust one another and escape the clutches of their would-be captors or will their past's finally catch up to them? Find out in this swashbuckling, romantic adventure!

WHAT IT IS: This and hilarious fun musical play helps you teach the standards while bringing your classroom to life! Easy-to-do play comes with script, audio CD, and teacher's guide. NO music or drama experience is required¿you don't have to sing or play a note! Go big and perform on stage, keep it simple with a classroom performance, or simply do reader's theater in class. No fancy sets, costumes, or performance spaces are needed, so it's all up to you! Flexible casting for 8-40 students and permission to edit the script and songs make it easy to tailor the play to the needs of your class and community. Your purchase of one copy per teacher includes permission to photocopy the script for students. /// WHAT IT TEACHES: "Grammarosaurus" explains all about capital letters, plurals, contractions, subject-verb agreement, complete sentences, and punctuation. 25 minutes; grades 1-4. /// SYNOPSIS: The Loch Ness monster has surfaced, and it turns out she's a Grammarosaurus! Nessie and her friends, all experts on grammar, have come out of the lake to save the world from grammatical crisis. /// WHAT IT DOES: "Grammarosaurus" is a great complement to your curriculum resources in language arts. And, like all Bad Wolf Press plays, this show can be used to improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, performance and speaking skills, class camaraderie and teamwork, and school engagement and parental involvement¿all while enabling students to be part of a truly fun and creative experience they will never forget!