Filled with more practical classroom and home-based learning activities, stories, rhymes, songs, and games. With an easy-to-follow format and plenty of reproducibles, this book is designed to help teachers foster a five-year-old’s growth in five essential developmental areas: Social/Emotional, Language, Cognitive, Motor Skills, and Hygiene/Self-Help. Children will love Teaching Terrific 5's because it's chock full of fun, let's-do-it-again activities, memorable characters, and catchy verses. Teachers will find the activities fresh and imaginative, and they'll feel confident knowing the book is part of a tried-and-true series of activity books uniquely tailored to the individual needs of each preschool age group. And, because it's based on the trusted National Child Assessment checklist of age-appropriate skills, behaviors, it's guaranteed to take a teacher's understanding of preschool enrichment to the next level. A must-have for teachers of five-year-olds at all levels of learning!

"Text first published in 1990 by Children's Press, Inc."

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This joyful rhyming book encourages children to value the “different” in all people, leading the way to a kinder world in which the differences in all of us are celebrated and embraced. Macy is a girl who’s a lot like you and me, but she's also quite different, which is a great thing to be. With kindness, grace, and bravery, Macy finds her place in the world, bringing beauty and laughter wherever she goes and leading others to find delight in the unique design of every person. Children are naturally aware of the differences they encounter at school, in their neighborhood, and in other everyday relationships. They just need to be given tools to understand and appreciate what makes us “different,” permission to ask questions about it, and eyes to see and celebrate it in themselves as well as in those around them.

Providing a wealth of tools, instructional advice and easy-to-follow guidelines.

A step-by-step program that shows parents, simply and clearly, how to teach their child to read in just 20 minutes a day.

In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, Cesare Pavese; or what is inexpugnable of World War II; or the Abruzzi, where she and her first husband lived in forced residence under Fascist rule; or the importance of silence in our society; or her vocation as a writer; or even a pair of worn-out shoes, Ginzburg brings to her reflections the wisdom of a survivor and the spare, wry, and poetically resonant style her readers have come to recognize. "A glowing light of modern Italian literature . . . Ginzburg's magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning streak of a plain phrase. . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart.' — The New York Times Book Review