Weekly Practice: Language Arts for grade 1 provides daily practice for key concepts such as sight words, beginning sounds, ending sounds, parts of speech, story elements, and more. Complete with flash cards and activities, this series supports classroom success by offering extra practice at home. Improve students’ comprehension skills in the classroom while also providing a way to continue the learning process at home. Weekly Practice: Language Arts for grade 1 allows you to reinforce language arts topics at school and at home by offering 40 weeks of standards-based activities and skill review. The unique layout and engaging exercises keep students interested as they build concept knowledge and essential skills. Reproducible at-home activities and flash cards are also included to encourage the home-to-school connection that’s essential for student success. Weekly Practice is the perfect time-saving resource for creating standards-aligned homework packets and keeping students’ skills sharp all year long. The Weekly Practice series for kindergarten to grade 5 provides 40 weeks of comprehensive skill review. Each 192-page supplemental workbook focuses on critical skills and concepts that meet the standards for language arts or math. Designed to help students achieve subject mastery, each book includes four days of practice activities, weekly off-the-page activities, Common Core State Standards alignment matrix, flash cards, and an answer key. Weekly Practice offers an effortless way to integrate language arts or math practice into daily classroom instruction.

Complete Year for Grade 1 provides a whole year’s worth of practice for essential school skills including consonant and vowel sounds, synonyms and antonyms, punctuation, addition and subtraction, patterns, skip-counting, telling time, and more. Thinking Kids'(R) Complete Year is a comprehensive at-home learning resource with 36 lessons—one for each week of the school year! Practice activities for multiple subject areas, including reading, writing, language arts, and math, are included in each weekly lesson to ensure mastery of all subject areas for one grade level. Complete Year lessons support the Common Core State Standards now adopted in most US states. Handy organizers help parents monitor and track their child’s progress and provide fun bonus learning activities. Complete Year is a complete solution for academic success in the coming school year.

Complete Year for Grade 1 provides a whole year’s worth of practice for essential school skills including consonant and vowel sounds, synonyms and antonyms, punctuation, addition and subtraction, patterns, skip-counting, telling time, and more. Thinking Kids'(R) Complete Year is a comprehensive at-home learning resource with 36 lessons—one for each week of the school year! Practice activities for multiple subject areas, including reading, writing, language arts, and math, are included in each weekly lesson to ensure mastery of all subject areas for one grade level. Complete Year lessons support the Common Core State Standards now adopted in most US states. Handy organizers help parents monitor and track their child’s progress and provide fun bonus learning activities. Complete Year is a complete solution for academic success in the coming school year.

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.

Review and reinforce essential first grade language arts skills with fun and engaging, standards-based flash-cards. Aligned to Common Core Standards, this book features more than 100 flash cards along with activities for each day of the school week! Activities are designed to complete independently or in group instruction. Activities include sorting, categorizing, and memorizing, as well as games and riddles to engage even the most reluctant learners.

Covering more than 300 alphabet books with topic, content area, grade level, text structure, and instructional value indexing, this extensive resource guide includes bibliographic information and brief summaries of each selection as well as a chapter devoted to the unique uses of alphabet books within ELL classrooms. Alphabet books are perfect for establishing introductory lessons and serve as a starting point for project ideas. Alphabet Books: The K–12 Educators' Power Tool is ideal for school and public librarians as well as teachers who need to meet specific learning standards. The indexing by topic, grade level, and content area helps in finding just the right book for the aligned instructional objective. Some 300-plus alphabet books are additionally categorized according to the complexity of the text structure. Featured books for three grade level categories (Pre K–2, 3–6, and 7–12) are accompanied by instructional strategies to use with these books. Images of the finished student projects for every described strategy are included to clarify the instructional values. A chapter that focuses on the use of alphabet books in the English language learners' classroom offers strategies for the specific needs of this student group.