Motivate and engage students in grade 1 with Language Arts Activities Using Colorful Cut-OutsTM. This 112-page book is filled with skills-based, interactive language arts activities that are fun to use and easy to prepare. It includes more than 40 activities that focus on rhyming words, vowels, blends, and digraphs. The book also includes leveled activities, a skills matrix, an assessment matrix, and reproducible cutouts and aligns with state, national, and Canadian provincial standards.

Motivate and engage students in grade K with Language Arts Activities Using Colorful Cut-OutsTM. This 112-page book is filled with skills-based, interactive language arts activities that are fun to use and easy to prepare. It includes more than 40 activities that focus on recognizing the alphabet, using uppercase and lowercase letters, writing letters, identifying rhyming words and high-frequency words, and answering comprehension questions. The book also includes leveled activities, a skills matrix, an assessment matrix, and reproducible cutouts and aligns with state, national, and Canadian provincial standards.

In the second edition of What All Children Need, Linda Dunlap provides important new information and guidance for educators, counselors, clinicians, and others who deal with children's development. Although concepts and ideas from numerous educational and psychological theorists are included, the book's framework is based on the seven levels of Abraham Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs." Dunlap's intent is to provide concrete and practical examples of ways to nurture developmental needs of children in relation to Maslow's theory. Teachers, child-care providers, psychologists, counselors, social workers, therapists, and school administrators and staff will find this book of interest.

Boost early literacy with these creative art activities in a variety of media--clay, collage, paint, sand, recyclables, and more! All projects promote essential skills such as phonemic awareness, self-expression, expressive language, retelling, and more. Includes easy how-to, display ideas and rhyming poems to kick off each lesson! For use with Grade PreK-K.

The fabulous stories of Robert Munsch provides the basis for this author study that is sure to keep student interest at its highest. There are complete lessons including reproducible pages, exciting activities and questions for each of the following books: "Mud Puddle", "The Dark", "David's Father", "Millicent and The Wind", "Thomas' Snowsuit", "Jonathan Cleaned Up, Then He Heard A Sound", "The Paper Bag Princess", "The Boy In The Drawer", "The Fire Station", and "Angela's Airplane". Throughout this unit, children are involved in many different activities that focus their attention on language and how it is used. This Author Study provides a teacher and student section with a variety of activities, brainstorm activities, and cloze activities to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

Accessible and hands-on yet grounded in research, this book addresses the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of integrating literacy instruction and the arts in grades K-8. Even teachers without any arts background will gain the skills they need to bring music, drama, visual arts, and dance into their classrooms. Provided are a wealth of specific resources and activities that other teachers have successfully used to build students' oral language, concepts of print, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and writing, while also promoting creativity and self-expression. Special features include reproducible worksheets and checklists for developing, evaluating, and implementing arts-related lesson plans.