New Releases by Jill Norris

This Daily Practice series helps your students use their skills, so they won’t lose them. There are five problems a day, every day, for 36 weeks. The practice activities are set up in a spiraling scope and sequence so that students practice skills at regular intervals. Each week’s problems are based on a grade-level appropriate topic so every time a skill shows up, it has a new context, requiring students to dig into their memories, recall what they know, and apply it to a new situation. Correlated to state and national standards, this six book series provides daily math and daily language practice for grades 6, 7, and 8.

Contains 12 portable centers that students can use to practice their reading and writing skills.

Fun activities provide practice in important language arts and math skills. Includes practice cards and an answer key.

How to Plan Your School Year is a must-have for first time teachers and will be a favorite resource for even the most experienced teachers. It is packed full of ways to organize your school year.There are so many ways for teachers to use this book, here are a few:Setting Up Your Room,space-saving storage ideas,bulletin boardsfull-color calendar months, dates & calendar add-ons; full-color cutout for 3 different job charts; patterns for 4 different welcome bulletin boards,reproducible name and desk tags, full-color passes.Planning Your Curriculum,introducing yourself and your classroom,first week of schoolteam building activities,complete first-day lesson plans for primary and intermediate grades.Classroom Management,rules,discipline techniques,rewards & consequences.Instructional Centers,organization tips,curriculum area centers,specific skill centers,four ready to go centers for both primary and intermediate grades.Cooperative Learning,techniques and trouble-shooting tips,two activities for primary and two for intermediate.Parent Communication,reproducibles galore,newsletter forms and notes,certificates and awards,tips for effective communication.Planning for a Substitute,substitute folder forms,complete one-day lesson plan for both primary and intermediate grades

Bulletin boards are an important part of your classroom environment. They can make a room inviting, provide important information, display student''s work, and reinforce learning. Seasonal Bulletin Boards gives you step-by-step directions, a colored picture of the finished product, full-color letters for the captions, and coloful cutouts to enhance the boards.Here are some example of the charming boards for each season: Fall If I Were a Native American: a line of chidren in buckskin pants holds student projects A Harvest of Excellence: student work spills from a huge cornucopia Winter Hand-in-Hand for a Better Land: celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.''s birthday with this tribute to cooperation and diversity Gung Hay Fat Choy: a giant dragon announces the Chinese New Year Spring Eggs-citing!: student writing hatches from an egg Flying High: soaring kites frame student work Summer Fishing for Good Work: an angler fishes for good work Yum! What Good Work: parading ants surround a picnic

"Numbers to 20, addition and subtraction to 10, word problems, shapes, money, addition and subtraction flash cards, answer key"--Cover.

"Stories and activities for each letter of the alphabet; word family practice; color, cut, and paste to learn; alphabet and number practice cards; answer key"--Cover.

How to Make Web Pages with Your Class includes suggestions for planning, creating, and using a Web site. The thirty-one sample Web pages include: purpose of the page, suggestions for making the page, ideas for using the page for classroom instruction, specific helpful hints for creating the page. Design your own home page and then add linking pages that provide: community history, calendar, school background, extracurricular activities, student portfolios, special events, online newsletters, homework hotline. As a part of your Web page, do projects online: daily weather reports, student spotlights, science experiments, math problems, community surveys, classroom journals, patterned writing, cyber pen-pal exchanges.

Fun learning activities you can recommend with confidence to parents. Each book in this series offers 56 or more simple activities to do with children throughout the day, centered on routine parent-child experiences.

Consists of activities in 6 areas that are designed to teach students how to locate information on the World Wide Web.

25 lessons that help students practice mathematic concepts while they learn and use computer tools.

Successfully tested in classrooms and computer lab settings, these books provide students practice in important subject-area skills, while they learn and use the computer and keyboard tools. Now with nine titles, including three utilizing the World Wide Web.Help students learn to write a report using a bookmarked site on the WWW.

26 lessons that help students practice mathematic concepts while using computer tools.

In a Car, on Vacation... Learn on the Go "TM" Practice Books are packed with a variety of educational activities that encourage children to think and grow!

34 week-long units, each focusing on a chant, poem, or language game. You get a minilesson for every day of the week, illustrated rhymes, reproducibles, and patterns.

Use the stories in this book to facilitate the discussion of important topics in the area of personal and social values, virtues, and responsibilities.

Our Building Vocabulary Series introduces students to important vocabulary concepts and language skills in an innovative way. Our Grammar & Punctuation Series presents fundamental language rules and provides worksheets with which students learn to apply the rules. Both series utilize an easy-to-see 11" x 17" chart format. Charts are ready to display and can introduce or review concepts. Engaging line art illustrations capture attention as they help teach. For use with whole class, small groups, or in a center. Rules include: sentences, nouns, past-tense verbs, comparative and superlative endings, sentence-end punctuation, abbreviations, capitalization, commas in lists/dates/addresses.

Our most popular, best-selling series -- recently updated and expanded! Make these titles the cornerstone of your classroom''s writing program. Step-by-step directions for book-making projects and reproducible forms and patterns included. Provides 39 book-making projects, each with a list of literary references and several writing suggestions (more than 100 in all). Each project also includes an original poem or "Something More to Do...", an extension activity that may bring in other curriculum areas, such as science, art, or dramatic play. More than 200 references to selections from fiction and nonfiction, spanning grade levels whenever possible.

Our most popular, best-selling series -- recently updated and expanded! Make these titles the cornerstone of your classroom''s writing program. Step-by-step directions for book-making projects and reproducible forms and patterns included. Students read a book, then create a class or individual book in response. Featuring 38 projects: picture books such as Stellaluna; chapter books such as How to Eat Fried Worms; and classics such as Mr. Popper''s Penguins. Fiction and nonfiction selections. Each project includes "After You Read" ideas for discussing the book, which serve as a prewriting lesson to the "Now Write!" activity. Each project is accompanied by an original poem.

23 reproducible stories for practicing comprehension, developing vocabulary, letter-sound association, word families, and rhyming.

The four seasons each have something to teach your young students and this unit is designed to help. It begins with ideas for a classroom environment that maintains some connection to the "Changing Seasons" theme throughout the year. Topics and activities include: What Causes the Seasons? (utilizing a globe, a lamp and a flashlight), Changing Seasons, The Seasons Where I Live, follow-up activities for the book, The Mare on the Hill by Thomas Locke, Poetry for All Seasons, Seasonal Paper Dolls, What is Autumn?, Autumn Where I Live, Autumn Math, Autumn Sorting and Patterning, Autumn Patterns, Once Upon a Leaf, Tasting Autumn (featuring follow-up activities for the poem, A Bowl of October by Helen Bevington), More Autumn Fun, What Is Winter?, Winter Where I Live, Mitten Math, Mitten Patterns, Mittens in Literature (featuring follow-up activities for two different mitten stories), Lost Mittens, Snow, Ice Pictures, What Is Spring?, My Recipe for Mud, Spring Where I Live, Seed Center Math, Spring Gardens, Flowers,for Patterning (with a variety of cut-out flower patterns), Parents and Babies, What Is Summer?, Summer Where I Live, Melon Math, Watermelon Patterns, The Shining Sun (an art activity), Fun in the Sun (finger play), and the Colors of the Year. Along with cut-out paper dolls with clothes and props for all four seasons, there is a full-color, two-sided pullout poster about Seasons Through the Year and Dressing for the Season. Teaching suggestions provided. Includes bibliography, and complete step-by-step instructions for all activities. All pages are reproducible and perforated for easy removal.

Self-reliance, helping others, responsibility, good manners, getting to know community helpers -- these are the things this unit will help young students learn. It begins with ideas on developing an "If I were" Center and a "Helper" Center in the classroom, to help students learn to take on new roles and think about what each role might require. It''s a perfect opportunity to invite parents and members of your community to your classroom to talk about how they help the community. A seven-page section is devoted to Kenny''s Story, a story about helpers, with accompanying activities for your kids. Other topics and activities include: Cooperating with Others, Working Together as a Family, A Helping Family Fingerplay, I Can Do it Myself, Cooperation at School, I Can Help, Be a Helper, Helping Hand (paper) Quilt, Helping Hand Math, School Helpers, Manners Are Important (featuring follow-up activities to the book, The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners), Please and Thank You Tokens, My Good Neighbor -- a dialogue to act out, Helpers in Your Neighborhood, and People Who Help, accompanied by Picture Cards (fireman, bus driver, mail carrier, dentist, construction worker, sanitation worker, doctor, mechanic, police officer and others). In addition to a Pop-Up "Helper" Book with lots of Helper Riddles to solve, and follow-up activities for the book, Wanda''s Roses, by Pat Brisson, there is a full-color, two-sided pull-out poster with a Who Will Help? Poem on one side and Helpers in My Neighborhood on the other. Teaching suggestions provided. Includes bibliography, and complete step-by-step instructions for all activities. All pages are reproducible and perforated for easy removal.