Best Selling Books by Betsy Franco

There's fun for everyone when these families get together to bake a cake, visit grandma's farm, take a family photo and welcome a new baby.

This unit is a springboard into the study of other cultures. Cross-curricular activities are included which expand children's awareness of the culture.

These engaging takes on familiar fairy tales will tickle kids’ funny bones and motivate them to practice key math skills! Each hilarious tale includes reproducible word problems that reinforce addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, measurement, money, and more! A great way to connect reading and math and meet national and state math standards! For use with Grades 3–4.

- Develops skills through activities, literature-based problem solving, and writing- Introduces and reinforces concepts - Presents ideas visually and concretely - Supports a variety of learning styles - Works in whole-class and small groups

Great for Shared Reading! Reading Is Fun! Learn together! 50 instant guessing games that teach reading, phonics, word families, and more! Perfect for share reading or circle time!

Math can be fun with this collection of 25 colorful and easy, teacher-tested patterns including shape quilt, teddy bears, veggie prints and more.

Help kids learn their ABC's with these adorable, reproducible guess-and-solve mini-books -- one for each letter of the alphabet! These playful, rhyming riddles invite children to learn the sound and formation of letters A to Z. First, kids read the riddle inside, then they put together the jigsaw puzzle to see and read the answer. Includes extension activities and word banks for each letter. Great for individual or small group learning!

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, e, p, t.

Highlighted through several themes, Franco presents more than 30 perfect poems with instant activities to enrich lessons, build literacy, and celebrate the joy of the written word. Illustrations.

Easy to read poems. Great for teaching key weather topics such as clouds, temperature, rainfall, and seasons.

Unfolding Mathematics With Unit Origami At last-an origami book designed specifically for mathematics classrooms! Origami books are typically written by origami experts and aimed at origami enthusiasts. This art form lends itself wonderfully to teaching mathematicsbut it's been up to you to find ways to do it. Now comes Unfolding Mathematics with Unit Origami, designed especially for algebra and geometry students in high school or middle school. Its elegant illustrations and detailed folding and assembly instructions enable you and your students to create beautiful and intriguing three-dimensional origami models. Its 16 absorbing activitiesall in blackline master formhave been carefully prepared in order of increasing difficulty of both folds and mathematical concepts. Through origami folding sequences, basic mathematical ideas reveal themselves: algebraic and angle relationships and different types of symmetry in two and three dimensions will engage your students'interest in new ways. You can choose activities from anywhere in the book, but if you move from front to back you'll cover an amazingly broad range of mathematical topics. And while the book's purpose is to teach mathematics, it also introduces students to the art of origami and contributions made to that art by noted origami experts, such as Tomoko Fus, Kunihiko Kasahara, David Masunaga, and Robert Neale. Most activities can be done in one class period and offer opportunities for group work, journal writing, and projects. Autobiographical vignettes by origami artists introduce students to origami culture and prompt students to discuss their own experiences with origami. The overview explains how you can best use this book in your classroom, including methods for assessing student work. Every activity gives you teaching ideas and strategies, as well as suggestions for extensions of the activity. There's also a glossary of terms and a list of recommended readings.

Dazzle and delight young learners every day with this huge collection of ready-to-go riddle poems correlated with your favorite themes: colors, bugs, food, seasons, transportation, community helpers, farm animals, and dozens more! Just copy one of the four-line poems onto your chart pad or dry-erase board, or pop them in your pocket chart for a collaborative guessing game that builds essential reading and oral literacy skills. Includes loads of instant activities. Learning together has never been so much fun! For use with Grades PreK-2.

A child describes some of the ways that show how much he has grown.

Although one is in a wheelchair, best friends Bo and Peter participate in the same physical activities.

While traveling to visit Grandma on her farm, a family from the city uses various modes of transportation.