Best Selling Books by Elizabeth MacLeod

Read with Confidence! In this reading comprehension workbook, each reading passage encourages students to read with a purpose. Follow-up questions emphasize critical thinking, making text connections, inferencing, and synthesizing what students have read. Graphic organizers for extended learning and an assessment rubric for success criteria are also included. Features ready-to-go, reproducible activities! Skills covered in this workbook: * Understanding Context * Understanding Text Features * Making Text Connections * Critical Thinking * Graphic Organizers About this workbook: Designed for teachers with parents in mind, this workbook is perfect for the classroom and for home! It promotes student confidence, learning, and success and offers the ideal supplement to enhance or enrich any curriculum. This must-have reading workbook: * Includes manageable activities that reinforce essential skills and concepts * Meets standards and cover curriculum efficiently and effectively * Provides a consistent, clear approach 120 pages 4th Grade Authors: David MacDonald, Elizabeth MacLeod, Janis Barr

A collection of true stories about cats includes information on the history, behavior, and usefulness of the animal.

Did you know that cats can smell over 200 million different scents? Or that you can communicate with your cat just by blinking? These are just a few of the cat facts to discover in this ultimate companion book for young cat owners and admirers. How did cats and humans begin to live together? How were cats treated in ancient times? Why do cats like to bump up against you? How do you know if a cat is pedigreed? Here you''ll find the answers to these and many more questions, plus lore, legends, superstitions, hero-stories, quizzes and cat training tips. Feline Facts: ? The Chartreux breed''s rounded forehead and long, narrow muzzle make it look like it''s always smiling ? Famed English scientist Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat flap for his cat Spithead ? Long ago in Burma, cats were owned by royalty and priests, and legends say that each cat had its very own servant ? A cat''s ear contains 32 muscles - compared to a human''s 6 ? A cat named Ninja once traveled more than 850 miles to find its old house ? The Turkish Van cat actually likes swimming

Meet Clara Hughes -- athlete, Olympic medalist and mental health advocate. Clara is still the only person in the world to ever win multiple medals at both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. But perhaps her biggest accomplishment is the work she has done to help others. Growing up in Winnipeg, Clara liked sports. She wasn''t a top athlete and was headed down a bad path until the fateful day she watched speed skater Gaétan Boucher compete at the 1988 Winter Games. Clara decided she would do that too. It was to be a life-changing decision, one that set her on a course of training, competing and winning at the Olympic level in not just one but TWO sports. But as the world was cheering her on, Clara didn''t feel right inside. She finally realized that winning all the medals in the world wouldn''t make her okay -- she had to work as hard on her mental health as she did on her training. Maybe even harder. Young readers will get the inside story of Clara Hughes''s inspiring life and how she learned to not only take care of herself, but to inspire others to do the same. The Scholastic Canada Biography series focuses on fascinating people who have shaped Canada''s past and present. Written by acclaimed author Elizabeth MacLeod, each book also features comics-inspired illustrations by Mike Deas.

Canadian STEM Grade 6: Ideal to supplement, enhance or enrich any science program! In this STEM workbook, activities and projects provide a balance of core knowledge learning and investigation and application. The focus is on concepts and skills from physical, life, and earth and space Sciences, and on familiarizing students with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts. Assessment rubrics for success criteria are also included. Features ready-to-go, reproducible activities! Skills covered in this workbook: Physical, Life, Earth and Space Sciences Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science Informational Text Project-based Activities STEM Occupations About this workbook: Designed for teachers with parents in mind, this workbook is perfect for the classroom and for home! It promotes student confidence, learning, and success and offers the ideal supplement to enhance or enrich any curriculum. This must-have STEM education workbook: Includes manageable activities that reinforce essential skills and concepts Meets and covers curriculum efficiently and effectively Provides a consistent, clear approach

"Canadian women have always been groundbreakers. They have made scientific discoveries, set sports records, challenged discrimination and so much more. In this unique look at Canadian history, award-winning children''s writer Elizabeth MacLeod juxtaposes today''s inspiring women with yesterday''s trailblazers who paved the way in that field. The book is organized by profession and includes more than 100 women from science, the arts, sports, politics, activism, law, business and more. The selection of women reflects the country''s diversity, with stories of women of colour, Indigenous women, Paralympians and women from the LGBTQ+ community."--

Describes the life and work of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.

Meet Thérèse Casgrain, who battled for women''s equality and social justice, and was the first woman to lead a political party in Canada! The award-winning Scholastic Canada Biography series highlights the lives of remarkable Canadians whose achievements have inspired and changed the lives of those who followed. From 1916 to 1925, women across Canada were starting to win right to vote, province by province . . . but not in Quebec. It took another fifteen years of protest and the leadership of Thérèse Casgrain for women there to begin to win that right. And that was only the start of Thérèse''s 50-year career! She decided to change things from inside the government too, becoming the first woman to lead a political party in Canada. And although Thérèse may not have been elected, her decades-long fight for equal rights, health care, and world peace is in itself a victory. Written by award-winning author Elizabeth MacLeod, this portrait of Thérèse Casgrain couples simple yet compelling writing with comic-flavoured illustrations by Mike Deas that help bring this fascinating story to life!

Shows how the different levels of Canadian government work together, how laws are made and challenged, and why it is important to vote.

This must have resource provides students with meaningful activities to reinforce their understanding of important science concepts including life systems, structures and mechanisms, earth and space as well as matter and energy. Pages are ready-to-go and reproducible and include reading projects, hands on learning, teacher tips and rubric.