Most Popular Books by Jill NORRIS

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

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.

Graphic Organizers are blueprints for success. They are scientifically proven to help students recall and understand facts, make connections between new concepts and their experiences, analyze and evaluate information, and document processes and concepts.

These craft books have complete, illustrated step-by-step directions.29 projects from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Cultural background and literature references with each project.

Introduces students to the various people and the roles they play in a community.

The Use It! Don''t Lose It! 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 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.

Resource for bilingual, two-way immersion, and dual-language classrooms. The same stories and activities are presented in both languages. Activities focus on the essential skills of comprehension, vocabulary, phonics, and fluency.

Activities that are designed to help students learn math skills through computer use.

Some doors are meant to stay closed. When best friends and paranormal podcasters Jules and Brittany check into the Davidson House, they expect another eerie episode for their listeners. A night of ghost stories, cold spots, and nervous laughter. But Room 1210 is different. Something inside it has been waiting... something that feeds on fear, guilt, and the fragile bonds between them. As the night deepens, the walls begin to whisper, shadows twist, and the hotel''s tragic history starts to mirror their own. What began as a recording session turns into a decent into madness. Where trust is tested, and their friendship may become the very thing that destroys them. Room 1210 is a haunting tale of loyalty, obsession, and the darkness that lingers when the past refuses to stay buried. Once you open the door, it''s already too late.

Contains portable and self-contained centers that students may use to practice mathematics skills such as counting, number ordering, reading time and sorting shapes.

Step-by-step teacher information and reproducible forms, 5 types of logs and journals (reading response journals, writers'' logs, learning logs, dialogue journals, field notebooks). How to get started and how to evaluate.

This book has 36 weekly sections. Each week''s problems center on a theme. Monday through Thursday contain a one-or two-step word problem. Friday''s format is more extensive and may require multiple steps. Answer key in back.