Best Selling Books by Jill Norris

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.

Reproducible pages for students to use in practicing reading various types of material at the shopping center.

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

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.

Reproducible pages focus reading instruction on reading real things.

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

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.

Take It to Your Seat Math Centers, Grades 1-3 has everything you need for 15 centers to practice important math skills. These colorful centers make practicing math skills fun!The self-contained centers are presented in three easy formats:a hanger pocket,a shoeboxfolder.The skills practiced include the following:Hanger Pocket Centersskip counting, counting puzzles, computation, number families, telling time, and word problems,Shoebox Centerscalculator puzzles, patterning, linear measure, and number names,Folder Centersgeometric shapes, math challenges, money, fractions, and ordinal numbers

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.

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.

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!