Best Selling Books by Jill Norris

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.

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.Complete directions and writing suggestions for 38 book-making projects. Historical background and facts about events, plus lists of related fiction and nonfiction books. Includes traditional holidays such as Independence Day, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Mother''s Day. Arbor Day, Earth Day, Grandparents'' Day, and multicultural observances such as Kwanzaa, Cinco de Mayo, Native American Day, and Chinese New Year are also covered.

This hands-on resource book contains 23 reproducible stories and practice materials for a wide spectrum of reading skills. The stories vary in reading difficulty to be appropriate to meet the needs of emerging readers in the average first grade classroom. Each story is followed by four or five pages of activities for practicing reading skills. Each story consists of four half-page sheets, suitable for cutting apart to make little individual fully illustrated books. Page one contains a picture dictionary, illustrating words featured in the story.

Includes a list of special observances at the beginning of each month and a list of questions at the end of the book to increase awareness of historical events and to make connections between what happened in the past and what is going on today. Develops vocabulary, promotes discussion and provides topic or question for research for each day of the year.

31 lessons that help beginning readers and writers practice letter-sound associations while they learn and use computer tools.

Contains 15 portable and self-contained centers that students may use to practice mathematics skills such as measurement, graphs, fractions & decimals, and much more.

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

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.

Includes reproducible pages for students to use in practicing reading various types of materials.

This book contains full-colour materials to construct 14 easy-to- make centres. Each centre contains teacher directions and reproducible student task cards and activities which focus on aspects such as: expanding sentences, long vowel sounds, alphabetical order, antonyms, synonyms and homophones, singular and plural nouns.

Contains 14 portable and self-contained centers that students can use to practice their language skills.