Best Selling Books by Jill Norris

Offers sixty graphic organizers to arrange information, develop a plan for writing, make important curriculum connections, and document and assess learning.

Hands-On Thinking Activities-Centers Through the Year, Grades 1-3 has everything needed to create a wide variety of activity centers that build critical thinking skills. Activities include math concepts, science concepts, and language topics. Centers can be set up as a series of individual activities done over a period of time during an appropriate season or, as a one-day "carnival," where students spend two to four hours touring several season-related centers.

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.

Use the stories in this book to facilitate the discussion of important topics in the area of personal and social values, virtues, and responsibilities.

23 reproducible stories for practicing comprehension, developing vocabulary, letter-sound association, word families, and rhyming.

"More read and understand Grade 1 is a resource book containing stories and practice materials for a wide spectrum of reading skills."--Page 2 of cover.

In our Science Stories Series, science and reading come together for a complete learning experience. Large format and big print make these titles ideal for group use. Each book has 8 beautifully illustrated stories with reproducible minibooks.

Literature Pockets, Fiction Grades 4-6+, contains art projects, writing projects, and reading record sheets. Each pocket also features a reproducible bookmark that defines the genre and lists suggested books to read. There is a pocket for each of these fiction genres: realistic fiction folklore adventure sports animal stories science fiction mysteries jokes and riddles historical fiction poetry humor fantasy.

Includes 44 activities that promotes a wide range of critical, creative, and logical thinking skills within one book. Topics based on real-life situations are designed to motivate students to answer questions, find solutions, and make discoveries. Correlated to state standards. Includes instructions for obtaining 44 downloadable interactive charts and answer key.