New Releases by Jill Norris

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

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.

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!

Teach language arts and math concepts using 12 popular rhymes. Includes illustrated rhymes, headbands, puppets, picture and word cards, reproducibles, and manipulatives.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Reproducible pages focus reading instruction on reading real things.

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.