Most Popular Books by Jo Ellen Moore

Look, Listen, and Speak: From Farm to You is the ideal supplement for building vocabulary and language patterns for young English learners and other students who can benefit from English enrichment. Teacher-directed instruction and interactive computer-based lessons foster language development for students at varying stages of English acquisition. Motivating, interactive multimedia formats encourage individually-paced learning in an engaging, risk-free environment that enhances language acquisition. The thematic focus common to the language development activities in From Farm to You establishes a context that helps students make connections between words and concepts, and powerfully enhances the language acquisition process.

Real and make-believe bears teach the basic skills.You get: Science information, Literature links, Reproducible activity sheets, Center activities and Bulletin board plans

This comprehensive teacher resource book provides easy-to-teach, easy-to-follow lessons covering art clements: color, line and shape, pattern and design, texture. For whole class, small groups, and individuals. Literature and fine art references.

These 12 units provide basic science facts and hands-on activities that make science an exciting, successful learning experience. Each unit features beautifully illustrated activity sheets and finishes up with a series of hands-on activities that make comprehension complete. Each book includes two full-color posters (printed back-to-back) that aid instruction and complement your classroom environment.

This unit on endangered animals contains experiences suitable for the whole class, cooperative-learning groups, and individual students.

Math problems that require the use of a variety of skills including problem solving, listening, verbalizing, writing, and thinking.

Help students build a connection to their environment and the rest of the world with this unit about all the kinds of homes people live in. It begins with the classroom environment and the establishment of a Building Center, which may feature building toys, found objects or actual wood and construction tools. It exists to challenge students to build various kinds of houses in miniature. Other topics and activities covered include: Homes Around the World (a poem), House or Home?, An Origami House, Houses Through History, Primative and Modern Houses, Climate Makes a Difference, Location and Use, Building Materials, Houses from Plants, Houses from Wood, Houses from Mud, Houses from Animal Skins, Houses from Clay Brick, Houses from Stone, Houses of Concrete, My House, Houses Underground, Houses that Move About, A House Walk (vocabulary exercise), Name the House, Rooms in a House, Our House (graphing square footage and making a floor plan), Build a Model House, Language Activities, Writing About Houses, House Poems, Houses Around the World (drawing and writing), House Math (geometric shapes), Shapes in Houses, Plane or Solid?, follow-up activities for the book How My Family Lives in America by Susan Kuklin, Think About It -- What Kind of House Would You Build?, Murals, Using Picture Cards with picture cards and descriptions of a variety of dwellings, and Find the Building Material word search and connect-the-dots. Also features a full-color, two-sided pull-out poster with Homes Near and Far on one side and People Build Homes on the other. Teaching suggestions provided. Includes bibliography, and complete step-by-step instructions for all activities. All pages are reproducible andperforated for easy removal.

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

Provides at-home practice to help boost students' reading skills through engaging stories and activities that support Common Core State Standards. Activities provide practice in comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, phonological awareness, and phonics and word analysis. Other literacy topics include grammar, writing, and visual discrimination.

Oral language activities, math readiness, art projects, dramatic play.

This book contains full-colour materials to construct 12 easy-to- make centres. Each centre contains teacher directions and reproducible student task cards and activities which focus on aspects such as: visual discrimination, alphabetical order, word families, real and make-believe, rhyming words, initial and final consonants.

Contains 12 portable centers that students can use to practice their reading and writing skills.

This book includes Monday to Friday lessons for each day of a 36-week school year and short daily lessons. The Monday to Thursday lessons include two sentences to edit, including corrections in punctuation, capitalization, spelling, grammar, and vocabulary and three items practicing a variety of language and reading skills. Friday practice cycles through four formats: language usage, identifying and correcting mistakes and combining sentences, and choosing reference materials. The pages are reproducible and the book includes a skills list and answer keys.