New Releases by Pamela Chanko

A fun-to-make-and-eat, no-cook recipe, a companion poem, and a read-aloud nonfiction story for every month of the school year. Builds literacy and promotes healthy eating!

Easy-to-Learn Songs With Activities That Target and Teach the Top Word Families

30 Instant Centers With Reproducible Templates and Activities That Help Kids Practice Important Math Skills--Independently!

30 Instant Centers With Reproducible Templates and Activities That Help Kids Practice Important Literacy Skills-Independently! Enrich center time with easy-to-make-and-store kits! These 30 skill-building games and activities help kids practice working with the key word families that will help them become successful readers. Each box can be assembled. with readily available materials and includes reproducible labels, easy-to-read student directions, and reproducible game boards, learning mats, and worksheets. Meets Common Core State Standards. Great for RTI and English Language Learners Hands-on activities engage and motivate! Great classroom management tool-encourages independent learning Ideal for partner or small group work Easy to assemble using materials teachers have on hand hands-on activities engage and motivate

"30 instant centers with reproducible templates and activities that help kids practice important Math skills--independently!"--Cover.

These rib-tickling word family plays will delight children and help them become confident, fluent readers. Each play gives children plenty of practice reading a group of words from the same word family--words that share the same sound and spelling pattern. Learning to recognize these families of words helps children decode with ease so they can focus on comprehension. Easy-to-read text in large type builds reading confidence! Each play targets a key phonogram Research shows that recognizing and using word families helps children develop phonemic awareness of rhyming words, increase sight word vocabulary, and improve decoding & spelling skills Engaging plays invite repeated readings that help boost fluency skills such as reading rate, automaticity, and expression Reinforces vocabulary and listening skills Perfect for Readers Theater

Motivate young learners to write meaningfully about their favorite subjects with this big collection of month-by-month prompts! Topics include holidays, seasons, school, friends, feelings, animals, food, sports, funny stuff, and so much more. Perfect for daily journals! Gets kids ready for the standardized tests! Great for writing centers

Introduce young learners to data collection with these engaging glyph activities that connect to year-round themes and concepts! As kids create and compare pictures that convey information about themselves, they’ll build important math skills, including representing, analyzing, and interpreting data, communicating findings, and making meaningful connections to the information they collect. Activities also boost critical thinking, vocabulary, and social skills. Lessons include step-by-step directions, easy-to-read legends, glyph patterns, and activities--such as using the glyphs to create graphs, charts, and Venn diagrams--that enhance and extend learning. Connects to NCTM standards! For use with Grades K-1.

Engaging Lessons and Activities That Help Students Expand and Enrich Their Vocabulary to Become Better Readers and Writers

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Engaging Activities that Build Early Reading Comprehension Skills, Expand Vocabulary, and Help Children Explore the Themes in These Popular Books

A brief biography of Betsy Ross describes how, according to some accounts, she helped design and then sew the first American flag.

Engaging 16-page books on must-know, inspiring Americans. Features lively text, captions, realistic illustrations, glossaries, diagrams, and more. Correlate with Guided Reading Levels I and J. For use with Grades K–2.

A brief biography of Betsy Ross describes how, according to some accounts, she helped design and then sew the first American flag.

A read-aloud story designed to teach children phonics in a fun way.

Engaging, skill-building activities that help kids learn about families, friendship, neighborhood & community, and more in these beloved classics.

Introduce children to the work of this popular author with learning-rich activities like Possum''s Postcards, Koala Lou''s Playground Olympics, and Magic Hat Math. Includes a profile of the author, before- and after-reading discussion ideas, plus hands-on activities and reproducibles that build skills across the curriculum.

Engaging, skill-building activities that introduce basic concepts, develop vocabulary, and explore favorite science topics.

Learning to follow directions helps students succeed in all aspects of school: classwork, homework, tests, and more. This fun-filled series is packed with a variety of engaging reproducibles that give kids the practice they need to follow oral and written directions with accuracy. For use with Grade PreK.

Is the Arctic a cold and lonely place to live? See who has made this environment their home.

A rabbit, deer, and other animals give each other the message that spring is coming. On board pages.

Shows various kinds of baby animals learning to do such things as run, climb, groom, and hunt.

In a board-book version of a book on opposites, labeled photographs compare different large and small dogs, houses, hands, sand castles, and more.

Part of a 25-book set: Word family tales: "a learning library of rhyming storybooks that teach the top 25 word families"--Container.

Photographs and simple text present the variety of animals that can be found in the ocean.