Teacher's Books

Reading makes you feel good because...
You can imagine you are a scary dinosaur,
You can make someone feel better when they are sick,
And you can do it anywhere!

Reading Makes You Feel Good will inspire and encourage young children to delight in the joyful, rewarding experience of reading. With Todd Parr's trademark bright, bold pictures and silly scenes, kids will learn that reading isn't something that just happens at school or at home-it can happen anywhere! Todd shows us all the fun ways we can read- from in the library and in bed to in the bathtub and on the road. Targeted to those first beginning to read, this book invites children to read the main text as well as all the funny signs, labels, and messages hidden in the pictures.

Along with the four other bestselling Todd Parr picture books debuting in paperback this season, Reading Makes You Feel Good is designed to encourage early literacy, enhance emotional development, celebrate multiculturalism, and promote character growth.

30 exciting story starters that model good writing and help any student! The prompts provide scaffolding through rich characters, imaginative settings, and an edge-of-your-seat cliffhanger. Students put their natural storytelling skills to work.

Claude Monet

When Julie creeps through a hole in a tall gate and enters a mysterious garden, she meets an old man tending the flowers. The gentle gardener turns out to be the great artist, Claude Monet, and together they explore his magical world. Monet and Julie wander across the Japanese bridge, around the house and studios, and they float through water gardens where lilies sparkle as bright as stars.

Complete with reproductions of Monet's work and a fold-out panorama of his water lily pond, this is another inspirational story from Laurence Anholt's best-selling series, celebrating some of the world's greatest artists and the real children who knew them.

A lovely book about artist, Claude Monet from the series, Anholt's Artists Books for Children. Julie lives in Paris, but she longs to walk in a beautiful country garden. When her mother takes her on a visit to rural Giverny, Julie discovers a beautiful garden and befriends the man she believes is the gardener. In fact, he is the garden's owner, the immortal artist Claude Monet.

Parents, teachers, and gift givers will find:

• gorgeous illustrations and reproductions of works by the artists
• a fun and educational story for home or the classroom
• a great series to be used for home school materials
• a whole series of books for children to learn about important artists!

Designed by a master teacher and organizer, this all-in-one collection of management tips, checklists, and reproducible forms helps teachers lead a successful school year right from the start! Covers all the essentials: organization strategies and tools, routines to build independence, planning to meet student needs and instructional goals, and building positive parent communication that supports students' growth.

Includes CD-Rom with 50 Timesaving Forms.

• Organization
• Routines
• Planning
• Parent Communication

8 Fluency-Boosting Plays with easy activities that teach key literary elements.

Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

The Nose - Gogol.

Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart

A Christimas Carol - Dickens

Maupassant - The Necklace

Rikki Tiki Tavi - Kipling

O. Henry - The Gift of the Magi

The Open Window - Saki.

Teaches about PLOT, SETTING, CHARACTER, THEME, and more!

Introduce students to Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, and other well-known authors with this collection of plays based on their classic short stories.  These engaging plays will expand students' literary knowledge, while "rehearsing" the parts will encourage the repeated readings they need to build their fluency and comprehension skills.  Also includes discussion prompts designed to help students identify and understand plot, setting, character, and theme.

The real-life, classic story of a dyslexic girl and the teacher who would not let her fail. A perfect gift for teachers and for reading students of any age.

Patricia Polacco is now one of America’s most loved children’s book creators, but once upon a time, she was a little girl named Trisha starting school. Trisha could paint and draw beautifully, but when she looked at words on a page, all she could see was jumble. It took a very special teacher to recognize little Trisha’s dyslexia: Mr. Falker, who encouraged her to overcome her reading disability. Patricia Polacco will never forget him, and neither will we.

Watch America's favorite teacher of guided reading, Jan Richardson, lead targeted lessons that accelerate reading growth for K-2 students. Jan demonstrates exactly how to plan, teach, check for understanding, and reteach. An easy-to-use View & Do guide helps teachers put what they've seen right into action. Covers emergent, early, and transitional levels.

Includes:
- 120-minute DVD
- View & Do Guide With Sample Teaching Schedules, Lessons, and Routines
- CD With Planning and Assessment Forms For use with Grades K-2. 

 Watch America's favorite teacher of guided reading, Jan Richardson, lead targeted lessons that accelerate the growth of transitional and fluent readers in grade 3 and higher. Jan demonstrates exactly how to plan, teach, check for understanding, and reteach. An easy-to-use View & Do guide helps teachers put what they've seen right into action. Covers transitional and fluent levels. Includes: - 120-minute DVD - 64-page View & Do Guide With Sample Teaching Schedules, Lessons, and Routines - CD With Planning and Assessment Forms.

• Planning Tips
• Assessment Tools
• Management Strategies
• Multi-Leveled Centers
• Activities that reach and nurture every learner

Kindergarten is the place where young minds blossom with each new opportunity to learn.  Yet how does a single classroom allow many different types of learners to succeed?  How, for example, do children in very different stages of writing mastery all contribute pages to a class book? How do students who have trouble "hearing" their own reading manage to read alongside their whispering peers? How do we keep our kinesthetic learners engaged in a conceptual math lesson? 

Master kindergarten teacher Cindy Middendorf shares her strategies for creating a nurturing, choice-based learning environment where all learners thrive. Packed with research-based tips, model lessons, photos, and student samples, this guide shows how to teach the kindergarten curriculum in a way that engages varied learning styles and taps multiple intelligences. Middendorf also shares expert advice on how to establish an effective classroom management system that supports differentiated learning.

Simple adjustments to our teaching, routines, and materials can maximize learning for all children - in any situation.

An indispensable resource from the foremost expert on differentiation! From pre-assessments of students’ needs, interests, and learning profiles, to instructional strategies and on-going assessment ideas, to task cards, rubrics, and final assessments, everything you need to successfully differentiate is here. Full of classroom-tested tips and tools for preparing the classroom, establishing routines, setting goals with students, selecting teaching approaches, making and managing flexible groups, choosing and managing materials, and more, this is the go-to guide for managing a differentiated classroom. For use with Grades K-8.

• Teaching Routines for Differentiation
• Assesing Students' Readiness, Interests & Learning Profiles
• Preparing for Differentiation
• Setting up the Classroom for Differentiation
• Managing Small-Group Instruction