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How to Teach Academic Vocabulary Extending Beyond the Pages How to Write a Research Paper If They Can Argue Well, They Can Write Well Teaching the Scientific Method A to Z Literacy Strategies Go Team! The Personal Trainer for Academic Teams WOW! What A Team! Taming of the Team Teach Students to Manage Their Own Behavior The Nuts and Bolts of Active Learning SOAR: A Handbook for Closing the Achievement Gap 101 Things I Wasn’t Taught in My Education Classes How to Teach Reading When You’re Not a Reading Teacher Drumming to the Beat of Different Marchers You’ve Gotta Connect If You Can’t Manage Them, You Can’t Teach Them If You Don’t Feed the Teachers They Eat the Students Learning to Love Teaching Again Learning to Learn Tips for Teachers Latest-and-Greatest Teaching Tips
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Common Core Math and Language Arts Puzzle It! Quotes Series Use It! Don’t Lose It! Basic Not Boring Graphic Organizers ESL Resources Dr. Birdley Teaches Science Learning Adventure Series Yellow Pages
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
How to Teach Academic Vocabulary
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How to Write a Great Research Paper
How to Teach Academic Vocabulary outlines more than 50 easy-to-use, practical vocabulary strategies to increase students’ academic achievement and suggests ways to present the strategies to students. Help your students become self-sufficient learners with the ideas in this book.
Give students the tools they need to write a great research paper with this handbook that guides them step-by-step through the research process. Each step is carefully explained, and the handbook includes helpful practice activities, as well as appropriate examples taken from research papers written by middle school students.
1 volume | 240 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2018
1 volume | 64 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2014
Extending Beyond the Pages
If They Can Argue Well, They Can Write Well
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Teach to the heart of language arts and literacy standards in any subject area using the rich classroom resources available in this book! You’ll find activities to use before reading, during reading, and after reading—each one aligned to specific college- and career-ready standards and adaptable to a wide variety of texts.
Packed with practical, hands-on activities that teach students to argue persuasively, research effectively, think critically, and write clearly. The book’s platform builds on speaking and debating lessons as a basis for improving critical thinking. Includes specific connections to the Common Core State Standards, as well as a section on debate skills and an in-depth discussion about online research and validity of sources.
1 volume | 176 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2016
1 volume | 136 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2014
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Teaching the Scientific Method
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Go Team! The Personal Trainer for Academic Teams
Grab your students’ attention with an exciting science demonstration. Then engage them in active learning as they explore each step of the scientific method. This is a perfect way to introduce and guide students in creating science fair projects and learning the concepts of scientific investigation.
Imagine having a personal trainer who would assess your academic team to identify its areas of strength and the areas to target for improvement. Randy Thompson’s book is just that. The self assessment included in the book is matched to practical pedagogy and team activities that will help you put effective strategies to work to maximize your team’s efforts.
1 volume | 80 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2015
1 volume | 240 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2008
A to Z Literacy Strategies A collection of the best tools and strategies for literacy instruction in middle school classrooms. These engaging, effective strategies will create readers who think about, with, and through text. This is an important resource for anyone who wants to create a student-centered classroom where effective literacy development can occur.
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WOW! What a Team!
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A teaching team is a group of teachers assigned to a common group of students for a designated period of time. This book examines 12 essential components of productive middle school teams. Each chapter demonstrates a high-impact team strategy and provides an activity for helping teams to implement the strategy.
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Taming of the Team
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The Nuts and Bolts of Active Learning
Getting the best out of students is made easier by using teaming to nurture their educational, emotional, social, and developmental needs. This guide is a blueprint for team building in any school setting. True stories and practical strategies make this an effective and entertaining tool for assembling and managing a team within a professional learning community. It includes a dynamic “3-5-3 Action Plan” for improving student behavior as well as tips for using teams to address Common Core State Standards.
Students learn best when they are actively engaged in the learning process. Written by a group of 15 awardwinning educators, this collection of energizing ideas represents powerful ways to expand and transform your teaching and get students fully involved. The strategies can be employed with any subject area and in any setting.
1 volume | 176 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2013
1 volume | 112 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2009
Teach Students to Manage Their Own Behavior
SOAR: A Handbook for Closing the Achievement Gap
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Through engagement with real-life vignettes, students analyze and reflect on common behavioral problems, social issues, and interactions that fill their daily lives, including bullying, cheating, peer pressure, discrimination, and self-destructive behavior.
The SOAR program works in any school or classroom to help disadvantaged or at-risk students cross the achievement gap to school success. It goes far beyond the usual after-school academic tutoring concept by building relationships, community connections, leadership skills, social skills, and cultural experiences. This handbook gives a step by step plan to move toward the already-proven results: remarkable improvement in students’ grades, test scores, school attendance, behavior, and self-confidence.
1 volume | 168 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2014
1 volume | 208 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2009
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101 Things I Wasn’t Taught in My Education Classes
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Explore one teacher’s light-hearted look at surprises in the classroom and her insights and suggestions for managing them with care and calmness. Whether you are a new teacher or a veteran educator, this book provides practical insight into your teaching experience.
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1 volume | 64 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2014
Using current research on learning styles and methods, this bestseller helps teachers choose and use thinking and reading strategies that enable students to read fluently and master content delivered in text.
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This revised edition of Dr. Debbie Silver’s classic on differentiated instruction features poetry, wisdom, and humor, as well as the art of awardwinning illustrator Peter H. Reynolds. Teachers and administrators will be inspired by Debbie’s poignant stories and thrilled with her practical advice as they learn about relevant research findings.
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How to Teach Reading When You’re Not a Reading Teacher
Drumming to the Beat of Different Marchers
1 volume | 280 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2014
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You’ve Gotta Connect
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With humor, practical action steps for the teacher, and a few wacky stories, Jim Sturtevant shows educators how to operate a classroom in ways that can promote mutual respect, handle and reduce conflict, build self-esteem, support students in trouble, and promote harmony and enjoyment.
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If You Can’t Manage Them You Can’t Teach Them
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Dispenses straight-talking advice and can-do strategies that help every educator succeed at building the relationships, mutual respect, routines, and expectations for running a classroom without stress or chaos. Told in the manner of one teacher having a personal conversation with another, this is an ideal guide to building the behaviors that are the foundation of an effective classroom.
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1 volume | 280 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2015
Packed with words of wisdom and inspiration, this is one book no administrator or teacher should be without. Dr. Neila Connors presents practical tips to improve school climate, communicate with parents and students, teach to the standards, and make a difference in students’ lives.
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If you are passionate about teaching but are feeling weighed down by too much to do, too little time, and endless paperwork, this is the book for you. Learn to Love Teaching Again supplies you with practical advice, as well as hundreds of tips and tools to help rekindle the joy and fulfillment of teaching.
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If You Don’t Feed the Teachers They Eat the Students
Learn to Love Teaching Again
1 volume | 256 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2011 eBook format available
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Learning to Learn
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Help students of all ages maximize their learning and strengthen study skills with this interactive workbook. A powerful and engaging resource for students, teachers, and parents, the step-bystep procedures aid in improving organizational skills, time management, problem solving, power reading, test taking, memory skills, and more! Language rights sold: Simplified Chinese language rights sold in mainland China
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Tips for Teachers
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Latest-and-Greatest Teaching Tips
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The Tips for Teachers series features individually themed handbooks that provide a valuable mix of solid information for the busy educator, strategies that work in any classroom, and tools to put in the hands of students. Loaded with hundreds of tips and activities, this collection is ideal for teaching in many content areas. An excellent tool for strengthening any college- and career-readiness curriculum, this collection includes specific correlations to Common Core State Standards.
A series of foldouts for teachers, administrators, and students to help teachers optimize their classrooms. Topics include (but are certainly not limited to) writing, internet research, leadership, and differentiated instruction.
2 volumes | 272 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2015
15 volumes | 150 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2007
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Tips for Teachers: English Language Arts
Argumentation
Reading Strategies
Authentic Assessment
School Leadership
Curriculum & Project Planner
Social Studies
Classroom Management
Study Skills Planner
Differentiated Instruction Planner
Teaching Speaking & Listening
Differentiated Leadership
Writing and Discussion Prompts
Internet Research and Evaluation
Writing
Tips for Teachers: Helping Students Improve Academic and Social Skills
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Common Core Math and Language Arts, Grades 1-8
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Take control of the Common Core State Standards with math and language arts and literacy activities that pique the interest of students. As they engage in puzzles, stories, and adventures, students will be moving towards competence in the critical skills they need for success in the real world. This comprehensive collection will set students on the path to success and can be used in both the classroom and at home.
Puzzle It!
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Every Puzzle It! book has 50 challenging and fun puzzles that require the application of important basic skills. Use those fun puzzles to sharpen critical thinking and problem solving, as well as to motivate kids to learn with fun. Puzzle It! series is great for children from 5th grade to 8th grade. Make those unique puzzle books a part of your curriculum!
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16 volumes | 2,304 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2014
4 volumes | 64 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2008
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Common Core Language Arts and Literacy Grade 1
Common Core Math Grade 1
Puzzle It! Math Computation Puzzles
Common Core Language Arts and Literacy Grade 2
Common Core Math Grade 2
Puzzle It! Pre-Algebra Riddles
Common Core Language Arts and Literacy Grade 3
Common Core Math Grade 3
Puzzle It! U.S. History & Government Puzzles
* Common Core Language Arts and Literacy Grade 4
Common Core Math Grade 4
Puzzle It! Logic Puzzles & Tricks
* Common Core Language Arts and Literacy Grade 5
Common Core Math Grade 5
* Common Core English Language Arts Grade 6
Common Core Math Grade 6
* Common Core English Language Arts Grade 7
Common Core Math Grade 7
* Common Core English Language Arts Grade 8
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Quotes Series
Challenge your students, ignite their imaginations, and spark lively discussions with the Quotes series. Each quote is accompanied by tasks that engage students and lead them to ponder, reflect, write about, discuss, and relate the quote to their own lives. These titles are suitable for any subject area and are ideal for classroom warm-ups, talented and gifted programs, character education classes, and advisory programs.
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Use It! Don’t Lose It!
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This Daily Practice series helps students use their skills so they won’t lose them. There are five problems a day, every day, for 36 weeks. The practice activities are set up in a spiraling scope and sequence so that students practice skills at regular intervals. Each week’s problems are based on a grade-level-appropriate topic so each time a skill shows up, it has a new context, requiring students to recall what they know and apply it to a new situation.
4 volumes | 256 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2010
6 volumes | 768 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyrights 2007-2014
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Quotes To Start the Day
Daily Language Practice 5th Grade: Use It! Don’t Lose It!
Quotes To Spark Discussion
Daily Language Practice 6th Grade: Use It! Don’t Lose It!
Quotes To Stretch Your Brain
Daily Language Practice 9th Grade: Use It! Don’t Lose It!
Quotes That Bring History To Life
Daily Math Practice 5th Grade: Use It! Don’t Lose It! Daily Math Practice 6th Grade: Use It! Don’t Lose It! Daily Algebra Practice: Use It! Don’t Lose It!
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Basic Not Boring
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Basic doesn’t mean boring! The Basic Not Boring series will empower students to master skills and concepts needed to move successfully and with enthusiasm into the next level of lifelong learning.
Graphic Organizers
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This series of ready-to-reproduce organizers is a valuable resource for any teacher. These organizers will help students organize information visually for better recall and understanding, make connections between new concepts and their experiences, analyze and evaluate information, and document processes and concepts. These same organizers also help educators check for misconceptions, track students’ progress, and assess students’ understanding.
Each workbook presents a carefully researched skills sequence and features exercises based on age-appropriate, highinterest themes developed by a team of experienced educators to make basic, fundamental skills exciting and achievable.
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14 volumes | 896 pages | Soft Cover | Copyrights 1997-2013
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Words & Vocabulary BASIC/Not Boring 6-8+
Problem Solving BASIC/Not Boring 6-8+
Reading
Grammar & Usage BASIC/Not Boring 6-8+
World Geography BASIC/Not Boring 6-8+
Writing
Earth & Space Science BASIC/Not Boring 6-8+
World History BASIC/Not Boring 6-8+
Math
Economics BASIC/Not Boring 6-8+
Life Science BASIC/Not Boring 6-8+
Science
Reading Comprehension BASIC/Not Boring 6-8+
Physical Science BASIC/Not Boring 6-8+
Any Subject Any Level
Writing BASIC/Not Boring 6-8+
Science Investigations BASIC/Not Boring 6-8+
Spelling BASIC/Not Boring 6-8+
US History BASIC/Not Boring 6-8+
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ESL Resources
This collection of literacy activities helps ESL students learn, practice, and master a wide variety of essential reading and spelling skills. Simply reproduce the patterns and follow the simple directions; your students will love this high-interest practice.
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Dr. Birdley Teaches Science
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Dr. Birdley Teaches Science explains critical concepts in science using words, images, and characters. It is focused on standards-based learning objectives and makes science accessible to all learners.
3 volumes | 304 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyrights 2001-2013
5 volumes | 480 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2007
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ESL Active Learning Lessons
Dr. Birdley Teaches Science: Atomic Structure and Chemical Reactions
ESL Reading and Spelling Games, Puzzles, and Inventive Exercises
Dr. Birdley Teaches Science: Constructing the Earth
ESL Vocabulary and Word Usage Games, Puzzles, and Inventive Exercises
Dr. Birdley Teaches Science: Elements, Compounds, & Mixtures Dr. Birdley Teaches Science: Mysteries of the Earth Dr. Birdley Teaches Science: Parts of the Cell Dr. Birdley Teaches Science: Properties of Matter
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Learning Adventure Series
Invite children at school or home to join in on brain-stretching escapades filled with humor and intrigue. They’ll pursue all sorts of clever problems and solve engaging dilemmas while they apply basic skills and deepen reasoning abilities. With high-interest subjects and great visual appeal, this series of delightful learning adventures supports: • • • •
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Yellow Pages
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Yellow Pages series offers quick facts and important reference materials in math, reading, and writing. More valuable than ever, the Yellow Pages for Student and Teachers Revised Edition will help your students master the three Rs! Don’t miss any of these time-saving titles from the Yellow Pages series!
Common Core Standards State and national standards Higher-order thinking skills Brain-compatible learning principles
4 volumes | 448 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2011
6 volumes | 384 Pages | Soft Cover | Copyright 2002
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Geography Mysteries
Math Yellow Pages
Science Mini-Investigations
Science Yellow Pages
Vocabulary Escapades
Writing Yellow Pages
Math Conundrums
US Social Studies Yellow Pages Reading Yellow Pages World History Yellow Pages
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