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Each dynamic board book uses a variety of cuddly animals to teach children ages six and under the importance of obedience to authority and how to spend quality time with God in prayer. ... Read more

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This practical book gives you all the ideas you need to make drama a regular and integral part of your school’s curriculum, offering detailed suggestions of drama work for ages four to seven. The teaching units are arranged around four strands: drama for literacy; drama and the whole curriculum; drama film, media, and ICT; and drama for performance. The authors provide a wealth of practical activities throughout. Each unit includes:

• explicit links to the Renewed Framework for literacy and the wider curriculum
• a list of resources needed
• clear learning objectives and outcomes
• steps for teaching and learning including how to modify activities to suit your school
• links to writing
• assessment guidance.

Based on the authors’ experience as teachers and in-service trainers, this book provides a Wide range of ideas and activities for inspiring drama across the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1, and is essential reading for all those interested in bringing drama into their school.

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This creative book uses music, song, poetry and a host of practical activities to engage young children in Circle Time. It contains 26 practical themes based on the letters of the alphabet. Busy teachers will find the ideas and resources invaluable in helping them make their Circle Time sessions innovative and exciting.

The benefits to the children participating in these sessions will be the development of:

- self-esteem

- relationships

- communications

- spiritual and moral development.

There are links to Citizenship objectives and help with planning notes. This is an exciting and comprehensive resource that links Circle Time to the Early Years curriculum. ... Read more

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Teaching writing just got easier and more effective because of these sturdy crates. In them, teachers will find everything they need to help students use the six traits-ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions-improve their writing. Each crate contains an array of materials designed to engage students and enrich their writing experiences, including: 6 high-interest picture books hand selected for each trait 6 teaching guides filled with step-by-step lessons, graphic organizers, a scoring guide, and extension activities. Sing-along Trait Songs, a music CD containing lively, trait-specific songs to share with your students. Includes a bonus track on presentation. 6 full-color 17 x 22 posters contain lyrics to the songs on the CD Color-coded stickers for organizing classroom libraries and teaching materialsUsing Picture Books to Teach Writing With the Traits: K-2, 112-page resource containing 18 step-by-step lessons and 150annotations

of new and classic books, organized by trait. What's more, each crate comes with hanging folders one for each trait for easy, expandable storage for years to come.Kindergarten Picture Books

Ideas: My Chair Organization: I Am America Voice: When Sophie Gets Really, Really Angry Word Choice:Mama Zooms Sentence Fluency: Charlie Parker Played Be Bop

Conventions: No, David! For use with Grade K. ... Read more

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terrific teaching tool
The Trait crates are a wonderful addition to your writing curriculum and the fact that it includes books and lessons makes it immediately useful.I have been teaching for 19 years and this is definately a must have!

Starting them out in the "write" way
A blessing for every Kindergarten teacher or Instructional Coach can be found in the K Trait Crate.
Owning this Crate is a way to introduce the traits to the youngest writers. Each trait has a well-chosen book to show the students how this trait can be used in literature and then the lesson plans guide them to using the traits in their own writings.
In my own schools, we are finding much success by using the Trait Crates with our young writers.The books are an important springboard into each of the lessons and allows the teacher to enhance each trait in other lessons.
Gives both the teacher and students room to grow as writers. ... Read more

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The first few days of school are exciting for all of us. But as with any new experience, the start of school can also be stressful, especially for preschoolers, kindergartners, their parents and teachers.

Since what happens in the early days and weeks of school sets the tone for all the days and weeks that follow, it's important to make your children feel secure and comfortable in their new environment and to reduce your stress level as well. That's where this book comes in.

The Complete Welcome Back-to-School Book for preK-K helps you create a colorful, inviting classroom and involves children in stimulating activities right from the start, as well as make paperwork and administration easier for you. This book is brimming with creative room decorations and little "extras" based on six favorite themes: Animals, Healthy Habits, Teddy Bears, Fall, Things That Go and Fairy Tales.

To make back-to-school go as smoothly as possible, we've included a wide array of user-friendly forms, timesaving letters and other essentials, including welcome letters, requests for supplies and volunteers, calendars, learn-at-home handouts and tips for organizing your classroom, to name just a few. ... Read more

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Author Paula Jensvold shares her classroom-tested ways for teaching children how to write for different purposes. Through clear, step-by-step mini-lessons and sample student-teacher dialogues, she demonstrates how to introduce children to must-know forms of real-life writing, including lists, signs and labels, how-to procedures, messages, ads, cards, e-mails, letters, and thank-you notes, and then provides practice activities for each writing form. Includes ideas for differentiated learning, reproducible practice pages, and suggested book lists to connect with each type of writing. For use with Grades K–2. ... Read more

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Great Resource Book
This book is set up to help you with ideas for certain stories from the Bible, if it has a story you are doing, this is a great resource.Or you can purchase this book and use stories and ideas-takse the guess work right out of it!

Great book!
I ordered this book for use in my preschool vacation bible school and it is great! It has a lot of ideas and is very helpful! The lessons are geared for the preschool age and allows them to interact and have fun! I highly recommend this book!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Best
These lessons work like magic!I wish they had more lessons in a "sequel" book but once you learn the format you can replicate their methodology and make up your own stories, songs, games, and crafts.Kids really learn the material and have a good time (which means I have a good time!).I use giant flannelgrams for the Bible Stories and let the kids help put them up on the board.I also add a little bit more detail to the Bible Stories.This works well too.

Good Reference Book
If you're teaching pre-schoolers this is a good book to have.It gives you ideas to tie in with your lessons.If you are not a very creative person, this is the book for you.

stories that get the kids involved
I purchased this book along with some others for quick and easy ideas for our preschool class during church services.Although this book doesn't have pictures, it does involve the kids during the story.The book contains a craft suggestion, songs and snacks.The craft with each lesson isn't elaborate nor does it require hard to obtain items.Of the four books I purchased for the class, this one is my favorite.
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From classroom basics that reinforce literacy learning to building letters, numbers, vocabulary and strong family participation
Preschoolers receive a fine educational foundation based on tested techniques and tools of success and assessment in an activities guide any educator will relish, Harlan S. Hansen, Ph.D. and Ruth M. Hansen, Ph.D.'s LESSONS FOR LITERACY. From classroom basics that reinforce literacy learning to building letters, numbers, vocabulary and strong family participation in the process, this is packed with important keys to successful preschooler engagement. ... Read more

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truly helpful
This book will help teachers, parents, and even coaches develop their kids to become more adept at the rigors of physical education.This book is clear, concise, easy to understand, AND easy to put into your lesson plans! Trying hard to help your kids become more coordinated?Pick up this book. ... Read more

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Excellent Resource
This is a great resource for students like me trying to get their teaching degree.It's full of great lesson plans perfect for early childhood education.I tried a couple with my three-year-old son and he had a blast!So did I.Highly recommend this for any student teacher or current teacher.

A must for teachers of this range who want diverse, effective lesson plans.
The years between three and six are vital to children's educational development. "The Giant Encyclopedia of Lesson Plans For Children 3 to 6: More Than 250 Lesson Plans Created by Teachers for Teachers" is a guide for preschool and kindergarten educators who want to give the young children the intellectual stimulation they need to be the smartest they can be for elementary school and later. The lessons tackle a long list of subjects such as shapes, colors, counting, reading, and more elementary but vital educational topics. "The Giant Encyclopedia of Lesson Plans for Children 3 to 6" is a must for teachers of this range who want diverse, effective lesson plans. ... Read more

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Introduce the effective power of the mini-lesson format into your classroom and discover the skills you need to teach your young writers. With fifty-nine mini-lessons organized by the function they serve in the kindergarten classroom, and calendars that outline skills expectations for your students' first year of writing instruction, this resource helps you customize the power of writers' workshop so you can meet the needs of your emergent writers. ... Read more

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Must have for K writing
This book really changed my classroom as far as writing goes.My students' writing skills have increased substantially over what they were when I relied on my district's adopted curriculum only.I still do that, but with this separate writing workshop, their writing has just taken off.

I loved the philosophy and the many, many detailed examples of lessons. I especially appreciated the approach to assessment - where the students are involved in monitoring where they're at and making goals for improvement.

Growing Up Writing:Mini Lessons for Emergent and Beginning Writers
The fact that this book explicitly details the components of a mini lesson is wonderful. Too many emergent reader books contain lesson plans but the reader is not able to glean just how one is composed. The authors of this book do a great job in detailing the lesson plan by explaining the parts of a mini lesson and how to implement it. As an adjunct, I recommend this book for graduate level emergent literacy coursework.

Kindergarten teacher
Excellent, excellent book for your reading and writing program.DO NOT teach without it!!!

Educators Recommend
The research is clear concerning writing workshops: They are the most effective way to teach the craft and process of writing. This being the case, they should not, contend the authors, be reserved for the upper grades. Rather, all writers-including kindergartners and older emergent writers-should have the opportunity to experience the writer's workshop.

If you are interested in incorporating a writing workshop into your kindergarten or first grade curriculum, this book will serve as an excellent starting point and guide. In addition to answering your questions, it provides nearly sixty mini-lessons as well as a year-long calendar which can serve as your framework.

In their introduction, Dierking and Jones write that "kindergartners-and emergent writers of any age-should be treated like genuine authors and taught in a manner that respects their abilities while empowering their advancements." This is not merely a flowery sentiment. The entire book flows from this belief.

In Section 1, the authors discuss in detail their framework for teaching a workshop. The three parts are: the mini-lesson (5-10 minutes), independent practice with conferencing (20-30 minutes), and sharing (5-10 minutes). Also included is a chapter on "Connecting to Parents." Here the reader will find sample parent letters, information about homework, and a discussion of student journals.

The "meat" of the book is found in Sections 2-5. Section 2 comprises operational mini-lessons. That is, direct instruction of skills related to the "management of classroom process, materials, and spaces." Section 3 concerns print awareness mini-lessons. Here readers are provided with lessons that address the mechanics of writing: punctuation, capital letters, temporary spelling, and such. In Section 4 the authors include twelve foundational mini-lessons: setting, character development, choosing a topic, etc. Section 5 is devoted to craft mini-lessons. Here the lessons focus on using transition words, active verbs, color words, compare and contrast, word choice, elaboration and so forth.

Appended are a literature list and a bibliography. The literature list contains the titles of children's books and suggestions as to which mini-lesson the book is good for modeling. would be good for modeling. The bibliography is a list of recommended professional literature. The choices are excellent and will provide the reader with a firm foundation concerning the workshop process.

Highly Recommended.

Reviewed by the Education Oasis Staff

Finally!
This book is jam-packed with strategic mini-lessons that teachers have been desperately searching for!.Connie and Sherra have done an outstanding job of bringing simplicity to focused instruction. ... Read more

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The authors reveal children as growing, effective, sensitive users of language. ... Read more