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Read, Write, Checkmate both teaches chess to students and provides educators with an outline for a classroom literacy project. Chess expert, Alexey Root, describes her project to have kids read and write about chess while learning to play and excel at the game. Patterned after an actual project undertaken with 25 middle school students, this book features all you need to know to teach kids to play well and reinforce their reading and writing skills at the same time. All activities are linked to the NCTE/IRA national standards for language arts.Lesson plans, over 100 chess diagrams, parent letters, annotated bibliographies and all other needed information project in the classroom is included. Grades 3-8.

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Delightful, Reproducible Plays with Extension Activities that Build Literacy and Teach About Famous Americans
Builds oral-language skills!
Connect reading and social studies with 15 engaging and easy-to-read plays about famous Americans such as George Washington, Betsy Ross, Martin Luther King, Jr., Pocahontas, Harriet Tubman, and more! Kids will enjoy learning about these fascinating figures while building reading and oral-language skills. Designed for emergent readers, the plays feature simple, predictable language, as well as rhyme and repetition. Includes background information and extension activities. ... Read more

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Each level unit provides a sequential Reading Skills Checklist of the skills to be mastered at that grade/reading level for easy individual record keeping, plus 40-70 short, reproducible informal Reading Skills Competency Tests for measuring students' mastery of each skill on the Checklist at that level. Each also includes a Group Summary Profile for recording class progress and a separately printed wall chart that maps out the entire reading skills progression from Readiness through Advanced levels. ... Read more

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Student Activity Manual for "Expedition with Vowels" -- which teaches about "Scared Vowels" in the three-letter consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words.About the Scaredy Cat Reading System: This phonics-based reading and spelling program was written by a teacher with much experience teaching children with learning disabilities. The students are taught that vowels can be brave (long) or scared (short); hence the name Scaredy Cat Reading System. Joyce Herzog has designed a user-friendly method that appeals to both child and parent. Recognizing problems some children have with letter/sound identification, Joyce Herzog has created "stories" to help children learn and remember. Within the story is the rationale used in the system to teach letters and sounds; the behavior of the letters creates the inconsistencies of English letter/sound correspondence. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Child Study Journal, published by State University of New York at Buffalo - School of Law on September 1, 2000. The length of the article is 3301 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: PROMOTING EARLY LITERACY THROUGH RHYME DETECTION ACTIVITIES DURING HEAD START CIRCLE-TIME.
Author: David J. Majsterek
Publication: Child Study Journal (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2000
Publisher: State University of New York at Buffalo - School of Law
Volume: 30Issue: 3Page: 143

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Customer Reviews (1)

Handy - Not necessary
We are using these with the Young Peacemaker Teacher's Edition.I love the worksheets (2-3 pages) in the back of each one...serves as a nice review / bible study of what we talk about in each lesson.The rest of the booklet is essentially contained in the Teacher's Guide.It's worth a few dollars if you want the worksheets, but unnecessary if you are looking for more content beyond the Teacher's Guide. ... Read more