(K-2)

Janiel Wagstaff

This book by writing expert and Stella Writes author, Janiel Wagstaff, pairs examples of student writing with writing lessons. Student writing samples are extremely powerful tools for boosting the growth of young writers. The kindergarten, first, second, and third grade student samples provided in this book serve as mentor texts and the basis for each lesson. They will help teachers teach young writers to work within the three required text types, plus poetry, elevate their craft, and learn to use mechanics.

The samples are mentors that are doable for students; they highlight skills, strategies, craft moves, and traits within the reach of their intended audience. As teachers and students study the examples, they will think, I can do that! Additionally, samples that reflect the most common errors or trouble spots are included, enabling teachers to explicitly teach to these points. The samples can be easily duplicated and/or displayed for group instruction.

Each sample will focus on keys teaching points clearly outlined by the narrative explanation that accompanies it.

Classroom Ready Resources to Motivate

Jim Grant, Caleb Grant, Joyce McGreevy

What is grit? Grit is the determination to achieve short- and long-term goals, often against difficult odds. The word grit is often used as an umbrella term to describe being resilient, persistent, and having the will to deal with and overcome obstacles. Because learning is often a challenge, a student’s grit can make the difference between failing and making the grade. Students who develop grit can improve their academic performance through strengthened resiliency and perseverance. Grit traits become good habits that enable students to persist in the face of adversity, setbacks, and disappointments when pursuing their goals in school and out.

Although grit is not an academic skill, the good news is that it can be taught in school, not as an add-on, but through strategies that can be easily incorporated into an existing curriculum. This book will provide a roadmap for how to go gritty in the classroom, and the classroom strategies to get you—and your students—there.

144 pp.

(K-8)

The brainchild of grit-meister Jim Grant, this colorful picture book provides an engaging look at kids representing 13 key characteristics of grit in their everyday lives. This unique combination of art and text makes the book perfect as a read-aloud for younger children, and read-with and read-by for older kids, and a great discussion starter for middle school through adult.

32 pp.

(K-2)

Lori Elliott, Ed.D.

Project Based Learning for Real Teachers will become the essential handbook for teachers wanting to implement PBL in their classrooms. Unlike other resources, it addresses the common concerns and realistic challenges teachers face when trying PBL. In addition, this resource will share practical answers and strategies teachers can use to be successful. The books are written in a personal, down to earth style so that teachers can relate to the author and buy in to this engaging way of teaching, without spending lots of money and spending hours creating things that are not necessary. The focus is on what the students are doing and learning, not how cute the product will be in the end. Teachers will discover that PBL is not an extra thing to do at the end of a unit, but rather it is HOW students learn standards and objectives.

(K-2)

by Janiel Wagstaff

Meet Stella, an eager second grader. In this lively series of four, 32-page illustrated picture books, you'll find effective and engaging ways to teach and model the three writing types outlined in the standards: opinion, informative, and narrative, as well as how to celebrate and write poetry. Each title includes several suggestions real writers use to craft effective writing cleverly presented through the eyes of a second grader. Teachers are clamoring for explicit resources for teaching the standards, and these books provide a unique tool, both practical and fun, to inform that teaching. Set includes Stella Writes an Opinion (Product #133022), Stella Tells Her Story (Product #133023), Stella & Class: Information Experts (Product #133024), and Stella: Poet Extraordinaire (Product #133065).

Set of 4

(PreK-1)

Practical Activities from Early Literacys Master Chef

Carolyn Kisloski & Dr. Jean Feldman

Have you ever watched the cooking shows where chefs get a basket of ingredients and are challenged to create something delicious out of it? Teaching can be like that, too. You get a curriculum and basket full of standards and its up to you to figure out how to make them taste yummy for your students. Dr. Jeans Reading Recipes will help you become a master chef with recipes you can use to spice up your reading program and make it even more engaging and effective. Including over 80 new activities and dozens of variations.

160 pp.

Write-On, Wipe-Off Mats for Whole Numbers and Decimals

These 11"x17" write-on, wipe-off place value mats feature whole numbers (ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands) on the front side, while the reverse includes decimals (thousandths, hundredths, tenths, ones, tens). With a 10-frame set inside each place-value column, these versatile, sturdy mats support a wide variety of instructional and practice activities in addition and subtraction. A corresponding website includes demonstrations and activity suggestions.

Set of 10

(K-2)

by Janiel Wagstaff

Janiel Wagstaff has done it again! In Stella: Poet Extraordinaire, she has managed to use all her experience as a teacher and writer to create two engaging characters that help young writers, as well as teachers, discover the joys of poetry. Stella and her teacher, Ms. Merkley, take readers on a journey through the process of writing poetry, from finding inspiration by taking a poetry walk to a final Poetry Jam where all the young poets share their work.

Stella is genuine, making her a perfect mentor for young writers. Initially, she encounters many of the same struggles with writing that teachers often see with students—lack of confidence, confusion, and uncertainty. But with Ms. Merkley's guidance, Stella is able to work through those difficulties and emerge as a poet extraordinaire. As she says, "I look more closely at things; I linger so I can pick just the right words for what I`m observing, thinking, or feeling; and I discover thoughts I didn`t know I had when I write poems."

Janiel has a special way of creating books that are must-haves in the writing workshop. Both teachers and students will embrace Stella and Ms. Merkley as their personal writing mentors, and will soon find themselves hooked on poetry, too.

(K-2)

A colorful 22"x34" poster puts Stella and her poetry right in your classroom! Inspire your students to love poetry just like Stella, and remember, poetry can be fun!

(Gr. K-2)

Meet Stella, an eager second grader. In this lively series of four, 32-page illustrated picture books, and 5 22"x34" full-color posters, you'll find effective and engaging ways to teach and model the three writing types outlined in the standards: opinion, informative, and narrative, as well as how to celebrate and write poetry. Each title includes several suggestions real writers use to craft effective writing cleverly presented through the eyes of a second grader. Teachers are clamoring for explicit resources for teaching the standards, and these books provide a unique tool, both practical and fun, to inform that teaching.

Set includes Stella Writes an Opinion (Product #133022), Stella Tells Her Story (Product #133023), Stella & Class: Information Experts (Product #133024), and Stella: Poet Extraordinaire (Product #133065), as well as poster #133073 and poster set 133043.

(K-2)

Four colorful 22"x34" posters put Stella in your classroom. Set includes Stella`s Tips for Writers, Opinion Writing, Informative Writing, and Narrative Writing.

(set of 4)

Take your learners to a new level of fluency using this series of effective sight word phrases. Designed for differentiation, each set teaches students how to visually scan text more efficiently so that they feel more confident attempting new texts or expressing their thoughts in writing. Each set is designated with a special symbol, so that teachers can mix up the sets and words and easily sort them, or use them to differentiate in their classroom. Phrases include many from Frys sight word list. All cards are laminated, and each set includes two blank cards for write-on/wipe-off use.

This set includes all four titles in the series: Sight Word Phrases for Emergent Readers,Sight Word Phrases for Developing Readers, Sight Word Phrases for Transitional Readers, and Sight Word Phrases for Fluent Readers.

Write-On, Wipe-Off Mats for Whole Numbers and Decimals

These 11"x17" write-on, wipe-off place value mats feature whole numbers (ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands) on the front side, while the reverse includes decimals (thousandths, hundredths, tenths, ones, tens). With a 10-frame set inside each place-value column, these versatile, sturdy mats support a wide variety of instructional and practice activities in addition and subtraction. A corresponding website includes demonstrations and activity suggestions.

Set of 30

(1-5)

Eliza Sorte-Thomas & Kristin Hilty

Fact fluency still matters, but timed tests give students more anxiety than they develop students mathematical fluency. Its time for educators to give timed tests a time out. But, what do teachers do as an alternative? This book is designed to be a resource for teachers to use with their students to develop fluency with math facts. It provides teachers with a wealth of practical ways to teach students the facts, help them understand the facts, and give them strategies to become fluent with their grade levels fact fluency expectations.

The book covers fluency in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, with practical strategies for purposeful practice, including reproducibles of games and activities.

Essential words for developing writers--and readers. Includes more than 390 high-frequency words, days of the week, months, cardinal and ordinal numbers, contractions, and frequently-misspelled words. Extra write-on lines so students can add their own words. Consumable.

10 books.

Includes:

• 2 packs of 100 ones disks
• 2 packs of 100 tens disks
• 1 pack of 100 hundreds disks
• 1 pack of 100 thousands disks
• 1 set of 10 Double-Sided Place Value Mats
• Instruction sheet 

For 10 students

(K-2)

To succeed in math today, students need to make sense of unfamiliar problems and communicate their thinking as they work toward solutions. Teachers are looking for ways to help students tackle new problems and concepts, and for guidance on how to improve mathematical practices in their classrooms. Welcome to Ms. Greens math class, where students ask questions, try out different ideas, believe in their math power, and learn from each other. Even the most reluctant young mathematicians will want to follow Ms. Greens students as they work together to solve the fun and challenging problems in these colorful picture books.

32 pp. each

Includes:

• 15 packs of 90 tiles
• 3 sets of 10 Double-Sided Place Value Mats

For 30 students

(K-3)

Colorful, durable folder provides a great place to store drafts of current writing projects along with personal writing words books, spelling books, and more! Coated to withstand constant use by your students, and filled with tips for writing, reminders on capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and more.

Set of 10

(K-2)

Remind your students about the value of reading, each day in your classroom through this colorful poster.

22"x34" poster (set of 4)

(K-2)

Nancy Belkov

Illustrations by Dana Regan

Inspire your students to engage with math and use their math power in your classroom with this colorful 22x34 poster.

Practical Activities for Teaching Young Mathematicians

(PreK-1)

Carolyn Kisloski & Dr. Jean Feldman

Available in print (160 pp.), as an e-book, in a combo of print and e-book, and as a site license.

This is the second in the series of "recipe" books from Dr. Jean. Written in collaboration with Carolyn Kisloski, the colorful book is full of engaging, easy-to-follow recipes for math activities. The activities focus on the five domains outlined in the Common Core math standards (Counting and Cardinality, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Number Operations and Base Ten, Measurement and Data, and Geometry) and fits seamlessly into any classroom. The activities can be used for large group activities, small group activities, partner work, or independent learning. Teachers can turn to them for transitions, brain breaks, or whenever they have five extra minutes in the day and want to make them count. Most of the lessons don`t require advanced preparation or special materials, and all can be differentiated to meet the needs of the learners in any classroom. The recipes fit right into any existing math program. Teachers can open this book and quickly find an idea that they can adapt to their standards and the specific skills that they want to reinforce.

Notes: Our e-books are in PDF format and can be viewed on your computer or on any compatible reading device. This book includes extensive illustrations. To take full advantage of those graphics, we recommend viewing on a large screen. If you need more than 5 electronic copies, you might want to consider purchasing a site license.

You can download your e-book only one time. However, once you have downloaded your purchase, you may store it on several devices that you own. This means you can have a copy on your PC at work, on your Mac at home, and on your e-reader anywhere. You may not share an e-book with other users. If you purchase a site license, you may copy the downloaded product to your network or to a flash drive and share it with colleagues within the building.

Click here to view a sample.

To view the sample you will need Adobe Reader, available as a free download. It may take several seconds for the sample to open. Once it is open, please click on File (top left-hand corner of screen) and then click on Save As. On the next screen, click on the Save button to download a permanent copy of the sample and save it on your computer.

(PreK-1)

Practical Activities from Early Literacy's Master Chef

Carolyn Kisloski & Dr. Jean Feldman

Available in print (160 pp), as an E-book, in a combo of print and E-book and as a Site License.

Have you ever watched the cooking shows where chefs get a basket of ingredients and are challenged to create something delicious out of it? Teaching can be like that, too. You get a curriculum and basket full of standards and its up to you to figure out how to make them taste yummy for your students. Dr. Jeans Reading Recipes will help you become a master chef with recipes you can use to spice up your reading program and make it even more engaging and effective. Including over 80 new activities and dozens of variations.

Notes: Our E-books are in PDF format and can be viewed on your computer or on any compatible reading device. If you need more than 5 electronic copies, you might want to consider purchasing a Site License.

You can download your E-book only one time.  However, once you have downloaded your purchase, you may store it on several devices that you own. This means you can have a copy on your PC at work, on your Mac at home, and on your e-reader anywhere. You may not share an E-book with other users. If you purchase a Site License, you may copy the downloaded product to your network or to a flash drive and share it with colleagues within the building.

(K-2)

Harness your class` writing power with Stella and some of our best writing resources! This attractive bundle features all three of Janiel Wagstaffs Stella Writes titles, 4 Stella Writes posters for your classroom, 30 of Donna Whytes newly-revised My Writing Words, 30 My Writing Folders, and one of our Core Concepts for Shared Writing.

Includes:

• 5 packs of 100 ones disks
• 5 packs of 100 tens disks
• 3 packs of 100 hundreds disks
• 2 packs of 100 thousands disks
• 3 sets of 10 Double-Sided Place Value Mats
• Instruction sheet 

For 30 students

Your students will love working on their literacy skills with some of our top reading resources! This bundle features a copy of Carolyn Kisloski & Dr. Jean Feldmans new Dr. Jeans Reading Recipes, one set of each of our Sight Word Phrases for Developing Readers, Emergent Readers, Transitional Readers, and Fluent Readers, a colorful 10 Ways to Read poster, and two of our Core Concepts, one for Close Reading and the other for Fluency.

(K-1)

Bring the power of math to life in your classroom with this outstanding bundle that features Nancy Belkovs three new Use Your Math Power books, an accompanying poster, Place Value Mats and Disks, 10 Frame Cards, and Number Bonds Cards. With a value of $300, youll find new and interesting ways to expose your students to mathwhile having fun in the process!

Includes:

• 5 packs of 90 tiles
• 1 set of 10 Double-Sided Place Value Mats

For 10 students

(K-2)

Janiel Wagstaff has done it again! In Stella: Poet Extraordinaire, she has managed to use all her experience as a teacher and writer to create two engaging characters that help young writers, as well as teachers, discover the joys of poetry. Stella and her teacher, Ms. Merkley, take readers on a journey through the process of writing poetry, from finding inspiration by taking a poetry walk to a final Poetry Jam where all the young poets share their work.

Stella is genuine, making her a perfect mentor for young writers. Initially, she encounters many of the same struggles with writing that teachers often see with students—lack of confidence, confusion, and uncertainty. But with Ms. Merkley's guidance, Stella is able to work through those difficulties and emerge as a poet extraordinaire. As she says, "I look more closely at things; I linger so I can pick just the right words for what I`m observing, thinking, or feeling; and I discover thoughts I didn`t know I had when I write poems."

This set includes not only the Stella: Poet Extraordinaire title, but also a full-color 22"x34" poster. Hang it in your classroom to inspire your students-soon, they`ll love poetry just as much as Stella!