Guide students to write in ways that are clear so that they can learn, expand, and transfer the grammar skills they learn. Written as a springboard to teaching grammar, this book is designed to help teachers teach students to learn to use the 17 essential grammatical elements (eight parts of speech, six phrases, and three clauses) in their writing. The book's organization lends to any classroom al... more...

Guide students to write in ways that are clear so that they can learn, expand, and transfer the grammar skills they learn. Written as a springboard to teaching grammar, this book is designed to help teachers teach students to learn to use the 17 essential grammatical elements (eight parts of speech, six phrases, and three clauses) in their writing. The book's organization lends to any classroom allowing teachers to tailor a lesson based on their students' needs or sequentially teaching the mater   less...

Just the Facts, World Atlas is a fact-by-fact look at our world, from a physical, geological, astronomical, and political perspective. World Atlas features factfiles on every country in the world, with full-color political and physical maps, photographs, and illustrations. Just the Facts provides the most up-to-date information available, presented in a unique, easy-reference system of lists, fact... more...

Just the Facts, World Atlas is a fact-by-fact look at our world, from a physical, geological, astronomical, and political perspective. World Atlas features factfiles on every country in the world, with full-color political and physical maps, photographs, and illustrations. Just the Facts provides the most up-to-date information available, presented in a unique, easy-reference system of lists, fact boxes, tables, and charts.   less...

Handwriting skills reinforce eye/hand coordination and Brighter Child Handwriting: Printing offers just the right practice for children ages 4 to 7. This workbook offers 80 pages of printing activities that also reinforce literacy skills by using words children need to read and write for school. With easy-to-follow directions children will have fun learning to print! Features activities that teac... more...

Handwriting skills reinforce eye/hand coordination and Brighter Child Handwriting: Printing offers just the right practice for children ages 4 to 7. This workbook offers 80 pages of printing activities that also reinforce literacy skills by using words children need to read and write for school. With easy-to-follow directions children will have fun learning to print! Features activities that teach: •How to write each letter of the alphabet •Combining letters to make words •   less...

Comes with CD-Rom. Cd includes all student instruction pages, text file exercises that can be used with any word processing program, and examples relevant to various activities in the book. With Plugged In to English, John Cole presents practical, engaging computer lab activities that help teach writing and literature. He goes far beyond having students use the computer as though it were nothing m... more...

Comes with CD-Rom. Cd includes all student instruction pages, text file exercises that can be used with any word processing program, and examples relevant to various activities in the book. With Plugged In to English, John Cole presents practical, engaging computer lab activities that help teach writing and literature. He goes far beyond having students use the computer as though it were nothing more than a fancy typewriter. His activities involve analyzing, critiquing, organizing, responding, c   less...

Much of the professional and academic literature on teaching writing addresses the interplay between process and product and the need to respect the contributions of individual writers' processes to the creation of their written products. Although educators have benefited from this literature, what happens in classrooms often falls short of the successes described in these resources. Classroom tea... more...

Much of the professional and academic literature on teaching writing addresses the interplay between process and product and the need to respect the contributions of individual writers' processes to the creation of their written products. Although educators have benefited from this literature, what happens in classrooms often falls short of the successes described in these resources. Classroom teachers often are left to work through difficult issues that interfere with students' development as w   less...