Teacher's Guide Books

Teaching is every educator's number-one priority, but learning is possible only in a well-managed classroom. This nuts-and-bolts guide covers three teacher skill sets that help students thrive: building relationships with students and families, creating easy-to-implement daily routines, and organizing time, materials, and the classroom space. It includes tips, strategies, planning tools, and step-by-step advice from real teachers in today's classrooms–and is designed to meet the needs and reading habits of the busy teachers who collaborated on it!.Packed with anchor charts, quick tips, and advice from classrooms across the country, featuring Scholastic Teacher Fellows.Focuses on the MOST requested area of need for new teachers: management skills..Includes video clips featuring real teachers in real classrooms via QR codes..Easy to navigate, inviting design, perfect teacher-training graduation gift.

Expand students' reading-comprehension skills with this collection of 35 high-interest informational texts that are sure to keep them engrossed. The easy-to-read passages are organized in ten chapters that focus on specific reading standards and skills, including analyzing events and ideas, word meaning, purpose and point of view, using sources, and more. Comprehension questions follow each passage. There's also a summative practice test as well as an answer key with rationales..Informational Texts for Teachers.Designed for Grade 5.Measures 8.375" X 10.875" x .24"

Expand students' reading-comprehension skills with this collection of 35 high-interest informational texts that are sure to keep them engrossed. The easy-to-read passages are organized in ten chapters that focus on specific reading standards and skills, including main idea, key details, text features, making connections, comparing texts, and more. Comprehension questions follow each passage. There's also a summative practice test as well as an answer key with rationales..Informational Texts for Teachers.Designed for Grade 3.Measures 8.375" X 10.875" x .24"

Give English Language Learners the support they need in reading with these irresistible little books featuring text in English and Spanish. Written to correlate with Guided Reading Level B, these simple, predictable stories feature high-frequency words, rhyming, repetition, and helpful illustrations on topics students love. Perfect as a bilingual resource for early learners or for introducing English speakers to a new language. Includes 100 full-color, 8-page books (5 copies of 20 titles), 32-page teaching guide and a sturdy storage unit..A perfect companion to the best-selling First Little Readers series.Stories include kid-friendly topics and just-right text to motivate growing readers to succeed.Perfect for English Language Learners or for students learning Spanish.A handy resource for dual-language classrooms.All the stories have been leveled by a reading expert

These books are designed to give teachers insight into their students’ emotional states, as well as teach students how to work with and understand the emotions they feel every day. There are 170 warm-ups in each book, and the first 16 units focus on 16 different emotions. Students are encouraged to identify the emotion in themselves and others, and learn a variety of coping tips and strategies. The final unit focuses on how multiple emotions work together. The Daily Warm-Ups format allows for easy integration into the school day. The included writing and drawing activities allow for creativity and self-expression!.These books are designed to give teachers insight into their students’ emotional states, as well as teach students how to work with and understand the emotions they feel every day..Provides opportunities for developing self-awareness and empathy!.Quick, easy, effective activities support standards and help students improve skills they need for success in testing..There are 170 warm-ups in each book, and the first 16 units focus on 16 different emotions

Expand students' reading-comprehension skills with this collection of 35 high-interest informational texts that are sure to keep them engrossed. The easy-to-read passages are organized in ten chapters that focus on specific reading standards and skills, including details and inferences, text structure, relating events and ideas, interpreting information, and more. Comprehension questions follow each passage. There's also a summative practice test as well as an answer key with rationales..Informational Texts for Teachers.Designed for Grade 4.Measures 8.375" X 10.875" x .24"

Drawing on research by the Yale Child Study Center, Mayes and Myers show us how trauma affects the developing brain and share classroom-based strategies that use the power of students' and families' own stories to promote social-emotional well-being..Teacher professional material.Language Arts.7 3/8" x 9" x 1".Educators learn ways to leverage student-focused, story-centered work to build key literacy skills.

By Deborah Schecter Correlated with Guided Reading Level A! Jump start your early reading program with this BIG collection of kid-pleasing little books correlated with Guided Reading Level A. Inside the sturdy storage box, you'll find 100 full-color books (5 x 20 titles) PLUS a great teaching guide packed with lessons, tips, and literacy-boosting reproducibles. A great value and a must-have resource for every preK­2 classroom!.Grades PreK-2 / Ages 4-7.Author Deborah Schecter.Teaching guide written by a reading specialist.5 Copies of 20 Titles.Teaching guide is 8" x 10-7/8".A Big Collection of Just-Right Leveled Books for Beginning Readers.

Dyslexia is no longer a mystery. MRI scans and other tools of neuroscience have advanced our understandings in the last decade. We now know what to do to help students become skilled, confident learners. In Conquering Dyslexia, Dr. Hasbrouck shares the instructional approaches that work best for children who have this disorder, and the most current information for parents so they can advocate for their children and communicate with educators effectively. This book addresses:• What is dyslexia?• How to identify it• Early diagnosis and intervention• Teaching students• Supporting English Learners.This book addresses: - What is dyslexia? - How to identify it - Early diagnosis and intervention - Teaching students - Supporting English Learners.A must-read for teachers, practitioners, administrators, and others on the frontline of teaching all children to read. Jack M. Fletcher, Ph.D., ABPP (ABCN) Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor University of Houston.A Guide to Early Detection and Intervention for Teachers and Parents.Instructional approaches that work best for children who have this disorder, and the most current information for parents so they can advocate for their children and communicate with educators effectively.176 Pages

Teachers start their professional journey with a clear aim: to teach well so students thrive socially, emotionally, and academically. All too often, though, the hard realities of teaching (mandated curricula, scripted lesson plans, overloaded schedules, students' personal struggles) hamper the best of intentions. Navigating these challenges and avoiding burnout calls for teachers to build strong relationships among colleagues, students, families, and communities. Those relationships in turn help teachers create contexts for deep learning, reflection, and student-centered instruction. This book provides strategies and tools for doing all this. This must-have resource: Provides student teachers and new teachers with a clear set of actions to move into their position and teach well right from the start., Offers practical, step-by-step guidance for building relationships with colleagues and administrators, affirming students' identities, navigating challenges with other professionals, and putting love and care at the heart of teaching., Helps educators build a foundation and philosophy for teaching and collaborating and includes stories from educators and sample dialogues., Dr. Elizabeth Soslau wrote this book to be a resource for self-directed, self-paced professional learning that teachers could use to develop and improve their practice, with easy-to-digest ideas that can be implemented in the classroom the next day. It's a guide that every student teacher, in-service teacher, host teacher, and student teaching field instructor needs..Self-Paced Professional Learning – Provides teachers with flexible, self-directed strategies to enhance their practice at their own pace..Support for New & Experienced Teachers – Equips student teachers, in-service educators, and mentors with clear steps to navigate challenges and teach effectively..For ages: 3+ years.Actionable Classroom Strategies – Offers easy-to-digest ideas that can be implemented immediately to improve instruction and student engagement..Relationship-Building Tools – Guides educators in fostering strong connections with colleagues, students, families, and communities for a supportive learning environment..Practical & Reflective Approach – Combines real educator stories, sample dialogues, and step-by-step guidance to help teachers develop their philosophy and teaching foundation..Self-directed, self-paced professional learning teachers can use to build agency and improve their practice, with easy-to-digest ideas that can be implemented in the classroom the next day.

Award-winning children's author and acclaimed educator Lester L. Laminack provides guidelines, lessons, and resources for making every read-aloud experience intentional and instructional to engage students in deep thinking about fiction and nonfiction books. Central to Laminack's message is his breakthrough thinking about the value and importance of "Best Friend Books"-- a small, carefully curated collection that you repeatedly turn to for specific teaching purposes..Step-by-step lessons for "first visits" and "return visits" to recommended Best Friend Books- clear guidelines for digging deeply and enriching students' understanding of content and craft.Links to an online resource bank that contains "Spotlight on Lester" videos, graphic organizers for you, and downloadables for your students."What the Research Says" boxes that point to studies supporting Laminack's professional advice.An annotated and alphabetized list of Laminack's favorite Best Friend Books."Home Visit" boxes that contain certain tips and tools for welcoming families into the work.ISBN 9781338594942

Thank you, and welcome. We welcome you to this amazing profession with open arms, and with an arsenal of experience and essential tools, strategies, and lessons to help you establish a successful and satisfying teaching career. We wanted to make it easier for you to learn and practice these techniques that research shows increase student learning. To do so, we also considered cognitive psychology research that tells us that images and illustrations can help strengthen communication and our own understanding. This helped us develop the unique format for this book: part hands-on playbook, part professional book, and all highly illustrated, it is designed to make complicated concepts more digestible and memorable..Great way to plan powerful learning experiences that ensure student engagement.Detailed guidance for developing formative and summative assessments.4+ years & Grade PK+.22 step-by-step learning strategies for any grade and any subject.30+ classroom videos demonstrating the techniques and strategies in action.Author: Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Taryl Hansen.You've made the incredible decision to become an educator because you want to impact the learning lives of young people

Preschool is a time of wonder when curiosity, development, and learning intersect. While the new sights, routines, and experiences can make preschool exhilarating, what about children who struggle? Perhaps they exhibit odd behaviors: chewing on clothing, covering their ears, avoiding certain textures, refusing to sit with peers, screaming when frustrated, hitting, kicking, or biting. Wired Differently will help you to decode what may seem like everyday challenging behaviors. It's possible that these children are struggling with sensory processing disorder (SPD). Differentiate between everyday challenging behaviors, and those that could signify something much more. Understand what sensory processing disorder (SPD) is and how it can interfere with a child's learning. Learn how to include sensory processing strategies as part of a typical classroom routine, and why they're important for all children. Effectively communicate with families about SPD behaviors and helpful learning techniques..This book gives a better understanding what sensory processing disorder (SPD) is and how it can interfere with a child's learning.Keriann Wilmot, OTR/L.Soft cover,112 pages.9780876597989.Wired Differently will help you to decode what may seem like everyday challenging behaviors.Effectively communicate with families about SPD behaviors and helpful learning techniques

Sometimes misbehavior isn't what it seems. Many children come to care with early signs of mental- or behavioral-health issues. Early childhood professionals are often the first to notice that something is different. How Can I Help? is a practical guide that helps educators first identify issues and then create nurturing, safe, and successful learning environments to set up all children for success..A practical guide that helps educators first identify issues and then create nurturing, safe, and successful learning environment.Social-Emotional guide.Soft Cover.English.132 Pages.1 Book.ISBN 9780876598337