Take It To Your Seat Centers Reading Language Grade 6

Motivate your students to practice reading and language skills! Help your grade 6+ students practice and reinforce reading and language skills using the delightful, highly motivating centers in Take It to Your Seat Reading and Language Centers, Grade 6+. 12 full-color centers cover the following standards-correlated skills: 1. Synonyms and Antonyms Identify synonyms and antonyms. 2. Homophones Identify the correct homophone to use in a sentence 3. Homographs Indentify homographs 4. Greek and Latin Roots Recognize word roots originating in other languages. 5. Prefixes Identify prefixes as word parts added to base words. 6. Suffixes Identify suffixes as word parts added to base words. 7. Analogies Identify analogies as a kind of comparison 8. Idioms Identify idiomd as colorful expressions. 9. Similes and Metaphors Distinguish between a metaphor and a simile. 10. Using Context Clues Use context clues to help define unfamiliar vocabulary in a reading selection. 11. Inference Use clues in a reading passage to understand what is being implied. 12. Main Idea and Details Identify what a passage is mainly about and important details that support the main idea.

Engage children in exploring the world while learning important map skills and geography concepts. The cross-curricular activities integrate the most current geography standards and incorporate colorful learning activities with geography concepts.

10 weeks of daily lessons that will help prepare children for third grade

Contains 16 portable and self-contained centers that students can use to practice their reading and writing skills.

The Daily 5: Fostering Literacy in the Elementary Grades, Second Edition retains the core literacy components that made the first edition one of the most widely read books in education and enhances these practices based on years of further experience in classrooms and compelling new brain research. The Daily 5 provides a way for any teacher to structure literacy (and now math) time to increase student independence and allow for individualized attention in small groups and one-on-one. Teachers and schools implementing the Daily 5 will do the following: Spend less time on classroom management and more time teaching Help students develop independence, stamina, and accountability Provide students with abundant time for practicing reading, writing, and math Increase the time teachers spend with students one-on-one and in small groups Improve schoolwide achievement and success in literacy and math. The Daily 5, Second Edition gives teachers everything they need to launch and sustain the Daily 5, including materials and setup, model behaviors, detailed lesson plans, specific tips for implementing each component, and solutions to common challenges. By following this simple and proven structure, teachers can move from a harried classroom toward one that hums with productive and engaged learners. What's new in the second edition: Detailed launch plans for the first three weeks Full color photos, figures, and charts Increased flexibility regarding when and how to introduce each Daily 5 choice New chapter on differentiating instruction by age and stamina Ideas about how to integrate the Daily 5 with the CAFE assessment system New chapter on the Math Daily 3 structure

Motivate your students to practice reading and language skills! Help your grade 4 students practice and reinforce reading and language skills using the delightful, highly motivating centers in Take It to Your Seat Reading and Language Centers, Grade 4. 12 full-color centers cover the following standards-correlated skills: 1. Alphabetical Order Alphabetic to the fourth or fifth letter. 2. Synonyms / Antonyms Distinguish between synonyms and antonyms as words that have almost the same meaning and antonyms as words with opposite meanings. 3. Sequencing Use singal words to sequence a nonfiction and a "how to" passage. 4. Prefixes Add prefixes to base words and demonstrate understanding of the change in meanings. 5. Suffixes Identify suffixes as word parts added to the ed of base words, whihc changes the meanings of those words. 6. Word Roots Identify word roots as the base of words, which can give clues about a words meaning. 7. Homographs Choose the correct meaning of a homograph used in a sentence. 8. Parts of Speech Identify words as nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs from their use in a sentence. 9. Similes Choose the correct word or phrase to complete a simile. 10. Analogies Identify the relationship between objects in an analogy. 11. Main Idea and Details Identify the main idea and details in a paragraph. 12. Fact or Opinion? Distinguish whether text is based on fact or opinion.

In this much anticipated follow-up to their groundbreaking book, Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom, authors Jan Burkins and Kari Yates, together with co-author Katie Cunningham, extend the conversation in Shifting the Balance 3-5: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom. This new text is built in mind specifically for grades 3-5 teachers around best practices for the intermediate classroom. Shifting the Balance 3-5 introduces six more shifts across individual chapters that: Zoom in on a common (but not-as helpful-as-we-had-hoped) practice to reconsider Untangle a number of "misunderstandings" that have likely contributed to the use of the common practice Propose a more science-aligned shift to the current practice Provide solid scientific research to support the revised practice Offer a collection of high-leverage, easy-to-implement instructional routines to support the shift to more brain-friendly instruction The authors offer a refreshing approach that is respectful, accessible, and practical - grounded in an earnest commitment to building a bridge between research and classroom practice. As with the first Shifting the Balance, they aim to keep students at the forefront of reading instruction.