When is the best time to invite students to become actively involved in think-alouds? Join classroom teacher, Patrick Allen, in this 35 minute video, and watch as he engages the students in his fourth-grade classroom, demonstrating that you don't need to wait very long to make the most of your think-alouds. The importance of nonfiction literature in literacy instruction is. Using Seymour Simon's Animals Nobody Loves, Patrick demonstrates how comprehension...

Anthropology is the organized study of what makes humans human. It takes an objective step back to view homo sapiens as a species and ask questions like: Given our common characteristics, why aren't all of us exactly the same? Why do people across the world have variable skin and hair color and so many inventive ways to say hello? And how can knowing the reasons behind our differences--as well as our similarities--teach us useful lessons for the future?...

Provides a variety of lessons, examples, word lists, and activities to teach phonics and spellling.

An English-speaking narrator guides the user through 18 short lessons; listen and repeat after the native French speakers. The guide shows the spelling and text of all the dialogues, along with a brief grammar summary and a glossary of grammatical terms.

Reinforce your child's fourth-grade skills with Spectrum Word Study and Phonics. With the progressive lessons in this workbook, your child will strengthen language skills in digraphs and diphthongs, synonyms and antonyms, idioms, and dictionary skills. The Spectrum(R) Phonics series provides your child with skill-building exercises that focus on phonics, structural analysis, and dictionary skills. Word Study and Phonics for grades 3-6 includes lessons...

Reinforce your child's sixth-grade skills with Spectrum Word Study and Phonics. With the progressive lessons in this workbook, your child will strengthen language skills in digraphs and diphthongs, multiple-meaning words, and Greek and Latin roots. The Spectrum(R) Phonics series provides your child with skill-building exercises that focus on phonics, structural analysis, and dictionary skills. Word Study and Phonics for grades 3-6 includes lessons...

This interacive program introduces children to French language-learning through games, skits and songs. It's non-stop fun in the house and on the playground as kids explore the world around them, learning the words for everyday objects along the way!

Reinforce your child's second-grade skills with Spectrum Phonics. With the progressive lessons in this workbook, your child will strengthen reading skills involving blends, hard and soft consonants, long and short vowel sounds, and vowel pairs. The Spectrum(R) Phonics series provides your child with skill-building exercises that focus on phonics, structural analysis, and dictionary skills. Phonics for grades K-2 guides students progressively through...