Easy-to-follow directions and reproducibles help kids work independently!

Presents ready-to-reproduce pages with sixty activities that help young readers demonstrate their reading comprehension skills in creative ways.

These comprehension-boosting graphic organizers are designed for use with fiction and nonfiction books. The simple formats help young readers really think about what they read, then record their thoughts in an organized, meaningful way.--[book cover].

No More Theories Please! is a classroom management guide for current and prospective elementary classroom teachers. Unlike many other education texts, this book does not speak in theoretical terms. Rather it provides a "how-to" guide that clearly defines each strategy and procedure. Masao discusses the 3 Rs of management--routines, rules, and reinforcement--as well as behavior management plans and organizations. The book is divided into three parts: organization; routines, rules, and reinforcement; and classroom behavior-management systems. Each part has three or four chapters and provides tangible and pragmatic steps that can be taken to create the desired structured environment. Some chapters provide templates for management systems that the author created and implemented successfully in her own classroom. --From publisher's description.

Help students get more out of books they read with this big collection of tiered, reading-response activities on the topics you teach: plot, character, setting, main idea, dialogue, figurative language, and much more! Each reproducible is written at three levels--easy, medium, challenging--so you can match each child with a reproducible that's just right for them to maximize independent learning. Content meets the Common Core State Standards.

This book has engaging lessons, graphic organizers, and hand-on activities that help students respond to what they read and deepen comprehension.

This collection of ready-to-use literature response and writing activities helps teachers simplify management during independent reading time. The reproducible activity sheets feature easy-to-follow directions, grading criteria, and student samples, so kids can complete the activity on their own. Includes nine engaging activities for each of these literary elements: setting, plot, character, conflict, theme, point of view, and author's style. For use with Grades 4-8.