Every class includes students who lag behind the rest of the class or race ahead of everyone when working on activities. This book provides creative solutions to that problem. The teacher provides each student with drawing paper, a pencil, crayons and a copy of the activity sheet. Then the student reads and follows the directions, step-by-step, or listens to the teacher read them aloud. The activities encourage students to follow directions, enhance their creativity and increase their motivation in fun-filled, productive ways.

Do you want to encourage your students to follow directions, enhance their creativity and increase their motivation in a fun-filled, productive way? If you do, then this is the book for you! These step-by-step activities also expand reading and vocabulary skills if you have students read them, and they develop listening skills when you read them aloud to your class. Organized by seasons, the activities include Presidents' Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day and a variety of other subjects and special days throughout the year. Students will learn how to follow directions for coloring, changing words into other words, drawing pictures, folding paper and more. Each activity includes easy-to-understand directions, and requires a minimum of preparation time by the teacher. Your class will enjoy the mystery of following step-by-step directions without knowing the results until they're actually done!

Expand students reading and vocabulary skills as well as their listening skills as they follow directions, step-by-step, to solve word problems and make creative, seasonal art projects. The results may be surprising, even to the students! The activities are organized by seasons and include major holidays and special days as well as fun topics such as sports and vacation.

Scientists have found that moving the body maximizes brainpower and that even simple movements can bring about improvement in a child's memory and concentration levels. This great resource is a compilation of 33 games that get students up and moving in the classroom; all of which can be adapted to current curriculum and used for most subject areas.

The goals of the educational process were classified by Benjamin Bloom into a hierarchy of educational objectives. This classification system, known as Bloom's Taxonomy, divides cognitive objectives into subdivisions ranging from simple to complex. Although other systems have been proposed, Bloom's remains widely recognized by educators and utilized in Critical Thinking cirriculum. The six subdivisions include knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. This book is divided into six sections to match the subdivisions of Bloom's Taxonomy and designed to teach critical thinking skills by providing a variety of across-the-curriculum activities in math, language arts, science, social studies, history, geography, art, and music. An answer key is included.

Teach writing skills using the Four Square method, which has been proven to work in classrooms just like yours. The Four Square method can be used with all forms of writing and will fit any reading or language arts program. This step-by-step approach is built around a simple graphic organizer that first shows students how to collect ideas and then helps them use those ideas to create clear and polished prose. Open-ended reproducibles make the technique accessible to writers of all ability ranges. Also great for content area writing.