Teacher Resources

Grade: K-12  This teacher-friendly resource provides practical arts-based strategies for classroom teachers to use in teaching science content. Overview information and model lessons are provided for each strategy and ideas are provided for grades...

Grade: K-12  This teacher-friendly resource provides practical arts-based strategies for classroom teachers to use in teaching social studies content. Overview information and model lessons are provided for each strategy and ideas are provided for...

Grade: PreK-1  Successfully implement learning centers in early childhood classrooms! This easy-to-use professional resource uses current research to help teachers create, implement, and manage learning centers. Each center has suggestions for ways...

Grade: K-12 Use effective questions across all grade levels to improve comprehension. This innovative resource provides teachers with the tools needed to effectively instruct using text-dependent questions. It contains current research and sample...

Grade: K-12  Take the mystery out of teaching mathematics! This second edition resource is the perfect, research-supported tool to differentiate instruction. Full of practical strategies thoroughly described throughout the book, educators will be...

Grade: K-12  Implement engaging science lessons into your classroom that will intrigue, motivate, and groom students to be scientifically literate. This second edition book digs deep into Next Generation Science Standards to support teachers to...

Grade: K-12  This updated version of Teaching Social Studies Today 2nd Edition is grounded in the latest research and best practices and provides teachers with the necessary components to create comprehensive social studies units. This...

Grade: PreK-1 Use these effective and practical approaches for teaching alphabet recognition to young children. The instructional activities follow a consistent pattern using materials that are readily available in early childhood classrooms. The...

Grade: K-12 As an important tool for instruction and text selection, Teaching to Text Complexity helps teachers learn to evaluate children's and young adult literature and informational text for quality and complexity to support rigorous...

Grade: K-8 Looking for a way to increase engagement, differentiate instruction, and incorporate more informational text and student writing into your curriculum? Teaching with Text Sets is your answer! This must-have resource walks you through...

Grade: K-12 Create an active learning environment in grades K-12 using the 5E inquiry-based science model! Featuring a practical guide to implementing the 5E model of instruction, this resource clearly explains each "E" in the 5E model of inquiry-based...

Grade: 3-5 Experience the magic, excitement, and happiness that surround holidays and cultural celebrations. Geared toward engaging students in grades 3-5, The Big Book of Holidays and Cultural Celebrations is filled with hands-on activities,...

Grade: K-2 Experience the magic, excitement, and happiness that surround holidays and cultural celebrations. Geared toward engaging students in grades K-2, The Big Book of Holidays and Cultural Celebrations is filled with hands-on activities,...

Grade: 4-8 In this must-read book, Laura Robb uses what she's learned from her vast teaching experience to provide the research-based tools needed to improve students' reading comprehension. This practical resource offers classroom-tested interventions...

Grade: K-12  Make over your reading routine with fun activities that will engage even the most reluctant readers. This action plan offers techniques to ignite a passion for readers of all levels, bringing the joy of reading with...

Grade: K-12 Discover and implement effective ways for students to develop deep conceptual understandings, complex thinking skills, and enduring habits of mind using an inquiry-based approach. With this professional resource, teachers learn how to embed...

Grade: K-12 Imagine having a Newbery Medal-winning author in your classroom as a coach, an advisor, and a friend, giving you personal and practical advice on how to teach writing workshop in the 21st century classroom. With The Write Thing,...

Grade: 3-8 Help students put their thinking onto paper with step-by-step strategies that develop concise writing and discussion skills. With Think It, Show It: Mathematics, students in grades 3-8 will learn through guided instruction how to express...

Grade: 3-8 Teach students to think and express themselves scientifically through step-by-step strategies that develop concise writing and discussion skills. With Think It, Show It: Science, students in grades 3-8 will learn through guided...

Grade: 3-8 Think It, Show It: Social Studies is a practical and informative resource that supports the teaching of writing in the social studies classroom to meet the demands of the today's standards and the C3 Framework. The creative...

Grade: 2 Expand second grade students' knowledge base and prepare them for Next Generation Assessments by incorporating these engaging, rigorous practice exercises into their daily learning. Higher-level questions, multi-step problems, and higher-order...

Grade: 3 Expand third grade students' knowledge base and prepare them for Next Generation Assessments by incorporating these engaging, rigorous practice exercises into their daily learning. Higher-level questions, multi-step problems, and higher-order...

Grade: 4 Expand fourth grade students' knowledge base and prepare them for Next Generation Assessments by incorporating these engaging, rigorous practice exercises into their daily learning. Higher-level questions, multi-step problems, and higher-order...

Grade: 5 Expand fifth grade students' knowledge base and prepare them for Next Generation Assessments by incorporating these engaging, rigorous practice exercises into their daily learning. Higher-level questions, multi-step problems, and higher-order...

Grade: 6 Expand sixth grade students' knowledge base and prepare them for Next Generation Assessments by incorporating these engaging, rigorous practice exercises into their daily learning. Higher-level questions, multi-step problems, and higher-order...

Grade: 2  There is no better way to prepare second grade students for next generation tests than to take practice tests! These practice sets are the perfect preparation tool for Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), Partnership...

Grade: 3 There is no better way to prepare third grade students for next generation tests than to take practice tests! These practice sets are the perfect preparation tool for Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), Partnership for...

Grade: 4 There is no better way to prepare fourth grade students for next generation tests than to take practice tests! These practice sets are the perfect preparation tool for Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), Partnership for...

Grade: 5 There is no better way to prepare fifth grade students for next generation tests than to take practice tests! These practice sets are the perfect preparation tool for Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), Partnership for...

Grade: 6 There is no better way to prepare sixth grade students for next generation tests than to take practice tests! These practice sets are the perfect preparation tool for Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), Partnership for...

Grade: 3-5 Improve understanding of the election process for students in grades 3-5 by introducing and exploring the connections between national, state, and local elections. Students will learn to think critically about the election process while using...

Grade: K-2 Improve understanding of the election process for students in grades K-2 by introducing and exploring the connections between national, state, and local elections. Students will learn to think critically about the election process while using...

Grade: PreK-12 Students have different learning styles! This resource helps teachers determine the learning style of each student and the appropriate delivery methods to target and address the needs of as many of the intelligences as possible. Different...

Grade: 2-5 Introduce students to cursive and help them master this skill through the use of fun and engaging activity sheets provided in this resource. The Modern Cursive (D'Nealian) style is modeled throughout the book to help students become...

Grade: 1-2 Jumpstart your students' global adventure that starts in their own neighborhoods. Using Google Earth: Bring the World into Your Classroom is an easy-to-implement, easy-to-facilitate teacher resource that helps integrate technology...

Grade: 3-5 Jumpstart your students' global adventure that starts in their own neighborhoods. Using Google Earth: Bring the World into Your Classroom is an easy-to-implement, easy-to-facilitate teacher resource that helps integrate technology...

Grade: 6-8 Jumpstart your students' global adventure that starts in their own neighborhoods. Using Google Earth: Bring the World into Your Classroom is an easy-to-implement, easy-to-facilitate teacher resource that helps integrate technology...

Using primary sources can seem overwhelming to teachers who have little time to teach social studies. With minimal prep time, teachers can turn their classrooms into primary source learning environments with this practical resource that...

Grade: K-12 Discover how to effectively use technology to support students' literacy development. New classroom uses for technology are introduced in this easy-to-use resource that help educators enhance students' attention, engagement, creativity, and...

Grade: K-12 Based on current research, this user-friendly resource provides vocabulary development strategies that are grouped together according to purpose. Key features of the book include an explanation on how learners acquire and develop their...