WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?

Interactive Notebooks are great for students!

• Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
• The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
• Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
• And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.

Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!

• You can easily customize your instruction.
• You direct the learning process and pace.
• You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
• You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
• You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
• And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!

A true time-saver!

• Step-by-step teacher instructions
• Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
• Writing and reflection prompts
• Student letter
• Supply lists
• Rubric
• And more!

This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.

Improve reading comprehension scores with this personalized approach. Adding the Standards-Based Connections: Reading book to your curriculum will help you identify learning gaps so that you can redirect focus as needed. Complete with skill assessments, practice pages, and self-assessing "I Can" statements, this book is sure to help your students stay on track.

Standards-Based Connections Reading for kindergarten offers focused skill practice in reading comprehension. A skill assessment will point out students' learning gaps. This allows teachers to choose appropriate student pages for individualized remediation. The student pages emphasize five important reading comprehension skills: summarizing, inferring, story elements, comparing and contrasting, and cause and effect. The book includes high-interest fiction and nonfiction, with texts about baby foxes, getting ready for school, bugs, jungle animals, and more.

Each 96-page book in the Standards-Based Connections Reading series includes a skill assessment, an assessment analysis, targeted practice pages, and an answer key, making this series an ideal resource for differentiation and remediation. The skill assessments and assessment analyses help teachers determine individualized instructional needs. And, the focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning!

Features:

• Answer Key

Children Sing and Dance Their Way to Better Basic Skills

Channel children's natural enthusiasm for music and movement into a rich, positive learning experience with this toe-tapping program, featuring music by Greg & Steve. The concise, easy-to-follow lesson plans make teaching music enjoyable for the musical novice and expert alike. Written by Steven Traugh, each book includes two CDs featuring a total of over 30 fun songs. 64 pages each.

Music & Movement in the Classroom is a complete program of materials and teaching techniques designed to channel children's natural enthusiasm for music and movement into productive learning experiences. The program features:

• Step-by-step lesson plans to make the program enjoyable to teach for both the musical novice and expert
• Activities that are easy to schedule into weekly lesson plans
• Lessons that reinforce basic curriculum goals and standards
• Multimodal learning opportunities (visual, kinesthetic, auditory)
• Ideas to foster children's creativity and self-expression

Thirty fun activities and motivating music by Greg & Steve create the magic for this exciting music and movement program!

Track Listing
CD 1

1. The Freeze
2. Say Hello
3. Count and Move
4. Piggy Bank
5. Aerobics A-Z
6. B-A Bay #1
7. B-A Bay #2
8. Nocturne
9. Months of the Year #1
10. Months of the Year #2
11. Just Like Me
12. Let's Go to the Market
13. Disco Limbo
14. Purple Cow
15. Hand Jive
16. A Man Named King

CD 2

1. The World Is a Rainbow
2. Slowo Mojo
3. Fast Forward
4. An Adventure in Space
5. We All Live Together
6. The Three Little Pigs Blues
7. Show Me What You Feel
8. Everybody Has Music Inside
9. Old Brass Wagon
10. Eensy Weensy Caterpillar #1
11. Eensy Weensy Caterpillar #2
12. Down By the Bay #1
13. Down By the Bay #2
14. Dancin' Machine
15. We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands
16. Ballin' the Jack
17. Friends

Take just one minute a day to quickly assess student progress in basic math skills! This book features 100 quick drill sheets to help students increase speed in math operations and strengthen problem-solving skills. The 10 problems on each sheet can be done in one or two minutes and are a great warm-up to the daily math lesson.

Now there's a way for students to practice their math skills in a timed situation, enhance overall math fluency, and have fun at the same time! Eighth-Grade Math Minutes provides students with practice in every key area of eighth-grade math instruction, including

• multiplication
• division
• problem solving
• probability
• graphing
• place value
• algebra and functions
• geometry
• square roots
• percents, decimals, and fractions
• number sense
• measurement
• spatial connections
• math vocabulary
• and more

Eighth-Grade Math Minutes features 100 "Minutes." Each Minute consists of 10 classroom-tested problems of varying degrees of difficulty for students to complete within a one-to two-minute period. This unique format offers students an ongoing opportunity to improve their own math fluency in a manageable, nonthreatening manner. The quick, timed drills, combined with instant feedback, make this a challenging and motivational assignment students will look forward to using each day. Students become active learners as they discover mathematical relationships, apply acquired understanding to complex situations, and find solutions to the realistic problems in each Minute.