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CROSS CURRICULUM REFERENCES AND REPRODUCIBLE COLLECTIONS

Alternatives to Worksheets: Motivational Reading and Writing Activities Across the Curriculum by Karen Bauer and Rosa Drew. Creative Teaching Press, 1992. This handy resource has 40 meaningful and motivating activities with hundreds of variations  students can use independently to learn without worksheets. They require students to apply what they learn rather than just circling an answer or filling in a blank. The activities emphasize written expression and promote critical thinking. The activities can be adapted to any theme or unit study, allow any student to experience success, and require very little teacher preparation . The book contains project ideas ranging from accordion books and bookmarks to box activities, cartoons and comic strips, flags, graphs, maps, and many more. There are also plenty of reproducible patterns for use in these activities. 96 pages. For grades K-4.  BTH-2497. $11.69-D

More Alternatives to Worksheets: Motivational Reading and Writing Activities Across the Curriculum by Catherine Hiatt, Doug Wolven, Gwen Botka, and Jennifer Richmond. Creative Teaching Press, 1994. This handy resource has 40 meaningful and motivating activities with hundreds of variations  students can use independently to learn without worksheets. They require students to apply what they learn rather than just circling an answer or filling in a blank. The activities emphasize written expression and promote critical thinking. The activities can be adapted to any theme or unit study, allow any student to experience success, and require very little teacher preparation . The book includes the following project ideas: Bean Cards, Board Games, Cereal Box Reports, Claydough, Codes and Symbols, Dioramas-in-the-Round, Face Fact Plate, Fence Weaving, File Folder Books, Headbands, Menus, Murals, Paper Dolls, Passports, Placemats, and many more. There are also plenty of reproducible patterns for use in these activities. 96 pages. For grades K-4.  BTH-2498. $11.69-D

Blueprints, a Dandy Lion book containing sixteen different learning projects (debate, speech, display, game, survey, and more) which are outlined, providing easy-to-use guides for independent study projects. Includes step-by-step instructions that take students from the beginning to a successful end. For grades 5-8. BTH-590. $11.66-D

Classroom Kickoff by Linda Milliken, an Edupress publication. Contains hundreds of projects, games, activities, tips, and tools to get the school year started and keep it going. Contains some great reproducible forms for getting both you and your students organized and for communicating with parents. There are also reproducible student motivators such as reward coupons and certificates,  a bulletin board library full of ideas, and some tips from other teachers on management and storage. When the students come, you can treat them to some art starts, innovative ways to start the day while you do your clerical works, games, projects that start in September and continue through the year, theme weeks, instant activities and seasonal month-by-month activites. At the back are some reproducible forms and lists: for emergencies, field trip suggestions, book lists (including Caldecott and Newbery Medal Winners), and more. A clip-art section follows. 304 pages with index. Cat.#EP-140. $19.35-D

Cool Calendar Skills by Steck-Vaughn. This creative,  all-inclusive resource introduces students to the relationships between days, weeks, months, years, and seasons, while creatively focusing on time lapses, intervals, and sequences using the calendar. Included are bulletin board and classroom ideas for every month. Targeted instruction includes ordinals, patterning, skip counting, and writing dates. Answers are bound in. Available for K-1 (SV-70998) and 2-3 (SV-71005). $8.09-D each.

Curriculum and Project Planner for Integrating Learning Styles, Thinking Skills, and Authentic Instruction by Imogene Forte and Sandra Schurr.  Incentive Publications, 2000. This is a pull-out planner with about nine useful panels of components.  ISBN: 086530-3487.

• Section 1 is a graphic organizer with a list of the seven multiple intelligences identified by Dr. Howard Gardner. There is a separate panel with an overview of the eighth and newest intelligence

• Section 2 lists the action verbs and student behaviors suggested by both Bloom's Taxonomy (six levels) and Williams' Taxonomy of Creative Thought (eight levels). All of these levels of both have been linked with the most appropriate intelligence. These verbs and behaviors can be used by teachers to develop objectives  for each intelligence.

• Section 3 suggests ways students can demonstrate who well they have learned concepts and can apply skills in a variety of contexts according to the different intelligence modes.

• Section 4 deals with assessment formats, linking them to the multiple intelligences.

• Section 5 is a sample set of curricular outcomes. BTH-420. $6.29-D

Everyone's a Star: Meeting the Needs of Every Child through Differentiated Instruction by Margaret Allen. Creative Teaching Press, 2003. This book is designed to help teachers of K-2 students plan lessons that will work with all their students. It includes lesson-planning templates, suggested materials for the differentiated classroom, more than a dozen assessment tools, and ready-to-go sample lessons and reproducibles. Lesson topics include Community Building and Self-Esteem; Phonemic Awareness and Phonics; Reading; Writing; Math; and Science. 128 pages. BTH-4078. $14.39-D

Inexpensive Ideas for Classroom Environments: Tips, Tricks, and Tools for Creative Classroom Makeovers, by Linda Milliken. Edupress. This book is full of ideas and patterns for Window and Wall Dressing; Multi-Purpose Decorations; Signs; Constructible Centers; Bold Borders; Sensational Storage; Innovative Ways to Use Cloth, Boxes, Wood, and Wire; Imaginative Spaces and Places; and Community Contributions (supplies form the community and how to get them.) In short, if you want to rejuvenate your classroom environment inexpensively, get this book. Cat. #EP-052. $6.26-D

Investigator, a Dandy Lion book which provides a step-by-step guide for completing an in-depth research project. Students will gather information, organize their ideas, and communicate their information via an oral presentation and a written report. Reproducible. For grades 4-7. Cat.#DL-39. $8.96-D

Lesson Plans Using Graphic Organizers by Steck-Vaughn. This time-saving resource provides teachers with 22 pre-planned lessons developed to meet curriculum standards. They feature a variety of graphic organizers. There are four units per book: reading, math, science, and social studies. The academics standards are correlated to each lesson. Every complete lesson includes the lesson plan, a modeling activity, a group activity, and an independent activity. The books are 96 perforated pages and come with a bound-in answer key. Available for grades 1-6.

    Lesson Plans Using Graphic Organizers Grade 1: BTH-1295. $10.79
    Lesson Plans Using Graphic Organizers Grade 2: BTH-1296. $10.79
    Lesson Plans Using Graphic Organizers Grade 3: BTH-1297. $10.79
    Lesson Plans Using Graphic Organizers Grade 4: BTH-1298. $10.79
    Lesson Plans Using Graphic Organizers Grade 5: BTH-1299. $10.79
    Lesson Plans Using Graphic Organizers Grade 6: BTH-1300. $10.79
 




   

 

I Love Lists: Lists, lists, and more lists! This completely updated book of lists will provide hours of fun for kids and a gold mine of ideas for teachers and parents. A handy compendium of information, the book covers science, math, geography, language, the arts, careers, hobbies, sports, and so much more. Fact-filled and fun-to-use lists of famous African Americans, U.S. presidents, landmarks of the world, types of shelters, prehistoric plants and animals that still exist, rain forest words, Internet words, and more than 260 other topics! Great for games, report ideas, creative writing, or just for fun. $17.95-D

Primary Teacher's Pet: Time Savers for All Reasons and Seasons by Linda Schartz. This is full of goodies  ranging from clip art and award certificates to language arts references, book marks and book report forms, outline maps and related worksheets, a blank family tree, simple labeled anatomy diagrams with brief explanations of how body parts work, food groups, menu-planning forms, botany references, pictures of various labeled dinosaur to cat out and color, computer information, field trip aids, forms for lesson plans and helps to leave for substitutes, and much, much more. For primary teachers. Reproducible for classroom use. 192 pages. $15.95. Out of print. One copy left.

Project Planner, by Diane Draze, a Dandy Lion publication. . This 8 1/2 by 11" book is a guide for creating curriculum and independent study projects. Whether you teach at home or in a school, whether you use texts or plan your own curriculum, this book will inspire you to plan more original and interesting activities to enrich your teaching. The book begins with an extensive list of topics and concepts to help pinpoint a topic of study. When you have selected your topic, there is a section of instructional strategies that offer a multitude of ways that information can be presented to groups or individuals. This is followed by a list of processes: different operations students can mentally perform on the information. Finally, there is a list of products so that you can help your students choose the best way to communicate what they have learned. Examples of some products are debate, panel discussion, slide show, model, book review, diary, report, speech, puppet show, flannel board story, etc. I haven't even scratched the surface.
BTH-589.  $8.96-D

Teacher's Pet: This is full of ready-to-use awards, calendars, charts, games, holiday ideas, invitations, notes to parents, and instant activities. Contains lots of worksheets for language arts, math, social studies, science, and computers, as well as patterns for  decorative borders and clip art for quick illustrations. For teachers of grades 3-6.  $15.95-D Out of Print. One copy left.

Ultimate Book of Skills Series by Steck-Vaughn, 2009: The books in this series help young students reinforce and practice grade-appropriate skills in all subjects. They are good for review or getting a student ready for the next grade. I don't recommend this as an entire curriculum if you are a home educator, since these books are intended for practice or variety. They are supplemental. 224 pages each. Answer key included.

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