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Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom
by Susan Winebrenner
Second Edition

Help all students become successful learners. Here's a wealth of practical, easy to use strategies to help students who struggle to learn. Covers learning styles, learning problems, evaluation, language literacy, science, reading, math, social studies, behavior problems, and how to enlist parents' help.
Grade: 1 - 8    [IS-WLD]    247p.       

Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom
by Susan Winebrenner
Second Edition

Providing for the individual needs of your brightest students can be a challenge for any classroom teacher. This book provides information and examples for compacting the curriculum, making learning contracts, creating challenging activities, grouping students, and evaluating work.
Grade: 1 - 8   [IS-WGI]     243p.      

Click here to see the new CD: Differentiating Content for Gifted Learners in Grades 6 – 12. Includes extensions menus, study guides, reproducible forms and templates and more, from Dr. Winebrenner.

Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom
by Joan Smutny, Sally Walker, Elizabeth Meckstroth

Proven, practical strategies and techniques for teaching to multiple intelligences, compacting and extending the curriculum, assessing and documenting students' development, communicating with parents, and much more. Written for educators (and parents) who believe that all children deserve the best education we can give them, this guide encourages and enables you to identify gifted children as early as age 4 and create a learning environment that supports all students. Includes reproducibles.
Code is IS-YG                              

Research Reports to Knock Your Teacher's Socks Off!
by Nancy Polette

With easy directions and specific models and examples, this book shows students different ways to organize information about animals, people, places and events making research both fun and rewarding.
Grade: 3 - 8    [RE-P1]    48p.       

Research Without Copying
by Nancy Polette

Expanded second edition. Practical approaches for reporting on any topic in diverse ways. Different types of research are illustrated along with models for unique products.
Grade: 4 - 9    [RE-P2]    48p.        

Primary Education Thinking Skills (PETS)
by Dodie Merritt, Jody Nichols, Sally Thomson, and Margie Wolfe

Use this full year curriculum to introduce your students to Dudley the Detective and Sybil Scientist, the convergent thinkers; Isabel the Inventor and Yolanda the Yarnspinner, the divergent thinkers; Jordan the Judge the evaluative thinker, and Max the Magician the visual thinker. Use the whole group lessons to practice and reinforce high level thinking skills and identify students who excel in those different higher level skills. Use the small group lessons for enrichment for identified students. Your students will have fun learning about thinkers who use clues to find one right answer, brainstorm to find lots of answers, study parts of things, use imagination, look for patterns and use considerations.
Grade: K - 3    [TS-N1]    208p.       

Primary Education Thinking Skills 2
by Dodie Merritt, Jody Nichols, Sally Thomson, and Margie Wolfe

More of the same great ideas as in PETS 1; join Dudley, Sybil, Isabel, Yolanda, Jordan and Max in new activities to extend and support thinking skills activities in primary classrooms.
Grade: K - 3    [TS-N2]    208p.      

Active Questioning
by Nancy Johnson

Discover how students can become good questioners. Teachers can learn and model the difference between the passive process of answering questions and the active process of creating questions. Learning how to ask questions is easy and fun with these practical sets of activities producing hundreds of questions. Get kids involved in questioning readiness, "skinny" and "fat" questions, "before & after" thinking and more.
Grade: K - 12    [TS-J1]    112p.      

Questioning Makes the Difference
by Nancy Johnson

Identifies 4 kinds of classroom questions that motivate learners to develop better thinking skills and classroom products. Gives hundreds of ready-to-use questions in many content areas and all grade levels.
Grade: K - 12    [TS-J2)    80p.      

Teachers' Teaming Handbook: A Middle Level Planning Guide
by Arnold & Stevenson

This Handbook gives specific, understandable and useful guidelines for the planning and ongoing development of teams. Its' user-friendly design, with scenarios and exemplary team practices, provides a focus on teams that is responsive to the needs and interests of young adolescents.
Grade: 6 - 8    [TE-A]    200p.      

Assessment: Time-Saving Procedures for Teachers
by Bertie Kingore
Third Edition

A collection of excellent, easy to use, classroom tested techniques for making portfolios work to benefit students without overworking teachers. The unique product grid correlates 110 products to students' multiple intelligences and modalities, and the rubric generator enables students and teachers to develop rubrics in minutes instead of hours.
Grade: K - 12    [AS-K]    225p.       

 

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