Education : Home Schooling

Learn Basic Sight Words. This book uses large and small motor activities and sentence reading and writing activities with contextual clues to introduce 24 basic sight words. The activities used repeat for each word so that independence is quickly achieved and students can complete the activity on their own as a follow-up activity to instruction. Activities for each word are:. • tracing over a large model of the word. • copying over the word and writing it independently. • cutting out the muddled letters of the word and sticking them in the correct order. • selecting the correct word from a selection of words. • completing a sentence (use basic vocab and picture clues for understanding) with the word and reading the sentences. • cutting out the muddled words of one of the sentences and putting it together in the correct order. Ideal for building into a book which the children can keep and read and re read and take home to share. The importance of being able to retain and instantly recognize the basic sight words to a good start in reading can not be overstated. This resource will supplement classroom teaching and develop independence and success. more...

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Photocopy Master Book. Math problems arranged according to how long they should take to solve ? 5, 10, and 15 minutes. Each section of the book explains how a strategy is used and provides examples to show application to various types of problems. The strategies include: guess and check, listing, find a pattern, working backwards, and create a diagram. more...

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Children often find it difficult to make it through an entire day of structured activity — be it school, daycare, camp, or a boys/girls club. These games and activities refocuse children's mind after a long lesson or event. more...

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Above All, Be Kind teaches parents how to raise their children to be humane in the broadest sense -- to become not only more compassionate in their interactions with family and friends, but to grow up to make life choices that demonstrate respect for the environment, other species, and all people. The book includes chapters for early, middle, teenage, and young adult years, as well as activities, issue sidebars, cases, tips, and profiles. more...

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A story that will enchant children and the child in every adult. Deborah Plummer is a truly gifted story-teller. Her deep insight into the child's emotion is reflected in her work. The worksheets provide a tool for the story-teller to use in a creative manner and help children with a wide spectrum of emotional needs in different settings.'. - Colleen Carpen, Nurse, Croft Children's Unit. 'This delightful gentle story gives children plenty of opportunities to explore their feelings. This is a useful tool for teachers and others involved in group work as it addresses issues relating to self-esteem in an accepting and non-judgmental atmosphere. The activities are fun and topics such as 'false friends' are introduced in an entertaining and lively way. I would recommend these materials to anyone wanting to use self-esteem as a topic in their sessions with children.'. - Dorothy Clarke, formerly facilitator for Speech and Language Therapy Services to Education, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland NHS, Specialist Community Child Health Services. The Adventures of the Little Tin Tortoise is a practical, interactive storybook for building and maintaining self-esteem in children aged seven to nine. Using the tradition of oral story-telling, Deborah Plummer encourages children to consider the self-esteem issues encountered by a little tin tortoise on a journey to discover who he really is. The various obstacles and helpers he encounters along the way include worries, bullying, making decisions and friendship and children will gain age-appropriate insights from the story depending on their needs and level of understanding. Activity sheets and expansion topics also prompt children to explore the seven key elements of healthy self-esteem - self-knowledge, self and others, self-acceptance, self-reliance, self-expression, self-confidence and self-awareness - through active participation and discussion in pairs or groups. Teachers, parents, carers and all who support children in th more...

Price: $29.95