Education : Elementary

Good listening skills are vital to learning and to everyday life. Educational research shows a direct link between the ability to listen effectively, and measurable intelligence. If we improve listening skill, we improve IQ. Yet though we often complain about students’ listening skills, do we apply focused teaching to improve them? The Learning To Listen series increases student ability to sustain retentive listening over time. Each book consists of 20 appealing, high-interest stories to be read to students. After listening to each story, students complete a related listening comprehension activity. These require students to retain specific information from the story to answer given questions. Details requiring recall relate to such details as colour, order of events, sounds, sights and characters discussed in the story. Activities can be completed as a class, in groups or individually. Initially, as written or aural clues, students are given particular information to listen for before the story is read. As their listening ability develops, memory cues are reduced. Creative expression extension activities accompany each story. Don’t just talk about how students should learn to listen. Do something about it. more...

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Blackline master math activity book jam packed with adventures of monsters, mad types and misfits in a mad and magical mathematical land. Will provide a high level of interest for students as they work through the problems in this book. The problem solving activities will prove thoroughly stimulating to the children in your class. more...

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Most young writers are not intimated by personal narrative, fiction, or even poetry, but when they try to put together a “teaching book,” report, or persuasive essay, they often feel anxious or frustrated. JoAnn Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher believe that young nonfiction writers supply plenty of passion, keen interest and wonder. Teachers can provide concrete strategies to help students scaffold their ideas as they write in this challenging genre. Nonfiction Craft Lessons will help students breathe voice into lifeless nonfiction writing, make it clearer, more authoritative, and more organized. more...

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Reading Reinforcement Games – Book 2. A 2 book series which provides games that a teacher can use to provide worthwhile activities for groups of students to be engaged in while they work with other groups. Each book provides a variety of games in ascending levels of difficulty with increasing difficulty of vocab. They are aimed at giving students the opportunity to practice word recognition and reading skills in a simple fun way. Book 2 games cover:. • matching words to a picture. • completing cloze activities using given words and a picture. • riddles. • reading and acting out cards. • jumbled stories – sentences and pictures that students put together in the correct sequence so the story makes sense. Teachers need to copy the games onto light card and cut them up to have for the classroom a good range of games that can easily be replaced if they are lost or become worn. The simplicity of the rules and challenges in each game make them very easy and quick to explain and for students to learn. more...

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Math activities for Intermediate/Challenging level students. The photocopy master activities are designed to consolidate comprehension skills as well as mathematical processes and problem solving strategies in a “real life” context. For students aged 10+. more...

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