Books & Resources

Teach Them Thinking Mental Menus for 24 Thinking Skills. If you are convinced of the importance of teaching thinking skills in the classroom, this is a must have resource. Twenty-four skills are presented along with ready to use sample lessons.

Conflict Resolution is more than just a book of techniques for resolving conflicts. Conflict Resolution is a systematic program designed to show teachers methods that will help their students to ward off or even bypass many conflicts altogether. It also presents non-violent ways (assertiveness, negotiation, compromise and mediation) to resolve the conflicts that do occur. This program will take teachers and their students through five steps: developing good self-concepts, growing social awareness, acquiring communication skills, using techniques for conflict resolution and finally, developing respect and empathy for others. In addition, age-appropriate concerns will also be addressed.

Activities for any Literature Unit is designed for primary students. The lessons and projects can be modified to use with a book you are reading with the class or adapted to stories in your reading series. The book is ideal for core literature, partner and individualised reading. Ideas are provided to guide students in individual and cooperative learning activities. The three sections include: Before You Read, As You Read and After You Have Read.

Brain Teasers provides ways to exercise and develop brain power! Each page stands alone and can be used as a quick and easy filler activity. The pages can be distributed to students as individual worksheets or made into transparencies for presentation to the entire class at once. The activities are especially useful in helping students develop: logic and other critical thinking skills, creative thinking skills, research skills, spelling skills, general vocabulary skills, general knowledge skills. Books 1 - 3 are for lower to middle primary and books 4 - 7 are for upper primary and lower secondary.

These pages are filled with a wide variety of lesson ideas, as well as pages for use with intermediate and middle school students. The themes are connected to the curriculum with activities in reading, writing, oral language, science, SOSE, maths, art and life skills. This book looks at three famous plays written by Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, and Richard III - and several sonnets and other writings. Lessons which cross curriculum boundaries are provided to widen students' grasp of life as it was for people of that time.

Designed for primary students, this resource incorporates the ideas of blooms taxonomy and multiple intelligences in a practical and fun way. The activities cover themes such as seasons, measuring time and cycles in our world and can be used by teachers to supplement their own classroom ideas. Each interdisciplinary unit of work includes activities that are individually coded for multiple intelligences. The activities have defined learning outcomes, promote creative thinking, draw out students' intellectual capabilities.

The activities in this book have been designed to enable lower primary school students to work in small groups with a minimum of instruction. The activities have been graded according to the developmental stages of reading in the early years. These recommendations are fluid and can be altered depending on the needs and strengths of the students. The cards can be used with the children's take-home books or any book appropriate to their reading level.

This series is a valuable tool for any reading program. Activities in level two include What Does It Say?, Lemonade for Sale, Old People Are Fun and Wishing for Snow.

The Reading for Understanding series has been designed to improve students' skills in the areas of sequencing, recognising details, main idea, character analysis, drawing conclusions, similarities and differences, cause and effect, evaluation, inference and following directions.