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.

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.

'Me, Myself and I' encourages students to write by examining their own lives. Students observe and comment on themselves and the world around them. Each page provides activities designed to increase student self-awareness and concept development. Through the use of illustrations, simple vocabulary, and a question-answer format each student will produce an individual set of language-activity exercises. Activities include: days, shoes, the week, pets, holidays, dreams, sleeping out, your own car and TV.

This easy to use, 6-step teaching strategy is designed to work well with young students, older students who are remedial, and even illiterate adults. The students may have no reading ability at all, or some mix of limited reading ability. The book includes sample lessons, phonic charts, reading tests, teaching games, instant word lists and book section ideas. Dr. Fry is widely known for the famous instant word list and his readability graph.

A Little Bit of Everything for the emergency teacher is a resource you will go to again and again for teacher written activity sheets covering all areas of study for upper primary school children. Use these fun, illustrated pages to practise skills or reinforce classroom instruction.

A Little Bit of Everything Book is designed for emergency teachers. The book includes teacher written activity sheets covering all areas of study for lower primary school students.

Fairy Tales is for early childhood/primary school and can be used to motivate, educate and facilitate development in English and literature.  This book provides some wonderful worksheets that students can complete in class or take home for extra development. Fairy tales include: Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Three Bears.

This literacy book is designed for early primary school students and can be used to motivate, educate, and facilitate development in English and literature. This book provides worksheets that students can complete in class or take home for extra development.  Nursery Rhymes include: Jack and Jill, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Hickory Dickory Dock, Humpty Dumpty, Little Bo Peep, Three Little Kittens, Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, Little Miss Muffet, and Old Mother Hubbard.

Here is a series of books which will help develop reading comprehension. Students are presented with a great variety of word games, recipes, letter writing and geometric drawings. Through a variety of reading, colouring, drawing and writing activities, students will complete a variety of tasks including recipes, category lists, picture completion and more. Equal emphasis is placed on visual discrimination and fine motor skills. Each book advances from simple to increasingly complex directions. There are six books in the series, one for each year level: K-1; 1-2; 2-3; 3-4; 4-5; 5-6.

Here is a series of books which will help develop reading comprehension. Focuses on colour recognition and discrimination as students follow verbal and written instructions through a wide range of well presented activities. Through a variety of reading, colouring, drawing and writing activities, students will be involved in more detailed exercises and grasp the elements of language comprehension. Each book advances from simple to increasingly complex directions. There are six books in the series, one for each year level: K-1; 1-2; 2-3; 3-4; 4-5; 5-6.