Books

Build STEAM skills with quick and purposeful daily practice! Introduce students to year-level STEAM content while encouraging them to develop their creativity and problem-solving skills. This book includes 12 units, broken into manageable daily activities. Each unit includes a STEAM challenge where students use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem.

In this timely resource, students learn to prove their conclusions by reading critically and closely and by effectively annotating literary and informational texts. Students will look for central ideas to comprehend texts and use credible evidence to make informed decisions. Lessons focus on finding, using and citing reliable sources and text evidence. 

This comprehensive approach to reading and writing poetry offers the background and activities teachers need to bring poetry to life for their students. Powerful poetry celebrates the beauty, power and pleasure of poetry in the classroom. This highly readable book outlines the many benefits of integrating poetry into your literacy program, including building reading, writing and speaking skills, nurturing creativity and celebrating language.

Your students learn analytic thinking skills and communication skills as they play these energising games. Same-different is guaranteed to be a favourite in your class.

Writing is thinking! Get your students writing and thinking about social studies with this collection of ready-to-use writing activities.

Add a new facet to your science instruction: writing! With this book, students get a deeper understanding and appreciation for science issues by writing about science.

Your students will be talking right away! The book includes sections on cooperative structures, social roles, getting to know you, making words mine, guided grammar experiences, writing skills and lesson designs.

Integrate cooperative learning and the writing process. This book provides several ready-to-use writing lessons in each of the writing domains: imaginative, functional, communication, non-fiction, reporting and opinion-making. Use cooperative learning structures throughout the stages of the writing process: prewriting, writing, proofing and editing, conferring and rewriting, and publishing. Loaded with practical management tips, references, resources and ideas for evaluating students’ writing with: portfolios, holistic scoring, primary trait scoring, analytic, self evaluation and peer evaluation.

Integrate higher-level thinking into your English curriculum with this powerful collection of ready-to-use questions. You will find hundreds of use-again questions to promote thinking, writing and discussion about: adventure stories, book reviews, poetry, story characters, story plots, story settings, story structures, vocabulary and much more! Questions are provided in convenient, reproducible, question card format, perfect for the engaging, cooperative questioning activities provided.

Students love writing with these fun and exciting, step-by-step, cooperative learning writing activities. This book takes two dozen cooperative learning structures and provides over 100 proven, literature-based activities across the domains of writing.

This is our bestselling book on cooperative learning and language arts. Jeanne Stone has radically revised and expanded her classic. These step-by-step cooperative learning lessons integrate listening, speaking, reading, and the writing process across a variety of genres such as fairy tales, fables, poetry, non-fiction and autobiography in four domains of writing:

• sensory/descriptive
• imaginative/narrative
• practical/informative
• analytical/expository.

Use your students’ favourite literature books to develop their higher-level thinking skills. Includes over two hundred questions on favourites including Charlotte’s web, James and the giant peach and Looking for Alibrandi.