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1. Brain Quest Grade 6, revised 4th edition: 1,500 Questions and Answers to Challenge the Mind
by: Chris Welles Feder, Susan Bishay Release date: May 01, 2012 Number of Pages: 150 Find in Library Read Review |
For the fourth edition every deck is thoroughly revised and includes 20 percent new material. The content aligns with national and state standards and is overseen by the Brain Quest Advisory Board, a panel of award-winning educators, each a recent state teacher-of-the-year award winner or a recipient of the prestigious Milken Educator Award. The covers and cards have a refreshed design, giving Brain Quest a cooler, updated look.
2. Brain Quest Grade 5, revised 4th edition: 1,500 Questions and Answers to Challenge the Mind
by: Chris Welles Feder, Susan Bishay Release date: May 01, 2012 Number of Pages: 150 Find in Library Read Review |
For the fourth edition every deck is thoroughly revised and includes 20 percent new material. The content aligns with national and state standards and is overseen by the Brain Quest Advisory Board, a panel of award-winning educators, each a recent state teacher-of-the-year award winner or a recipient of the prestigious Milken Educator Award. The covers and cards have a refreshed design, giving Brain Quest a cooler, updated look.
3. My Weird School Fast Facts: Sports
by: Dan Gutman, Jim Paillot Release date: Jun 21, 2016 Number of Pages: 176 Find in Library Read Review |
Think fast with A.J. and Andrea from My Weird School!
Did you know that the only sport that’s been played on the moon is golf? Did you know that an NFL quarterback once threw a touchdown pass to himself?!
Learn more weird-but-true sports facts with A.J. and Andrea from Dan Gutman’s bestselling My Weird School series. This all-new series of nonfiction books features hundreds of hysterical facts, plus lots of photos and illustrations.
Whether you’re a kid who wants to know more about sports or just someone who is curious why Major League Baseball umpires have to wear black underwear, this is the book for you!
With more than 10 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!
4. What Do You Stand For? For Teens: A Guide to Building Character
by: Barbara A. Lewis Release date: Sep 01, 2005 Number of Pages: 284 Find in Library Read Review |
Quotations and background information set the stage. Dilemmas challenge readers to think about, discuss, and debate positive traits. Activities invite them to explore what they stand for at school, at home, and in their communities. True stories profile real kids who exemplify positive traits; resources point the way toward character-building books, organizations, programs, and Web sites.
5. Children’s Mathematics, Second Edition: Cognitively Guided Instruction
by: Thomas P Carpenter, Elizabeth Fennema, Megan Loef Franke, Linda Levi, Susan B. Empson Release date: Oct 27, 2014 Number of Pages: 240 Find in Library Read Review |
Explore the new edition-including video clips, a sample chapter, and related blogs-at Heinemann.com/ChildrensMath
The bestselling first edition of Children’s Mathematics helped hundreds of thousands of teachers understand children’s intuitive mathematical thinking and use that knowledge to help children learn mathematics with understanding. The highly anticipated Second Edition provides new insights about Cognitively Guided Instruction based on the authors’ research and experience in CGI classrooms over the last 15 years. Highlights include:
- how children solve problems using their intuitive understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
- the development of children’s mathematical thinking throughout the primary grades
- instructional practices that promote children’s active engagement in mathematics
- connections between children’s strategies and powerful mathematical concepts
A new expanded collection of over 90 online video episodes illustrating children’s mathematical thinking, interactions between students and teachers, and classroom instruction that builds on children’s mathematical thinking.
Together, the Second Edition and videos provide a detailed research-based account of the development of children’s mathematical thinking and problem solving, and how teachers can promote this development in ways that honor children’s thinking.
Save money when you buy all three books in the Cognitively Guided Instruction series together: Children’s Mathematics, Extending Children’s Mathematics, and Thinking Mathematically
6. My Weird School Fast Facts: Geography
by: Dan Gutman, Jim Paillot Release date: Jun 21, 2016 Number of Pages: 176 Find in Library Read Review |
Think fast with A.J. and Andrea from My Weird School!
Did you know that Antarctica’s largest land animal is an insect? Did you know that the smallest country in the world is only 0.2 square miles?!
Learn more weird-but-true geography facts with A.J. and Andrea from Dan Gutman’s bestselling My Weird School series. This all-new series of nonfiction books features hundreds of hysterical facts, plus lots of photos and illustrations.
Whether you’re a kid who wants to learn more about geography or simply someone who wants to know if there’s really a town called Scratch Ankle, this geography facts edition is the book for you.
With more than 10 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!
7. What Do You Stand For? For Kids: A Guide to Building Character
by: Barbara A. Lewis Release date: May 15, 2005 Number of Pages: 176 Find in Library Read Review |
8. Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story
by: Andrea Warren Release date: Sep 28, 1998 Number of Pages: 80 Find in Library Read Review |
Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains to find new homes. Some were adopted by loving families; others were not as fortunate. In recent years, some of the riders have begun to share their stories. Andrea Warren alternates chapters about the history of the orphan trains with the story of Lee Nailling, who in 1926 rode an orphan train to Texas when he was nine years old.
9. Science Verse (Golden Duck Awards. Picture Book (Awards))
by: Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith Release date: Sep 23, 2004 Number of Pages: 40 Find in Library Read Review |
Don’t ever tease a wee amoeba
By calling him a her amoeba.
And don’t call her a him amoeba.
Or never he a she amoeba.
‘Cause whether his or hers amoeba,
They too feel like you and meba.
What if a boring lesson about the food chain becomes a sing-aloud celebration about predators and prey? A twinkle-twinkle little star transforms into a twinkle-less, sunshine-eating-and rhyming Black Hole? What if amoebas, combustion, metamorphosis, viruses, the creation of the universe are all irresistible, laugh-out-loud poetry? Well, you’re thinking in science verse, that’s what. And if you can’t stop the rhymes . . . the atomic joke is on you. Only the amazing talents of Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, the team who created Math Curse, could make science so much fun.
10. Texts and Lessons for Teaching Literature: with 65 fresh mentor texts from Dave Eggers, Nikki Giovanni, Pat Conroy, Jesus Colon, Tim O’Brien, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and many more
by: Harvey “Smokey” Daniels, Nancy Steineke Release date: Mar 06, 2013 Number of Pages: 312 Find in Library Read Review |
“The experiences provided in these 37 lessons parallel the readings and tasks recommended by the Common Core State Standards. The main difference is that our lessons put student curiosity and engagement first.”
-Harvey “Smokey” Daniels and Nancy Steineke
In this highly anticipated follow-up to Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading, Harvey “Smokey” Daniels and Nancy Steineke share their powerful strategies for engaging students in challenging, meaningful reading of fiction and poetry using some of their favorite short, fresh texts-or, as they put it, “full-strength adult literature that gives us English majors a run for our interpretive money- but is still intriguing enough to keep teen readers digging and thinking.” Use the 37 innovative, step-by-step, common-core-correlated lessons with the reproducible texts provided, with selections from your literature textbook, or with your own best-loved texts to teach close reading skills and deep comprehension strategies. Give students opportunities to read and synthesize across texts with the 8 thematic text set lessons provided, or use the model unit outlines for using the lessons with The Giver, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Great Gatsby as springboards for planning your own novel studies.
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11. Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for Middle School (Theory and Practice (Scholastic))
by: Ruth Culham Release date: Jan 01, 2010 Number of Pages: 336 Find in Library Read Review |
12. The Common Core Lesson Book, K-5: Working with Increasingly Complex Literature, Informational Text, and Foundational Reading Skills
by: Gretchen Owocki Release date: Apr 12, 2012 Number of Pages: 400 Find in Library Read Review |
-Gretchen Owocki
The quality of instruction is the most important factor in helping students meet the Common Core Standards. That’s why Gretchen Owocki‘s Common Core Lesson Book empowers teachers with a comprehensive framework for implementation that enhances existing curriculum and extends it to meet Common Core goals.
“Children,” writes Gretchen (author of The RTI Daily Planning Book), “need teachers who believe in the power of meaningful reading as a context for instruction.” She breaks the CCSS reading standards into manageable chunks that emphasize engaged, authentic reading and differentiated teaching. For each standard, she offers:
- a clear description of what it asks from students
- an instructional decision tree that connects assessment to planning
- instructional strategies that gradually release responsibility to students
- techniques for intensifying instruction when readers need more support.
“In implementing the standards,” writes Gretchen, “we want children to deeply engage with multiple forms of reading. I wrote this book to offer encouragement to stay grounded in meaningful instruction, and to offer a set of strategies that emphasize meaningful reading.” Respond to the Common Core with The Common Core Lesson Book-you’ll help students meet the standards, and so much more.
13. The Drama Years: Real Girls Talk About Surviving Middle School — Bullies, Brands, Body Image, and More
by: Haley Kilpatrick, Whitney Joiner Release date: Apr 03, 2012 Number of Pages: 288 Find in Library Read Review |
In a few short years, they go through an incredible number of biological and emotional changes, making this the most formative—and riskiest—time in their lives. Groups turn on each other, a trusted childhood friend can reveal secrets by sending a text message or updating a Facebook status, and deciding where to sit in the cafeteria can be a daily struggle. As any tween will tell you, life for a middle school girl can be summed up in one word: drama.
Haley Kilpatrick’s own turbulent middle school experience inspired Girl Talk, a nonprofit organization in which high school mentors offer a “just been there” perspective to tween girls, helping them build self-esteem and develop leadership skills. Here, Haley delivers the definitive guidebook, packed with anecdotes from real girls around the country, who offer their insight into why her friends’ approval is suddenly vitally important, why she feels pressured to be perfect, why she’s no longer telling her parents everything, and what three vital things adults can offer to the girls in their lives to downplay the drama.
Filled with practical strategies from tweens and teen mentors to help adults understand what girls today are facing, The Drama Years is a must-read for anyone struggling to help girls navigate the often difficult transition into adolescence.
14. Children’s Ministry Resource Bible-NKJV: Helping Children Grow in the Light of God’s Word
by: Thomas Nelson Release date: Jan 24, 1994 Number of Pages: 1856 Find in Library Read Review |
The Children’s Ministry Resource Bible, developed in conjunction with Child Evangelism Fellowship, is filled with almost endless options for Bible study with children, whether at home, school, or church. Teaching aids are designed to be used with children ages 5-12.
Full-page articles and a pronunciation dictionary complement the lessons. Comes complete with a special teacher training section and the Wordless Book, a colorful way to share the gospel message.
Features include:
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Thousands of footnotes clarify important Bible terms, phrases, and ideas to provide you with cultural and historical background and insights on the Bible’s people and events
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Teacher Training Sections help you learn how to communicate important Bible lessons in a kid-friendly manner
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Lesson Outlines take selected Bible stories and break them down into an Introduction, Progression of Events, Climax, and Ending, prefaced with a Teacher’s Objective and Child-Related Truth
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Full-Page Articles address foundational skills for evangelising and disciplining children
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The Wordless Book presents the gospel message in a way children can understand
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Full Bible text of the New King James Version
With the Children’s Ministry Resource Bible, you will be fully prepared to present the content of Scripture and the message of salvation to young children in a way they will understand and enjoy.
More than 165,000 Children’s Ministry Resource Bibles sold to date
The New King James Version—More than 60 million copies sold in 30 years
15. Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery (Clarion Nonfiction)
by: Russell Freedman Release date: Apr 14, 1997 Number of Pages: 208 Find in Library Read Review |
16. The English Teacher’s Companion, Fourth Edition: A Completely New Guide to Classroom, Curriculum, and the Profession
by: Jim Burke Release date: Nov 01, 2012 Number of Pages: 392 Find in Library Read Review |
A new companion for every English teacher
“Why have I written an entirely new English Teacher’s Companion? Because to offer you anything less would suggest I had not grown, changed, or evolved these past fifteen years. I am not the same teacher I was when I wrote the first edition.” Jim Burke
The fourth edition of English Teacher’s Companion is 100 percent new. Jim Burke has rewritten it to model methods for reaching a new generation of students-when all the ground rules for teaching are changing.
A teacher’s teacher and a recognized leader in English/language arts education, Jim understands the need for instructional methods that connect the why of teaching to the how. “This edition makes the research behind my practice more explicit,” he writes. “It is also anchored in the Common Core State Standards, because I am still teaching every day-so these standards are my standards too.”
Weaving in ideas for working with ELLs, struggling readers, and technology, English Teacher’s Companion, Fourth Edition:
- looks comprehensively at the research and reality of our profession, our students, and our content
- provides practical and thoughtful methods for meeting standards in reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language study
- makes assessment a priority, not only to find out what students know but to help practitioners improve.
“I have taught English for nearly 25 years, and I love it,” writes Jim Burke. Never has this love been more apparent than in the numerous lessons and teaching moves he includes as well as in the many examples of his own classroom language. Trust the fourth edition of English Teacher’s Companion, and bring the passion, power, and practicality of one of America’s best teachers to your classroom.
17. The Penny Pot (MathStart 3)
by: Stuart J. Murphy, Lynne Woodcock Cravath Release date: Aug 08, 1998 Number of Pages: 40 Find in Library Read Review |
Stuart J. Murphy travels all over the United States talking to thousands of kids. And you’ll never believe what they talk about: MATH! Stuart shows kids that they use math every day — to share a pizza, spend their allowance, and even sort socks. Stuart writes funny stories about math — andif you read his books, you’ll start to see the fun in math, too.
18. Scouting for Boys: The Original 1908 Edition (Dover Books on Sports and Popular Recreations)
by: Robert Baden-Powell Release date: Feb 27, 2007 Number of Pages: 432 Find in Library Read Review |
The original blueprint and “self-instructor” of the Boy Scout Movement, Scouting for Boys is a fascinating fusion of “yarns and pictures,” an irresistible mixture of nationalistic narrative, tracker legend, and quotations from Baden-Powell’s own autobiography and the popular adventure fiction of Rudyard Kipling, James Fenimore Cooper, and Alexander Dumas. The book provides practical advice on lighting fires, building boats and stalking animals, alongside proper Victorian-era education on chivalry and manners, self-discipline and improvement, and above all, good citizenship. Expounding upon the topics intrinsic to the life of a scout — tracking, woodcraft, camp life, endurance, patriotism, and more — this classic is essential for anyone interested in popular culture and the history of scouting and youth education. Ninety original diagrams and illustrations enhance the text.
19. Systematic Sequential Phonics They Use: For Beginning Readers of All Ages
by: Patricia M. Cunningham Release date: Sep 01, 2000 Number of Pages: 208 Find in Library Read Review |
20. Sentence Composing for Middle School: A Worktext on Sentence Variety and Maturity
by: Donald Killgallon Release date: Oct 21, 1997 Number of Pages: 144 Find in Library Read Review |
With the first edition of his book, Don Killgallon changed the way thousands of high school English teachers and their students look at language, literature, and writing by focusing on the sentence. In this revised edition, Killgallon presents the same proven methodology but offers all-new writing exercises designed specifically for the middle school student.
Unlike traditional grammar books that emphasize the parsing of sentences, this worktext asks students to imitate the sentence styles of professional writers, making the sentence composition process an enjoyable and challenging one. Killgallon teaches subliminally, nontechnically–the ways real writers compose their sentences, the ways students subsequently intuit within their own writing.
Designed to produce sentence maturity and variety, the worktext offers extensive practice in four sentence-manipulating techniques: sentence unscrambling, sentence imitating, sentence combining, and sentence expanding. All of the activities are based on model sentences written by widely respected authors. They are designed to teach students structures they should but seldom use. The rationale is that imitation and practice are as valuable in gaining competence and confidence in written language production as they are in oral language production.
Since the practices have proven successful for the great majority of students who have used them in all kinds of schools, it’s demonstrably true that Sentence Composing can work anywhere–in any school, with any student.
21. Reading Unbound: Why Kids Need to Read What They Want—and Why We Should Let Them
by: Jeffrey Wilhelm, Michael Smith, Sharon Fransen Release date: Dec 15, 2013 Number of Pages: 192 Find in Library Read Review |
22. On Your Mark, Get Set, Grow!: A “What’s Happening to My Body?” Book for Younger Boys
by: Lynda Madaras, Paul Gilligan Release date: Feb 13, 2008 Number of Pages: 128 Find in Library Read Review |
Hi. My name is Lynda Madaras. I write books about growing up. I get tons of letters from boys. They tell me just what they’re thinking. They ask questions. Many of the things they say are here in this book. Many of their questions are here, too, along with my answers. So boys like you helped to write this book.
In her uniquely warm and funny style, Lynda Madaras wrote this entirely new book especially for younger boys to give them everything they need to know about the new and exciting changes that are happening to their bodies during puberty.
Illustrated with fresh and funny cartoons, On Your Mark, Get Set, Grow! is the seventh book in the popular “What’s Happening to My Body?” series of growing-up books for boys and girls. Praised by parents, teachers, nurses, doctors, and especially kids, the bestselling “What’s Happening to My Body?” books for older boys and girls are on the “Best Books for Young Adults” list from the American Library Association and have been translated into 12 languages. Over 2 million copies of the “What’s Happening to My Body?” series are in print.
23. The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Middle School (Worst Case Scenario Junior Editions)
by: Robin Epstein, Ben H. Winters Release date: Jun 17, 2009 Number of Pages: 128 Find in Library Read Review |
24. I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
by: Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick Release date: Aug 19, 2014 Number of Pages: 240 Find in Library Read Review |
25. Community Helpers from A to Z (Alphabasics)
by: Bobbie Kalman Release date: Oct 01, 1997 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
— an entire page explores one subject and its related topics
— lavish illustrations and photographs help provide further information
— entertaining and informative facts
Let’s meet people who make our communities cleaner, safer, more pleasant places to live. Full-color photographs and illustrations with informative captions feature workers performing tasks related to their occupations putting their various roles into a context children will recognize. This alphabet book introduces young readers to a range of community helpers including:
— agricultural workers
— firefighters
— recycling workers
— veterinarians, and more!
26. Six-Way Paragraphs: 100 Passages for Developing the Six Essential Categories of Comprehension, Middle Level
by: Walter Pauk Release date: Oct 01, 1999 Number of Pages: 219 Find in Library Read Review |
27. From Ideas to Words: Writing Strategies for English Language Learners
by: Tasha Tropp Laman Release date: May 07, 2013 Number of Pages: 200 Find in Library Read Review |
“Through strong teaching, multilingual students can expand their range of literacy practices, and we, their teachers, can also grow and change as we get to know students as individuals with talents, strengths, interests, and concerns.“
-Tasha Tropp Laman
Tasha Tropp Laman helps classroom teachers, ELL specialists, administrators, and literacy coaches become confident in their ability to support English language learners’ growth as writers. Her book, From Ideas to Words, provides insight and practical tips for getting ELL students writing, even if they are at the very beginning stages of English language acquisition.
Each chapter is stocked with specific tools and strategies that help writing instruction meet the needs of ELL writers; illustrated classroom vignettes, samples of children’s writing, student observations, and planning notes based on the information in that chapter. In addition to the theories and research behind working with ELLs, Tasha offers her experience and advice on:
- creating a classroom environment that supports ELL writers
- building a community that promotes risk-taking and values different experiences
- creating whole-group minilessons that meet the needs of emerging and fluent ELLs
- scaffolding independent practice for a wide variety of ELLs
- scaffolding writing conferences with tools based on ELL students’ writing and language needs
- facilitating and encouraging students to share and reflect.
To preview a sample of From Ideas to Words click here.
28. Lessons That Change Writers: Lessons with Electronic Binder
by: Nancie Atwell Release date: Aug 22, 2007 Number of Pages: 296 Find in Library Read Review |
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29. Spelling Skills: Grade 6 (Flash Kids Harcourt Family Learning)
by: Flash Kids Editors Release date: Feb 07, 2005 Number of Pages: 144 Find in Library Read Review |
Spelling Workbooks are designed to help students improve their ability to read and write by strengthening spelling skills. By learning key spelling techniques, young readers will benefit inside and outside the classroom. Each of the lessons in these fun, colorful books provide:
- Activities to teach readers to relate to sounds to spelling patterns
- Exercises to help children link spelling to meaning
- Unit reviews to test and reinforce what children have learned
- Short passages to proofread for misspelled words
- Rules for capitalization and punctuation
- Introduction to dictionary use
Harcourt Family Learning Workbooks are a comprehensive line of workbook developed through a partnership with Harcourt, a leading educational publisher. Based on national teaching standards, these workbooks provide complete practice in math, reading, and other key subject areas.
30. Take Ten: Daily Bible Reflections for Teens
by: Maureen Gallagher, Jean Marie Hiesberger Release date: Oct 01, 2004 Number of Pages: 384 Find in Library Read Review |
Best Selling Books for 11 year olds:
- Action & Adventure
- Activities, Crafts & Games
- Animals
- Biographies
- Classics
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Technology
- Early Learning
- Education & Reference
- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths
- History
- Holidays & Celebrations
- Humor
- Literature & Fiction
- Mysteries & Detectives
- Religions
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science, Nature & How It Works
- Sports & Outdoors
- Children’s Cookbooks
Recommended Books for 11 year olds:
- Action & Adventure
- Activities, Crafts & Games
- Animals
- Biographies
- Classics
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Technology
- Early Learning
- Education & Reference
- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths
- History
- Holidays & Celebrations
- Humor
- Literature & Fiction
- Mysteries & Detectives
- Religions
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science, Nature & How It Works
- Sports & Outdoors
- Children’s Cookbooks
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