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God’s Great Covenant, Old Testament One teaches the Biblical narrative chronologically, from Genesis to Ruth to elementary aged students. The Old Testament is a narrative of God’s faithfulness to his people, and the overarching themes of the promises and power of God are presented in weekly stories. The workbook text contains thirty-two weekly chapters along with maps and 3D illustration. Recommended for second grade and up.

Classical Academic Press

Educators will find all curricula by Classical Academic Press to be created with four important attributes. Each product is classical, creative, relevant, and easy to use. As our company name implies, you will find that we publish classical books and media, seeking to acquaint students with the best that has been thought and said.

We also design and present our products with creativity and zest, from beautiful illustrations to engaging storytelling, ensuring that the classical subjects being taught are anything but boring.

Areas we publish in include:

-Latin
-Ancient Greek
-Logic
-Bible, Old & New Testament
-The Art Of Poetry
-Spanish
-Classical Education Resources

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Monster High fan-ghouls can read all about their favorite monsters in this fun guidebook to all the characters illustrated with ghoulgeous full color photos. Inside are all the scary-cool facts about the student disembody’s freaky flaws, pet peeves, favorites-colors, subjects, activities, and foods-GFFs, and more! From Frankie Stein to Jane Boolittle, meet all the ghouls!

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The Longman Children’s Picture Dictionary uses fun, child-centered scenes to illustrate 800 words, organized into 50 thematic units, complete with songs and chants. Themes from Animal Orchestra to Pirate Ship provide a clear context for learning new words.

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The Kingfisher Dinosaur Encyclopedia by Professor Mike Benton is the perfect guide to dinosaurs and the prehistoric world for children aged nine plus. It is packed with colourful illustrations, step-by-step sequences and the latest photography. Arranged thematically into key areas, the concise text is clear, accurate and perfectly pitched, making this an unbeatable resource for home and school.

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This devotional from Karyn Henley helps children use memorized verses to make character-building decisions. Fifty-two Scriptures will help kids focus on the positive character traits in choices such as listening vs. ignoring, willingness vs. stubbornness, and bravery vs. cowardice. Kids will enjoy examining biblical examples, as well as reviewing and using memorized verses for friendly “sword-fighting” application games. A great tool for elementary age kids.

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30 Minutes a Day: Kindergarten (30 Minute a Day Learning System)

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Help your students improve their vocabularies with More AbraVocabra, a sequel to the popular AbraVocabra. The book includes 24 lists of 12 words—all words taken from newspapers, magazines, and television. The words are practical words that any reasonably educated person is likely to encounter in real life.

More AbraVocabra includes the following:

• “tip-off” sentences to help students figure out what the words mean;
• simple, student-friendly definitions;
• lots of ideas for getting the students to use, and thus learn, the words;
• interesting tests that do more than ask students to “regurgitate” definitions; and
• playing cards and instructions for the “Vocabra” game.

More AbraVocabra has everything a teacher needs to help students expand their vocabularies. The AbraVocabra approach really works!

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Elementary school students who find science mystifying, daunting, and hard to understand will change their minds when they open this book. The authors have transformed fundamental scientific principles into an exciting adventure where they discover how plant and animal life interact within the Earth’s ecosystem, how energy is converted into heat and motion, how matter exists in solid, liquid, and gaseous states, how light is reflected and refracted, how magnetism and electricity are related, how the Earth revolves around the Sun, how the Moon revolves around the Earth, how different kinds of rock were formed, and how the Earth’s surface has been formed and shaped over a period of many billions of years. The student-friendly text is complemented with instructive line art.

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Katie can’t wait for the school science fair. But when she hears that a sixth-grader named Selena is using her pet mice as part of a science experiment, Katie does her best to put a stop to it. When she turns into Selena on the day of the fair, she gets her chance to set the mice free. What a disaster! How will Katie eek her way out of this one?

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Little Faith is the story of a young orphan girl brought up by a Christian couple. When Faith’s adoptive mother dies her father’s mother moves in to look after the family. But Granny resents Faith as she sees her as an outsider and an intruder in the family. Granny is violent, drunk and lazy and strikes out at Faith’s father by telling him he should get rid of Faith, ‘She has no right to the families share of the money.’Faith, takes this very hard and runs away to find a job as a servant girl. At first she has no success in job hunting but one day she goes into a church where there is a service going on. The minister reads out the verse, ‘O ye of little faith, wherefore do you doubt.’ Faith hears the words, ‘Little faith wherefore do you doubt.’ Faith had been feeling that God didn’t care about her but now she believes that these words were a direct message from God to her. She now knows that God does care about her.A lady in the church eventually gives Faith a job as a servant in her household. Some time later Faith decides to return to her family but she finds that the grandmother has died and the family has moved. Faith sets out to try and find them. One day she sees her father in the distance and runs to catch up with him. A family reunion takes place and Little Faith is finally home where she was meant to be.

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The Homework Practice Workbookhelps students practice problems learned in each of the lessons.”

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The Problem Solving Practice Workbookhelps students become better problem solvers by providing frequent opportunities to solve real-world problems.”

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Give your students the tools they need to write a great research paper with this handbook from The Literacy Essential Series. “How to Write a Great Research Paper” guides students step-by-step through the research process. Each step is carefully explained, and the handbook includes helpful practice activities, as well as appropriate examples taken from research papers written by middle school students. Don’t let the process of writing a research paper overwhelm your students–watch them become confident writers and thinkers with this new edition of “How to Write a Great Research Paper.”

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At the age of 11, Malala Yousafzai began writing a blog in support of education for girls in Pakistan. As the blog gained popularity and Yousafzai became famous, she faced opposition from religious extremists who were against womens right to education. Readers will discover how Yousafzai stood her ground against terrorist activists, even after being shot for her beliefs. They will also learn how Yousafzai achieved international recognition and how she continues to support the rights of women in her home country.

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If walls could talk, what would they say? Perhaps they would tell us who built them and why. Maybe they could even tell us about people’s lives today or about how our ancestors lived thousands of years ago.

In this book walls really do talk, and oh, the stories they tell.This new edition combines the beloved children’s books Talking Walls and Talking Walls: The Stories Continue. Together, those titles sold more than 170,000 copies. This new edition, thoroughly revised by the author, makes the text more accessible to young readers and English Language Learners and produces a book that is ideal for reading aloud. The back matter includes a world map that helps readers locate the many walls described, as well as additional information about the walls, the places, and the people.

The Talking Walls books have been much honored, including:

• Top 25 Non-Fiction Children’s Books Boston Globe
• Children’s Books of Distinction Hungry Mind Review
• Noteworthy Book from Parallel Cultures: Horn Book
• Paperback Plum Booklinks
• Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Social Studies: Children’s Book Council/National Council on the Social Studies
• Winner of a Mom’s Choice Gold Award — Picture Books category

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As English has evolved over the past 1,500 years, words that were once in common usage have slipped out of usage. Some are delightful, others not so much. This book blows the dust off a thousand delightful words, bringing them to a whole new audience. So if you enjoy words for their own sake, or if you are at all curious about how people talked and wrote when the world was a quite different place, then this book is for you.

Ever since it emerged as a distinct language from the West Germanic dialect spoken by early arrivals to what is now called England around the 5th Century C.E, English has busily absorbed many thousands of words from Ancient Greek and Roman Latin, the Northern Germanic languages of Scandinavia, the French spoken in Normandy, and more recently from countries that were once part of the British Empire (for example India). Most recently, American English has contributed many words to colourfully describe the modern world. The Oxford English Dictionary in 2011 lists over 250,000 words, and that does not include many more technical and slang words.

Use this book like a hungry person might approach a delicious buffet lunch. It deserves to be consumed slowly, savouring the flavours and giving them time to be properly digested.

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“If you are currently a member of the teaching profession, it is very likely that you were never taught to write. Shocked? Think about it. Certainly, we wrote, but what did writing instruction look like when you were a kid? Do you remember receiving any? I do not remember being taught to write. My language arts teachers focused on those things that could be measured and counted as right or wrong, like parsing sentences, identifying linking verbs, and making sure those darned participles didn’t dangle.”

If Shelley Barker’s description rings true, then you know that students need more than corrections to thrive as writers. In this practical and uplifting guide, Shelley invites you into her classroom and shares:

• guidance for nurturing yourself as a writer
• strategies for building a community of writers in your classroom
• tools for building lessons and addressing areas of student need
• models of feedback that motivates writers
• rubrics that make assessment valuable to students.

“Take what you need from your writing past-the positive experiences, the times when you felt successful, the times when writing made sense to you-and leave the rest-the red ink, the negative or empty comments, the references to your spelling and penmanship,” Shelley says. “We need to produce confident writers who when faced with difficult writing tasks may not know how to begin, but trust that they have the skills and perseverance to find the way.”

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Osama bin Laden spent more than two decades creating himself as a radical leader and terrorist in the Middle East. After the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, bin Laden came into international focus and became the world’s most wanted man.

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While the adults talk endlessly about the war overseas, Mason fights his own battles at home with a mean bully named Aden. But then Aden surprises Mason with an unexpected act of kindness. Finally, on the night the bells ring-and World War I ends-Mason lays an old enemy to rest. Readers will identify with this timeless story about a boy’s coming-of-age.

“This quiet, affecting coming-of-age story… realistically evoke[s] life in another time and place.” –The Horn Book

Awards for The Night the Bells Rang:

( An American Bookseller “Pick of the Lists”
( A Child Study Children’s Book Committee Children’s Book of the Year

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What is Love? is the 2nd title in Etan Boritzer’s best selling What is? series of Life Concepts books on character education and social issues. What is Love? is a way for children to discover how we all share many of the same needs and concerns in life, especially the need for love! This book communicates a message of multiculturalism and diversity as the means by which goals of understanding and tolerance can be reached. A sincere yet playful message for appreciating one of life’s tenderest emotions through which children can ponder the total human experience of honest caring and good will.

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When Tina, Willie’s big sister, gets to cast and direct the next school play, Willie assumes that she is a slam-dunk for the lead. Every night Willie dreams of her reviews in the school newspaper: “BRAVO! SPECTACULAR! OUT OF THIS WORLD! A New Star Is Born at Harriet Tubman School and her name is Willimena Thomas!” But Willie’s audition goes south and she is cast as a tree. And without saying a single word, Willie still manages to make the headlines on opening night: “NIGHTMARE ON TUBMAN STAGE! Tap-Dancing Tree Ruins School Play.” Needless to say, Willimena does her best to make things right. But in the process, she makes things worse than Tina could ever imagine.

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A unique collection of writing exercises designed to challenge and stimulate a child’s imagination.

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The immediate goal of Kids Care! is to help children formulate a plan of action to make a difference, and then to help them see the plan through to completion.

* Kids Care about Cats & Dogs: Kids begin with simple pet-oriented projects such as making cat and dog toys, and growing their own catnip or baking (and selling) dog biscuits. Then, it’s on to creating a home pet care service, making “welcome” toys for humane shelters, learning games to play with cats and dogs for their excercise and companionship.

* Kids Care about Wildlife: Simple things kids can do to help animals in their own neighborhoods or backyards including making removable stick-on window art to protect birds, building birdhouses for birds whose habitat is threatened, and grwoing sunflowers for wildlife.

* Kids Care about People: Simple things to help others feel more comfortable in new surroundings, helping older people with day-to-day chores, learning to listen, making cards and small gifts to bring good cheer, helping kids who miss a lot of school, how to hold fundraisers, food and blanket drives.

* Kids Care about Environment: Kids make everything from useful (and funny) recycle bins to door “snakes” and rain catchers.

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“Background knowledge is too often neglected in our push to raise test scores, despite the fact that we know background knowledge is a critical component of comprehension. Background knowledge simply has to become an instructional focus if we want to help students make sense of school. We will lose a generation of learners if we don’t act now.”

Why background knowledge?

• Because the Grapes of Wrath is dry reading if students don’t know about the Dust Bowl.
• Because the Boston Tea Party is a non-event if students don’t know loyalists from patriots.
• Because knowing a triangle has 180 degrees isn’t the same as knowing why.

Because content-area comprehension depends on it, you and your students need Background Knowledge.

Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey help you develop lasting subject-area understanding with ideas for modeling, guided practice, productive group work, and independent work that effectively engage adolescents. You’ll learn to:

• distinguish incidental knowledge from core background knowledge
• check students’ understanding prior to a unit with tools such as opinionnaires, interest surveys, and anticipation guides
• model how to activate and apply prior knowledge so kids can wrestle with new content
• build up students’ background knowledge through virtual fieldtrips, YouTube, guest experts, and more
• provide collaborative ways for students to develop expertise, show what they know, and own their learning.

Doug and Nancy also build your background knowledge with multimedia book-study resources at www.heinemann.com/backgroundknowledge.

“As teachers our job is not to simply fill students’ heads with facts,” write Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey. “We need to have students manipulate and apply information so that it becomes a permanent understanding.” That’s why the time is now for Background Knowledge.

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