Mini-Lessons, Strategies, Activities Develop descriptive writing skills using great activities, models, and reproducibles.

Students will learn the steps to presenting their ideas in an orderly way, supporting their ideas with essential facts, and directing their writing to a specific audience. http://freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=479426

Best-selling author Adele Fiderer presents a series of mini-lessons to help students move from writing single paragraphs to crafting mutli-paragraph pieces. Each mini-lesson introduces an important element of good paragraph writing, such as crafting topic and body sentences that pack a punch, writing smooth transitions, and paragraphing dialogue. Includes super student models gathered from the author's long career as a classroom teacher. http://freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=479423

Follow Me: Loop Card Games: English is a series of three books designed to reinforce basic literacy skills using auditory discrimination as the major focus. Using interactive game cards, pupils work in small groups or as a whole class to complete a chain of questions and answers. Each pupil maintains involvement in the game by using the supporting active listening enrichment copymaster, designed to track the progress of the game. Skills addressed by the games in these books include: Lower: rhyming words, word families, high frequency words, grammar, vocabulary development, synonyms and antonyms, analogies, contractions, compound words, singular and plural words, main idea, categorising, and cause and effect. Each book contains simple to prepare activities, blank pro formas (to produce your own games) and clear and concise answer pages. http://freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=470174

Fly High Fun Grammar complements the Fly High series and can be used in class or for homework. It includes: clear and simple explanations for all the grammar points in the Pupil's Book a variety of practice activities, with constant recycling further exploitation of songs from the Pupil's Book games and role play activities regular Reviews http://freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=468436 Tells how to learn a foreign language by using all available language tools, taking advantage of brief moments of free time, using a special vocabulary memory system, and reading publications and watching movies in the language one's learning. http://freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=467636

Give your first-graders the focused language arts practice they need to develop strong language skills. 36 weeks of instruction cover standards-based skills such as: Reading Comprehension: - categorizing - inferring - predicting - sequencing Vocabulary/Word Study - compound words

- contractions - homophones - antonyms - plurals - rhyming - word families - spelling Punctuation - punctuation at the end of a sentence\ - periods in abbreviations - commas in a series and in dates - apostrophes in contractions and possessives Capitalization - sentence beginning - days, months, holidays - books, magazines, stories - proper names and titles of people - names of places Grammar and Usage - comparative & superlative adjectives - double negatives - pronouns - possessive nouns - verb forms - subject/verb agreement

- identifying sentences Reference Skills - alphabetical order http://freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=467611 This book is loaded, from cover to cover, with focused practice exercises that will keep your Grade 3 students' language skills sharp and expanding. As an added benefit, the items are presented in a variety of standardized testing formats, such as those used in the SAT-9, OLSAT, and TAAS tests. Weekly units presented follow this format: * Monday-Thursday (five items) two sentences to edit, including corrections in punctuation, capitalization, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, plus three items that practice a variety of language and reading skills. * Friday practice cycles through four formats - language usage, identifying and correcting mistakes, combining sentences, choosing reference materials http://freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=467604 The Skill Sharpeners series offers parents a wonderful opportunity to support what happens in the classroom, inspiring a childs desire to learn. The skills and concepts presented in Skill Sharpeners are grade appropriate and are aligned to national and state standards. Grade 1 http://freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=466019

agreement * Sentence Skills: declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences combining sentence fragments to form sentences compound sentences * Mechanics Skills: capitalization, abbreviations, commas and quotation marks in dialogue, end marks * Usage: compound subjects, double negatives, indefinite articles, frequently confused words * Vocabulary: synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes, frequently misspelled words *

Sentence Editing: After practicing a skill, use the corresponding pages in this section for application to student writing. Students edit and correct sentences with common errors. http://freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=465482

Give your second-graders the fun and focused writing practice they need to become strong and successful writers. Thanks to engaging art, topics, and activities, even primary writers can practice the six traits of writing!25 weeks of instruction cover the following trait-based writing skills: Ideas,Organization,Word ChoiceSentence Fluency Voice Convention http://freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=463900