Get ready to make learning about figurative language fun for grades 5-8 students with this engaging resource. Students will explore idioms and proverbs through different content areas to develop skills in writing, word meanings, and using context clues. With a focus on figures of speech, including idioms and proverbs, this valuable resource supports the development of college and career readiness skills.
Provided in this resource are 20 standards-based lessons divided into 5 units (1 unit for each of the following: science, social studies, mathematics, and additional themes such as animals or holidays) that include teacher and student resources. Before you know it, teaching figurative language will be as "comfortable as an old shoe." Moreover, students will "fall head over heels in love" with figurative language as they read and write.
Idioms and Other English Expressions Grades 4-6
Grade: 4-6
Price: $24.99
Introduce idioms and effectively incorporate them into your language and writing instruction. The idioms and expressions included in this resource are provided within stories to provide contest to help all students, including English language learners.
Activities for English Language Learners Across the Curriculum
Grade: K-5
Price: $24.99
Help students improve their English skills with this must-have resource! Easy-to-use lessons are provided in each content area and include step-by-step instructions, as well as suggestions for modifying based on students' language proficiency levels.
Using Biographies in Your Classroom
Grade: 4-8
Price: $19.99
This resource includes biographies with fun and creative strategies and to teach literacy skills and address the multiple intelligences in any classroom.
Words Steps: Making and Writing Content-Area Words
Grade: K-12
Price: $29.99
Help build students' spelling and vocabulary skills with this fun, game-like approach! Each Word Steps activity is based on a crossword puzzle-type design and provides a focus on specific letters in words and meaning clues.
Environmental Print for Early Childhood Literacy
Grade: PK-K
Price: $24.99
Bring the world into the classroom and boost beginning readers' phonemic awareness and phonics skills using engaging environmental print. This book includes teacher background information, lesson plans, and developmentally appropriate student activities.
Purposeful Play for Early Childhood Phonological Awareness
Grade: PK-2
Price: $29.99
Provide students with purposeful practice and fun activities that focus on detecting, manipulating, and interacting with sounds of language. This resource offers 70 lessons that build phonological skills through games, song, and active play.
The 5Es of Inquiry-Based Science
Grade: K-12
Price: $29.99
Create an active learning environment in grades K-12 using the 5E inquiry-based science model! Featuring a practical guide to implementing the 5E model of instruction, this resource clearly explains each "E" in the 5E model of inquiry-based science.
Using Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom
Grade: K-12
Price: $24.99
Get the most out of the latest classroom technology with this engaging book. This resource covers the basics for interactive whiteboard users and explores the more advanced features to create truly dynamic lessons.
Science for English Language Learners
Grade: K-12
Price: $29.99
Effectively build students' language skills while developing their scientific understanding. Using the inquiry-based 5E model of instruction, this product offers valuable strategies for developing students' scientific content knowledge.
Integrating Technology into the Curriculum 2nd Edition
Grade: K-12
Price: $29.99
This updated, second edition resource provides teachers with classroom-tested ideas and resources to enhance instruction and help make the integration of technology into the classroom a seamless process.
Teaching Science Today 2nd Edition
Grade: K-12
Price: $29.99
Implement engaging science lessons into your classroom that will intrigue, motivate, and groom students to be scientifically literate with this second edition book.
Primary Source Fluency Activities: My Community Then and Now
Grade: 1-3
Price: $29.99
Learn about local government, community jobs, and government leaders through primary source documents. Help students develop fluent and meaningful oral reading, and develop vocabulary and word decoding skills.
