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The Teacher's Guide for both Write about Me #2312 and Write about My World #2312 suggests ways of introducing writing to the youngest students. The Guide also includes extension activities around the topics. The same Word Banks that appear in the student book are in the Guide for convenient reference. The Guide contains 12 book lists with titles directly related to the topics for student writing. Learn More

Write about My World can be used after Write about Me #2312 or on its own as a prelude to the Just Write series.

The drawing activities in Write about My World by Elsie Wilmerding continue to help children bridge the gap between thinking and talking about an idea and writing about it. Children broaden their choice of topics as they observe the world around them. Like Write about Me , the book features large spaces for drawing, student-centric illustrations, thematic word banks, and steps that lead young writers to add details to their writing and make content area connections. Students will find Words I Use When I Write a good tool for expanding their writing vocabulary . The book also offers an introduction to journals as a way to capture observations and possible writing ideas.  .

Some writing fundamentals such as kinds of sentences, capitalization, and punctuation are taught. All books in the series have illustrations by George Ulrich that lead students into writing with age-appropriate visuals.

Features

• • Focuses on the students and their expanding surroundings and interests (school, community, outdoors, going places
• ) • Encourages the use of pictures to spark ideas for writing
• • Encourages students to expand upon their pictures through writing
• • Promotes use of detail and description in writing through word banks and revision
• • Leads up to writing stories with the basic Beginning-Middle-End format • Introduces journal writing
• • Teaches some grammar basics

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See also #3904 Teachers Guide for Write About Me and Write About My World

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The drawing activities in Write about Me by Elsie Wilmerding help children bridge the gap between thinking and talking about an idea and writing about it.

Children build their writing skills as they develop ideas that have personal meaning to them.

The book features large spaces for drawing, student-centric illustrations, thematic word banks, and steps that lead young writers to add details to their writing and make content area connections.

Features

• Focuses on the student and his or her immediate surroundings and interests (family, favorites, neighborhood, school)

• Encourages the use of pictures to spark ideas for writing

• Encourages students to expand upon their pictures through writing

• Promotes use of detail and description in writing through word banks

• Leads up to writing stories with the basic Beginning-Middle-End format

• Coordinates with common introductory science unit about the senses

• Coordinates with common introductory social studies unit

"All about Me"About Just Write: Help students become confident, expressive writers

. This classroom-tested resource guides students through the writing process from initial idea to final edited and published narrative.

See also #3904 Teachers Guide for Write About Me #2312 and Write About My World #2313

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Zingo Word Builder is one of ThinkFun's most popular and bestselling games, and is the winner of an Oppenheim Platinum Award, among others.

It's a fun pre-reading game for ages 4 and up that helps children build reading skills, and is one of the best gifts you can buy for kids.

Zingo Word Builder is made with high quality components, and comes with a very clear and easy to understand instruction manual - you'll be able to play within minutes of opening the box.

Like all of ThinkFun's games, Zingo Word Builder is built to develop critical thinking skills.

Playing will improve language skills through fun and fast placed play.

From the Manufacturer Build reading skills, three letters at a time.

This word building version of Zing is the perfect confidence booster for early readers.

Ideal for players who are just learning how to put letters together to form words, it's great for teaching spelling and vocabulary.

With two levels of play, it's designed to engage and support both beginner and more experienced readers.

Just slide the Zinger and claim tiles to fill your Zing card with three letter words - pure Zing "F-U-N".

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Supplement your student’s learning with 180 days of daily spelling and word work practice!

This kindergarten spelling workbook provides weekly spelling and word study units that are easy to incorporate into the classroom or home.

Perfect for after school, intervention, or homework, teachers and parents can help students gain daily practice through these quick activities that correlate to state and national standards.

Arranged into weekly units, the worksheets feature fun activities for kindergarten students such as picture matching, letter search, rhyming words, tapping sounds, color and trace, and more!

The repetitive structure helps students focus on the words rather than the activities and allows for more independent practice.

Fun, engaging, and purposeful!

Recommended for Kindergarten and up.

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Provide third grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns.

Students gain regular practice with word study through these quick, diagnostic-based activities.

This 3rd grade spelling workbook features 15 word lists each week and worksheets that are fun, engaging, and challenging for students.

Ideal for after school, intervention, or homework, the word lists and activities are based on 10 years of classroom-tested experience.

Activities include:

Analogies

Word sorts

Homophones

Inflectional endings

Sentence completions

Sentence types

Prefixes and suffixes

Synonyms and antonyms

recommended for grades 6 and up.

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Provide second grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns.

Students gain regular practice with word study through these quick, diagnostic-based activities.

This 2nd grade spelling workbook features 10 word lists each week and worksheets that are fun, engaging, and challenging for students. Ideal for after school, intervention, or homework, the word lists and activities are based on 10 years of classroom-tested experience.

Activities include:

Analogies Word sorts

Homophones

Sentence types

Sentence completions

Prefixes and suffixes

Synonyms and antonyms

Inflectional endings

Recommended for grade 2 and up.

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Provide first grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns.

Students gain regular practice with word study through these quick, diagnostic-based activities.

This 1st grade spelling workbook features 10 word lists each week and worksheets that are fun, engaging, and challenging for students.

 Activities include: Analogies and verb tenses,  Change a letter and word sorts,  Picture match and tapping sounds,  Plural practice and sentence practice Synonyms, antonyms, and homophones Sentence completions and sentence types Digital resources include assessment analysis tools.

Recommended for grade 1 and up.

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Regular practice is the best way to reinforce concepts and allow students to gain confidence and mastery of skills.

With 180 Days of Reading for Third Grade you get reading and critical thinking exercises for students for every day of the school year.

Presented in a consistent format from week to week, the activities in 180 Days of Reading allow students to progress in reading comprehension and word study skills, making diagnostics and assessments easy for parents and educators.

Through both fiction and nonfiction reading passages, students get purposeful practice in engaging with diverse texts appropriate for their grade level.

Ideal for after school study, intervention, or homework, 180 Days of Reading workbook activities are correlated to College and Career Readiness and other state standards.

In addition to reading passages, data-driven assessment tips as well as digital versions of the assessment analysis tools are provided.

With text passages that advance in complexity throughout the year, student learning is enriched by developing and honing skills of reading comprehension, interpretation of symbols, making logical inference, summarizing and responding to literature, and more.

Boost your Third Grader's reading skills in a hurry with the easy-to-use activities in 180 Days of Reading!

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Encourage sixth grade students to build their reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and word study skills using daily practice activities.

Great for after school, intervention, or homework, teachers and parents can help students gain regular practice through these quick, diagnostic-based activities that correlate to College and Career Readiness and other state standards.

Both fiction and nonfiction reading passages are provided as well as data-driven assessment tips and digital versions of the assessment analysis tools.

With this easy-to-use workbook, students will boost their reading skills in a hurry!

Recommended for grade 6 and up.

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Encourage second grade students to build their reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and word study skills using daily practice activities.

Great for after school, intervention, or homework, teachers and parents can help students gain regular practice through these quick, diagnostic-based activities that correlate to College and Career Readiness and other state standards.

Both fiction and nonfiction reading passages are provided as well as data-driven assessment tips and digital versions of the assessment analysis tools.

With this easy-to-use workbook, students will boost their reading skills in a hurry!

For Grade 2 and up.

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Practice, Assess, Diagnose: 180 Days of Reading provides kindergarten teachers and parents of kindergartners with 180 daily practice activities to build and gauge students' reading comprehension and word study skills.

Helps to build students' skills for reading complex text.

Students gain regular practice through these quick diagnostic-based activities.

Data-driven assessment tips are also provided, and the Teacher Resource CD included has assessment analysis resources.

248 pages.

Grade K.

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Encourage fourth grade students to build their reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and word study skills using daily practice activities.

Great for after school, intervention, or homework, teachers and parents can help students gain regular practice through these quick, diagnostic-based activities that correlate to College and Career Readiness and other state standards.

Both fiction and nonfiction reading passages are provided as well as data-driven assessment tips and digital versions of the assessment analysis tools.

With this easy-to-use workbook, students will boost their reading skills in a hurry!

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Encourage first grade students to build their reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and word study skills using daily practice activities.

Great for after school, intervention, or homework, teachers and parents can help students gain regular practice through these quick, diagnostic-based activities that correlate to College and Career Readiness and other state standards.

Both fiction and nonfiction reading passages are provided as well as data-driven assessment tips and digital versions of the assessment analysis tools.

With this easy-to-use workbook, students will boost their reading skills in a hurry!

Recommended for first grade and up.

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Regular practice is the best way to reinforce concepts and allow students to gain confidence and mastery of skills.

With 180 Days of Reading for Fifth Grade you get reading and critical thinking exercises for students for every day of the school year.

Presented in a consistent format from week to week, the activities in 180 Days of Reading allow students to progress in reading comprehension and word study skills, making diagnostics and assessments easy for parents and educators.

Through both fiction and nonfiction reading passages, students get purposeful practice in engaging with diverse texts appropriate for their grade level.

 180 Days of Reading workbook activities are correlated to College and Career Readiness and other state standards. In addition to reading passages, data-driven assessment tips as well as digital versions of the assessment analysis tools are provided.

With text passages that advance in complexity throughout the year, student learning is enriched by developing and honing skills of reading comprehension, interpretation of symbols, making logical inference, summarizing and responding to literature, and more.

Boost your Fifth Grader's reading skills in a hurry with the easy-to-use activities in 180 Days of Reading!

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The 180 Days of Problem Solving for Grade 3 offers daily problem solving practice geared towards developing the critical thinking skills needed to approach complex problems.

This teacher-friendly resource provides thematic units that connect to a standards-based skill that third grade students are expected to know to advance to the next level.

Lesson plans offer guidance and support for every day of the week, outlining strategies and activities that dig deeper than routine word problems.

Each week students will use visual representations and analyze different types of word problems (including non-routine, multi-step, higher thinking problems).

This comprehensive resource builds critical thinking skills and connects to national and state standards.

Recommended for grade 3 and up.

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The 180 Days of Problem Solving for Grade 6 offers daily problem solving practice geared towards developing the critical thinking skills needed to approach complex problems.

This teacher-friendly resource provides thematic units that connect to a standards-based skill that sixth grade students are expected to know to advance to the next level.

Lesson plans offer guidance and support for every day of the week, outlining strategies and activities that dig deeper than routine word problems.

Each week students will use visual representations and analyze different types of word problems (including non-routine, multi-step, higher thinking problems).

This comprehensive resource builds critical thinking skills and connects to national and state standards.

Recommended for grade 6 and up.

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The 180 Days of Problem Solving for Grade 2 offers daily problem solving practice geared towards developing the critical thinking skills needed to approach complex problems.

This teacher-friendly resource provides thematic units that connect to a standards-based skill that second grade students are expected to know to advance to the next level.

Lesson plans offer guidance and support for every day of the week, outlining strategies and activities that dig deeper than routine word problems.

Each week students will use visual representations and analyze different types of word problems (including non-routine, multi-step, higher thinking problems).

This comprehensive resource builds critical thinking skills and connects to national and state standards.

Recommended for second grade and up.

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The 180 Days of Problem Solving for Grade K offers daily problem solving practice geared towards developing the critical thinking skills needed to approach complex problems.

This teacher-friendly resource provides thematic units that connect to a standards-based skill that Kindergarten students are expected to know to advance to the next level.

Lesson plans offer guidance and support for every day of the week, outlining strategies and activities that dig deeper than routine word problems.

Each week students will use visual representations and analyze different types of word problems (including non-routine, multi-step, higher thinking problems).

This comprehensive resource builds critical thinking skills and connects to national and state standards.

Recommended for Kindergarted and up.

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The 180 Days of Problem Solving for Grade 4 offers daily problem solving practice geared towards developing the critical thinking skills needed to approach complex problems.

This teacher-friendly resource provides thematic units that connect to a standards-based skill that fourth grade students are expected to know to advance to the next level.

Lesson plans offer guidance and support for every day of the week, outlining strategies and activities that dig deeper than routine word problems.

Each week students will use visual representations and analyze different types of word problems (including non-routine, multi-step, higher thinking problems).

This comprehensive resource builds critical thinking skills and connects to national and state standards.

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The 180 Days of Problem Solving for Grade 1 offers daily problem solving practice geared towards developing the critical thinking skills needed to approach complex problems.

This teacher-friendly resource provides thematic units that connect to a standards-based skill that first grade students are expected to know to advance to the next level.

Lesson plans offer guidance and support for every day of the week, outlining strategies and activities that dig deeper than routine word problems.

Each week students will use visual representations and analyze different types of word problems (including non-routine, multi-step, higher thinking problems).

This comprehensive resource builds critical thinking skills and connects to national and state standards.

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The 180 Days of Problem Solving for Grade 5 offers daily problem solving practice geared towards developing the critical thinking skills needed to approach complex problems.

This teacher-friendly resource provides thematic units that connect to a standards-based skill that fifth grade students are expected to know to advance to the next level.

Lesson plans offer guidance and support for every day of the week, outlining strategies and activities that dig deeper than routine word problems.

Each week students will use visual representations and analyze different types of word problems (including non-routine, multi-step, higher thinking problems).

This comprehensive resource builds critical thinking skills and connects to national and state standards.

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Learning to recognize sight words makes reading more complex words easier for students.

With daily practice throughout the school year, students can learn more than 100 high-frequency words and have fun at the same time.

This workbook, modeled after Fry’s 1000 Instant Words, allows teachers to easily incorporate daily sight word recognition into language arts lessons.

With emphasis placed on target words instead of the activities, the repetitive structure engages students to familiarize them with the target words.

Each week, five new sight words are introduced through hands-on activities, collaborative work, writing practice, and more.

With varied and fun exercises, students can improve reading comprehension and fluency.

The teacher-friendly workbook series provides a weekly outline of activities for each set of target words, as well as downloadable files for easy lesson planning and material prep, and weekly or cumulative assessment.

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Build reading skills and increase in your student's ability to recognize sight words instantly with 180 Days of High-Frequency Words.

Even if you do not have time for vocabulary instruction, this series features quick, easy-to-use daily word study activities to include in the language arts block.

Based on Fry's 1000 Instant Words, 180 Days of High-Frequency Words for Kindergarten introduces three snap words each week – a total 108 high-frequency words in covered – in a structure that places the focus on word recognition.

As students familiarize themselves with target words and increase their ability to identify high-frequency words in different ways, they will cut, color, trace, match, circle, identify rhymes, draw, and fill in the blank in cloze sentences.

Activities can be used as a weekly or cumulative assessment, giving teachers an opportunity to test students on necessary words.

This invaluable classroom resource for balanced literacy also provides downloadable files.

Boost reading, writing, and spelling skills with this series that prepares students for college and career readiness.

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