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Make Colorado history more interesting to your students with this hands-on activity book that is packed with 48 pages of information. With My Colorado, students write, complete challenging games, create, analyze, practice their critical thinking skills, and more. Best of all, students learn to make connections between the past and their own lives in present-day Colorado.Use My Colorado as a supplement to your existing Colorado textbooks, or use My Colorado as your basic text and your other books as resource materials!My Colorado addresses fourth-grade geography, history, and Earth science content standards. It includes the many diverse groups that have contributed to Colorado''s state history. Unlike so many textbooks that skip over the last 100 years, My Colorado also remembers to connect history with present-day Colorado.Grade 4

This practical resource helps students see the importance of ΓÇ£the rules of threeΓÇ¥ in writing successful essays. The student-friendly activities in this book give students essay-writing strategies organized in easy-to-remember groups of three. The book includes many activities and games that help point out the importance of the number three in our language.With Thinking in Threes, powerful writing strategies are as easy as 1-2-3! Some of the rules of three explained in this book include:three steps for brainstorming,three ΓÇ£PsΓÇ¥ of a thesis statement,three parts of an essay,three paragraphs in the body of an essay,three ways to connect paragraphs and sentences,three types of evidence to support topic sentences,three qualities of a good example,three things to include in a quotation,three ways to hook the reader in an introduction,three ways to write fluent sentences,three ways to write successful conclusions, andthree phrases for completing a timed writing assignment.The goal of Thinking in Threes is to empower students to write great essays in your classroom!Grade 5-Adult

In this funny and insightful book, Gary Rubinstein relives his own truly disastrous first year of teaching. He begins his teaching career armed only with idealism and romantic visions of teachingΓÇöand absolutely no classroom management skills. By his fourth year, he is named ΓÇ£Teacher of the Year.ΓÇ¥ As Rubinstein details his transformation from incompetent to successful teacher, he shows what works and what doesn''t work when managing a classroom such as:Develop a teacher look. The teacher look says, ΓÇ£There''s nothing you can do that I haven''t already seen, so don''t even bother trying.ΓÇ¥Show students that you are a ΓÇ£realΓÇ¥ teacher by doing things they expect of real teachers, at least for a while.Be prepared to utter a decisive answer to anything within 2 seconds. Decisive answers inspire confidence.Any teacherΓÇöexperienced or notΓÇöwill enjoy this honest and humorous look at the real world of teaching!

Hard as it is to believe, teachers tell us all of the time that their students actually ask to do the funny, wacky activities from Hot Fudge Monday.This new, expanded edition of our best-selling book offers even more tasty ways to teach parts of speech, including quirky quizzes, extended writing activities, and Internet enrichment activities that reinforce new skills.Hot Fudge Monday joins the study of words to the process of writing those words into meaningful sentences. The book consists of eight chapters, each one dealing with one part of speech. Students learn about the various parts of speech through short writing activities that are interesting, humorous, and a bit offbeat.Grades 7-12

Motivate your students with the wide variety of photographs and writing prompts in this delightful book by award-winning photographer and former English teacher Hank Kellner.

Do you wish you had a published writer''s secrets at your fingertips, ready to help you achieve your goals of publication, success, and the chance to be the next great teen writer? In Seize the Story: A Handbook for Teens Who Like to Write, Victoria Hanley, award-winning author of young adult fiction, spills the secrets for bringing action, adventure, humor, and drama to stories. All of the elements of fiction, from creating believable dialogue to exciting plots, are laid out clearly and illustrated with examples taken straight from story excerpts by excellent writers. The book is packed with writing exercises designed to encourage teens to tell the stories that are theirs alone.In addition, other published authors of young adult literature share their insights about the writing life. Teens can gain firsthand advice from accomplished writers T. A. Barron, Joan Bauer, Hilari Bell, Chris Crutcher, David Lubar, Lauren Myracle, Todd Mitchell, Nancy Garden, and many more.Grades 7-12

Your students will really pay attention when you use Phunny Stuph. Jokes and humorous urban legends make up all 100 proofreading exercises in this useful book. Use the exercises as a class warm-up, or photocopy them to pass out to your students. The errors include a little bit of everythingΓÇömissing punctuation, spelling mistakes, errors in usage, sentence fragments, and more. Each exercise includes teaching notes and an example showing possible corrections. Most of the exercises are shortΓÇöjust right for quick, frequent lessons that will really help your students improve their skills.Phunny Stuph helps students sharpen their skills at recognizing and correcting errors in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, sentence structure, and usage.Grades 7-12

This book isn''t for everyone. It''s fairly, well, weird. However, we like weird, and we have found that most students do, too. "Short and Sweet" is a book of 28 reproducible creative writing activities. The activities help students stretch their imaginations and have fun with writing at the same time. Activities in "Short and Sweet" include: Endangered Pumpkins; 1-900-PIMPLES; and Tabloid Times.Most activities can be completed in less than a class period, with time left over for sharing. You can stop there or go on to let students complete more finished, polished works. For grades 5-9, but many older students will enjoy the book as well.