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The Teacher?s Right Hand is a resource guide for upper elementary and middle school language arts teachers.It was written by educator, Kimberly S. Gibbons to help teacherswork with the average learner. ... Read more

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Awesome Teacher Resource
The Teacher's Right Hand is an educator's dream.It really does have practical, ready to use activities.I refer to this resource several times a week, and my students thoroughly enjoy the teacher-created games.If you are a middle school educator, this book is a must have!

Excellent Resource For Teachers and Parents
I found this book to be an excellent resource for teachers and parents.This book has numerous activities that can be used either in the classroom or by parents at home.I found each of the activities to be very detailed, outlining the objectives, and needed materials. The book contains numerous reproducible transparencies and worksheets.

This book has helped me to organize my daily instruction and has saved me hours in planning time!!!I also use it at home with my own children.This is an exellent resource and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!! ... Read more

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Replete with strategies, examples and reproducibles, this guide is invaluable for any teacher who wants to boost student achievement in writing for any subject and grade level! ... Read more

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Empowering
I have been a teacher for many years and have been searching for a tool like this book for a long time! After pouring over the pages with delight, I feel empowered to be a better teacher. I now have an easy guide that will allow me to clearly communicate to my students my expectations. The aide of this book will enable me to quickly and efffectively draft lessons that set my students up for acheivement. I will now be better able to evaluate my students writing and will be easily able to know if their content is appropriate for their grade level. The wonderful examples set forth by the author give the reader clear ideas of how to make lesson plans more exciting for any student. The personal touch set forth by the author makes the book easy to read and truly leaves one feeling empowered to make their day and their students day exciting and rewarding for all. Thank you for the gift of this wonderful tool. ... Read more

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Ready-to Go Lesson Plans, Word Skills, Reading, Grammer, Writing, Filled with easy to implement lesson plans that require few materials and are innovative, and fun ... Read more

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A must have book for the writer and teacher
I have been writing and teaching writing and workshops for 12 years. Michael's book is one of those I can't get by without. Simple enough for kids and as valuable for beginners and advanced writers. I love it!

An excellent book for teaching poetry in an unusual way
Michael Carey does an excellent job of explaining what poetry really is and shows you how to get your students or yourself to push the limits of their/your creative thought.He uses the knowledge of metaphors andsimilies in all of his poetry writing assignments.By the time you aredone, you start to see metaphors and similies all over the place.I haveused this as a teacher for three years.One students said, "I neverliked poetry before but now that I understand it, I love it." ... Read more

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Detailed day-by-day lesson plans designed specifically for home schoolers. Includes scheduling information, record keeping reports, and daily lesson plans to save hours of preparation time. ... Read more

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Easy to use lesson plans that teachers and parents can plug right in to teach oral and written literacy lessons.This book provides functional, pragmatic activities for educators, future teachers, and parents to promote the gift of literacy to others. This book provides 100 detailed lesson plans for the domains of oral and written language, word recognition, comprehension, and strategic reading for narrative text as well as study skills and strategic reading for content area text. The 101st lesson is blank for further planning. The plans are designed for readers in three developmental steps: initial reading, transitional, and basic literacy. This book emphasizes literacy as a continuous process not dependent on age or grade level.For teachers of elementary through middle school reading. ... Read more

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Take the pressure off your busy schedule with these standards-based library lessons! Quick and easy to implement, these proven 20-minute instructional lessons, organized by grade level, equip you with everything you need to effectively teach library and information literacy skills to students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Based on AASL/AECT standards and McREL benchmarks, each lesson plan includes standards, learning objectives, teaching directions, reproducible worksheets and graphics, learning styles, teaching team, and related resources. Students will learn how to effectively employ print and electronic resources to find the information they need, and you will be thrilled with how effortlessly you can bring information and literary appreciation into every classroom and still have time for other library and teaching responsibilities! ... Read more

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Not what I expected.
With a title like "Lesson Plans for the Busy Librarian," this book seemed like a must have for me, a busy librarian. When I received the item I was very disappointed to find that none of the lessons were that unique or interesting. In addition to being the same old thing, the clip art is subpar, and the organization is very random. Let me just say this, I have owned the book for over a year and am yet to use a single lesson plan from it.

Save your money...
As a "busy librarian" the title drew the money from me in a hurry, but I was disappointed by the lack of depth- lots of coloring!Occasionally I use some of the reproducibles when I have a sub, however the quality of the graphics are poor.

Better books out there
I am an elementary school librarian. While this book has a few good lesson plans, I find the majority of them to be overly simplistic. Also, a lot of the graphics on the reproducibles are of very poor quality.

Time saver for teachers too!
Although directed to librarians, this book is also fantastic for elementary teachers.It's indexed to the Language Arts standards, learning styles and Multiple Intelligences. It contains patterns, instructions, hands-on activities and more, for literature-based multi-disciplinary units.A super resource! ... Read more

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The Lesson Plans offer a complete seven-stage lesson plan for each topic including presentation, practice, and expansion activities.In addition, they provide clear guidance on how to integrate all of the components of the program, facilitating effective and easy lesson planning. ... Read more

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Excellent Companion Book
This book, conveniently spiral bound, serves as a companion book to Oxford Picture DIctionary and is meant to be used by a teacher as a lesson plan resource.I teach ESL and it is an integral part of my lesson plan.The book follows the subjects in OPD and is thus easily coordinatable with the OPD.I would rcommend it highly to anyone teaching ESL to adults.

Super ESL Resource
The Oxford Picture Dictionary Lesson Plans is an excellent teaching tool, especially for English Language Learners at all levels. It coordinates, page by page, with the Oxford Picture Dictionary - the best of its kind. 3 CD's included offer superb pronunciation audios and exercises. What a bargain for under $30!
with free S & H from Amazon.com. It was not out of stock and much more expensive thru Oxford University Press.
I suggest combining it with OPD/Low-Beginning Workbook (which includes audio & repro CD's)bundle. Around $26 - might only be available from Oxford Univ. Press. Makes for the BEST teaching resources for Adult Ed ESL teachers and educational institutions. ... Read more

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The step-by-step instructions, scheduling guidelines, lesson plans, rubric assessments, and reproducible forms in this guide are the result of years of research, planning, and fine-tuning in the classroom. ... Read more

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With eleven comprehensive and classroom tested lessons plans
Co-authored by classroom education experts Laura and Ellen Flynn, Teaching Writing With Rubrics: Practical Strategies And Lesson Plans For Grades 2-8 is a very strongly recommended compendium of "teacher friendly" step-by-step instructions on creating a classroom writing program using rubrics to explain at a glance what is being taught, how it is taught, and how the students will be graded. Enhanced with eleven comprehensive and classroom tested lessons plans; effective methods for adapting rubrics for high school students, gifted students, English language learners; even students with learning disabilities; and working strategies for evaluating every step of the writing process, Teaching Writing With Rubrics reduces subjectivity and increases objectivity with respect to assessing both teacher and student accountability. ... Read more

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Effective Writing for the Week
This book is great for my first grade students.The 28 topics can be correlated to the curriculum subjects or reading topic I am focusing on for the week.The lessons offer book links, as well as guided and independent lessons for each topic.It takes a week to complete each topic.Which is great because it provides a step by step approach about how to present the subject matter and having the students prepared for independent writing and publishing on the topic at the end of the week.Teaching the Six traits?This provides excellent modeling of the traits. ... Read more

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The Step-by-Step Lesson Plans provide strategies for conducting Student Book level 3 activities and applying the lesson to the multilevel classroom.It offers interleaved pages from the level 3 Student Book, detailed lesson plans with multilevel teaching strategies and tips, and a CD-ROM of printable multilevel grammar practice. ... Read more

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Thrills and chills, withces, ghosts, and goblins - these terrifying teaching tools don't need to be controversial to inspire reluctant readers in grades K-6. Cross-curricular lesson plans are linked to language arts, social studies, math, art, and technology. ... Read more

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Make full use of Greenwood's highly acclaimed Daily Life through History and bring history lessons to life with these 50 exciting new document-based lesson plans covering 7 key curriculum strands.

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Requires online subscription
This product could be great, but to access the information required for students to complete the tasks, you need a paid subscription to the publisher's online database. If you really wanted to use these activities I suppose you could compile your own resources for each one, web-based or otherwise, but that sort of defeats the purpose of these DBQ compilations in my opinion. Subscription requirement should have been in the product description. If your school already subscribes to Greenwood's Daily Life Through History, then this might be worth it. ... Read more