June 2009 Spotlight Supplement
Gryphon House
Gryphon House, a publisher and distributor of award-winning early childhood resources, has been dedicated to the developmental and educational growth of young children since 1971. Gryphon House meets the needs of educators with quality books, CDs, and DVDs. Resources are available for a variety of topics, including art, literacy, science, math, music and movement, special needs, cooking, health, nutrition, program development, conflict management, and classroom management. Spanish and bilingual books are also available.
www.gryphonhouse.com
Playbooks Reader's Theater
Playbooks Reader's Theater offers a powerful, unique, and entertaining method of "reading a story, like a play" without memorization, props, or a stage. As an approved form of "Repeated Guided Oral Reading," Reader's Theater is a highly effective teaching method designed to improve reading fluency and confidence. With the Playbooks patented multi-leveled and color-coded format, students each read a role suited to their own reading levels, while being grouped with other higher or lower level readers to bring a story to life together.
www.playbooks.com
Gourmet Learning's Lesson Maker
Gourmet Learning's Lesson Maker is poised to make superheroes out of ordinary teachers. The Lesson Maker, a Web-based reading tool, allows teachers to access a specific reading skill across grade levels. Differentiated Instruction has long been a key element of the successful classroom, but without facilitating tools, teachers have struggled to implement it. Lesson Maker will allow teachers to call up specific skills using their own search criteria and print lessons and activities they need when they need them.
www.gourmetlearning.com
Shurley English
Shurley English is a dynamic, innovative curriculum for grades K – 8 that supports proven methods of learning. They are known for their unique way of making the connection between grammar, skills, and writing. Shurley English is a rigorous curriculum that brings back student-teacher interaction, promotes higher-order thinking skills, and provides students with a successful base from which they can achieve far above their expectations. They incorporate a part-to-whole and a whole-to-part philosophy for grammar and writing. Mastery, retention, and enthusiasm for English are distinguishing characteristics of Shurley English students.
www.shurley.com
Rod and Staff Publishers
Rod and Staff Publishers offers a well-developed Bible-based curriculum, as well as many character building storybooks. Textbooks and workbooks are well written with sufficient review exercises to enhance the learning process. Teacher's manuals are written in a manner that even the inexperienced teacher will be able to use. The manuals are not just answer keys; most include a copy of the student page, with instructions beside it. Both curriculum and storybooks are written to instill spiritual values and virtues that prepare children for life and work.
www.RodandStaffBooks.com
Mark-my-time
Mark-my-time digital timing bookmarks allow kids to track their nightly reading homework minutes for school or for the summer library reading programs. The bookmark now also includes a 60-second timer for fluency checks. Its unique, patented design allows for both count-up timing to 100 hours and count-down timing with an audible alarm, which helps promote reading with purpose. The bookmark's price point makes it an ideal product for every student. This national award-winning product is available in six bright colors.
www.mark-my-time.com
Exploring Creation with Physical Science from Apologia
The Exploring Creation with Physical Science 2nd Edition from Apologia Educational Ministries offers many new features that will benefit both teachers and students. Students will continue to enjoy Dr. Wile's conversational writing style with updated information making the content more clear and relevant. Visual learners will enjoy the added color and extra video content available on the Multimedia Companion CD-ROM. Both teachers and students will benefit from additional practice work. Teachers will also have the added benefit of quarterly, semester, and year-end test to help prepare their students for the cumulative testing they will receive in college.
www.apologia.com
QualityCore from ACT
Improve course rigor and college readiness in your high school core courses with QualityCore, an instructional improvement program from ACT. QualityCore shows teachers the characteristics and best practices of rigorous courses, identifies the course-specific skills that lead to college readiness, and provides ways to measure student progress toward and attainment of those essential skills, so that all students have the opportunity to graduate high school prepared for college and careers. QuailtyCore offers end-of-course assessments, aligned formative assessment tools, and research-based models of rigorous instruction for 14 high school core courses.
www.qualitycore.org
Motivation Reading from Mentoring Minds
Developed by educators, Motivation Reading provides extensive supplemental reading practice for grades two through five. The student edition for each level contains 25 reading passages, with paired sections as an integral component of the fourth- and fifth-grade levels. Each level reflects a diversity of fiction and nonfiction passages related to curricular content in science, social studies, music, and art. Each unit contains: multiple choice questions, open-ended critical thinking questions, a journal entry, a study tip, a creative thinking activity, homework, and parent activities.
www.mentoringminds.com
Writing Intervention Kit from Maupin House
Maupin House Publishing announces the release of the Writing Intervention Kit for High School, a curriculum containing 90 hours (18 weeks) of daily instruction that focuses on informational writing skills central to helping striving high school writers pass state assessment and exit exams. This cost-effective kit can be used in stand-alone or integrated language arts intervention settings. A variety of prompts, activities, and instructional approaches meet students' needs and increase learning engagement while addressing focus, organization, support, and voice for all assessed genres.
www.maupinhouse.com
Blick's 2009 Classroom Art Catalog
Blick's 2009 Classroom Art catalog contains hundreds of products for children — from paints, papers, markers, clays, beads, and other craft items, to multicultural products that help kids depict themselves and their neighbors at home and around the world. Blick offer furniture and storage solutions for every environment and unique lesson plans that help make arts and crafts more fun. Whether you have an art background or not, you'll find the best service, best selection, and best prices when you shop Blick. Look for the "Class Pack" icon for quantity pricing.
www.dickblick.com
Questia Media
Questia Media, Inc., an online academic library and research service, delivered more than 3,000 additional books to its Questia School suite of products at no additional cost to its existing customers in 2008. Questia School library now offers more than 20,000 previously published, full-text online books for less than the cost of one book per student. Because Questia School continuously adds books to its collection at no incremental cost to existing customers, educators can continue to provide new and essential research sources in these times of tight budgets.
www.questiaschooloffers.com/csp