Most Popular Books by Betsy Franco

Add these lively, easy-to-read math problems to each school day and watch students fall in love with math learning as they build essential skills! Covers all the concepts they need to know: addition, subtraction, time, money, measurement, estimation, and so much more. Great for whole class, group, or independent learning. Content is correlated with the NCTM Standards. For use with Grades 1-2.

Journey down the road to literacy with these delightful poems your students will love! All your favorite transportation topics are here: cars, trucks, rockets, planes, boats, bikes, trains, and more. Includes literacy-building ideas for teaching phonemic awareness and oral language skills, reading, and math. A great way to perk up your theme units, shared reading, and circle time! For use with Grades PreK-2.

Unfolding Mathematics With Unit Origami At last-an origami book designed specifically for mathematics classrooms! Origami books are typically written by origami experts and aimed at origami enthusiasts. This art form lends itself wonderfully to teaching mathematicsbut it's been up to you to find ways to do it. Now comes Unfolding Mathematics with Unit Origami, designed especially for algebra and geometry students in high school or middle school. Its elegant illustrations and detailed folding and assembly instructions enable you and your students to create beautiful and intriguing three-dimensional origami models. Its 16 absorbing activitiesall in blackline master formhave been carefully prepared in order of increasing difficulty of both folds and mathematical concepts. Through origami folding sequences, basic mathematical ideas reveal themselves: algebraic and angle relationships and different types of symmetry in two and three dimensions will engage your students'interest in new ways. You can choose activities from anywhere in the book, but if you move from front to back you'll cover an amazingly broad range of mathematical topics. And while the book's purpose is to teach mathematics, it also introduces students to the art of origami and contributions made to that art by noted origami experts, such as Tomoko Fus, Kunihiko Kasahara, David Masunaga, and Robert Neale. Most activities can be done in one class period and offer opportunities for group work, journal writing, and projects. Autobiographical vignettes by origami artists introduce students to origami culture and prompt students to discuss their own experiences with origami. The overview explains how you can best use this book in your classroom, including methods for assessing student work. Every activity gives you teaching ideas and strategies, as well as suggestions for extensions of the activity. There's also a glossary of terms and a list of recommended readings.

All of these math-filled stories with instant word problems end happily ever after—with kids laughing out loud and building key skills including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, measurement, money, and more! A great way to connect reading and math and meet the new NCTM Standards. For use with Grades 3-4.

Add pizzazz to thematic units, daily lessons, and shared-reading time with this enchanting collection of creepy crawly poems selected especially for young learners! All your favorite "teeny weenies" are here: butterflies, spiders, ladybugs, worms, grasshoppers, ants, dragonflies, and everything in between. Includes literacy-building activities and easy cross-curricular projects. A must-have for every class in love with poetry!

Even the most reluctant learners will love these fun reproducibles that reinforce essential math skills and introduce key problem-solving strategies, including Guess and Check, Drawing a Diagram, and Working Backward.

A springboard into the study of other cultures. A complete, illustrated retelling of a folktale and enrichment activities. Activities focusing on the Korean culture are included.

180 delightful, guess-me poems that build early reading and listening skills all year long.

Teach word families with these adorable reproducible guess-and-solve mini-books -- one for each of the top 25 word families! First, kids read the riddle inside, then they put together the jigsaw puzzle to see -- and read -- the answer! Playful, rhyming riddles invite children to explore the target word family, and puzzles provide the opportunity to develop spatial awareness and fine-motor skills. Includes extension activities and word banks for each word family. Great for individual or small group learning!

Tina es una conductora de taxi que trabaja de lunes a sábado. Verán lo que pasa el domingo que es su día libre.

The Rookie Books program expands as some of the most popular Rookie Readers are translated to Spanish. These attractively illustrated stories will make learning language fun and exciting.

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Les élèves de la 1re à la 3e année trouveront dans ce livre 40 fiches reproductibles qui les aideront à écrire leurs propres poèmes. Il y en a pour tous les goûts et pour toutes les saisons! Au fil des pages, les jeunes créateurs deviendront de plus en plus habiles à trouver, notamment, rimes et allitérations. Ils composeront de superbes poèmes qui les encourageront à continuer et à pousser toujours plus loin leur imagination. La poésie est à la portée de tous!--[Memento].

By solving questions related to beautiful textile designs, students discover that math and art are perfect partners.

A little girl shows that telling time, eating pancakes, and lunch money is math.

A collection of poems written in the form of mathematical problems.

While playing at Lily's house, a little girl tells how various objects are shapes such as, triangle, square, retangle, and sphere.

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, e, p, t.

Six-book series of informational fiction readers that explore math concepts.