Most Popular Books by Jill Norris

Hands-On Thinking Activities-Centers Through the Year, Grades 1-3 has everything needed to create a wide variety of activity centers that build critical thinking skills. Activities include math concepts, science concepts, and language topics. Centers can be set up as a series of individual activities done over a period of time during an appropriate season or, as a one-day "carnival," where students spend two to four hours touring several season-related centers.

Offers sixty graphic organizers to arrange information, develop a plan for writing, make important curriculum connections, and document and assess learning.

Contains portable and self-contained centers that students may use to practice mathematics skills such as counting, number ordering, reading time and sorting shapes.

This book contains 20 stories of familiar How to activities, each told in four or six brief segments, that your students can cut and paste into a logical sequence.Each of the 20 stories is illustrated with line art of a fuzzy bear doing fun things like washing his dog, painting a fence or eating a pizza. The stories are written in simple sentences using pictures to illustrate difficult vocabulary.

Teach language arts and math concepts using 12 popular rhymes. Includes illustrated rhymes, headbands, puppets, picture and word cards, reproducibles, and manipulatives.

Take fun, exciting literature projects, store them in labeled construction paper pockets, add a charming cover, and Voila, Literature Pockets! You couldn''t find a more impressive way to create portfolios to display what students have learned in their literature studies. Twelve pockets -- the history of the Caldecott Medal and eleven medal-winning illustrators and their books. There are art and writing projects for each award-winning book.

Fun learning activities you can recommend with confidence to parents. Each book in this series offers 56 or more simple activities to do with children throughout the day, centered on routine parent-child experiences.

Each of the 122 experiments in Science Experiments for Young Learners is presented in a 2-page lesson format. 1. The teacher resource page with: - materials list - step-by-step easy-to-follow directions for doing the experiment - a "Making Connections" section that suggests ways to help students apply new science understandings to their everyday lives 2. Reproducible student record sheet or activity sheet. The experiments are presented in groupings by science category: - Physical Science--properties and objects of materials, position and motion of objects, light, heat, electricity, and magnetism - Life Science--characteristics of organisms, life cycles of organisms, organisms and their environments - Earth and Space Science--properties of earth materials, objects in the sky, changes in the earth and sky - Science and Technology--abilities of technological design

The twelve pockets in Literature Pockets, Nonfiction Grades 4-6+, incorporate literature and the Dewey Decimal System into meaningful activities.The first pocket presents the Dewey decimal system and includes activities for finding books in the library. The remaining 11 pockets present activities for various types of nonfiction as they are organized according to the Dewey Decimal System.The nonfiction subjects include:people,religion and myths,folklore,language,nature and animals,mathematics,science and technology,arts, sports, and recreation,poetry and plays,history and travel,biography

"More read and understand Grade 1 is a resource book containing stories and practice materials for a wide spectrum of reading skills."--Page 2 of cover.

Activities in this book are a valuable resource for children.

This book has 36 weekly sections. Each week''s problems center on a theme. Monday through Thursday contain a one-or two-step word problem. Friday''s format is more extensive and may require multiple steps. Answer key in back.

Reproducible pages for students to use in practicing reading various types of material from the supermarket (the store directory, shopping lists, coupons, advertising, etc.)

This book contains full-colour materials to construct 12 easy-to- make centres. Each centre contains teacher directions and reproducible student task cards and activities which focus on aspects such as: visual discrimination, alphabetical order, word families, real and make-believe, rhyming words, initial and final consonants.

Includes: "historical background facts; maps and a time line; arts and crafts activities; reading and writing connections; evaluation forms."--Cover.

This book contains full-colour materials to construct 16 easy-to- make centres. Each centre contains teacher directions and reproducible student task cards and activities which focus on aspects such as: anologies, prefixes and suffixes, synonyms and antonyms, parts of speech, similies, descriptive paragraphs, using an index.