Best Selling Books by Jo Ellen Moore

Posters and reproducible pages to help children become familiar with the function of maps and how to find locations on a map or globe.

Book contains 12 reproducible stories to be used for practice in decoding words containing short vowels.

The Science Series provides science information and hands on activities using common materials.

Contains worksheets for sentences, general punctuation, and capitalization.

In addition to the eight stories you will find: a reproducible mini-book and patterns for stick puppets to accompany each story; also additional science facts on each topic to share with your students.

Presents information pages, reproducible maps, and activities about the geography of Antarctica.

Contains directions on classrom dramatic play and how to present a formal play for an audience.

Our Building Vocabulary Series introduces students to important vocabulary concepts and language skills in an innovative way. Our Grammar & Punctuation Series presents fundamental language rules and provides worksheets with which students learn to apply the rules. Both series utilize an easy-to-see 11" x 17" chart format. Charts are ready to display and can introduce or review concepts. Engaging line art illustrations capture attention as they help teach. For use with whole class, small groups, or in a center. Rules include: simple/complete subjects and predicates, compound sentences, possessives, colons, capitalization of proper nouns.

Includes thirteen self-contained and portable centers that students may use to practice their writing skills.

Learning centers are a motivating way for students to practice important skills. The activities in Take It to Your Seat Writing Centers reinforce writing skills with full-color centers that contain directions, task cards, and activity sheets. Take It to Your Seat Writing Centers, Grades 5-6 contains everything you need for 13 centers. Center activities provide practice in the writing process. These centers are ideal for small group and individual practice. Topics include editing sentences paragraphs and writing idioms, fables, comic strips, tongue twisters, newspaper articles, letters to the editor, personal narratives, descriptive paragraphs, and poems.

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.

This book includes Monday to Friday lessons for each day of a 36-week school year and short daily lessons. The Monday to Thursday lessons include two sentences to edit, including corrections in punctuation, capitalization, spelling, grammar, and vocabulary and three items practicing a variety of language and reading skills. Friday practice cycles through four formats: language usage, identifying and correcting mistakes and combining sentences, and choosing reference materials. The pages are reproducible and the book includes a skills list and answer keys.

2 pages a day for 10 weeks; practice basic skills: reading skills, language skills, handwriting, math, spelling, geography; flash cards, answer key.

The books in ScienceWorks for Kids, Grades 1-3, connect science with real life. Each book covers 8 science concepts that are supported by hands-on activities and ready-to-go resources. Each lesson relates to the National Science Education Standards. Geology covers these concepts: Earth has layers; Earth?s crust is made of rock and soil; soil is made when rocks break down and mix with decaying plants; rocks have different properties; rocks are formed in different ways; the surface of the Earth is always changing; the resources we use come from the Earth; some rocks contain fossils that tell about life on Earth long ago. --Publisher''s website.

It contains basic geographic information plus an overview of the peoples, plants and animals of the continent.

Contains activity pages showing children and adults at work and play.

All About the Ocean is the ultimate resource for teaching children about the ocean and for practicing important language and math skills that help children make cross-curricular connections.

Provides reproducible pages of drill and practice, games, puzzles, word problems, flash cards, and tests.