Best Selling Books by Suzanne I. Barchers

Two brothers’ lives take different paths with one living a prosperous life and one struggling to survive. But fate has a way of turning the tables in this popular tale from Vietnam.

Use subtraction to plan a harvest lunch! This charming title, that has been translated into Spanish, challenges young readers to practice two-digit subtraction and STEM skills to plan food, games, and more. For the first game, subtract 24 apples from 50 apples, leaving 26 apples for other activities! Practical examples like this, along with helpful mathematical diagrams and charts, show children that subtraction can not only be very useful, but can be easy and fun!

This classroom resource encourages kindergarten students to reinforce their knowledge of mathematical and language arts grade-level skills. Focusing on specific Common Core Standards, this resource is designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, helping students prepare themselves for life beyond their educational careers. Students will gain regular practice through the quick activities found in each book. Perfect for additional practice in the classroom or at home! The book contains a Teacher Resource CD with PDFs of the activity pages. 208pp.

Looks at how two-dimensional shapes are used in everyday life through visits to airports to look for circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares. Includes exercises and a problem-solving activity.

Looking for ways to add rigor to your students'' explorations of rich, complex literature? Students will be engaged as they analyze this Newbery Honor and Carnegie Medal Honor Book about a boy''s journey to defeat dark forces. The Dark Is Rising: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides engaging activities that incorporate the following research-based literacy skills: close reading tasks; text-based vocabulary practice; cross-curricular activities; text-dependent questions; reader response writing prompts; leveled comprehension questions; story elements comprehension tasks; diverse and relevant assessments. Strengthen your students'' literacy skills by implementing this high-interest resource in your classroom!

Introduce students to the different types of friction with this science reader that features easy-to-read text. Nonfiction text features include a glossary, index, and detailed images to facilitate close reading and help students connect back to the text. Aligned to state and national standards, the book also includes a fun and engaging science experiment to develop critical thinking and help students practice what they have learned.

This instructional guide encourages students to explore and analyze this classic story through lessons that are fun and challenging. With various methods for assessing comprehension, this invaluable classroom resource offers strategies for cross-curricular activities as students build an in-depth understanding of complex literature. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the book by using higher-order thinking skills, and activities require students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages for deeper analysis. Through close reading and text-based vocabulary practice, this tool will guide teachers in a rich and deep exploration of the text with ways to add rigor with complex literature.

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: The friends are happy it is Field Day! But then they learn there is no race for turtles. How can the friends help the turtles have fun too? Character concepts: Working together, empathy, being a good friend, self-esteem.

Sadiki fears the worst when he is tossed from his ship in a storm. But a chance encounter with a serpent changes his life and that of the Pharoah.

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Pip has a problem. Tab promised to make lunch for the big picnic. But when Pip arrives, nothing is ready. How do Pip and Tab work together to make the picnic a success? Character concepts: Being a good friend, working together, being responsible.

The world is filled with the most wonderful sounds! But do you know how sound is made and why you hear it? This book explains everything you ever wanted to know about sound, and let''s you do your own experiments to prove it. Tge graphic-arts illustrations of the famous scientists and inventors who experimented with sound explain even more! Book jacket.

The five friends find a treasure that doesn''t belong to them, will they keep it or try and find the owner?

It''s Ted''s birthday and everyone''s forgotten the important date! How do the friends save the day and come up with the perfect gift? It''s a surprise you''ll have to discover. Character concepts: Being responsible, empathy, being a good friend, working together.

When things begin to disappear, the friends want to know who is responsible. Can they forgive the thief and turn a fiend into a friend?

Practice graphing while cleaning up the school! In this engaging title, that has been translated into Spanish, a summer storm leaves the school in a mess, so students work to clean it up. Young readers can practice their graphing and STEM skills by creating graphs of the items collected to determine what needs to be recycled. This book improves graphing skills and encourages students to help their schools in any time of need! With vibrant images, simple examples, clear charts, and helpful mathematical diagrams, this book will make children confident in their graphing skills.

Every day of the week, poor Ted is bullied by the blue jays. They swoop, they peck, they tease until Ted''s friends help him out.

Bun loves her silly hats! Then she hears her friends make fun of how they look. How can the friends make it up to Bun?

The students in this book are counting up to the 100th day of school! This book has been translated into Spanish and encourages readers to practice counting to 100 through early STEM themes and basic numbers and operations, including counting in sets of five. The lively photos and engaging practice problems will leave readers feeling confident and ready to learn more!

The five friends find a treasure that doesn''t belong to them, will they keep it or try and find the owner?

Readers will enjoy making graphs about their favorite things! This charming, Spanish-translated title uses children''s favorite things to make graphing and mathematical probability seem simple and fun! This book''s vibrant images, practice problems, and mathematical diagrams help young readers understand graphing and early STEM themes. Encourage children to make their own bar graphs or pictographs about their favorite things!

In the far north of Canada, daylight disappears for much of the year. This Inuit legend describes how the First People of Canada explained the sun''s return to their remote lands.

Find shapes all around the globe! This book takes young readers to various cities around the world to encourage them to practice geometry through early STEM themes and find two-dimensional shapes everywhere they go. Go to Paris to find circles in clocks! Go to Chicago to find rectangles in skyscrapers! Children will find these, triangles, parallel lines, and more in this engaging reader.

This engaging, Spanish-translated title shows children two-dimensional shapes typically found in a school. Find circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares! Young readers will also be introduced to the concept of equality through early STEM concepts by adding triangles into a square. This book encourages readers to think about geometry at their own schools, making finding shapes fun and easy with familiar images, engaging practice problems, and helpful mathematical diagrams.

Practice two-digit addition and subtraction while planning a family reunion! This charming title encourages young readers to use subtraction skills and STEM concepts to help plan the reunion by determining how many people are attending and how much the family will need to accommodate everyone. Add up the tallies to determine where the reunion should be! Calculate how many children are attending by subtracting the number of adults from the number of total guests! Examples like these and more pair with helpful mathematical charts and vivid images to make useful skills like addition and subtraction seem easy and fun!

Get parents involved at home to increase student achievement. Written in Spanish, this helpful Parent Guide provides Spanish-speaking parents with strategies to reinforce what the teacher is doing in the fifth grade classroom and turn everyday actions into learning opportunities, encouraging children to practice important life skills.

Get parents and teachers working together to increase student achievement with this helpful Parent Guide written in Spanish. With this guide, Spanish-speaking parents can provide reinforcement for what the teacher is doing in the third grade classroom and turn everyday actions into learning opportunities, encouraging their children to practice important life skills and continue learning at home.

Going to school and learning takes energy. Playing sports or a musical instrument requires energy, too. But what is energy? And how do we use it? Learn all about energy with this intriguing nonfiction Spanish book! Students will learn the different types of energy and important scientific concepts and terminology like atoms, wavelength, molecules, potential energy, kinetic energy, and more. The colorful images, diagrams, sidebars, and text features will keep students connected to the text. Aligned to state and national standards, the fun lab activity provides a real-world learning experience that supports STEM instruction. Keep students reading with this fascinating Spanish book!

With this Parent Guide written in Spanish, get parents and teachers working together to increase student achievement. This helpful guide allows Spanish-speaking parents to easily reinforce what the teacher is doing in the eighth grade classroom and turn everyday actions into learning opportunities for their children, bridging the gap between school and home.

Increase student achievement by getting Spanish-speaking parents more involved through this Parent Guide. Written in Spanish, this helpful guide provides reinforcement for what children are learning in second grade and includes ideas for turning everyday actions into learning opportunities, encouraging children to practice important life skills and learn at home.

Increase student achievement by getting Spanish-speaking parents more involved through this Parent Guide. Written in Spanish, this helpful guide provides strategies to reinforce what children are learning in sixth grade and turn everyday actions into learning opportunities, encouraging children to practice important life skills and learn at home.

Get Spanish-speaking parents more involved in their child''s education with this Parent Guide and increase student achievement. Written in Spanish, this helpful guide provides reinforcement for what the teacher is doing in the first grade classroom and includes ideas for turning everyday actions into learning opportunities, encouraging children to practice important life skills.

With this helpful guide written in Spanish, get parents and teachers working together to increase student achievement. This Parent Guide shows Spanish-speaking parents how to easily reinforce what the teacher is doing in the fourth grade classroom and turn everyday actions into learning opportunities for their children.

Learn more about graphs while protecting the environment by reducing, reusing, and recycling! Through this book, that has been translated into Spanish, young readers can practice their graphing and STEM skills by making bar graphs and pictographs of recyclable objects. Not only will children feel more confident in their graphing skills, but they will also be more environmentally conscious! Clear images, example graphs, and mathematical diagrams and charts make graphing seem simple and fun!

There are rules about how energy behaves. One of these rules states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. This is known as the law of conservation of energy, and it is the first law of thermodynamics. Learn all about the many types of energy and how they are transferred with this Spanish science reader that brings the power of science and informational text to students at a level they can understand. Introduce students to STEM topics and new concepts and vocabulary terms like conduction, convection, entropy, and radiation with this nonfiction book that is aligned to state and national standards. The leveled text supports students reading at above-, below-, and on-grade level. The fun lab activity encourages students to think like scientists. Keep students engaged in learning with this Spanish science book.

Build reading skills with these charming scripts based on folktales and fables from around the world. Each of the 20 reproducible scripts has been evaluated using the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale and grouped into readability levels by grade.

This text provides a whole language approach to teaching reading to elementary school students. It addresses the challenge of understanding the philosophies of various reading theories, choosing the right methods, and making the best use of available resources. Instead of surrounding the student with books and focusing on reading activities, this book gives a bottom-up approach. The text incorporates phonetics, basal texts, sight, and other methods of teaching reading, plus actual literature for the children to read.

Reinforce and enhance students'' grammar skills. This standards-based resource provides a purposeful practice page for every day of the school year. The practice pages follow a consistent format, and each key language skill is addressed daily, allowing students ample opportunities to master each one. Use the included diagnostic tools to record evidence of student learning, assess progress, and identify intervention or enrichment needs.