Author: Steve Craig
Publisher: Maupin House Publishing
Keywords: guide, beginner, writing, sports
Number of Pages: 162
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0965657493
ISBN-13: 9780965657495

Award-winning sportswriter Steve Craig shows young adults all the tricks of the trade. Beginning with the basics of good reporting, note-taking and interviewing and moving to crafting game stories, feature stories and columns, this clearly written and well illustrated book will help you turn your class into effective sports writers.

Authors:Karen Simmons and Cindy Guinn,  Cindy Gui,
Publisher: Maupin House Publishing
Keywords: projects, learners, thematic, seasonal, perfect, primary
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-09-17
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0929895622
ISBN-13: 9780929895628

Encourage the interactive learning that K-2 students thrive on! Primary & Perfect offers nine months of new seasonal and thematic Bag Ladies projects especially designed for little hands and your K-2 curriculum. An extra set of summer activities makes this book a perfect choice for after school and summer school, too! More than 40 hands-on projects and activities, complete step-by-step instructions with blackline masters, and photographs of the finished projects make it easy and fun to teach to the standards. If you re a primary teacher, this book is truly perfect for you.

Author: Cathy Puett Miller
Publisher: Maupin House Publishing
Keywords: activities, prepare, child, read, family, easy, reading, readiness, fun, anytime
Number of Pages: 79
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1934338745
ISBN-13: 9781934338742

Your young child gets ready to read every minute of the day by interacting with you: his first and best teacher. Make the most of those minutes with Anytime Reading Readiness at home, during chores, or in the car. You ll learn how to: *Take advantage of the learn-through-play style of your preschool/kindergarten child. *Match your child s reading readiness level with easy and engaging games and activities. *Get the most out of reading a book out loud with your child. Anytime Reading Readiness respects the reading readiness level of your child. Now you can integrate early literacy activities th

Authors:Susan Koehler, Mark Devish,
Publisher: Maupin House Publishing
Keywords: papers, expository, crafting
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-04-12
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0929895398
ISBN-13: 9780929895390

Mastery in informational and expository writing is central to the success of intermediate and middle-school students. In Crafting Expository Papers, Susan Koehler explicitly explains five instructional steps that develop expository skills, from developing details and creating organization through writing effective expository paragraphs and papers, then revising and editing for publication. She includes lessons with specific Target Skills® to support your students progress, and suggests timelines that will help you plan your curriculum. Students proficient in the genre of expository w

Author: Melissa Forney
Publisher: Maupin House Publishing
Keywords: target, skills, excellence, achieving, dazzle, writing, razzle
Number of Pages: 173
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0929895487
ISBN-13: 9780929895482

Get ready to transform ho-hum intermediate-grade writers into mature writers who love to write -- and perform well on assessments. Razzle Dazzle Writing shows you how to teach narrative and informational writing through mastery of 50 key, target writing skills. Your students succeed because Razzle Dazzle Writing: - organizes writing craft teaching into standards-based single-lesson chunks for easy modeling practice, and mastery. - addresses different learning styles, preferences, and interests with a variety of student-friendly formats to teach writing strategies. - makes learning easy and fun

Author: Melissa Forney
Publisher: Maupin House Publishing
Keywords: audio, writing, pizzazz, primary
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0929895827
ISBN-13: 9780929895826

Want to teach to the K-2 writing standards, get ideas galore, and have fun with your primary writing workshop, too? Of course. You want it all. And now you can have it! Primary Pizzazz Writing really helps you do it all! Create a successful craft-centered writing workshop classroom. Directly address all of the nationally recognized primary writing standards with 30 Skill Units for every teaching setting--large and small groups, independent writing centers, and at-home writing. Engage the littlest writers and appeal to every learning style with make-and-takes, songs, p

Author: Jane Bell Kiester
Publisher: Maupin House Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: giggle, grammar, caught, middle, school, giggles
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $24.94
ISBN-10: 0929895886
ISBN-13: 9780929895888

Jane Bell Kiester, author of the popular Caught’ya! Grammar with a Giggle series, has adapted her effective and fun approach to meet the specific learning needs of middle-school students. Giggles in the Middle gives middle-school teachers the perfect alternative to boring grammar books and dry lectures. With this flexible, proven approach to teaching grammar, usage, and mechanics (GUM) skills and vocabulary, everyone has fun while they learn skills in context. You’ll find: - One continuous story, "The Bizarre Mystery of Horribly Hard Middle School," divided into three parts, each