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First Grade Printing & Cursive Handwriting, Writing Skills and Graphic Organizers Teacher Resources, Books and Educational MaterialsWriting (Printing, Cursive, Skills, Graphic Organizers) Free Shipping Promotion: All orders $75.00 and over receive free parcel post shipping via the United States Postal Service (within the contiguous United States). In stock orders ship within 24 hours. In order to view some of the Sample Pages you need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader, click the button below:
Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First
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A complete "first" handwriting program for young and special learners! This teaching resource book should be the first program presented to young children and special learners who are just beginning to learn to print. Line strokes (vertical and horizontal), slanted lines, circles, and curves are introduced and practiced before alphabet letters are introduced. After children have learned a particular stroke, the letters that utilize that stroke are taught. For example, when the children learn to draw a straight line they are then able to print a lowercase "l" and a lowercase "i". After both vertical and horizontal strokes are mastered, children are then able to print uppercase "L, T, F, E, H" and so on. This theory may sound simple and obvious to educators, but as we have seen, most handwriting books present "learning to print" through an alphabetical approach. Too often letters are introduced before children understand which way to manipulate the pencil and the proper direction for each stroke. Pre-Handwriting Practice encourages teachers to use a variety of multi sensory techniques, including tactile, auditory, and visual activities to reinforce correct letter direction and proper pencil control. When children are able to see the letters, listen to the directions, and touch the letters, they will learn faster, will develop better handwriting skills, and at the same time will decrease the possibility of reversals. Learning to print can be fun and rewarding when we provide appropriate and successful experiences four our young learners. This teaching resource book will quickly become both a necessary and favorite classroom teaching tool. Pages: 64 Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
This resource helps children learn to correctly form the uppercase and lowercase form of each letter. The exercises in this book can be done sequentially or can be taken out of order, as needed. Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this book helps students master skills in penmanship. This book provides activities that are great for independent work in class, homework assignments, or extra practice to get ahead. The following standards or objectives will be met or reinforced by completing the practice pages included in this book. These standards and objectives are similar to the ones required by your state and school district.
Pages: 48 Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this book helps students master skills in penmanship. This book provides activities that are great for independent work in class, homework assignments, or extra practice to get ahead. The following standards or objectives will be met or reinforced by completing the practice pages included in this book. These standards and objectives are similar to the ones required by your state and school district.
Pages: 48 Grade Level: First, Second, Third Grade This resource helps children learn to correctly form the uppercase and lowercase form of each letter. The exercises in this book can be done sequentially or can be taken out of order, as needed. Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this book helps students master skills in penmanship. This book provides activities that are great for independent work in class, homework assignments, or extra practice to get ahead. The following standards or objectives will be met or reinforced by completing the practice pages included in this book. These standards and objectives are similar to the ones required by your state and school district.
Pages: 48 Grade Level: First, Second, Third Grade This resource helps children learn to correctly form the uppercase and lowercase form of each letter. The exercises in this book can be done sequentially or can be taken out of order, as needed. Both teachers and parents appreciate how effectively this book helps students master skills in penmanship. This book provides activities that are great for independent work in class, homework assignments, or extra practice to get ahead. The following standards or objectives will be met or reinforced by completing the practice pages included in this book. These standards and objectives are similar to the ones required by your state and school district.
Pages: 48
Grade Level: First Grade, Second Grade,
Third Grade
-Creative ideas for daily writing practice Get your students started on the "write" foot with this teaching resource book. Inside you'll find skill-building activities and reproducibles, seasonal writing ideas, writing-based bulletin boards, and more. It's everything you need to improve students' writing and make writing more fun in one tremendous resource from THE MAILBOX® magazine. Each idea is teacher tested, practical, fun, and -best of all-guaranteed to successfully build your students' writing skills. In this book you'll find ideas for the following:
If you want your students to love learning the essentials of writing, then this teaching resource is for you! 112 pages.
Grade Level: First Grade
Teachers have found this series to be very helpful at various times of the school year.
In all of these situations, teachers have found the Essential Skills series to be helpful in building students' knowledge and preparing them to master the content that the states require students to know. 176 pages + 2 CDs Return to the First Grade Writing Skills index
Grade Level: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Grade
This resource includes many quick, easy, colorful, and fun literacy activities and games for you to use with your students. Whether you are a first-year teacher or a seasoned veteran, you will be overjoyed at the wealth of materials included in this book to supplement your literacy program. This book provides a variety of unique hands-on activities and games that encourage language exploration. Students will participate in activities that focus on reading and writing. As a result, students develop literacy skills in ways that meet individual learning needs. Each lesson defines the literacy skill and the different ways of student grouping. The lesson states clear and simple directions to allow you to quickly assemble the learning activities for your students, substitute teachers, and/or take-home activities. Most of the materials needed for the activities are included in the book. Since many of the activities are generic, they can be adapted to meet a variety of individual needs. This book offers new and creative ideas and a fresh twist on commonly-used activities to help teachers save time and assist children in being successful literacy students. Pages: 176 Grade Level: Kindergarten, First - Second
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This teaching resource book includes a variety of activities including:
The activities target standards in these areas:
Pages: 80 Grade Level: Kindergarten - First Grade
Seeing how ideas in a reading selection are organized is a challenging task for young children. So is organizing their own ideas for a writing assignment. You can help your students build these critical skills and more with the easy-to-use tools in this teaching resource book. Inside this big collection of reproducible graphic organizers-designed especially for kindergartners and first-grade students-you'll find over 90 fun and engaging organizers. The book starts with "beginner organizers", a unique grouping of cut-and-paste pages that give beginners practice visually organizing information. This section is followed by other types of organizers including:
Each section features easy-to-scan directions and suggestions for use, plus a few holiday and seasonal organizers to tie in to special times of the year. A handy "Time-of-the-Year Table" helps you quickly locate just the organizer you need. No matter what you're teaching tomorrow, there's a graphic organizer inside that can make your lesson even more effective. So put this teacher resource book to work for you and your students today! 112 pages
Grade Level: First Grade
Twenty-three standards-based lessons use graphic organizers to help students visualize how concepts relate to one another. A Mac/Win CD gives teachers the options of printing the 23 different graphic organizers as transparencies or as student worksheets. The lessons cover a variety of topics across the curriculum:
96 pages + CD Grade Level: First, Second, Third Grade
3 Levels of Learning! Features:
Enhance your writing program with this standards-based writing resource or use as a stand-alone teaching tool for young writers! Reach each student with a step-by-step, systematic approach to teaching writing. 36 standards-based mini-lessons develop a structure of good writing habits—organization, ideas and content, word choice and voice, and conventions—and can be used either in sequential order or to strengthen specific writing weaknesses. The lessons give clear examples of strong writing, offer corresponding book lists based on authentic literature, and provide tips for emergent readers. Included are a skills matrix that identifies modes (narrative, expository, descriptive, persuasive, letter writing, and poetry) and reproducible activity sheets for writing skills at three different levels—basic, intermediate, and challenging. Use this teacher resource book to increase student motivation, reinforce core skills and offer practice to students preparing for writing assessments. Supports NCTE standards. Pages: 160
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