BREAKTHROUGH for TEACHER PLANNING! Renzulli Planning online - approx $2 per week |
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A framework ready for to be adapted for your own class, which includes 'hooks', thinking tools, assessment and more... 
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Do check out Jean's top 3 picks for this month:
-How can I be a more culturally responsive teacher?
- How can I help make social studies engaging for my students?
-How might technology facilitate my work and that of my students?
This unique guide presents practical strategies for using WebQuests: inquiry-oriented, collaborative student activities that use web-based information for solving problems through focused higher-level thinking....
BRAIN STATIONS!
A superb book for those special "pick-me-up" thinking sessions- includes visual/spatial activities to challenge ALL students in their creative and critical thinking!
Activities include everything from choosing what you'd take to a desert island (and giving supporting reasons!) through to hilarious verbal activities like "Who Said This?". Highly recommended- you'll wonder how you ever managed without this book at your fingertips!
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- HARRY POTTER and the Philosopher's Stone
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- A Wrinkle in Time
- DIARY of ANNE FRANK
You'll love these books! Take your students on a chapter-by-chapter guide through great literature- AND each guide also highlights 4 or 5 different literary devices and skills such as plot, setting, point of view, irony, tone, figures of speech, foreshadowing, symbolism, flashback, cause versus effect, fact versus opinion, main idea..!