Bøker av Wendy Conklin

This nonfiction science reader will help fifth grade students gain science content knowledge while building their reading comprehension and literacy skills. This purposefully leveled text features hands-on, challenging science experiments and full-color images. Students will learn all about DNA, genes, chromosomes, cloning, and much more through this engaging text that supports STEM education and is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards. Important text features like a glossary and index will improve students close reading skills.

This high-interest nonfiction reader will help students gain science content knowledge while building their literacy skills and reading comprehension. This appropriately leveled text features hands-on, simple science experiments and full-color images and graphics. Fourth grade students will learn all about the rock cycle through this engaging text that supports STEM education and is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards.

This high-interest informational text will help students gain science content knowledge while building their literacy skills and nonfiction reading comprehension. This appropriately leveled nonfiction science reader features hands-on, simple science experiments and full-color images and graphics. Fourth grade students will learn all about Earth's cycles through this engaging text that is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and supports STEM education.

This high-interest informational text will help students gain science content knowledge while building their literacy skills and nonfiction reading comprehension. This appropriately leveled nonfiction science reader features hands-on, simple science experiments. Third grade students will learn all about the life cycles of plants, insects, snakes, and animals through this engaging text that is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and supports STEM education.

Digestion is a complex, sometimes gross, process by which our bodies turn a meal into energy. Dive into the digestive systems of humans, animals, and decomposers in this engaging, NGSS-aligned science book that supports STEM Education!

Use this instructional guide for literature to encourage students to make connections in history concerning social classes and divisions in societies while analyzing rich, complex literature and becoming familiar with this well-known novel.

This version includes front matter for Spanish speaking adults. Eliminate summer learning loss with this easy-to-use resource for parents. Keeping the skills your child learned in forth grade sharp while on break from school will help his or her fifth grade year get off to a great start. This standards-based tool provides 9 weeks of engaging and relevant lessons that support content learning in social studies, writing, reading, science, math, and art. This resource makes summer learning fun by incorporating everyday family activities that are easy for parents to implement. This standards-based resource also addresses shifts in Common Core and other state standards, and the parental-support tools will help parents prepare their children for academic success.

This version includes front matter for Spanish speaking adults. Eliminate summer learning loss with this easy-to-use resource for parents. Keeping the skills your child learned in third grade sharp while on break from school will help his or her forth grade year get off to a great start. This standards-based tool provides 9 weeks of engaging and relevant lessons that support content learning in social studies, writing, reading, science, math, and art. This resource makes summer learning fun by incorporating everyday family activities that are easy for parents to implement. This standards-based resource also addresses shifts in Common Core and other state standards, and the parental-support tools will help parents prepare their children for academic success.

This version includes front matter for Spanish speaking adults. Eliminate summer learning loss with this easy-to-use resource for parents. Keeping the skills your child learned in second grade sharp while on break from school will help his or her third grade year get off to a great start. This standards-based tool provides 9 weeks of engaging and relevant lessons that support content learning in social studies, writing, reading, science, math, and art. This resource makes summer learning fun by incorporating everyday family activities that are easy for parents to implement. This standards-based resource also addresses shifts in Common Core and other state standards, and the parental-support tools will help parents prepare their children for academic success.

Explore the reasons as to why gifted students should be serviced in our schools and take the mystery out of teaching by implementing the research-supported strategies provided in this book.

Bring history to life with this story of how a fictional resident of Pompeii may have experienced the explosion of Mount Vesuvius. Featuring TIME content, this leveled text builds literacy skills while engaging students in reading high-interest content.

Welcome to the world of extreme acrobatics! From parkour traceurs to Cirque du Soleil performers, students will be engaged as they read about these amazing feats. Featuring TIME content, this high-interest nonfiction reader builds literacy skills.

Have you ever dreamed of bungee jumping, skydiving, or wingsuit flying? These activities require an abundance of creativity - and courage! This high-interest nonfiction reader builds literacy skills as students read about extreme sports.

Live like an Egyptian with You Are There! Ancient Egypt 1336 BC! Students will examine important aspects of Ancient Egyptian culture, such as hieroglyphics, religion, vocations, politics, and style!

Discover how life was like in an ancient City-State with You Are There! Ancient Greece 432 BC. Take a tour of the Parthenon and other important aspects of Greek culture, including architecture, art, politics, mythology, and more!

Scientist. Inventor. Cartographer. Painter. Engineer. Architect. All of these words describe Leonardo da Vinci. Featuring TIME content, this high-interest biography teaches students about the fascinating life of da Vinci, while building literacy skills.

How can you live a happy and healthy life? This book shows you the right foods to eat and why you should be eating them as well as why exercise is good for both your body and your mind. Learn how to manage stress, relationships, and so much more!

180 Days of Writing is an easy-to-use resource that will teach sixth grade students to become efficient writers. Each two-week unit covers one writing standard centered on high-interest themes. Through daily practice that is easy to implement, students will strengthen their language and grammar skills while practicing the steps of the writing process including prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing. Helpful tools are provided to help teachers differentiate instruction and for formative assessment. These standards-based activities correlate to state standards and College and Career Readiness.

Help develop students'' higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) with approaches that are practical and researched based. Teachers will gain a better understanding of higher-order thinking skills with concrete examples of what it looks like in each of the content areas. Strategies are also presented for differentiating higher-order thinking skills and how to develop them in English language learners. This resource also includes techniques for effective classroom management, assessment, and information to aid in backwards planning.