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What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Kids' Favorite Funny Summer Vacation Poems (Giggle Poetry)
by Bruce LanskySummer days are here again!Here are over forty sidesplitting poems about summer vacation, covering everything from the much-anticipated last day of school to family road trips, wacky days at summer camp, learning how to swim, dizzying roller coaster rides, fun-filled days at the beach, and finally, the dreaded first day of the new school year. These hilarious poems written by Bruce Lansky, Kenn Nesbitt, Robert Pottle, Eric Ode, and Neal Levin, and the rest of the all-star gang of Giggle Poets are sure to make you count the days until summer vacation begins!Beach Book Festival Award (Honorable Mention Finalist: Children's Books), USA Book News (Best Books Award Finalist), Moonbeam Children's Book Awards (Children's Poetry Gold Award).
Kids Pick The Funniest Poems: Poems That Make Kids Laugh (Giggle Poetry)
by Bruce Lansky Stephen CarpenterBetcha laugh!This is one of the most popular collections of funny poetry for kids ever published. It's a classic because it's the first collection of poems selected by kids! It includes clever creations from some of the most popular names in children's poetry, including Bill Dodds, Timothy Tocher, Joyce Armor, Robert Pottle, Bruce Lansky, and Kenn Nesbitt. Humorous illustrations by Stephen Carpenter make this book even better.
My Teacher's In Detention: Kid's Favorite Funny School Poems (Giggle Poetry)
by Bruce Lansky Stephen CarpenterMy Teacher's In Detention contains 50 hilarious poems about school that cover everything from homework and tests to detention and gross-out school lunches. The book contains poems by well-known poets, including Bruce Lansky, Jack Prelutsky, Kenn Nesbitt, and more great "giggle poets." eEditor and contributor Bruce Lansky is one of North America's three bestselling authors of children's poetry books. His kid-tested, giggle-filled children's poetry books have sold over 2.5 million copies. This book follows on the success of Lansky's other school poetry anthologies, No More Homework! No More Tests!, and If Kids Ruled the School, which have sold over 500,000 copies in all editions and are among the best selling children's poetry books at retail.
Joyride (Joyride #3)
by Jackson Lanzing Collin Kelly Marcus To Irma KniivilaA year has passed since the fractured crew of the Joyride stared down the Void at the far reaches of space. There’s only one thing that could bring them back together: a return to Earth to take on the fascist regime once and for all. In this stunning conclusion, writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly (Batman and Robin Eternal, Grayson) and artist Marcus To (Nightwing, New Avengers) bring the Joyride back to where it all began. Collects issues #9-12.
Paragraph Book 4
by Dianne T. LaplountProvides effective strategies to guide students through the writing process from the ground up. Features: step-by-step instruction, model paragraphs, vocabulary development, essay-writing assignments, and systematic review.
Grandfather and the Moon
by Stéphanie LapointeAn award-winning graphic novel from Quebec — for fans of Jane, the Fox and Me and A Year Without MomThis moving graphic novel tells the story of the affection between a girl and her grandfather. When the grandfather withdraws in grief after his wife dies, the girl is determined to live life fully herself and enters an extraordinary contest — the result is a sensitive portrayal of pursuing a dream.Grandfather, a man of few words, is devastated when his beloved wife succumbs to cancer, and he sinks into depression. His granddaughter (“Mémère,” as he calls her) has a different response. She decides to enter the Who Will Go to the Moon Contest, and when she actually wins, she hopes that Grandfather will be proud of her. She embarks on the thrilling journey and at first it is wonderful, but just as she is about to reach the moon, her journey takes an unexpected turn.Written by Stéphanie Lapointe and beautifully illustrated by Rogé, this imaginative graphic novel explores intergenerational relationships, love, death, dreams and illusions.Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.
Exemplary Instruction in the Middle Grades: Teaching That Supports Engagement and Rigorous Learning
by Diane Lapp Barbara MossOffering fresh alternatives to common instructional practices that fail to get results, this accessible, highly practical guide highlights ways to motivate middle school students while enhancing content-area learning. Each chapter features an enlightening case study of a teacher whose current strategies are not supported by research; describes effective instructional alternatives, illustrated with concrete examples; and lists online resources and lesson examples. Emphasis is given to supporting critical engagement with texts and drawing on technology and new literacies. The book covers specific content areas—including science, social studies, math, and literature—as well as ways to teach oral literacy and writing across the curriculum.
Bits and Pieces II Using Fraction Operations
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. FitzgeraldNIMAC-sourced textbook
Connected Mathematics 2, Grade Eight
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. FitzgeraldNIMAC-sourced textbook
Covering and Surrounding, Two-Dimensional Measurement
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. FitzgeraldNIMAC-sourced textbook
Frogs, Fleas, and Painted Cubes, Quadratic Relationships
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. FitzgeraldNIMAC-sourced textbook
Kaleidoscopes, Hubcaps, and Mirrors, Symmetry and Transformations
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. FitzgeraldNIMAC-sourced textbook
Moving Straight Ahead, Linear Relationships
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. FitzgeraldNIMAC-sourced textbook
Prime Time, Factors and Multiples
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. FitzgeraldNIMAC-sourced textbook
Prime Time, Factors and Multiples
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. FitzgeraldNIMAC-sourced textbook
Samples and Populations, Data and Statistics
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. FitzgeraldNIMAC-sourced textbook
Say It With Symbols, Making Sense of Symbols
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. FitzgeraldNIMAC-sourced textbook
Accentuate the Negative, Integers and Rational Numbers
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. Fitzgerald Susan N. Friel Elizabeth Difanis PhillipsNIMAC-sourced textbook
Accentuate the Negative, Integers and Rational Numbers
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. Fitzgerald Susan N. Friel Elizabeth Difanis PhillipsNIMAC-sourced textbook
Bits and pieces I, Understanding Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. Fitzgerald Susan N. Friel Elizabeth Difanis PhillipsNIMAC-sourced textbook
Bits and Pieces III, Computing With Decimals and Percents
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. Fitzgerald Susan N. Friel Elizabeth Difanis PhillipsNIMAC-sourced textbook
Bits and Pieces III Computing With Decimals and Percents
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. Fitzgerald Susan N. Friel Elizabeth Difanis PhillipsNIMAC-sourced textbook
Comparing and Scaling, Ratio, Proportion, and Percent
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. Fitzgerald Susan N. Friel Elizabeth Difanis PhillipsNIMAC-sourced textbook
Connected Mathematics 2: The Pythagorean Theorem
by Glenda Lappan James T. Fey William M. Fitzgerald Susan N. Friel Elizabeth Difanis PhillipsLearn all you can about the Pythagorean Theorem in this book. Topics covered are: coordinate grids squaring off, Pythagorean Theorem and using the Pythagorean Theorem.