Pamela Brunskill

Expanding your child's reading horizons is easy with fiction books from Teacher Created Materials In "Bess" by Pamela Brunskill, girls aren't allowed to act in Shakespeare's London, so Bess pretends to be a boy to get a role. When it's show time, can she let her parents--and the Globe--know it's her? Find out more in this historical fiction book your child will love. Includes 'Book Club' literacy and comprehension questions.

This short, 32-page chapter book features full-color illustrations to capture the attention of kids who enjoy modern retellings of classic tales. In this spin on Hansel and Gretel, Tim and Lia are playing outside on a snow day when they get lost in the woods. They find a candy shop owned by the mysterious Mr. Gretel who gives them as much candy as they can eat. But they'll have to rely on their own smarts when it comes to getting home! Kids will be captivated by this fast-paced adventure story that is appealing to reluctant readers.

Expanding your child’s reading horizons is easy with fiction books from Teacher Created Materials! In “Bess” by Pamela Brunskill, girls aren’t allowed to act in Shakespeare’s London, so Bess pretends to be a boy to get a role. When it’s show time, can she let her parents—and the Globe—know it’s her? Find out more in this historical fiction book your child will love. Includes ‘Book Club’ literacy and comprehension questions. This fiction book is written in Spanish.

Cultivate a love of reading with illustrated fiction books that encourage students to actively read and re-read. These fun, entertaining books feature compelling text and dynamic illustrations to keep students reading from cover to cover. Motivate today's students with the books they want to read across a wide range of appealing fiction genres including graphic novels, fantasy, adventure, realistic fiction, and retellings of traditional tales. Empower students to see themselves in the books they are reading with stories that celebrate diversity and inclusion. Titles include: Storyteller's Corner, Robin Hoodie, The Girl Who Dared, The Legacy of Rashmi Bazaar, Welcome to Your Haunted House, Snow Day, The Day the Towers Fell, The Clique, The Magical, Mystical Book of Everything, The Woodsman's Story.

Where does California's water come from? How is it used? Why is it important to conserve water? This text teaches students the answers to these important questions, and uses primary sources to simplify this complex topic and make it interesting to students. This nonfiction book builds students' reading skills and social studies content knowledge. The intriguing primary source maps, letters, documents, and images provide authentic nonfiction reading materials and keep students interested in learning. Text features include a glossary, index, captions, sidebars, and table of contents. This book connects to California state studies standards and the NCSS/C3 Framework and features appropriately leveled text to meet the needs of students reading at different levels. Additional features include Read and Respond and a culminating activity that prompt students to dive deeper into the text for additional reading and learning.

People today live in a world of information overload. Each day, information is shared from countless sources through numerous devices. Learning how to handle this onslaught of information has become a vital task for everyone. By the time they reach upper elementary school, most students are using smart phones, tablets and computers to access social media, video websites, online forums, wikis, blogs, and interactive digital games. Students need guidance on how to analyze online information sources, critically think about the content, and apply it to their decision-making. This essential professional resource includes everything that teachers need to help students achieve digital literacy, and includes activities and easy-to-use templates to support teachers as they teach the key skills of analyzing and understanding online information. This book by Sara Armstrong and Pamela Brunskill consists of three sections: Finding Information, Analyzing Information, and Using Information. The topics covered include: an introduction to information literacy; search techniques and strategies; asking and answering good questions; thinking visually; organizing information; online civic reasoning; analyzing online sources; using technology to teach; project-based learning with technology. With the amount of online information sources increasing exponentially, this book will equip teachers with the tools they need to help their students become global citizens and 21st century thinkers.