The much anticipated updated Second Edition of Anne Meyer and David Rose's foundational text, Universal Design for Learning: Theory & Practice (2014)!

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a practical, research-based framework that enables all educators to respond to individual learning differences through the design of inclusive goals, methods, materials, assessments, and environments.

Universal Design for Learning: Principles, Framework, and Practice - provides an accessible introduction to the scientific foundations of the framework and the many ways UDL can help shape inclusive learning design.

New insights into accessible materials, universally designed learning environments, the critical role of context, and strategies for implementation are featured. Case stories and reflections reveal the many ways UDL plays out in K-12 settings, postsecondary environments, career preparation programs, and more.

ASCD Bestseller! Wiggins and McTighe provide an expanded array of practical tools and strategies for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments that lead students at all grade levels to genuine understanding.

How do you know when students understand? Can you design learning experiences that make it much more likely that students understand content and apply it in meaningful ways?

Thousands of educators have used the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework to answer these questions and create more rigorous, engaging curriculums. Now, this expanded 2nd edition gives you even more tools and strategies for results-oriented teaching:

* An improved template for creating curriculum units based on the breakthrough backward design method.
* More specific guidelines on how to frame the big ideas you want students to understand.
* Better ways to develop the essential questions that form the foundation of high-quality curriculum and assessment.
* An expanded toolbox of instructional approaches for obtaining the desired results of a lesson.
* More examples, across all grade levels and subjects, of how schools and districts have used the UbD framework to maximize student understanding.

Educators from kindergarten through college can get everything they need--guidelines, stages, templates, and tips--to start designing lessons, units, and courses that lead to improved student performance and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.

Millions of parents were disconcerted by what they discovered about their child's education during the pandemic, and millions are considering the homeschooling option. Homeschooling Quick Start is a straightforward, user-friendly guide for the parent who sees an urgent need to start homeschooling their child, and also the parent who is wondering whether they have what it takes to homeschool. Written in a format that allows for a quick overview, and then diving deeper into detailed aspects of homeschooling, this book explains what's necessary for homeschooling and lays out the steps needed to start homeschooling from scratch, with plenty of examples and firsthand experience.

The book is designed so that you can go straight to the topic that interests you most. If you're worried about teaching science, math, or literature, or if you're wondering what you have to do to comply with your state's laws (there are no federal laws regulating homeschooling) you can go straight to the relevant chapter dealing with your chosen topic. There is a vast amount of printed or online material to help homeschoolers, including curricula and lesson plans for teaching all subjects. Much of this material is free. Susanne identifies some of the best of this literature, with her own observations and recommendations.

Rediscover the magic of teaching with School of Engagement. This inspiring book shows how engaging instruction can transform our schools and make learning a joyful experience for everyone.

School of Engagement provides a practical framework for developing authentic instructional activities and creating a school-wide document of shared teaching strategies. Alsheimer offers real help for teachers who want to make a difference. Inside, you'll find forty-five creative and engaging lesson activities that can be adapted to fit any grade level or content area and will spark your students' interest and bring excitement back to your classroom.

This book is perfect for both new and experienced teachers who are looking for fresh ideas and proven strategies to IGNITE student learning.

Handwriting for beginners! This is a Handwriting Curriculum and Handwriting Practice Workbook all in one! Students will LOVE learning handwriting - because they will LEARN TO DRAW and write at the same time!

• A fun system to learn handwriting!
• Children learn to draw a 'writing patch' while learning handwriting
• Fun, step by step, explicit directions to scaffold children from easier handwriting strokes to more complicated
• Large step by step tracing pages for ALL capital and lower case letters and numbers
• Large swiping directions to teach children letter formation by first 'swiping' the letter with their finger
• Easy method for students to know they need to write from left to right
• Children learn to write similar letters together -from easiest to more difficult
• On-page reminders to encourage large-motor movements to increase muscle memory of handwriting strokes
• Easy method for students to know where to start each letter
• Students learn a common vocabulary for each stroke to make it easier to teach direction and formation of stroke
• All letters have numbers and arrows to help guide letter formation

Handwriting Practice has never been so fun with these handwriting exercises!

Students First learn to draw a seed and grass after learning seed and grass, students learn to write the letter l and i. Slowly students students learn to both draw and hand write all the capital and lower case letters and numbers!

Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding (BFSU) - BFSU is for teachers, homeschoolers, and other educators to deliver a first-rate science education to K-8 students and older beginning-science learners. Vol. I (here) is for grades K-2 and older beginning-science learners. Volumes II and III are for grades 3-5, and 6-8, and older progressing science learners. BFSU provides both teaching methodologies and detailed lesson plans embracing and integrating all the major areas of science. BFSU lessons follow structured learning progressions that build knowledge and develop understanding in systematic incremental steps. BFSU lessons all center around hands-on experience and real-world observations. In turn, they draw students to exercise their minds in thinking and drawing rational conclusions from what they observe/experience. Therefore, in following BFSU, students will be guided toward conceptual understanding of crosscutting concepts and ideas of science, as well as factual knowledge, and they will develop mind skills of scientific thinking and logical reasoning in the process. Implementing BFSU requires no particular background in either science or teaching. Teachers/parents can learn along with their children and be excellent role models in doing so. Already widely used and acclaimed in its 1st edition form, this second edition of BFSU contains added elements that will make it more useful in bringing students to master the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

A Tangler is a puzzle that must be solved by a team. Groups of 3-6 students read and interpret clues in order to find the correct solution--but no one has all the information needed to find the answer on their own. In order to succeed, everyone must contribute. Players must share the information they have with teammates, and eliminate irrelevant clues, as they work together to reach a conclusion. Some Tanglers are fictional; others include interesting historical, geographic or scientific information.

Tanglers includes a lesson plan for using the puzzles, and another to help students create original puzzles of their own. Students can write Tanglers using based on their curriculum--a great way to integrate thinking skills into any content area. Students can also practice research skills as they search for the details that will make for an intriguing puzzle.

This book is a form drawing resource for teachers working with ages 6-10. It is designed to be used with the Steiner/Waldorf curriculum from classes one through three, although it will also be valuable to home-educating parents using the Steiner/Waldorf ethos as their base.

Creative form drawing helps children develop hand-eye co-ordination, spatial orientation, observations skills, confident movement, drawing skills and the foundations of handwriting. Originally developed by Rudolf Steiner, creative form drawing is widely used in Steiner/Waldorf schools to enable healthy child development and learning.

What Does Developmentally Appropriate Practice Look Like in a Preschool Classroom? 

  If you've ever wondered how effective teachers actually do DAP, this is the book for you. Here, you can peek into classrooms to see teachers making intentional decisions in the six key areas of practice that form the six guidelines for DAP in action:  

1. Building a community of learners where everyone is welcomed and supported to grow 
2. Facilitating respectful partnerships with families 
3. Observing, assessing, and documenting children's development and learning  
4. Using teaching strategies that enhance learning for each child 
5. Implementing curriculum tied to meaningful learning goals 
6. Demonstrating professionalism 
  You'll discover 

• More about what each guideline means for preschool teaching 
• Chapters that showcase articles from Young Children and Teaching Young Children--plus brand-new content--illustrating excellent teaching strategies related to each guideline 
• Examples you can model, adapt, and implement in your own practice 

Your teaching will be richer and deeper, and children's learning will flourish! 

Unlock the Joy of Reading: Discover Learn to Read with Orton-Gillingham Decodable Readers

Embark on a reading adventure perfect for kindergarten and first-grade students with Learn to Read with Orton-Gillingham Decodable Readers! This engaging series harnesses the power of the Orton-Gillingham approach, blending structured phonics stories with vibrant storytelling to ensure a solid reading foundation. This book vowel teams. A vowel team is when two or more vowels work together to make one sound. Some examples of vowel teams are- ee, ea, ie, oa, and more!

Each book not only boosts reading confidence but also features delightful coloring pages as a reward system, allowing children to celebrate their reading achievements creatively. This feature adds a fun, interactive element to learning, making it an enjoyable experience that children look forward to.

Kickstart the reading journey today! Equip your young learners with Learn to Read with Orton-Gillingham Decodable Readers and watch as they transform into confident readers, eager to color their way through success. This series is the perfect tool to make reading rewarding and effective for early readers.

Make math learning both meaningful and fun by building on children's natural curiosity to help them grow into confident problem solvers and investigators of math concepts.

Using five math-related questions children wonder about as a framework, this book helps you go deeper into everyday math with children by offering:

• A basic overview of math ideas behind matching and sorting, patterns, number sense, measuring, and spatial relationships
• 20 activities appropriate for children in preschool and kindergarten based on new and classic children's books, games, and classroom routines
• Suggestions for individualizing activities for diverse learners
• Recommendations for more than 75 children's books that encourage math-rich thinking and investigation
• Examples of intentional questions, comments, and conversations that stretch and focus children's understanding of math concepts

Empower yourself with the guidance and ideas in this practical resource to use play and storytelling to challenge children to think more complexly about the math in everything they see, hear, and do.

The Dickinson College Commentaries Core Latin and Ancient Greek Vocabularies represent the most common words in Latin and Ancient Greek, based on large hand-analyzed data sets. The Latin list has roughly a thousand headwords or lemmas, the Greek five hundred. These account for approximately 70-80% of the word forms found in a typical text, excluding proper names. For Caesar's Gallic War, the figure is 91%; for Vergil's Aeneid, 81%. 66% of the words in Sophocles' Antigone are in the DCC Greek core, while the figure for Plato's Euthyphro is 82%. The words appear sorted in two ways, alphabetically and by frequency. Projects using the DCC Core Vocabularies include EULALIA (European Latin Linguistic Assessment), Classical Association of the Middle West and South Latin Translation Exam, IB Classical Greek Standard Level, and The Bridge at Haverford College.

Social Studies Daily Practice Workbook by ArgoPrep allows students to build foundational skills and review concepts. Our workbooks explore social studies topics in-depth with ArgoPrep's 5 E's to build social studies mastery. Our workbooks offer students 20 weeks of practice of various social studies skills required for 8th Grade including History, Civics and Government, Geography, and Economics.

Students will explore science topics in-depth with ArgoPrep's 5 E'S to build social studies mastery.

1. Engaging with the topic: Read a short text on the topic and answer multiple-choice questions.
2. Exploring the topic: Interact with the topic on a deeper level by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data.
3. Explaining the topic: Make sense of the topic by explaining and beginning to draw conclusions about the data.
4. Experimenting with the topic: Investigate the topic through hands-on, easy to implement experiments.
5. Elaborating on the topic: Reflect on the topic and use all information learned to draw conclusions and evaluate results.

ArgoPrep's 8th Grade Social Studies Daily Practice Workbook is state-aligned and aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

Here's a preview of what our workbook covers!

• Reconstruction
• Industrialization and Unionization
• Immigration
• The Progressive Era
• Western Expansion After the Civil War
• American Imperialism
• World War I
• Civil Rights After World War I
• The Roaring Twenties and the Stock Market Crash
• The Great Depression
• The New Deal
• World War II
• Fighting World War II and Its Aftermath
• The Cold War
• Post-War America
• The Civil Rights Movement
• The Vietnam War Era
• America in the 70s
• The End of the Cold War
• America and the Global World

ArgoPrep is one of the leading providers of K-8 supplemental educational products. At ArgoPrep, our goal is to provide you with the best workbooks and learning experience. Just in the past year, ArgoPrep has received many awards for it's curriculum and workbooks. ArgoPrep is a recipient of the prestigious Mom's Choice Award, 2019 Seal of Approval from Homeschool.com, 2019 National Parenting Products Award, Tillywig Brain Child Award, and a Gold Medal Parent's Choice Award Winner. If you have any suggestions or need further assistance, don't hesitate to email us at info@argoprep.com

Despite being the most common learning disability, dyslexia is widely misunderstood. In this book, Sayeski and Chandler translate research from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and education into bite-sized, actionable guidance for teachers and parents to follow to put kids on the path to reading.

Profound, vital and correct. Hirsch highlights the essence of our American being and the radical changes in education necessary to sustain that essence. Concerned citizens, teachers, and parents take note! We ignore this book at our peril.-- Joel Klein, former Chancellor of New York City Public Schools

Now in paperback, the bestselling author of Cultural Literacy delivers a powerful manifesto on the failures of America's early education system and its impact on our current national malaise, advocating for a shared knowledge curriculum students everywhere can be taught--an educational foundation that can help improve and strengthen America's unity, identity, and democracy.

In How to Educate a Citizen, E.D. Hirsch continues the conversation he began thirty years ago with his classic bestseller Cultural Literacy, urging America's public schools, particularly at the elementary level, to educate our children more effectively to help heal and preserve the nation. Since the 1960s, our schools have been relying on child-centered learning. History, geography, science, civics, and other essential knowledge have been dumbed down by vacuous learning techniques and values-based curricula; indoctrinated by graduate schools of education, administrators and educators have believed they are teaching reading and critical thinking skills. Yet these cannot be taught in the absence of strong content, Hirsch argues.

The consequence is a loss of shared knowledge that would enable us to work together, understand one another, and make coherent, informed decisions. A broken approach to school not only leaves our children under-prepared and erodes the American dream but also loosens the spiritual bonds and unity that hold the nation together. Drawing on early schoolmasters and educational reformers such as Noah Webster and Horace Mann, Hirsch charts the rise and fall of the American early education system and provides a blueprint for closing the national gap in knowledge, communications, and allegiance. Critical and compelling, How to Educate a Citizen galvanizes our schools to equip children with the power of shared knowledge.

Reading sparks students' natural curiosities, helps them answer questions, and even prompts new

ones. Using historical fiction and the Inquiry Design Model (IDM), Kristy A. Brugar and Annie McMahon

Whitlock encourage readers to follow these curiosities and engage with these texts to elevate attention

to social studies concepts and skills. Inquiry by the Book: Teaching Historical Fiction With the Inquiry Design

Model equips educators with innovative methods for integrating English language arts and social

studies through the use of historical fiction texts commonly found in elementary and middle school

classrooms.

This book offers strategies to enhance social studies instruction and to help students develop historical

empathy, recognize diverse experiences and viewpoints, and critically engage historical content.

Each chapter features one or more historical fiction texts alongside primary and secondary sources

to help students answer the IDM's compelling question. Inquiry by the Book supports educators in

selecting high-quality texts, designing compelling questions around important concepts or themes,

building historical context through supporting questions, curating primary and secondary sources, and

designing thoughtful and intentional action elements.

Give students the strategies they need to determine the meaning of new words encountered in text without turning to a dictionary! Each reproducible card contains a high-interest mini-passage and five key questions to hone this must-know skill--in just ten minutes a day. Cards provide guided support to help students use a range of context clues to arrive at a word's meaning. Includes a rich mix of fiction and nonfiction passages. A great way to boost standardized test scores!

Your students' comprehension--and writing--abilities will soar with this big collection of no-prep, task cards that teach all about figurative language! Each reproducible card contains a high-interest mini-passage and five key questions to hone must-know skills--in just ten minutes a day. Cards provide guided support to help students master idioms, metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, understatement, irony, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and more. Perfect for ESL students and aspiring writers!

Social Studies Daily Practice Workbook by ArgoPrep allows students to build foundational skills and review concepts. Our workbooks explore social studies topics in-depth with ArgoPrep's 5 E's to build social studies mastery. Our workbooks offer students 20 weeks of practice of various social studies skills required for 2nd Grade including History, Civics and Government, Geography, and Economics.

Students will explore science topics in-depth with ArgoPrep's 5 E'S to build social studies mastery.

1. Engaging with the topic: Read a short text on the topic and answer multiple-choice questions.
2. Exploring the topic: Interact with the topic on a deeper level by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data.
3. Explaining the topic: Make sense of the topic by explaining and beginning to draw conclusions about the data.
4. Experimenting with the topic: Investigate the topic through hands-on, easy to implement experiments.
5. Elaborating on the topic: Reflect on the topic and use all information learned to draw conclusions and evaluate results.

ArgoPrep's 2nd Grade Social Studies Daily Practice Workbook is state-aligned and aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

Here's a preview of what our workbook covers!

• Community Life: Past and Present
• Culture & Traditions
• American History
• American Landmarks
• Time, Continuity & Change: Recording History
• Being a Good Citizen
• Rights & Responsibilities
• Rules & Laws
• Community Leaders
• World Leaders
• Maps & Globes
• Travel & Transportation
• Physical Features vs Man-Made Structures
• Weather & Climate
• Caring for our Environment
• Basic Needs
• Goods & Services
• Producers & Consumers
• Type of Resources
• Jobs

ArgoPrep is one of the leading providers of K-8 supplemental educational products. At ArgoPrep, our goal is to provide you with the best workbooks and learning experience. Just in the past year, ArgoPrep has received many awards for it's curriculum and workbooks. ArgoPrep is a recipient of the prestigious Mom's Choice Award, 2019 Seal of Approval from Homeschool.com, 2019 National Parenting Products Award, Tillywig Brain Child Award, and a Gold Medal Parent's Choice Award Winner. If you have any suggestions or need further assistance, don't hesitate to email us at info@argoprep.com

A game-changing resource for educators looking to elevate their unit and lesson plans, increase student engagement, and improve home-school communication.

With so many standards to address and templates to fill out, curriculum design and lesson planning can be cumbersome and overwhelming. And every teacher knows the struggle of trying to cover all the required content, which may or may not resonate with their students.

In Streamlining the Curriculum, experts Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Allison Zmuda take a hard look at our overburdened, dated curricular practices and offer a better way-one built on the power of narrative. Their storyboard approach casts students as the heroes of the learning journey. Instead of passive recipients, they become protagonists, actively engaged in exploring new ideas, solving problems, finding connections, enlisting allies, and acquiring new skills and understandings to apply to both present and future challenges.

This innovative book teaches you how to

• Decide what to cut out, cut back, consolidate, and create in your lessons and units.
• Find the throughlines in your required content and approach lesson design and teaching as storytelling, no matter what subject area or grade level you teach.
• Apply genre lenses to make courses, units, and lessons more compelling.
• Communicate clear learning targets to your students and their families.
• Create space for exploring essential questions, investigating intriguing ideas, and conducting projects that feel relevant and important.
• Determine purposeful and authentic evidence of learning.

Filled with examples and insights, this book shows educators how to break free from the tyranny of templates and start streamlining curriculum, assessment, and planning to make learning experiences more immersive, interesting, and emotionally resonant.