Stella Writes An Opinion

Meet Stella. She has lots of opinions. Like, the best food is ice cream and kids should be allowed to bring toys to school and Ms. Merkley is the nicest teacher in the whole world. So, when Ms. M. tells the class they get to write an opinion, Stella gets excited. But how will she choose what to write about? Go with Stella on her writing journey and see how one kid s opinion can change a school. What could be more fun than to write what you think about an important topic. Now that's power!

Stella Writes an Opinion

Children's Books

Janiel Wagstaff

Growing Up & Facts of Life

SDE, Inc.

Stella Tells Her Story

She has a story to tell. (Ms. Merkley says everyone does.) Today, Ms. Merkley announced, is the perfect day to start writing narratives. Max has the story about his puppy, and Tineka is ready to retell her catfish adventure. But what topic will Stella choose? The time she got cupcake batter in her hair? Her trip to the amusement park? And how will she write it? What happened first, next, last . . . ? Stella loves to write. Go with her on a writing journey as she relives and retells a heartwarming story.

Do you know what it's like to be inquisitive? To have your mind racing with questions? Stella does! When Stella's class gets curious about chameleons, their teacher, Ms. Merkley, is happy to oblige. Join Stella and her friends as they become chameleon experts, and experts in informative writing. Sharing what you learn; that's what informative writing is all about.

Stella & Class: Information Experts

To succeed in math today, students need to make sense of unfamiliar problems and communicate their thinking as they work toward solutions. Teachers are looking for ways to help students tackle new problems and concepts. Welcome to Ms. Green's class, where math is challenging and fun. Ms. Green's students ask questions, try out different ideas, and believe in their math power. Use your math power to help the class find ways to solve the problem in Hatching Butterflies.

Use Your Math Power:Hatching Butterflies

Nancy Belkov

To succeed in math today, students need to make sense of unfamiliar problems and communicate their thinking as they work toward solutions. Teachers are looking for ways to help students tackle new problems and concepts. Welcome to Ms. Green's class, where math is challenging and fun. Ms. Green's students ask questions, try out different ideas, and believe in their math power. Use your math power to help Mia and her friends buy monkeys for the zoo!

Use Your Math Power: Monkeys for the Zoo

To succeed in math today, students need to make sense of unfamiliar problems and communicate their thinking as they work toward solutions. Teachers are looking for ways to help students tackle new problems and concepts. Welcome to Ms. Green's class, where math is challenging and fun. Ms. Green's students ask questions, try out different ideas, and believe in their math power. Use your math power to help Trevor and his friends count the penguins on parade!

Use Your Math Power: Penguins on Parade

Reading Recipes will help you become a "master chef" with recipes you can use to spice up your reading program and make it even more engaging and effective. Including over 80 new activities and dozens of variations, Reading Recipes comes to you from master educators, Carolyn Kisloski and Dr. Jean Feldman . Together, they have developed a cookbook chock-full of classroom activities to build key literacy skills in phonological and phonemic awareness, alphabet knowledge, phonics, sight word recognition, and vocabulary development. 160 pages. Fully illustrated with color photographs.

SDE, Inc Dr. Jean's Reading Recipes

Jean Feldman

Carolyn Kisloski

Build strong writers one step at a time. Effective, classroom-tested strategies. Checklist of skills for easy formative assessment. 16-page step-book format. Opens vertically to 8 1/2 X 14

The Writing Teacher's Coaching Tool

Donna Whyte

The activities focus on the five domains outlined in the Common Core math standards (Counting and Cardinality, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Number Operations and Base Ten, Measurement and Data, and Geometry) and fits seamlessly into any classroom. The activities can be used for large group activities, small group activities, partner work, or independent learning. Most of the lessons don't require advanced preparation or special materials, and all can be differentiated to meet the needs of the learners in any classroom.

SDE, Inc. Dr. Jean's Math Recipes

Dr. Jean Feldman

Janiel Wagstaff has done it again! In Stella, Poet Extraordinaire, she has managed to use all her experience as a teacher and writer to create two engaging characters that help young writers, as well as teachers, discover the joys of poetry. Stella and her teacher, Ms. Merkley, take readers on a journey through the process of writing poetry, from finding inspiration by taking a poetry walk to a final Poetry Jam where all the young poets share their work. Stella is genuine, making her a perfect mentor for young writers. Initially, she encounters many of the same struggles with writing that teachers often see with students lack of confidence, confusion, and uncertainty. But with Ms. Merkley s guidance, Stella is able to work through those difficulties and emerge as a poet extraordinaire. As she says, I look more closely at things; I linger so I can pick just the right words for what I m observing, thinking, or feeling; and I discover thoughts I didn t know I had when I write poems. Janiel has a special way of creating books that are must-haves in the writing workshop. Both teachers and students will embrace Stella and Ms. Merkley as their personal writing mentors, and will soon find themselves hooked on poetry, too.

Stella: Poet Extraordinaire

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