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The immune system

Lukidis, Lydia


Lexile: 680. Table of contents and glossary. Germs are everywhere you go! Some can make you very sick or even kill you. Your immune system is always working to stop them. But how does it do that? Learn about all the ways the immune system fights germs to keep you healthy. - Back cover.
Date Published:2019

My horses /

Miller, Heather


GGRL.
Date Published:2000

SyllaSense decodable readers : purple series /

Lear, Lee-Ann


The Cave x2 Puffins x2 The Insect Hunt x2 Cupcakes x2 Red Foxes x2 Biking x2 The Tides x2 Niagara Falls x2 At the Lake x2 Fish x2 . The Purple Series follows the Blue Series, and consists of 10 Photo Titles. It has slightly smaller font size and spacing, and includes a greater selection of polysyllabic words for young readers to explore. It includes stories that are both narrative in structure and non-fiction. The Purple Series also includes some well known Canadian destinations, including Niagara Falls in Ontario, and Hopewell Rocks in Nova Scotia. Its vivid photos are engaging, and texts informative.
Date Published:2022

The Cave x2 Puffins x2 The Insect Hunt x2 Cupcakes x2 Red Foxes x2 Biking x2 The Tides x2 Niagara Falls x2 At the Lake x2 Fish x2 . The Purple Series follows the Blue Series, and consists of 10 Photo Titles. It has slightly smaller font size and spacing, and includes a greater selection of polysyllabic words for young readers to explore. It includes stories that are both narrative in structure and non-fiction. The Purple Series also includes some well known Canadian destinations, including Niagara Falls in Ontario, and Hopewell Rocks in Nova Scotia. Its vivid photos are engaging, and texts informative.

Date Published:2022

Écrire au primaire : réflexions et pratiques /

Nadon, Yves, 1956- .


Distributed by EECD to FI Resource teachers and ERL teachers 2014. Comprend des réf. bibliogr. Enseignant depuis plus de 25 ans, spécialiste de la littératie et auteur de récits jeunesse, Yves Nadon vise à cultiver le goût de l'écriture chez les enfants. Dans Écrire au primaire, il partage ses réflexions et livre les résultats de ses propres expérimentations en classe.
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The moon

Prinja, Raman K.


Why does the Moon seem to change shape? What is the surface of the Moon like? Could you ever live on the Moon?
Date Published:2003

Sound : from whisper to rock band

Cooper, Christopher.


Sound will show you the importance of investigating and understanding the physical world around you.
Date Published:2004

Push or pull /

Canizares, Susan, 1960-.


Simple text and photographs explore the many things that can be moved by pushing or pulling, from swings and mowers to wagons and ropes.
Date Published:1999

Changing the world : persuasive speeches, petitions, and editorials / grade 3 /

Calkins, Lucy, 1951-,


Practicing persuasion -- Gathering brave, bold opinions for persuasive writing -- Drawing on a repertoire of strategies for generating opinion writing: writing with independence -- Considering audience to say more -- Editing as we go: making sure our audience can always read our pieces -- Taking stock and setting goals -- Gathering all we know about our opinions -- Organizing and categorizing -- For example: proving by showing -- Considering audience to select our most convincing material -- Paragraphing to organize our drafts -- Revising for sound and to evoke emotion -- Inquiry into petitions and persuasive letters -- Becoming our own job captains -- Gathering a variety of evidence: interviews and surveys -- Revising your introductions and conclusions to get your audience to care -- Taking stock again: goal setting with more independence -- Tackling a cause from different angles -- Becoming informed about our cause -- Yesterday's revisions become today's drafting strategies -- Getting our writing ready for readers -- Celebrating activism. Each unit of study contains 18-22 sequential sessions that walk you step-by-step through the entire writing process from planning and drafting to revising and editing and eventually to publication. Each session lays out the teaching points, minilessons, conferences, and small-group work in a way that will help you replicate, and eventually personalize, Lucy and her colleagues’ carefully crafted teaching moves and language.
Date Published:2013

Practicing persuasion -- Gathering brave, bold opinions for persuasive writing -- Drawing on a repertoire of strategies for generating opinion writing: writing with independence -- Considering audience to say more -- Editing as we go: making sure our audience can always read our pieces -- Taking stock and setting goals -- Gathering all we know about our opinions -- Organizing and categorizing -- For example: proving by showing -- Considering audience to select our most convincing material -- Paragraphing to organize our drafts -- Revising for sound and to evoke emotion -- Inquiry into petitions and persuasive letters -- Becoming our own job captains -- Gathering a variety of evidence: interviews and surveys -- Revising your introductions and conclusions to get your audience to care -- Taking stock again: goal setting with more independence -- Tackling a cause from different angles -- Becoming informed about our cause -- Yesterday's revisions become today's drafting strategies -- Getting our writing ready for readers -- Celebrating activism. Each unit of study contains 18-22 sequential sessions that walk you step-by-step through the entire writing process from planning and drafting to revising and editing and eventually to publication. Each session lays out the teaching points, minilessons, conferences, and small-group work in a way that will help you replicate, and eventually personalize, Lucy and her colleagues’ carefully crafted teaching moves and language.

Date Published:2013

The art of information writing : grade three /

Calkins, Lucy, 1951-,


Teaching others to prime the pump -- Organizing as a way to plan -- Exploring new structures leads writers to organizing and rethinking -- Laying the bricks of information -- Returning to the table of contents for drafting support -- Studying mentor texts in a search for elaboration strategies -- Making connections within and across chapters -- Balancing facts and ideas from the start -- Researching facts and ensuring text accuracy -- Reusing and recycling in the revision process -- Creating introductions through researching mentor authors -- Taking stock and setting goals -- Putting oneself in readers' shoes to clear up confusion -- Using text features makes it easier for readers to learn -- Fact-checking through rapid research -- Punctuating with paragraphs -- Tapping information know-how to develop and plan with efficiency and speed -- Revising from self-assessments -- Crafting speeches, articles, or lectures using our informational writing skills -- Carrying knowledge of text structures into new projects -- A final celebration: using knowledge about nonfiction writing to teach younger students how to write their own. Each unit of study contains 18-22 sequential sessions that walk you step-by-step through the entire writing process from planning and drafting to revising and editing and eventually to publication. Each session lays out the teaching points, minilessons, conferences, and small-group work in a way that will help you replicate, and eventually personalize, Lucy and her colleagues’ carefully crafted teaching moves and language.
Date Published:2013

Teaching others to prime the pump -- Organizing as a way to plan -- Exploring new structures leads writers to organizing and rethinking -- Laying the bricks of information -- Returning to the table of contents for drafting support -- Studying mentor texts in a search for elaboration strategies -- Making connections within and across chapters -- Balancing facts and ideas from the start -- Researching facts and ensuring text accuracy -- Reusing and recycling in the revision process -- Creating introductions through researching mentor authors -- Taking stock and setting goals -- Putting oneself in readers' shoes to clear up confusion -- Using text features makes it easier for readers to learn -- Fact-checking through rapid research -- Punctuating with paragraphs -- Tapping information know-how to develop and plan with efficiency and speed -- Revising from self-assessments -- Crafting speeches, articles, or lectures using our informational writing skills -- Carrying knowledge of text structures into new projects -- A final celebration: using knowledge about nonfiction writing to teach younger students how to write their own. Each unit of study contains 18-22 sequential sessions that walk you step-by-step through the entire writing process from planning and drafting to revising and editing and eventually to publication. Each session lays out the teaching points, minilessons, conferences, and small-group work in a way that will help you replicate, and eventually personalize, Lucy and her colleagues’ carefully crafted teaching moves and language.

Date Published:2013

The Arc of Story : writing realistic fiction / grade four /

Calkins, Lucy, 1951-,


"For decades now, the Reading and Writing Project has been piloting, refining, adapting, and developing a K-8 system of writing instruction. Many of The Reading and Writing Project’s ideas on teaching writing have been, from the start, a part of the Common Core, but the Common Core also issued new challenges—ones that The Reading and Writing Project began working towards when the Common Core was just a whiff of a draft. This sequence of CCSS-aligned units in narrative, opinion and information writing, then, bears the stamp of both the Common Core and of thirty-five years of research and development." — Lucy Calkins. CREATING AND DEVELOPING STORIES AND CHARACTERS THAT FEEL REAL Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments _ Imagining Stories We Wish Existed in the World _ Developing Believable Characters _ Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations _ Plotting with a Story Arc DRAFTING AND REVISING WITH AN EYE TOWARD BELIEVABILITY Show, Don’t Tell: Planning and Writing Scenes _ Feeling and Drafting the Heart of Your Story _ Studying Published Texts to Write Leads _ Orienting Readers with Setting _ Writing Powerful Endings PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION WITH AN AUDIENCE IN MIND Revision: Rereading with a Lens _ Making a Space for Writing _ Using Mentor Texts to Flesh Out Characters _ Editing with Various Lenses _ Publishing Anthologies: A Celebration EMBARKING ON INDEPENDENT FICTION PROJECTS Launching Independent Fiction Projects _ Planning and Drafting Stories with Agency _ Mining the Connections Between Reading and Writing Fiction _ Focusing the Reader’s Gaze _ Choosing Punctuation for Effect _ Surveying Your Work and Planning for the Future . Written for children on the cusp of writing more academic texts, the fourth-grade series familiarizes students with the genres they will regularly encounter throughout school—thesis-driven persuasive essays, literary essays, and research reports. Each of the units begins where children are and then provides a progression of instruction that brings students step by step toward increasing proficiency. In Unit 1, The Arc of Story: Writing Realistic Fiction, students learn that the lenses they bring to reading fiction can also be brought to writing fiction, as they develop believable characters with struggles and motivations and rich stories to tell. This unit is followed by Boxes and Bullets: Personal and Persuasive Essays in which students learn the value of organization and form as they gather evidence to support and express an opinion on topics they know well. By Unit 3, Bringing History to Life, students are ready to tackle historical research in which they collect evidence and use details to vividly describe people and events long ago and far away. Unit 4, The Literary Essay: Writing About Fiction, brings the series full circle as students build on their learning of e.
Date Published:2013

"For decades now, the Reading and Writing Project has been piloting, refining, adapting, and developing a K-8 system of writing instruction. Many of The Reading and Writing Project’s ideas on teaching writing have been, from the start, a part of the Common Core, but the Common Core also issued new challenges—ones that The Reading and Writing Project began working towards when the Common Core was just a whiff of a draft. This sequence of CCSS-aligned units in narrative, opinion and information writing, then, bears the stamp of both the Common Core and of thirty-five years of research and development." — Lucy Calkins. CREATING AND DEVELOPING STORIES AND CHARACTERS THAT FEEL REAL Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments _ Imagining Stories We Wish Existed in the World _ Developing Believable Characters _ Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations _ Plotting with a Story Arc DRAFTING AND REVISING WITH AN EYE TOWARD BELIEVABILITY Show, Don’t Tell: Planning and Writing Scenes _ Feeling and Drafting the Heart of Your Story _ Studying Published Texts to Write Leads _ Orienting Readers with Setting _ Writing Powerful Endings PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION WITH AN AUDIENCE IN MIND Revision: Rereading with a Lens _ Making a Space for Writing _ Using Mentor Texts to Flesh Out Characters _ Editing with Various Lenses _ Publishing Anthologies: A Celebration EMBARKING ON INDEPENDENT FICTION PROJECTS Launching Independent Fiction Projects _ Planning and Drafting Stories with Agency _ Mining the Connections Between Reading and Writing Fiction _ Focusing the Reader’s Gaze _ Choosing Punctuation for Effect _ Surveying Your Work and Planning for the Future . Written for children on the cusp of writing more academic texts, the fourth-grade series familiarizes students with the genres they will regularly encounter throughout school—thesis-driven persuasive essays, literary essays, and research reports. Each of the units begins where children are and then provides a progression of instruction that brings students step by step toward increasing proficiency. In Unit 1, The Arc of Story: Writing Realistic Fiction, students learn that the lenses they bring to reading fiction can also be brought to writing fiction, as they develop believable characters with struggles and motivations and rich stories to tell. This unit is followed by Boxes and Bullets: Personal and Persuasive Essays in which students learn the value of organization and form as they gather evidence to support and express an opinion on topics they know well. By Unit 3, Bringing History to Life, students are ready to tackle historical research in which they collect evidence and use details to vividly describe people and events long ago and far away. Unit 4, The Literary Essay: Writing About Fiction, brings the series full circle as students build on their learning of e.

Date Published:2013

If . . . then . . . curriculum : grade K /

Calkins, Lucy, 1951-,


Alternate and additional units ; Differentiating Instructions for individuals and small groups ; . Supports targeted instruction and differentiation with alternative assessment-based units. This includes six to eight concise units of study for you to strategically teach before, after (or in-between) the core curriculum based on your students needs.
Date Published:2013

From scenes to series : writing fiction / grade one /

Ehrenworth, Mary,


Serious fiction authors do some serious pretending -- Writers develop a "can-do," independent attitude -- Series writers always have a lot to write about -- Introducing your character in book one of a series: what does your reader want to know? -- Writers learn to get their character out of trouble -- Writers develop their dialogue -- Saddle up to the revision party and bring your favorite writer -- Taking stock: writers use checklists to set goals -- Serious series writers get serious about spelling -- Celebrating our first series -- Series writers investigate what makes realistic fiction realistic -- Writers "show, not tell" by focusing on tiny realistic details -- Fiction writers include chapters: writing a beginning, middle, and end -- Patterns help writers elaborate -- Writers use their superpowers to work with greater independence -- Punctuation parties -- Writers use illustrations to tell important details -- Meet the author page -- Getting ready for the final celebration -- A celebration of series writers: the grand finale!. In this final unit, teachers will lead students into "series" writing. Creating pretend characters, giving that character adventures in more than one booklet, and elaborating and revising across books.
Date Published:2013

Serious fiction authors do some serious pretending -- Writers develop a "can-do," independent attitude -- Series writers always have a lot to write about -- Introducing your character in book one of a series: what does your reader want to know? -- Writers learn to get their character out of trouble -- Writers develop their dialogue -- Saddle up to the revision party and bring your favorite writer -- Taking stock: writers use checklists to set goals -- Serious series writers get serious about spelling -- Celebrating our first series -- Series writers investigate what makes realistic fiction realistic -- Writers "show, not tell" by focusing on tiny realistic details -- Fiction writers include chapters: writing a beginning, middle, and end -- Patterns help writers elaborate -- Writers use their superpowers to work with greater independence -- Punctuation parties -- Writers use illustrations to tell important details -- Meet the author page -- Getting ready for the final celebration -- A celebration of series writers: the grand finale!. In this final unit, teachers will lead students into "series" writing. Creating pretend characters, giving that character adventures in more than one booklet, and elaborating and revising across books.

Date Published:2013

Genetics

Lukidis, Lydia


Lexile: 660. Table of contents and glossary. Why do you look like your parents? Why do you have blue eyes when your best friend has brown eyes? Genetics can give you the answers. Genetics explains how traits from parents get passed down to their children. Scientists hope to cure many diseases and make healthier food using genetics. Find out how genetics holds the code to what makes you the way you are. - Back cover.
Date Published:2019

Lexile: 660. Table of contents and glossary. Why do you look like your parents? Why do you have blue eyes when your best friend has brown eyes? Genetics can give you the answers. Genetics explains how traits from parents get passed down to their children. Scientists hope to cure many diseases and make healthier food using genetics. Find out how genetics holds the code to what makes you the way you are. - Back cover.

Date Published:2019

The life cycle of birds

Unwin, Mike


What is a bird? -- How is a bird born? -- How does an egg hatch? -- What does a baby bird look like? -- Who feeds baby birds? -- When does a bird leave the nest and grow up? -- When does a bird start breeding? -- How does a bird build a nest? -- How long do birds live?. Discusses how birds differ from other animals, their habitat, what they eat, how they build nests, how they are born and develop, how they reproduce, and their typical life expectancy.
Date Published:2003

What is a bird? -- How is a bird born? -- How does an egg hatch? -- What does a baby bird look like? -- Who feeds baby birds? -- When does a bird leave the nest and grow up? -- When does a bird start breeding? -- How does a bird build a nest? -- How long do birds live?. Discusses how birds differ from other animals, their habitat, what they eat, how they build nests, how they are born and develop, how they reproduce, and their typical life expectancy.

Date Published:2003

Life processes : from reproduction to respiration /

Spilsbury, Louise.


Includes index. What are life processes? -- What is reproduction? -- How do living things grow and develop? -- How do living things feed? -- What is cellular respiration? -- How do living things get rid of waste? -- Can all living things move? -- What are senses? -- People who found the answers -- Amazing facts.
Date Published:2004

Electricity : from amps to volts /

Cooper, Christopher.


VGRL. Electricity will show you the importance of investigating and understanding the physical world around you.
Date Published:2004

Animals on my street

Haydon, Julie.


Levels 5/6 Red/Yellow. Running words: 124. Theme: Exploring my world. Text type: Observation. Science strand: Life and living. DGRL.
Date Published:2006

Chickens /

Randell, Beverley


KGRL.
Date Published:1997

Ramadan /

Aloian, Molly.


Includes index.
Date Published:2008

Winter /

Herriges, Ann.



Date Published:2007