Children learn more in well-managed classrooms. This course teaches you how to maximize learning time. Gain specific strategies to help children listen and follow directions. Learn how to create a positive learning environment that fosters independence and responsibility. Gain step-by-step positive behavior strategies that can help children be cooperative, enthusiastic learners.

This course is packed with teacher-tested ideas guaranteed to make your life easier! You'll learn how to get organized and stay that way, how to save time and work, and, most importantly, your sanity. Topics include correcting students work, how to set up your classroom for a super-successful year and child-created bulletin boards. Learn ways to streamline classroom procedures and manage paperwork so you have more time to teach.

This course provides step-by-step instruction for instantly developing activities to help every child succeed as a reader and writer. Gain ways to balance your reading programs with individual, partner, small and large group activities. Learn ways to motivate children with engaging activities that incorporate reading, writing and oral language. Discover a goldmine of instant reading comprehension activities that work with any story and all reading programs. Add pizazz and excitement to your reading program!

Learn how to develop highly interactive lessons that accelerate learning. Give children a solid foundation of word skills on which to build reading and spelling success. Learn ways to teach children to be word detectives who can analyze and decode new words. This course includes word walls, spelling strategies, and words skill activities to use daily. Activities will enrich your existing language program. We'll show you exactly how to build a powerful word skills program that helps children excel.

Bring out the writer in every child-this course will show you how. Children will be able to write with rich details instead of saying "I can't think of anything to write." Learn easy ways to connect and overlap your writing, reading and spelling programs to boost achievement. Lots of ideas for stories, journals, writing paragraphs, teaching skills, evaluating writing and writing conferences. Instantly useable ideas and activities to help your students become skilled, imaginative writers.