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By Paula Wilkes & Mark Szymanski
Encourage your students to take a deep and complex look at themselves, historical figures, or literary characters. Designed for heterogeneous classrooms, A Deep and Complex Look at Me promotes powerful thinking and deep learning through the icons of depth and complexity. Your students will demonstrate self-understanding (an important component of social-emotional development) in both written and visual ways as they fill out the depth and complexity icon templates. Templates can be used with individual students, the entire class, or as a cooperative team project. Asking your students to think in deep and complex ways will help them develop important learning skills that will become habits of mind, and establish a strong foundation as they become life-long learners. Sample templates are provided, including a full example through the eyes of the main character of a Newbery Medal book
JTE-30/2 — by Melanie Montgomery — This highly anticipated book, consisting of a comprehensive review of California’s 3rd grade math content standards, is now available! Problems are aligned to the key standards, as well as some auxiliary standards. You will find the questions challenge your students and increase their knowledge of necessary mathematical concepts. The [...]
This highly anticipated book, consisting of a comprehensive review of California's 2nd grade math content standards, is now available! Problems are aligned to the key standards, as well as some auxiliary standards. You will find the questions challenge your students and increase their knowledge of necessary mathematical concepts. The focused and organized problems help teachers identify those areas and concepts that need to be reinforced or retaught. This review has been popular and successful in classrooms and schools where it has been used. Please contact us to receive more information.
JTE-31--by Karren Timmermans & Paula Wilkes---- One of J Taylor's most highly anticipated products is now available! Engage your students in high-level discussions related to literature they are reading. Use the game to generate individual response, as a tool with the entire class, at a literary station, or as an assessment tool. There are so many possibilities - several others are mentioned in the "instruction card" that comes with each game. The game contains 88 question cards, 11 for each element of Depth & Complexity. In addition, two "icon spinners" are in each package. Spin the spinner to determine which pile of cards to draw from. Your students will love using the Icon Game as they develop better communication, comprehension, and high-level thinking skills.
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