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Fall 2021 Catalog - Pre-K
Get Set for School features hands-on movement, interactive play, lively music, and child-friendly teaching strategies to help young learners get ready for kindergarten.
From finger plays to grip activities and product implementation tips, you’ll find dozens of lively videos to help you maximize your Pre-K curriculum!
This new digital teaching platform brings lessons to life with engaging, developmentally appropriate technology.
Get set to teach Pre-K with our multisensory components for building essential kindergarten readiness skills.
Fall 2021 Catalog - Building Writers
Students develop essential writing skills as they write about cross-curricular topics and practice three
types of writing styles: narrative, information, and opinion/argument.
Features:
• Developmental approach to writing
• Ready-to-teach lessons for reduced teacher prep time
• Narrative, information, and opinion/argument writing practice
Building Writers gives the WRITE tools! See our infographic to learn how Building Writers supports writing practice by enriching students’ writing units with a developmental approach.
Do your students need even more writing practice? Building Writers goes beyond building letter formation skills and offers structured practice in narrative, information, and opinion/ argument writing. The best part? It’s versatile and easy to integrate into any ELA program!
Download a grade-level teacher's guide and discover what’s inside this innovative curriculum.
A-Z for Mat Man® and Me Pricing Guide
View the complete book series overview and the pricing guides below. Go here to see in in depth look at what teachers and students will experience while they build foundational literacy skills.
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Get students on track for kindergarten readiness the simple way. Get Set for School expands early learning possibilities. Teachers are supported with guided lessons as students experience a hands-on curriculum that engages their minds.
- Scaffolded instructional support
- Expands early learning possibilities
- Developmentally appropriate sequencing
- Multisensory activities that engage young minds
- Assessments to guide instruction
- Time-tested manipulatives for hands-on learning
- Online platform connects teachers, students, and families
- Seamless integration of themes across all learning domains
- Supplemental resource scales lessons for 3-year-old learners
Manage and simply teach lessons from Get Set for School with the Pre-K Interactive Teaching Tool: a one-stop digital teaching platform. Students also get a series of developmentally appropriate apps built for exploration, discovery, and creative expression. These experiences reinforce pre-academic readiness and strengthen learning experiences at home.
Use the Learning and Play Resource for 3-Year-Olds as an extension to the Get Set for School complete curriculum, and find suggestions on how to scale multisensory activities in a developmentally appropriate way for younger learners.
Aligned to ESSER and ESSA
Get Set for School is eligible for educational grants and funding. The program meets ESSA's Demonstrates a Rationale evidence criteria, with materials aligned to ESSER funding's allowable activities.
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The intertwined connections to real world, real life and all the learning modalities facilitate learner success.
Vanessa Brown, B.A., M.Ed., Retired Assistant Principal and ELA Coordinator
With the implementation of the teacher’s guide, activity books and manipulatives, Pre-K teachers have the tools they need to successfully prepare young children for kindergarten.
Schronda McKnight-Burns M. Ed., Assistant Director of Early Childhood Education
The active teaching really brings the workbook to life by adding in different interactive learning strategies and activities on each page.
Lanor Payne, Ph.D, Director of Early Childhood
Our students have used Keyboarding Without Tears for years. This program goes beyond nurturing students’ typing skills. It gives them the confidence with technology they need to truly succeed today.
Mary Toomey, Assistant Superintendent
Pacing Guide Downloads
Pick the Right Summer Learning Program for Your Students!
Use our workbooks and literacy programs with your Pre-K–2 students this summer, or any time, with these FREE age- and grade-appropriate learning plans.
Choose from the following:
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4- or 6-week versions of our time-tested, 23-week Handwriting Without Tears® teaching guidelines
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4- or 6-week versions of A–Z for Mat Man® and Me, a supplemental Pre-K−1 program that build alphabets knowledge by integrating phonics with connected text
Each of these programs comes with implementation videos, additional free materials, and step-by-step instructions to help you guide you.
Select your packs(s) to download below:
Pre-Kindergarten - My First School Book Set
Transitional Kindergarten - Kick Start Kindergarten
Kindergarten - Letters and Numbers For Me
1st Grade – Print: My Printing Book
2nd Grade – Cursive: Cursive Kickoff
A-Z Mat Man Summer Pacing Guide - Emerging Readers
A-Z Mat Man Summer Pacing Guide - Developing Readers
Phonics, Reading, and Me™ Set A - 4 Week Pacing Guide
Phonics, Reading, and Me™ Set B - 4 Week Pacing Guide
Phonics, Reading, and Me™ Set C - 4 Week Pacing Guide