Kristi Pikiewicz's Books

Make studying history fun and interactive to motivate your students. Encourage teamwork, creativity, reflection, and decision making. Take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of world history.

Making learning fun and interactive is a surefire way to excite your social studies students. This book includes game-formatted activities for major historical topics. While the goal of these activities is to create excitement and to spark interest in further study, they are also standards based and include grading rubrics and ideas for assessment. Encouraging teamwork, creativity, intelligent reflection, and decision making, the games of Hands-on History Activities will help you take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of history. 176pp.

Break through language barriers and put ELL students at ease in your classroom! More than ever before, K–12 educators in today's classrooms teach students from diverse language backgrounds. This handy reference guide to the ten most common languages of students who do not speak English—Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese, Arabic, Tagalog, Haitian Creole, Navajo, Hmong, Cantonese, and Korean—offers practical guidance for communicating with ELL students and their families. With a chapter dedicated to each language, this book provides a wealth of resources to help you make meaningful connections with ELL students, including: • Information about the traditions, religions, and celebrations of the family's country of origin • Guides to common words and phrases in the student's native language • Picture dictionaries that can be reproduced for use with students • Sample parent letters that include both English and native language translations • Basic reading tests in ten languages Language can be an intimidating barrier to many students and teachers alike. Don’t let it stand in the way of success. Help ensure that English Language Learners successfully transition into the school community and participate fully in the classroom learning environment!

Making learning fun and interactive builds excitment for your social studies students. This book includes game-formatted activities for the study of important events in American history such as Medieval Civilizations such as the Byzantine Empire, the Muslim Empire, the Ancient Americas, Asia, Africa, and the Renaissance. These hands-on activities are aligned to state and national standards and supports college and career readiness skills. The hands-on lessons foster engagement, teamwork, creativity, and critical thinking. In addition to history-based lessons, this resource includes grading rubrics and ideas for assessment. The games in Hands-on History Activities will help you take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of history.

Make American history fun and interactive to motivate your students. Encourage teamwork, creativity, reflection, and decision making. Take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of U.S. history.

Help students get it write with confidence! This professional resource for Grades 4 and up includes strategies and tools from several proven writing instruction methods (writing workshop, traits of writing, and the writing process) and offers a model for teaching writing. In addition to the strategies, a host of time-saving tips are included to help manage a successful writing program. Included are a 152-page Professional Guide, a 414-page Companion Notebook with reproducible lessons and activity sheets, graphic organizers, and a Teacher Resource CD with PDFs (printable files) and templates.

Introduce students to the Constitution, engage students in civics and the history of the government and learn how the Constitution is a living document that shapes all American lives

Provides techniques, lessons plans, and ready-to-use assignments to help integrate the traits of good writing into all areas of the curriculum.

Introduce students to the Constitution, engage students in civics and the history of the government. Learn how the Constitution is a living document that shapes all American lives.

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