Books by Suzanne I. Barchers

This high-interest informational text will help students gain science content knowledge while building their literacy skills and nonfiction reading comprehension. This appropriately leveled nonfiction science reader features hands-on, simple science experiments. Third grade students will learn all about the different types of energy through this engaging text that is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and supports STEM education.

Energy literally makes the world go round. Without it, nothing would live, move, or react. From potential to kinetic and electrical to chemical, become an energy expert in this NGSS-aligned science book that supports STEM Education!

We experience friction all around us! When you move, you use kinetic energy. Friction slows down kinetic energy. Learn how friction helps us every day. Vibrant images pair with easy-to-read text to keep students engaged from cover to cover.

Now you can use quality children's literature to teach traditional reading skills! Providing a balance between traditional and literature-based instruction, these books include stimulating and instructive lessons based on approximately 150 skills commonly found in basal readers.

Use this instructional guide to help students analyze the story of how Melody overcame her disability and build their comprehension and literacy skills. The lessons allow students to practice close reading, respond to text-dependent questions, and more.

Connect students with past events by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons about a story based on tragic events that occurred in Birmingham as a result of racism.

Use this instructional guide for literature to encourage students to make connections in history while analyzing rich, complex literature and becoming familiar with this well-known novel about a family torn apart by the American Revolutionary War.

Full of life lessons about growing up, this well-known story will have students comparing and contrasting their own life experiences with those in the book by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons in this instructional guide for literature.

Introduce students to this award-winning novel and encourage them to analyze the text by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this instructional guide for literature.

Use this guide to introduce students to this award-winning story and encourage them to analyze Will's journey to defeat the dark. This instructional guide for literature is the perfect tool to aid students in analyzing and comprehending this story.

Follow along as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn embark on various, risky adventures. Readers will be eager to analyze this well-known story by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this instructional guide for literature.

Expand sixth grade students for Next Generation Assessments by incorporating these practice exercises into their daily learning. This resource will help expand students' skill set and give them the necessary tools needed to excel on assessments.

Use the engaging lessons and activities in this guide to help students comprehend the story of a Danish community that helped Jews escape the Nazis.

Unlike most readers theatre titles, the 36 scripts in this book introduce young readers to classic authors like Louisa May Alcott and Mark Twain while they have fun and improve their reading fluency.

Getting Ready to Read with Readers Theatre contains fifty, reproducible scripts to entice the preschool and kindergarten group into beginning to read. These patterned scripts based on nursery rhymes, poetry and other fun things to read are grouped into traditional preschool and kindergarten curricular groupings.

More Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers contains thirty all new scripts organized into three sections with ten scripts each for grades one, two, and three as analyzed by the Flesch Kincaid readability formula.

The second edition of this popular book contains loads of recipes, readings, and resources. Students will delight in preparing their own porridge and pudding; or trying out the pioneers' recipe for sourdough biscuits as they explore different periods in U.S. history. An ideal supplement for social studies classes and homeschoolers.

Mesmerize young children with these scripts based on well-loved fables from around the world. Tips for presentation, props, and delivery are included. Involve young children in reading and learning with these charming readers theatre scripts based on traditional fables from around the world.

Deliciously ghostly, startling, and downright scary scripts will make you and your students listen, ponder, shiver, chuckle, or even jump! Based on 30 folktales, myths, ghost stories, and legends, these reproducible scripts have been evaluated using the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale and range from second to fifth grade levels. Elementary, middle school, and chapter teachers will find them invaluable for enhancing the language arts program and for use with developing and remedial readers. An introduction provides everything you need to get started.