Books published by Shell Educational Publishing

Transform your classroom into an active learning environment with innovative strategies that motivate students to put learning into their own hands. Research-based strategies work to engage students with hands-on activities and improve critical thinking.

This dynamic book provides the foundation you need to confidently and successfully teach comprehension to a diverse population of students.

This practical resource demonstrates how to use data in decision making to improve student learning by promoting a school-wide learning community.

Based on current research, this user-friendly resource provides vocabulary development strategies that are grouped together according to purpose.

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.

Effectively build students' language skills while developing their scientific understanding. Using the inquiry-based 5E model of instruction, this product offers valuable strategies for developing students' scientific content knowledge.

Excite your students with Hamilton: An American Musical, as they develop literacy skills. Students will learn how to study story elements, build vocabulary, and use higher-order thinking skills as they practice close reading and text-dependent questions.

This instructional guide is filled with rigorous cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the fictional text to teach students how to comprehend complex literature and help them understand the life lessons in this story.

This resource defines social and emotional learning and digs into the real work of incorporating SEL in K-12 schools. It makes the connection between research and practical application through real-life examples and testimonials of SEL in the classroom.

This resource equips teachers with innovative strategies to develop students' visual literacy skills, teach students to analyze visual texts, comprehend both explicit and implicit messages, and engage in meaningful discussion.

Discover strategies for incorporating fluency instruction into your daily reading routines and easily incorporate it into instruction.

The Hunger Games: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides lesson plans and activities for this popular Young Adult fiction novel. This valuable resource guides teachers with ways to add rigor with complex literature. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the text with higher-order thinking skills, with lessons focused on story elements, vocabulary, and more. Close reading activities throughout the literature units encourages students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages to respond more critically. With various methods of assessing comprehension, this instructional guide offers strategies for cross-curricular activities as students build a greater understanding of this great literary work.

By completing fun, challenging activities and lessons, students will uncover the true meaning behind this beautifully illustrated story. This guide is the perfect tool to aid students in analyzing and comprehending this sensational story.

Help third grade students improve their geography skills with fun and effective daily practice activities. Focusing on a new topic each week, students will build map skills, apply information and data, and connect what was learned.

Use proven literacy strategies to build students' conceptual understanding by implementing the Guided Math Framework. This approach uses elements such as small groups and Math Workshop to encourage mathematical communication and discussion.

This practical resource contains classroom-tested interventions for struggling readers provided in 5-, 10 to 15-, and 30 to 40-minute settings.

Dig into problem solving and reflect on current teaching practices with this exceptional resource. Meaningful instructional tools and methods are provided to help teachers understand each problem solving strategy and how to use it with their students.

Build engagement, teamwork, creativity, and critical thinking through the study of geography. These hands-on activities are aligned to state and national standards and support the development of college and career readiness skills.

Build engagement, teamwork, creativity, and critical thinking through the study of Ancient Civilizations. These hands-on activities are aligned to state and national standards and support the development of college and career readiness skills.

This updated, second edition resource provides teachers with classroom-tested ideas and resources to enhance instruction and help make the integration of technology into the classroom a seamless process.

The 180 Days of Problem Solving for Grade 2 offers daily problem-solving practice geared towards developing the critical thinking skills needed to approach complex problems. This teacher-friendly resource provides thematic units that connect to a standards-based skill that second grade students are expected to know to advance to the next level. Lesson plans offer guidance and support for every day of the week, outlining strategies and activities that dig deeper than routine word problems. Each week students will use visual representations and analyze different types of word problems (including non-routine, multi-step, higher thinking problems). This comprehensive resource builds critical thinking skills and connects to national and state standards.

The 180 Days of Problem Solving for Grade 1 offers daily problem-solving practice geared towards developing the critical thinking skills needed to approach complex problems. This teacher-friendly resource provides thematic units that connect to a standards-based skill that first grade students are expected to know to advance to the next level. Lesson plans offer guidance and support for every day of the week, outlining strategies and activities that dig deeper than routine word problems. Each week students will use visual representations and analyze different types of word problems (including non-routine, multi-step, higher thinking problems). This comprehensive resource builds critical thinking skills and connects to national and state standards.

The 180 Days of Problem Solving for Grade K offers daily problem-solving practice geared towards developing the critical thinking skills needed to approach complex problems. This teacher-friendly resource provides thematic units that connect to a standards-based skill that Kindergarten students are expected to know to advance to the next level. Lesson plans offer guidance and support for every day of the week, outlining strategies and activities that dig deeper than routine word problems. Each week students will use visual representations and analyze different types of word problems (including non-routine, multi-step, higher thinking problems). This comprehensive resource builds critical thinking skills and connects to national and state standards.