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One side of this bookmark will guide students into dialogue as they learn how to agree, disagree, ask for clarification, and extend their thinking. The other side shares symbols of annotation as they learn how to close and critically read challenging text. This classroom set of 30 will allow each student to refer back to the talking stems and annotations all year long. Classroom sets are also included with the FIM ELA subscriptions.

Students are motivated to learn when they are engaged in unique ways. The Flippin’ Great Strategies book supports teachers in quickly identifying strategies that support student learning. This desktop reference book provides teachers with easy access to multiple strategies.

In classrooms all over the United States, the Focused Instructional Model has been implemented with high fidelity. Data is collected regularly and analyzed to support students’ growth in mathematics. Educators are now on the quest to engage all of their students in an intentional intervention to support what the data is showing them. The development team of FIM has been responsive and has created Math Strengths and Stretches as the intervention model that will support this opportunity. Order your grade level set of Math Strengths and Stretches and receive a series of practice manuals that will guide your students through the required Math standards. Classroom sets include: Kindergarten Set:

• Counting & Cardinality
• Numbers & Operations: Base Ten
• Operations & Algebraic Thinking
• Geometry

1st Grade Set:

• Measurements & Data
• Numbers & Operations: Base Ten
• Operations & Algebraic Thinking

2nd Grade Set:

• Measurements & Data
• Numbers & Operations: Base Ten
• Operations & Algebraic Thinking

3rd Grade Set:

• Measurements & Data
• Numbers & Operations: Fractions
• Operations & Algebraic Thinking

4th Grade Set:

• Numbers & Operations: Base Ten
• Numbers & Operations: Fractions
• Operations & Algebraic Thinking

5th Grade Set:

• Numbers & Operations: Base Ten
• Numbers & Operations: Fractions
• Measurements & Data

*6th Grade Set:

• Expressions & Equations
• Number System
• Ratios & Proportional Relationships

*7th Grade Set:

• Expressions & Equations
• Number System
• Ratios & Proportional Relationships

8th Grade Set:

• Expressions & Equations
• Geometry
• Functions

*(Please call us if you're interested in ordering 6th or 7th grade) What is Math Strengths and Stretches? Math Strengths and Stretches is a Tier II intervention system that provides teachers with a way to be responsive to the FIM data in an intentional manner. The Progress Monitoring Test data that is collected every two weeks provides the teacher with opportunities to support all students in their learning. Math Strengths & Stretches uses a suggested 15 minutes of the day to intentionally intervene by using data to support and/or maintain the most necessary skills in math. After analyzing student data, the teacher will decide their intention and use the Math Strengths & Stretches resource to facilitate the students’ thinking around a chosen standard. All students will progress through the build, draw and solve continuum of learning to ensure they have a strategy on which to anchor their thinking: Build – students will use manipulatives to help solve problems Draw – students will draw pictures to help solve problems Solve – students will use standard algorithms to help solve problems Student progress will be monitored for both effort and for content mastery throughout the intervention. All students will have the opportunity to work in a small group with teacher support or will be working on the most important identified math skills in pre-arranged stations. The incoming data will provide teachers with an independent skill level for each student so all students are practicing skills tailored to their needs. At the onset of the next Progress Monitoring Test in FIM, the groups will change based on the new data that the test reflects. The Focused Instructional Model is a responsive tool to support all children on their mathematical journey. Math Strengths & Stretches helps teachers use incoming data effectively to help meet individualized needs of students.

Close and critical reading is paramount to student success on standardized assessments. But what is it and how can teachers teach students to value multiple reads of the same text? The IEE Strides Kit can help. Each kit contains 4 easy to follow steps. Summarization, Analysis, Purpose Attainment, and Connections provide students and teachers with a different focus for each read.Each step has its own set of cards with explanations, questions, strategies, how it works, key vocabulary, application, and additional web resources in order to ensure that the teachers and the students have a well rounded understanding of the concept. Purchase your Strides Kit today and support your students in their close and critical reading strategies.

What are Brag Tags?

Brag Tags work alongside IEE’s Focused Instructional Model Mathematics program, as a classroom incentive system that are used to encourage, promote, and celebrate positive behavior and learning goals. There are 2 types of tags, non-cognitive (ex: I am organized, I am cooperative, etc.) and mathematical. The mathematic tags are directly linked to the FIM program—as the students take the Progress Monitoring Tests and learn required math skills, they receive math achievement tags. When a student demonstrates a behavior that the teacher feels is exemplary, a non-cognitive tag is rewarded to that student. These tags are approximately 1″x2.75″ and hung on a 2 inch key-ring that students can attach to their backpacks. There are different Brag Tags awarded for each grade level (K-8). The students can choose to keep adding on to this ring throughout all these grades and collect all of the fun designs available. Add more fun and gamification to the classroom by ordering your Brag Tags today!