Primary and middle schools

Combining practical, student-centered activities with an annotated bibliography of more than 160 children's books, this guide models ways for classroom teachers to teach geography through children's literature.

The purpose of this book is to give media specialists, teachers and/or teacher helpers and parents a guide to using beginning chapter books to encourage first and second graders to read independently.

Integrate language arts with science, social studies, and mathematics.

Keep students happily focused on learning during two of the most exciting holidays of the year for the elementary classroom-Halloween and Valentine's Day.

Using portfolios is a great way to build skills, reinforce learning, communicate achievements, and prepare students for future challenges.

Each of these volumes explores five popular genres and shows how they can be used to promote learning in the library and classroom.

Lead children to literacy and learning along the garden path with books and activities designed to spark interest and imagination.

Have your students experience the thrill of life and growth through gardening, book-sharing, and other activities.

Literature and educational books about Native Americans frequently present stereotypical images or depict the people as they existed hundreds of years ago.

Introduce elementary children to six areas of the world-Japan, Italy, Hawaii, Australia, Kenya, and Brazil.

The sounds of an anaconda slithering along the steamy jungle floor in search of prey; a lion's breath rippling through the dry savannah grass as it crouches, waiting to spring; the frantic thrashing of a seal pup's tail as it recoils from the vicious attack of a tiger shark-these are part of the natural drama of the animal world and daily events when deadly predators come face to face with their prey.

Take advantage of the appeal and power of Caldecott award literature to extend and promote learning across the curriculum.

Getting parents to participate in their child's education is easy with these take-home reproducibles!

Use this activity-centered, literature-based approach to get students excited about social studies.

Featuring fiction, food, and fun, this unique approach motivates young people to read and builds their comprehension skills while extending their learning across the curriculum.

Use children's literature as a springboard to successful mathematical literacy.

This second volume delivers completely new recipes and activities that have all been kid-tested and teacher-approved.

Book clubs, literature circles, and reading groups are great ways to promote literacy and books to young readers.

This practical handbook provides more than 30 ready-to-use lesson plans that connect picture books to the national language arts standards set forth by NCTE and IRA.

This text reviews both similarities and unique cultural, linguistic, and script differences of Chinese relative to alphabetic reading, and even across Chinese regions.

Now you can implement the ideas and research findings of Jean Casey's Early Literacy to help students become successful readers and writers.

The third and final book in Stanley's three-volume group for all grade levels, this work simplifies teaching the research process with step-by-step instructions that are adaptable and comprehensive, geared especially for your youngest students.

The wide array of possibilities for interactive distance learning in today's schools can be daunting.

Give students exciting learning opportunities across the curriculum while teaching them important information skills!

Encourage elementary and middle school readers to read quality titles pertaining to subjects from across the curriculum.

Tap into the budding investigators within youngsters and help them connect to the incredible array of social studies knowledge and resources on the Internet.

Turn kids onto science with these exciting Internet learning adventures.

"e;Walk into any middle school youth group and you'll hear the same thing-herds of students talking!

Many people run scared from the middle school youth room.

Choose the children's language course trusted by other moms and dads.

Bill Laar and Jackie Holderness' Reclaiming the Curriculum examines the nature of a broad-ranging, content-rich primary school curriculum and presents case studies that exemplify how it can be effectively delivered.

In Teaching on a Shoestring: An A to Z of everyday objects to enthuse and engage children and extend learning in the early years, Russell Grigg and Helen Lewis explore the educational value of familiar objects and suggest practical activities to help develop young learners' cross-curricular skills.

Have no fear, the substitute is here!

Mary Presson Roberts remembers her first year of teaching fourteen years ago and the less than positive experience she had to overcome as she struggled alone to become the dedicated and excellent teacher she is today.

From the editors of The Teacher's Calendar and Chase's Calendar of Events comes an indispensable classroom resource for educators of grades K-8.

Math Workshop for fifth grade provides complete small-group math instruction for these important topics:-expressions-exponents-operations with decimals and fractions-volume-the coordinate planeSimple and easy-to-use, this resource for fifth grade math teachers complements any curriculum.

Math Workshop for fourth grade provides complete small-group math instruction for these important topics:-factors and multiples-multiplication and division strategies-decimals-anglesSimple and easy-to-use, this resource for fourth grade teachers complements any curriculum.

Math Workshop for third grade provides complete small-group math instruction for these important topics:-multiplication-division-fractions-area-quadrilateralsSimple and easy-to-use, this teacher resource for third grade math teachers complements any curriculum.

Math Workshop for second grade provides complete small-group math instruction for these important topics:-arrays-skip counting-addition and subtraction strategies-measuring lengthSimple and easy-to-use, this teacher resource for second grade math teachers complements any curriculum.

Math Workshop for first grade provides complete small-group math instruction for these important topics:-addition concepts-time-composing shapes-making tenSimple and easy-to-use, this teacher resource for first grade teachers complements any curriculum.

Make lesson planning easier with Guided Reading: Visualize for fifth and sixth grades.

The Guided Reading: Visualize resource book for third and fourth grades features 36 readers-six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers.

Guided Reading: Visualize for first and second grades enhances language arts lesson plans with 36 readers-six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers.

Guided Reading: Infer for first and second grades enhances lesson plans with six sets each of six nonfiction readers.

Enhance lesson plans with Guided Reading: Summarize for fifth and sixth grades.

Guided Reading: Summarize for third and fourth grades features 36 readers-six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers.

Guided Reading: Summarize for first and second grades enhances language arts lesson plans with 36 readers-six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers.

Add an interesting twist to your language arts lesson plans with Guided Reading: Question for fifth and sixth grades.