education (elementary)

Explains how to use the skillstreaming approach to teach prosocial skills to elementary students, covering effective arrangements, teaching procedures, refining skill use, teaching for skill generalization, managing problems, and other related topics and including skill outlines and homework reports.

Examines the philosophies and practices of the American education system, arguing that low student test scores result from a mistaken emphasis at the elementary level on context-free reading skills and strategies rather than content-rich curricula that give students knowledge about the world.

Provides guidance for teachers on helping ESL students succeed, discussing theory and presenting practical teaching strategies, and includes scenarios from real classrooms, an overview of various types of ESL programs in the U.S., and a glossary of ESL terminology.

Presents learning strategies and activities designed to help students with special needs improve their study skills. Includes more than 150 reproducible activity sheets to promote learning and a trial version of the 3S-SE Assessment program.

Sarah Sentilles chronicles the experiences she had while teaching first grade in a rundown elementary school in Compton, California, one of the toughest cities in America.

Explains how parents and teachers can detect reading problems in grade-school boys and offers various strategies for helping them overcome their difficulties and become proficient readers.

She Say, He Say reveals the development of fifth grade urban girls' voices through their own writing in the class room. This book underscores the importance of including all of the girls' voices into the curriculum where their voices can be nurtured, cultured and responded to in potentially productive ways.

Account of an unconventional experiment in education.