education, elementary

Contains a practical guide for the parents of a gifted child including how to be an advocate for the rights of gifted children, connecting with other parents of gifted children, and knowing what programs exist for the gifted.

Three stories presented in comic-book format and designed to be read phonetically, featuring Penny Star, who solves fashion-related mysteries.

Sara, a young girl whose family is full of monsters and whose house is full of ghosts, struggles making friends at school because of her spooky home life--but soon she realizes she already has the best friends in the world.

An introduction to how education has changed in the past one hundred years, discussing how buildings and classrooms, books and lessons, recess and after school activities, and ways of getting to school are different.

Uses children's literature to explain the fundamentals of science. Each unit summarizes a children's story to help children understand the concepts, and includes activities that relate to both the story and the concepts being taught.

Presents ten thematic units, and over twenty mini-units, that may be used to teach science concepts in elementary classrooms, each with a related list of literature selections, as well as activities, experiments, and projects that integrate skills from other areas of the curriculum.

Presents several real-world activities parents can use to help their children's development in math.

Wendy Kopp discusses how she created Teach for America, a program which sends talented young teachers to the neediest urban areas in the United States to educate disadvantaged children.

An annotated bibliography of more than 350 books appropriate for primary grade-level students, which encourage phonological awareness; suggests activities to use with the texts and groups the books into categories such as "alliterative texts, " "rhyming texts, " and "song texts.".