education, elementary

A comprehensive guide to Morning Meetings that explains how K-8 educators can implement Morning Meetings in their own classrooms to help build community, increase students' confidence, and improve children's reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills.

Sixty-seven detailed lessons with over 150 reproducible multicultural activities for the kindergarten through third-grade classroom that helps children develop an understanding of race, gender, nationality, ethnicity, and language.

Offers library media specialists and educators guidelines, models, and strategies for using Web 2.0.

Presents the diary of twelve-year-old Latoya Hunter as she goes through her first year of junior high school in the Bronx.

Explains how teachers can use data in the elementary classroom to improve student learning, with information on how teachers can choose and analyze the best data for their lessons, interpret data, incorporate it into every subject, and other related topics.

Introduces school through photographs and brief text that uses one word relating to school for each letter of the alphabet.

Contains discussion questions, vocabulary builders, writings prompts, and literature response activities designed to help teachers use Newbery books in their curriculum.