Chapman, Carolyn

A teacher's guide to creating a lesson plan using the national standards.

Offers advice and strategies for teachers in all subject areas on how to help students of varying abilities become fluent readers, explaining how to create a classroom environment that promotes learning, providing tools for diagnosing students, detailing instructional models, and discussing vocabulary, phonics, and comprehension.

Reviews the theory of multiple intelligences and offers guidelines for designing centers and projects in the classroom that address the unique learning styles of individual students.

Explains Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, and demonstrates a variety of ways to understand and implement the theory in the classroom, featuring lesson examples for each intelligence, including verbal/linguistic, musical/rhythmic, logical/mathematical, visual/spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal, and intrapersonal.