aids and devices

Presents five audio CDs containing over eighty educational songs for children in preschool through second grade, covering the alphabet, seasonal topics, direction following, math, and concepts such as opposites and the five senses, and provides a text with lyrics, related activities, and teaching ideas.

A guide to organizing and managing an effective reading workshop that provides teachers with suggestions and strategies for incorporating reading workshops into their curriculum.

Provides strategies for assessing students' reading comprehension, including four fiction and nonfiction reading passages for each grade level from first through eighth grade and rubrics for each. Includes CD-ROM.

Provides rubrics, record-keeping worksheets, reproducible testing mini-books, and other assessment tools to monitor the progress of kindergarten through second grade students in oral fluency, word recognition, print conventions, comprehension, decoding, writing, and more.

A comprehensive guide that introduces the basic techniques of PowerPoint for teachers in all grade levels, offering suggestions for incorporating it into the classroom.

Contains over 200 ways to wake up students and make learning an adventure.

A practical guide for librarians to developing and improving students' visual literacy. Contains activities and teaching strategies.

A rhyming picture book featuring forest animals as they take a trip to the library and learn proper library skills.

"Offers a step-by-step guide for implementing a student-centered literature program that promotes critical thinking and literary understanding through the study of novels and other texts"--Back cover.