Robb, Laura

A handbook designed to help students become better readers, featuring lessons that describe a step-by-step process to read different kinds of material, each with a list of goals, a preview checklist, and a reading and re-reading strategy; and including focus lessons, elements mini-lessons, and a reader's almanac.

Presents lessons teachers may use to help their students appreciate and write nonfiction, based on interviews the author conducted with contemporary nonfiction authors about their writing practices.

Pigs, piglets, hogs, swine, sows, and boars inspired these hilarious poems by a variety of poets.

A handbook designed to help students become better readers, featuring lessons that describe a step-by-step process to read different kinds of material, each with a list of goals, a preview checklist, and a reading and re-reading strategy; and including focus lessons, elements mini-lessons, and a reader's almanac.