Polette, Nancy

Presents annotated listings of picture books on a wide variety of topics and discusses how they can be used to introduce middle school students to novels on related subject matters. Includes discussion questions.

Offers ideas for improving abstract thinking skills using fairy tales and fantasy designed for the first through sixth-grade classroom, and includes exercises and activity suggestions in a reproducible format.

A hungry cat eats everyone he sees, until he swallows the little old woman who owns him and she takes steps to put a stop to his gluttony.

An introduction to the life of Mae Jemison, engineer, physician, and astronaut.

Harold's imagination takes him on an adventurous romp through the alphabet with a number of familiar storybook characters.

Contains instructions for one hundred kinesthetic activities which use nonfiction materials and promote learning in students in fourth through eighth grade, covering science, mathematics, geometry, and U.S. history.

Familiar tales from the basis for developing fluency, flexibility, problem-solving, forecasting and decision-making skills while developing a love of literature.

An activity book designed to stimulate reading, writing, thinking and research on the part of the elementary and middle school students.