Presents a framework for developing and implementing a curriculum based on national or state standards, discussing the history of the standards movement and whether standards are necessary, looking at what is known about how learning happens.
A guide to using picture books to help students in grades three through five master language arts skills that includes lists of appropriate titles, reproducible worksheets, writing activities, reading-based activities, and more.
Contains more than thirty ready-to-use lesson plans for primary school teachers that connect picture books to the national language arts standards of the NCTE and IRA.
Describes twenty-first century library standards, provides examples of research units for libraries, and focuses on the connections between the library media specialist and the classroom teacher to better encourage beginning readers into utilizing public and school libraries.
