study and teaching (primary)

Presents more than fifty kid-tested activities designed to teach children about basic scientific principles and concepts.

Describes five practices for productive mathematics discussions, including anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting.

Interactive stories teach grammar, usage, and mechanics in a writing context, and also teach vocabulary and reading comprehension; includes pre-writing and writing activities.

Provides an explanation of the trait model writing program, and includes assessment tools and teaching materials, including forty-eight activities with reproducible pages and twenty-four lesson plans.

Explains how teachers can use snapshots and cameras to supplement their literacy teaching and help their students learn in new ways while building classroom- and school-wide communities.

Explains the benefits of differentiated instruction; and offers teaching and assessment strategies aimed at helping children in prekindergarten through second grade improve mathematical skills and better understand measurement concepts.

The story in verse of Penny Penguin's birthday party introduces and illustrates number concepts.

Outlines the classroom conditions needed for successful writing instruction with English language learners and offers sixty-eight classroom-tested lessons for kindergarten through sixth grade that will help students at all levels of language acquisition make connections, ask questions, visualize, infer, determine importance, monitor meaning and comprehension, and use fix-up strategies.