teaching

Contains templates, instructions, and reproducible pages for easy-to-make projects designed to help students in grades four through eight learn about history.

Contains instructions and patterns for a variety of easy-to-make projects designed to teach students in grades four through eight about Colonial America.

Contains reproductions of a selection of primary source documents from the Civil War era, each with background information and teaching suggestions.

[Presents ideas for teachers on how to create] a passionate reading environment ... Pernille opens up about her own trials and errors as a teacher and what she's learned along the way. She also shares a wide variety of practical tools ... [for teachers] including a reader profile sheet, conferring sheet, classroom library letter to parents [and more]"--Provided by publisher.

Describes a variety of strategies educators can use to change the pace, level, or type of instruction in order to reach and teach all learners.

Draws on fifteen years of research and more than eight hundred meta-analyses to examine the factors that influence achievement in school-aged students.

Presents a series of nonfiction writing prompts for the lower elementary classroom designed to complement math instruction, and contains prompts for number sense, algebra and function, measurement and geometry, statistics, data analysis, probability, and reasoning.

Presents a selection of reproducible primary source documents designed to spark students' interest in historical events related to the Westward Movement in America, and includes background information, teaching tips, and discussion questions.

A collection of reproducible primary source documents that may be used to teach students in grades four through eight about explorers from before Columbus through the establishment of the American colonies. Includes teaching notes.

Provides primary sources and activities designed to teach fourth through eighth graders about the civil rights movement.