teaching

Offers strategies to help teachers educate students and parents on the importance of community and encourage them to embrace the values that motivate progressive social change.

Explains to teachers how to use classroom experience as research, providing twenty-eight project examples from teachers of K-college and covering such topics as ethical considerations, students as research partners, and the role of administrators.

Offers new teachers an overview of the many issues they weren't introduced to in college courses, including information on classroom management, effective classroom strategies, classroom management, and other related topics.

Presents over two hundred annotations of new and classic books in addition to thirty-two trait-focused lessons based upon organization, sentence fluency, voice, presentation, word choice, and ideas.

Presents an annotated bibliography of children's picture books, grouped according to the traits of the "Six-Trait Writing" analytical assessment model, including ideas and content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions, and features a selection of teaching activities and lessons.

Presents second-grade lessons and activities to use in conjunction with fifty books such as Jan Brett's "Town Mouse, Country Mouse" and Judi Barrett's "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," grouped by pedagogical theme; includes reproducibles; and shows several mini-lessons in action.

Presents lessons for first grade students based on fifty favorite picture books, each with related activities designed to improve skills in word recognition, vocabulary, number sense, and comprehension; grouped by theme.

Contains fifty reproducible activity sheets for individual reading practice, designed for students in grades three through six, and includes tips on managing classroom literacy centers.

Presents thirty seventh- through ninth-grade history lesson plans and reproducible activities for use with the Library of Congress American Memory Collections Web site.

Ron Clark shares fifty-five ideas that can help educators uncover the potential in every student.