"[Readers are invited to take a poetry walk with Stella and her class, where] poetry is part of every day. It's in kids' journals and in their voices, on the wall and in the hall. Poetry tumbles in an avalanche from Tineka's desk, roars out a tornado-cancelled field trip, and even keeps Filipe up at night"--Back cover.
Contains twenty instant word study packets, each with a poem, companion word sort, ad practice pages, designed to build first and second grade students' phonics and fluency skills.
Presents ideas for teaching children in grades K-3 phonics, spelling, and language conventions through the creation of word walls; suggestions include an ABC wall, chunking wall, words-we-know wall, and help wall.
Presents strategies for solving twenty difficult writing problems for the second to sixth-grade classroom including time management and organization, motivation, the writing process and editing, and generating writing topics.
