elementary education

Provides tools for teaching five Gary Paulsen novels--"Hatchet," "Dogsong," "Woodsong," "The River," and "Brian's Winter"--in grades five and up, including writing prompts, comprehension and discussion questions, vocabulary activities, individual and group projects, and graphic organizers.

Introduces the theory of multiple intelligences, summarizes each of the intelligences, and examines reasons and methods for teaching them, and features over three hundred activities, including choices for all eight intelligences, grouped in the curriculum areas of language arts, science, math, social studies, and the arts.

Spiral binding. Presents activities that link social studies with children's fiction.

Demonstrates to elementary school teachers how they can teach technology and incorporate it into other areas of the curriculum. The book is made up of twenty-four planned and tested work units that can be adapted to any grade level.

Supplemental guide to classroom education to help third graders progress in school and be effective in society.

Draws upon a qualitative study of a group of first-grade teachers to describe the processes teachers use to support children in ways that move them from pre-word readers into word reading and then fluency.

Contains over one hundred read-aloud poems for children to help them improve their phonetic skills, focusing on repeated, individual language sounds--consonants, initial blends, and short and long vowels--and providing additional activities for each poem and tips to read poetry aloud.

Contains one hundred plans for group activities designed to help build literacy skills in children ages three and up, based on the "Between the Lions" television series, each with vocabulary words, a list of materials, and book suggestions.

A collection of activity worksheets for those entering the first grade that contains 100 vocabulary words they need to know.