elementary education

A collection of essays that examine the many issues surrounding elementary education and offer practical strategies to deal with the challenges associated with the topic.

Contains strategies to help teachers integrate social and economical learning into the kindergarten through eighth-grade classroom including effective approaches to rules and discipline as well as problem-solving techniques.

Offers teachers resources, assessments, check lists, and activities designed to help them prepare students for kindergarten and determine which skill areas they need further help in.

Contains dozens of ideas designed to help students in kindergarten, first, and second grade build basic skills in reading, writing, math, and more.

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.