elementary education

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.

Level E-F Document-Based Questions.

A collection of over 300 songs, poems, and fingerplays organized by seasons, curriculum areas, and early childhood themes for the preschool and kindergarten classroom that includes a number of holidays, basic concepts in math, literacy, and science, and thematic topics such as weather and animals.

A comparative study of what works in elementary education in the U.S., Japan, Taiwan and China.