elementary education

Presents the idea of the Basic School, identifying workable reform practices based on the four priorities of community, curriculum coherence, climate, and character.

Contains a collection of innovative ways to publish and display students' writing for grades three through six and includes planning sheets and assessments.

Provides lessons to improve student writing skills, focusing on writing narratives, informative texts, and opinion pieces, loving language, word play and vocabulary, writing fiction pieces, and writing research-based nonfiction.

Offers background information, primary sources, activities, and other resources designed to help students in grades five and up build reading and writing skills while learning how a bill becomes a law in the United States.

Provides center-piece activities for reader promotion programs and celebratory events based on popular children's series.