elementary education

Describes effective discipline strategies for kindergarten through twelfth grade teachers, discussing bullies, parents, guidelines, consequences, communication, and other related topics.

Presents three comic stories for early readers that help to develop phonics skills.

Provides graphic organizer templates, model lessons, and samples of students' work designed to help teachers improve their students' thinking processes.

Presents games, hands-on activities, projects, and reading ideas based on the poetry of Shel Silverstein and designed to help children learn syllabication, root words and suffixes, contractions, categorization, and oral reading.

Presents step-by-step instructions for creating over 135 art projects from countries around the world, with background information on the culture and history of each country featured.

Peek-a-boo Penguin counts things around his house in groups from 1 to 10 and learn which groups have one more or one less than others.

Discusses the way teachers create student involvement.

With her father returning to college and her mother working full time, Ramona muddles through the hard times at school and home and proves to be big enough for her family to depend on. Newbery Honor 1982.

Contains a variety of social studies activities, each with lists of objectives and materials, and includes suggestions for expanding selected activities into larger projects.