elementary education

A guide for grade K-2 teachers on integrating the CCSS for English language arts into their instruction, curriculum assessment, and intervention practices, and includes a model on how to use CCSS with Professional Learning Communities at Work.

An instructional guide for Kate DiCamillo's novel "Because of Winn-Dixie" that provides close reading tasks, text-based vocabulary practice, cross-curricular activities, text-dependent questions, reader response writing prompts, and more.

Contains activities parents and teachers can use to introduce or reinforce lessons children should learn in first grade, covering language arts, mathematics, social students and science, health and safety, art, and critical thinking.

"[The authors] take on teachers' doubts and concerns about book clubs, and build a . . . case for their value in every classroom. They provide the nuts and bolts for creating and managing successful books clubs"--Provided by publisher.

A teacher's guide to developing powerful readers and writers of informational text through project-based instruction.

"Strategies to help teachers examine their own educational spaces, start the school year in culturally relevent ways, build reciprocal relationships with families and communities, and teach within standards and testing mandates while challenging unjust systems"--Amazon.

An exciting student-driven, project-based interdisciplinary program that combines STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) with English Language Arts. In Story Design lessons, Grades K-8 students read and understand grade-level literature; identify conflicts in a literary text; identify a problem in the text that could have a practical, physical, or technological solution; design and propose a solution incorporating STEM topics; construct, test, and improve a prototype of their solution; communicate their solution to the classroom.

Presents the true story of Shannen Koostachin and the people of Attawapiskat First Nation, a Cree community in Northern Ontario, who have been fighting for a new school since 1979 when a fuel spill contaminated their original school building.

A phonics comic in which Brad Benson, small, unlucky, and often the target of bullies, gets a little help from his dog Duke who is accidently transformed into Fang by a formula invented by a mad veterinarian.

A phonics comic in which the Sparkplugs, feeling that they do not fit in with other robot families, move to Earth when they believe they have finally found there place in the universe.