elementary education

Contains seven units of study that provide teachers with lessons and techniques for helping children in first grade develop the ability to decode and understand a variety of texts.

Text and illustrations explore children's schools around the world, examining how they are different.

A guide for teachers and parents of children in grades 3 through 6 that offers suggestions for increasing children's interest in informational books about a wide variety of topics.

Describes a collaborative project in which six K-5 teachers and their students built a curriculum based on student inquiry, studying such topics as Christopher Columbus, personal and family history, slavery, human rights, space, and nature.

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.

Contains three four-week, cross-curricular thematic units about the fall season for students in kindergarten through third grade, based on picture books by Eric Carle, Lois Ehlert, Tomie dePaola, Eve Bunting, and many others.

Presents three short stories featuring the Fearless Four designed to help young readers develop strong reading skills.

Shares a four-step assessment protocol--collect, analyze, synthesize, and develop--in order to improve the teaching and learning process in kindergarten through second grade classrooms.

Sixth grade teacher Donalyn Miller describes the instructional approach she uses to turn children into readers, based on a combination of individual choice, a program of independent reading, a collection of high-interest books, and appropriate and authentic reading behavior modeling.

Shows teachers how to teach reading through the power of story which deepens literacy learning and fosters true engagement in students. Also explains ways of building a classroom library reflecting the diversity of our society through rich, purposeful, and varied texts found in multigenre and multimodal stories from children's and young adult literature, poetry, songs, and multimedia.