language arts (elementary)

A mouse relates his role in the achievements of Benjamin Franklin. It's Amos who holds the kite together, uncovers the spiciest news for the Philadelphia Gazette, and ghostwrites the Declaration of Independence.

A little boy wishes so much he could whistle.

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.

Shares teaching practices, lessons, and classroom management techniques to encourage student success, focusing on third- through sixth-grade classrooms, and discussing ways to adapt lessons with frameworks to combine reading and writing practices in a workshop format. Includes a CD-ROM with a study guide, mentor texts, graphic organizers, templates, and other resources.

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.

Shows teachers how to weave technology throughout the curriculum to get students to be enthusiastic about writing, and includes selecting digital tools, differentiating instruction to meet individual needs, and more.

The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the cake she makes from it.