language arts (elementary)

Explains a trait-based teaching strategy to help students in third through fifth grade improve their writing skills, providing examples of student writing, group model lessons, instructions for interactive whiteboard activities, and tips for conferences. Includes a CD-ROM with interactive PDFs.

Provides an explanation of the trait model writing program, and includes assessment tools and teaching materials, including forty-eight activities with reproducible pages and twenty-four lesson plans.

Presents a comprehensive manual for teachers in grades three through six who work with students whose primary language is not English and offers advice and strategies for developing reading and writing skills through extensive dialogue in whole-class and small-group settings.

Provides reproducible cross-curriculum activities for teaching the biography genre in grades four through six, including such projects as "awesome author" trading cards, birth certificates, book reviews, and poetry anthologies, and includes self-check sheets and rubrics.

A collection of over 300 journal activities for beginning writers and over 1,000 other activities for teachers to introduce in the classroom, including puzzles, books to read, contests, and crafts.

Provides sixty-two language arts activities for kindergarten through sixth grade designed to introduce students to reading strategies, appeal to a range of learning styles and skill levels, and help students retain what they have learned.

Explores synonyms by discussing the different terms people around the country use for various things, such as chips and fries, frankfurters and hot dogs, and sofas and couches.

Offers teachers practical strategies to help them best support students while meeting curricular mandates, addressing four proven frameworks for learning and their applications in the classroom.