language arts (elementary)

Presents nearly seventy activity plans designed for elementary language arts classes and linked to specific published stories.

Photographs and simple text written in both English and Spanish describes words and phrases and their meanings in different parts of the country or world.

Presents a collection of fifty literacy strategies for the multicultural classroom that addresses all aspects of language arts, reading, writing, speaking, and listening, as well as the math, science, and social studies disciplines.

Offers advice to educators on how to teach revision strategies to students, and to include discussion of revision in writing workshops, explaining how to change students' concept of revision as punishment or as editing to a process that involves changing the meaning, content, structure, or style of a piece of writing.

Provides instructions and reproducible pages for more than eighty-five leveled activities appropriate for kindergarten through third grade literacy centers.

Includes specific strategies for elementary teachers that provides instruction on how to make the writing process in the classroom less problematic.

Presents a comprehensive guide for teachers to help develop literacy centers for the kindergarten through third-grade classroom and contains ideas for organizing and implementing a center, establishing a set of goals, management strategies, and activity plans.

Provides teachers with short lessons that teach editing, spelling, grammar, punctuation, and other writing skills. Each three-day lesson cycle can be inserted into any writing program and includes modeling, guided practice, and independent practice as well as assessments, templates, and extension activities.