aids and devices

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.

Presents one hundred questions designed to get students in grades 3-6 thinking and writing about the books they have just finished reading, including questions on character, setting, plot, style, genre, vocabulary, and personal connections.

"Children's Creative Response to Conflict." On t.p.: A handbook on creative approaches to living and problem solving for children.

". . . readers learn about the importance of keeping track and showcasing their work through online portfolios. Activities throughout the book prompt students to think more deeply, be creative, share information and resources, and grow their knowledge"--Provided by publisher.

Contains a comprehensive guide intended to assist educators in designing and implementing a portfolio that effectively collects and documents important data relative to the administration of the school.

"Fluency expert Timothy V. Rasinski teams up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, a veteran fifth grade teacher, to help teachers . . . weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction. The book is packed with . . . text and tools, an assessment scale, and . . . ready-to-use lessons including text phrasing and tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more! Given the importance of fluency and its . . . relationship to comprehension and word recognition the potential is high for improving students overall reading achievement, and their performance in other content areas"--Amazon.com.

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

Provides teachers with visualization strategies, focusing on how to teach students to picture scenes, events, setting, characters, and ideas.

A teacher's guide to the art of reading aloud that features a list of picture books along with step-by-step lessons, tips, and links to an online resource bank that contains videos, graphic organizers, and downloadables for students.