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Provides a step-by-step guide to implementing reading instruction in the classroom, and contains thirty reproducible short texts along with assessments, reading strategies, and literacy instruction.

Provides ten lessons that look at literature, art, and music of the 2000s in the United States.

"[Text, illustrations] and critical-thinking questions engage young readers in learning about the tools teachers use to serve their communities"--Publisher.

Contains templates, instructions, and reproducible pages for easy-to-make projects designed to help students in grades four through eight learn about history.

Contains instructions and patterns for a variety of easy-to-make projects designed to teach students in grades four through eight about Colonial America.

Contains reproductions of a selection of primary source documents from the Civil War era, each with background information and teaching suggestions.

Presents a series of nonfiction writing prompts for the lower elementary classroom designed to complement math instruction, and contains prompts for number sense, algebra and function, measurement and geometry, statistics, data analysis, probability, and reasoning.

Presents a selection of reproducible primary source documents designed to spark students' interest in historical events related to the Westward Movement in America, and includes background information, teaching tips, and discussion questions.

A collection of reproducible primary source documents that may be used to teach students in grades four through eight about explorers from before Columbus through the establishment of the American colonies. Includes teaching notes.

Provides primary sources and activities designed to teach fourth through eighth graders about the civil rights movement.