aids and devices

Presents information on the Dewey decimal system, with the story of Marion Hedgehog, who during Mr. Owens career day class, wants to be a librarian. Includes a story and a second volume of Dewey decimal worksheet exercises.

Describes a series of mini-lessons and activities designed to introduce vocabulary learning strategies to students in grades four through eight, each with photographs, samples of student work, and classroom dialogues.

Contains lesson plans, material lists, assessment tools, extension ideas, and reproducible pages for inexpensive and creative units for teaching children in kindergarten through fifth grade about the library.

Contains the scripts for five funny plays based on traditional fairy tales, featuring character roles written at a variety of reading levels, and includes related writing activities, book links, and graphic organizers.

Presents learning activities based on the Magic Tree House series of books in which a brother and sister travel to different times in the past; grouped in clusters of four related titles, each with story summaries, pre- and post-reading activities, research guides, reproducible pages, and resources.

Presents a collection of twenty-five reproducible writing lessons for the second to fourth-grade classroom that helps to develop sentence fluency, organization, and various other stages of the writing process.

Provides primary and middle school teachers with the resources and activities needed to teach their students the fundamentals of mathematics.

Build reading and writing skills: Prepare students for state tests.

Provides teachers with a practical approach to balancing whole-group and individual instruction.