techniques and strategies for successful instruction in K-8 classrooms
Booth, David
1998
Describes effective strategies for teaching reading to elementary and middle school students, discussing common reading problems, group work, conferences, and various teaching tools.
A long, dry spell prompts Matthew's grandfather to recall the events of the 1930s when he and his wife hung on to the family farm through the terrible years of the great drought and a plague of grasshoppers.