interdisciplinary approach in education

Presents fifty reproducible story prompts for students in grades two through four, each with an illustration and lines for writing.

Explains the difference between traditional fact teaching and concept-based instruction, which leads to deeper thinking and lasting understanding, and provides examples of concept-based units, also discussing local, state, and national standards.

Provides guidance for social studies teachers in planning, instruction, and assessment that links social studies with literacy, and features vignettes from real classrooms.

Demonstrates that journals are valuable in school for teaching language arts, writing, and critical thinking.

Argues that public schools should take religion seriously and understand the role it plays in the kindergarten through twelfth grade curriculum and explains how religion can be incorporated into the classroom without promoting or practicing any specific religious beliefs and practices.

Offers teachers a wide range of practical, hands-on strategies for using the arts to teach students of all levels basic and advanced literacy skills.