reading (elementary)

Provides strategies for integrating fitness into literacy lessons and includes children's literature and web sites about health and well being, suggested activities, and sample handouts.

Along with Frankie and his friends, kids take field trips to the beach and zoo, read 50 illustrated stories from 8 interactive books and discover 19 activities, which teach geography, science, early math, reading comprehension and music.

"Novel units provide teachers with new ways to teach reading, thinking, writing, and the love of literature.".

Suggests activities to be used in the classroom to accompany the reading of Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.