curriculum planning

Examines the role of librarians in education, focusing on school library media specialists, and describes howlearning specialists can update school approaches to learning by promoting collaboration between librarians and the teaching staff, as well as developing digital collections.

Offers strategies for increasing reading comprehension in elementary school students.

Supplementary guide to first grade classroom education that goes from nursery rhymes to natural science and includes activities from recipes to art projects.

A curriculum for teaching primary writing, featuring seven units of study, each with strategies, lesson plans, and instructional tools, and including an overview of the primary writing workshop, advice on addressing specific writing issues, and resources on CD-ROM.

Contains stories, poems, activities, vocabulary words, basic historical and geographical facts, and simple mathematical and scientific concepts designed to help kindergartners prepare for a lifetime of learning.

Presents a framework for creating schools that offer more flexible, creative learning environments that are attuned to diversity, featuring a series of steps for gathering information about students and designing and planning individualized instructional activities, and including ideas, tools, and case studies.

Presents unit plans for school projects that encourage collaboration between teachers and media specialists, all of which have won the Gale/"Library Media Connection" TEAMS Award for their positive impact on student learning and achievement.