study and teaching (primary)

Presents fifty theme-based, one-hour programs for children in grades one through three that use crafts, activities, and storytelling to improve reading and comprehension skills.

Explains how writing can be used to help children understand basic mathematics concepts, identifies four types of student writing assignments that can be used, and offers teachers tips and suggestions for integrating writing into math curriculum.

Explains to primary teachers how to connect mathematics with the ideas in children's books, presents classroom tested ideas for using children's literature in mathematical problem solving, and includes 10 classroom lessons.

Provides a collection of lessons and activities for teaching mathematics using children's literature for kindergarten and first grade and includes blackline masters, references, and index.

Presents a collection of literature-based activities for students in kindergarten through grade two; matching picture books with twenty curriculum themes in the areas of science, social studies, art, literature, and math; featuring summaries of fourteen recommended books; and including profiles of twenty-five authors.

An annotated bibliography of more than 350 books appropriate for primary grade-level students, which encourage phonological awareness; suggests activities to use with the texts and groups the books into categories such as "alliterative texts, " "rhyming texts, " and "song texts.".

Explains how kindergarten and primary school teachers can teach children phonological awareness in their classrooms by using stories, songs, and games.

A practical guide that shows parents how to teach the basic skills of counting, addition, subtraction, fractions, and word problems to their first and second-graders.