study and teaching (primary)

"Reinforce literacy skills and can be used with any social studies topic-from geography and map skills to citizenship, government, national holidays, and more." -- (p.4) of cover.

Describes observation procedures teachers may use to monitor the progress of young children who are learning to read and write, or who are having temporary difficulties with literacy learning.

Presents information on a variety of topics related to learning to write, including various kinds of writing, parts of speech, sentence structure, and punctuation.

Contains suggestions for using ninety children's books and stretching them in new ways to enhance the learning process for students in primary grades.

Presents more than fifty kid-tested activities designed to teach children about basic scientific principles and concepts.

Describes five practices for productive mathematics discussions, including anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting.

Interactive stories teach grammar, usage, and mechanics in a writing context, and also teach vocabulary and reading comprehension; includes pre-writing and writing activities.

Provides an explanation of the trait model writing program, and includes assessment tools and teaching materials, including forty-eight activities with reproducible pages and twenty-four lesson plans.