study and teaching (primary)

Explains how teachers can use snapshots and cameras to supplement their literacy teaching and help their students learn in new ways while building classroom- and school-wide communities.

Explains the benefits of differentiated instruction; and offers teaching and assessment strategies aimed at helping children in prekindergarten through second grade improve mathematical skills and better understand measurement concepts.

The story in verse of Penny Penguin's birthday party introduces and illustrates number concepts.

Outlines the classroom conditions needed for successful writing instruction with English language learners and offers sixty-eight classroom-tested lessons for kindergarten through sixth grade that will help students at all levels of language acquisition make connections, ask questions, visualize, infer, determine importance, monitor meaning and comprehension, and use fix-up strategies.

Provides guidance in teaching writing at the K-2 level, discussing daily writing workshops, the writing process, content, evaluation, and parent education. Includes lessons and activities.

Contains more than fifty reproducible graphic organizers that feature spacial and visual modifications and flexible directions for children who have special needs, and includes organizers designed to help with time management, scheduling, classroom routines, reading, and other topics.

Contains more than three hundred daily warm-up activities designed to help fourth grade students improve their math skills, and includes answer keys.