teaching

Contains lesson plans, material lists, assessment tools, extension ideas, and reproducible pages for inexpensive and creative units for teaching children in kindergarten through fifth grade about the library.

Contains the scripts for five funny plays based on traditional fairy tales, featuring character roles written at a variety of reading levels, and includes related writing activities, book links, and graphic organizers.

Presents learning activities based on the Magic Tree House series of books in which a brother and sister travel to different times in the past; grouped in clusters of four related titles, each with story summaries, pre- and post-reading activities, research guides, reproducible pages, and resources.

Presents a collection of twenty-five reproducible writing lessons for the second to fourth-grade classroom that helps to develop sentence fluency, organization, and various other stages of the writing process.

Provides primary and middle school teachers with the resources and activities needed to teach their students the fundamentals of mathematics.

Discusses the use of leveled texts in kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms, examines the "text base" needed for effective language literacy instruction, provides guidelines for creating a high-quality leveled book collection and matching books to readers, and explains how to analyze and level books.

Erin Gruwell, instructor of the "unteachable" Long Beach, California, high school students who came to be known as the Freedom Writers, describes the elements of her teaching method and philosophy and presents over fifty lessons and activities along with related excerpts from Freedom Writer journals.

Discusses possible changes for the way teaching is done, exploring ways of moving away from "telling students what they are supposed to know." Examines letting the books and the students do the talking, separating power and authority, inquiring together, writing, and experiences that teach.