teaching

Contains fifty reproducible activity sheets for individual reading practice, designed for students in grades three through six, and includes tips on managing classroom literacy centers.

Presents thirty seventh- through ninth-grade history lesson plans and reproducible activities for use with the Library of Congress American Memory Collections Web site.

Ron Clark shares fifty-five ideas that can help educators uncover the potential in every student.

Presents more than two hundred science activities for elementary students, covering such topics as the senses, animals, germination, chemical changes, electricity, evaporation, rocks and minerals, and the solar system.

Explains the tools, schooling, and work of teachers.

Describes the daily lives of ordinary people in the American colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides reproducible reading comprehension, writing, vocabulary, math, critical thinking,geography, art, drama, and cooking activity pages.

Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl whom Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four.

Offers a definition of differentiated instruction, and provides principles and strategies designed to help teachers create learning environments that address the different learning styles, interests, and readiness levels found in a typical mixed-ability classroom.

Bored with living in a New York lighthouse at the turn of the twentieth century, sixteen-year-old Eliza seeks a teaching position away from home.