study and teaching (elementary)

Explains several methods of using art to teach reading comprehension strategies in elementary grades--including developing sensory images, building and activating schema, questioning, inferring, and others--and presents several lessons and assessment tools.

Provides teachers with strategies, organizers, and scripts that can be used to help children improve their reading and writing skills.

"Educators have long struggled to teach students to be critical consumers of the information that they encounter. This struggle is exacerbated by the amount of information available thanks to the Internet and mobile devices. Students must learn how to determine whether or not the information they are accessing is reputable. Fighting Fake News! focuses on applying critical thinking skills in digital environments while also helping students and teachers to avoid information overload. According to a 2017 Pew Research report, we are now living in a world where 67% of people report that they get their "news" from social media. With the lessons and activities in this book, students will be challenged to look at the media they encounter daily to learn to deepen and extend their media literacy and critical thinking skills. Now more than ever, teachers need the instruction in Fighting Fake News! to teach students how to locate, evaluate, synthesize, and communicate information."--Provided by publisher.

Presents twenty ready-to-use reproducible role sheets for use with student-centered book discussion groups in grades one through three, and includes advice on how to set up literature circles, as well as other reference aids.

Contains lesson plans and activities, which are aligned with the Common Core State Standards, for teaching poetry in kindergarten through fifth grade, covering meaning, fluency, structure, figurative language, and more.

Presents daily lessons for students in grades K-5--thirty-six weeks each--that teach ethical values ; provides a goal, a related quotation, activity descriptions, lists of materials, and evaluation suggestions for each.