study and teaching (elementary)

Explains to teachers of grades 3-8 how to start a Reading Detective Club, which teaches reading strategies through special mystery cases that students are asked to solve. Includes thirteen reproducible pages and case analyses for teachers.

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.

Contains thirty-three strategies for using poetry in the elementary school classroom with each section providing a description of the strategy, vignettes telling how the strategy has worked, a list of more ways the strategy can be adapted, and examples of student work.

Introduces the different kinds of poetry and the mechanics of writing poetry, providing an opportunity for the reader to experience the joy of making a poem.

Includes creating a contour map and model of your town, making a "patchwork quilt" of local history, researching the history of a place name, and preparing family trees and time lines.

Contains thirty-eight essays, including persuasive, informative, literary, personal and illustrated essays, written by popular authors that were given a writing prompt on a variety of subjects, such as, the merits of having a tail, time machines, space colonization, superpowers, and more.

A boy named Brilliant Brain, who is good at soccer and math but not spelling, visits a fantasy land called Intelligence Avenue and meets the Smart Parts, who teach him strategies for remembering how to spell commonly misspelled words.

An illustrated biography of Thomas Jefferson, describing his accomplishments and presidential years, explaining the contradictions in Jefferson's character, and providing informational sidebars and instructions for activities that teach children about colonial America.

A guide for teachers which shows how to use different styles of graphic organizers--visual representations of knowledge--for teaching and learning, planning, instruction, and assessment in kindergarten through eighth grade classrooms.

Photographs and simple text describe what pictographs are and how they can be used.