study and teaching (elementary)

A collection of folktale scripts designed for developing reading fluency in grades three and four.

Presents a comprehensive guide for teachers and parents to help develop math skills for advanced learners, and provides teaching strategies for encouraging and challenging gifted students.

Presents teaching techniques, with activities and investigations, for introducing students in grades three through eight to the basic concepts of mathematics, covering numbers and operations, algebra, measurements, geometry, and data analysis and probability.

Examines how to write an effective expository essay, including the importance of presenting main ideas, supporting details, and developing a solid conclusion based on facts.

Introduces an approach to teaching grammar that allows students to study authentic texts to recognize essential grammar conventions and includes support materials, more than one hundred mentor sentences, work samples, and tips.

[This book offers the] support students' abilities to be strategic, metacognitive writers who use particular processes to achieve particular purpose as writers. Also helps studetns learn to use writing as a tool for learning across the day and throughout their richly literate lives -- p. 4.

"This book offers an assessment system that can be used across a district, school or classroom. Three intertwined Pre-K-6 learning progressions, one each in opinion, information, and narrative writing, are at the center of this systems. These learning progressions are aligned to the Common Core State Standards and to our knowledge of the teaching or writing, and they have been piloted, in conjunction with the other tools in this system, in tens of thousands of classrooms."--Page 2.

[This book] represents about six weeks of teaching, and within those six weeks, the unit supports several cycles of drafting, revision, and publication. The units align with the three types of writing specified in the Common Core State Standards -- p. 4.