study and teaching (elementary)

Presents teachers with a wide range of materials designed to help them create a positive learning environment and effective units that will encourage the development of their students' thinking skills.

Provides ways to bring media literacy into the K-12 classroom through any school subject matter, and teaches students skills that enable them to become knowledgeable media consumers and producers.

"Offers a step-by-step guide for implementing a student-centered literature program that promotes critical thinking and literary understanding through the study of novels and other texts"--Back cover.

Presents games and activities for teaching mathematics.

Discusses the benefits of using "number talks," in the classroom, which are five- to fifteen-minute conversations that encourage students to mentally solve a computation problem and explains how to plan for and design number talks for kindergarten through fifth-grade classrooms. Includes a DVD with classroom footage and additional resources for teachers.

Contains exercises for teaching writing in the Grade 1 classroom.

Contains lesson plans for teaching English language learners.

"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs show early fluent readers some of the physics principles that make bicycles work as they do. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--.

"Kylene and Bob have designed these bookmarks to be at-hand guides as students closely read literary or nonfiction texts. One side contains the 6 signposts for literary texts from Notice & Note. The other side displays the 5 signposts for nonfiction texts from Reading Nonfiction. With each signpost is helpful advice on when to STOP in a text and what questions readers can ask themselves when they spot a signpost"--Publisher's website.