study and teaching (elementary)

Provides primary-level teachers with ideas and activities to help teach their students basic addition and subtraction.

Provides teachers and school library media specialists with activities and advice on how to promote and teach information literacy skills to young library users; includes a CD-ROM with helpful information.

A collection of teacher-directed and independent activities for primary-level students on number concepts, which covers counting, comparing, and pattern, provides guidance for teachers, and lets teachers plan by children's needs or grade level.

Contains fourteen short read-aloud plays designed to build fluency in third and fourth graders through repeated reading; and includes a mini-lesson, teaching ideas, a rubric, and a checklist for student self-assessment.

Designed to build critical thinking and cooperative learning skills. Students explore ten important incidents in the lives of five historically significant Americans.

Explains a trait-based teaching strategy to help kindergarten through second-grade students improve their writing skills, providing examples of student writing, group model lessons, instructions for interactive whiteboard activities, and tips for conferences. Includes a CD-ROM with twelve interactive PDF files, thirty PDF files of student writing samples, trait scoring guides, and other resources.

Presents fifteen short reproducible fiction and nonfiction mini-books for the first grade-reading classroom that helps students develop word recognition, fluency, and comprehension.

A guide for teachers of grades third through fifth to using the Common Core standards in day-to-day practice in English language arts, history and social studies, science, and technical subjects.

A guide for teachers of grades kindergarten through second to using the Common Core standards in day-to-day practice in English language arts, history and social studies, science, and technical subjects.