Scholastic professional books

A literature guide to "Island of the Blue Dolphins", designed for students in grades four through eight; featuring a summary of the story, a list of characters, an author biography, vocabulary lists, chapter summaries, discussion questions, suggested activities, and reproducible worksheets.

Provides instructions and patterns for making twenty-four card, shape, and pop-up books with such themes as animals and the seasons, designed for kindergarten through third grade, and includes teaching ideas for each.

Presents 375 reviews written by students in grades two through eight in which they describe their favorite books, each listing the title, author, genre, number of pages, and the name of the reviewer. Includes book, author, and reviewer photographs.

Contains strategies and warm-up exercises designed to help students in grades four through eight improve their oral presentation skills.

Contains fifty reproducibles for Spanish drawing and writing prompts.

A literature guide to "The Great Gilly Hopkins," by Katherine Paterson, including a summary of the story, a list of characters, a profile of the author, and summaries and discussion questions on specific chapter groups, each with a selection of cross-curricular activities.

Presents ten reproducible plays from around the world with related activities designed to teach second through fourth graders methods of conflict resolution.

Contains reproducible picture cards with hands-on sorting games and activities designed to prepare pre-k and kindergarten students for reading.

Provides tools for teaching five Gary Paulsen novels--"Hatchet," "Dogsong," "Woodsong," "The River," and "Brian's Winter"--in grades five and up, including writing prompts, comprehension and discussion questions, vocabulary activities, individual and group projects, and graphic organizers.