study and teaching

Describes six traits of good writing in any genre including ideas, organizations, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation, and provides assessment tips, scoring guides, sample papers, activities, and more.

Provides fourth to sixth grade students and parents with information they need to complete world history assignments.

Provides fourth to sixth grade students and their parents with information they need to complete math assignments. Includes information such as: the decimal system, fractions, rounding off and estimation, averages, percentages, square roots and square numbers, measurement, and much more.

Provides fourth to sixth grade students and parents with information they need to complete science assignments. Includes information such as: the animal and plant kingdom, vertebrates and invertebrates, photosynthesis, food chains and food webs, biomes, environmental issues, how the Earth was formed, and much more.

Explains the role teachers play in small-group instruction and offers practical strategies to help teachers structure better small-group activities in the classroom.

Presents twenty poems and activities designed to help middle school students develop a love for poetry and learn how to understand what they are reading.

Presents activities, strategies, and lesson ideas to help students in preschool through first grade build their writing skills.

Provides real authors revision techniques, covering research, brainstorming, planning, strengthening characters, and more, and including tips, tricks, and classroom-ready activities.

A collection of thirty detailed lessons and comprehension strategies for preparing students to become better readers.

Examines how comic books and graphic novels can be worked into traditional elementary school curriculums as resources for improving reading comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency instruction.