language arts

Photographs and information related to the lives of folk heroes help students learn how to write interesting and effective narrative paragraphs, with activities, charts, and vocabulary exercises designed to help students master every step of the paragraph-writing process.

Pictures and easy-to-follow text help students write interesting and effective expository paragraphs about Native American art and culture, with an overview of each step in the paragraph-writing process as well as activities, charts, and vocabulary exercises.

Offers a brief introduction to writing descriptive paragraphs, with tips on using adjectives and other parts of speech to describe persons, places, or things.

Offers tips on writing personal narratives, with advice on choosing a topic, planning the story, writing the opening, body, and ending, and checking for spelling and grammar mistakes.

Introduces the question words How, What, When, Where, Who, and Why through the telling of an original story.

Provides mini-lessons for teaching young students how to put some pizzazz into their writing, covering such topics as strong and weak verbs, similes and metaphors, transitions, story action, personal narratives, expository writing, revising, editing, and assessment.

"Kelly [Gallagher] and Penny [Kittle] mapped out a year of engaging literacy practices aligned to their core beliefs about what matters most. They share their insights on managing time tasks and offer teaching strategies for engaging students in both whole class and independent work"--Back cover.

Contains essays concerning literacy in adolescents, addressing topics such as comprehension, classroom discussion, vocabulary instruction, writing strategies, inquiry, assessment, and more.

A guide to teaching Carole Marsh's "The Mystery on Alaska's Iditarod Trail," featuring trivia, historical facts, and other information to help teachers become experts on the Iditarod race, Alaska, dogsleds, and snow; activity ideas with reproducible worksheets; curriculum connections; and additional comments from the author.

Offers information and advice to teachers on how to use Carole Marsh's "The Mystery on the Underground Railroad" in the classroom, including additional facts related to the topic, comments from the author, curriculum connections, and activity ideas with reproducible worksheets.