curriculum planning

Explains how design projects, such as designing a building, product, or city plan, can be used to teach students K-12.

Presents seven hundred strategies, tips, tools, and techniques teachers of students from kindergarten through high school may use to personalize curriculum, grouped by topic in thirteen categories, with forty reproducible pages.

Presents lessons teachers may use to help their students appreciate and write nonfiction, based on interviews the author conducted with contemporary nonfiction authors about their writing practices.

Presents fifteen literacy-based instruction collaborations for teachers and librarians working with kindergarteners through second graders, and provides introductory guidance for collaboration success.

Contains strategies, lesson plans, and tools for four to six weeks of instruction in primary writing, focusing on the development of poetry writing skills.

"Provides a solid, foundational understanding of creativity that enables readers to elicit creative performance from their students"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a model of literacy designed to address the needs of students in an uncertain twenty-first century future, offering advice on how to adapt classrooms, teaching practices, and curriculums.

Presents an introduction to differentiated instruction, a systematic approach to planning curriculum and instruction to meet the needs of academically diverse learners, and features annotated lesson plans for differentiated units in a variety of curriculum areas, geared toward students in themiddle grades.