education, primary

Presents a program of independent activities that may be used to keep students involved for ninety-to-120 minute periods, allowing teachers time to work with small groups; explaining how to set up, manage, and assess a literacy workshop, and describing thirty literacy centers.

Contains month-by-month activity programs designed to help beginning readers improve their reading and comprehension skills.

Contains dozens of ideas and activities designed to help students in grades K through two celebrate the one hundreth day of school.

Contains thematic units, extension ideas, and reproducible activities on authors, appropriate for preschool and kindergarten classrooms, drawn from the pages of "The Mailbox" and "Teacher's Helper" magazines.

Offers preschool and kindergarten teachers dozens of ideas for simple classroom displays for every season, with patterns for recreating fun bulletin boards that appeal to children and reinforce basic skills.