study and teaching (elementary)

Describes strategies for using informational texts in the classroom to promote nonfiction reading and writing, and includes teaching points, exercises, a selection of forms, and vignettes from teachers across the country.

Offers teachers advice on how they can empower students to become critical thinkers and users of information, with more than eighty proven classroom activities that will take students beyond memorization and rote learning.

Contains over fifty activities designed to help students build their reading, writing, and research skills, grouped in the categories of evaluating, sorting, analyzing and synthesizing, and working with information.

Explores eleven reading skills and literary devices through fifty-five popular children's books; each skill or device is introduced, explained, and reinforced with five related picture books.

Explains how teachers can build, extend, or enliven a program in which students explore the expanding world of children's literature.

Presents summaries, lesson ideas, grade levels, ISBNs, and publisher information on books useful for teaching elementary and middle school students writing skills; arranges the texts by skill area, including voice, word choice, organization, and sentence fluency.

Explains the facts and procedures of basic math concepts likely to be found in homework.

Describes various games such as dominoes, checkers, solitaire, and wari.