study and teaching (elementary)

Evaluates the ways in which the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 is presented in school textbooks, maintaining that most resources fail to tell the whole story about Parks and the entire civil rights movement.

A guide for educators to improve children's informational writing habits that focuses on exposing students in kindergarten through eighth grade to nonfiction children's books as examples from which to learn and be inspired. Includes an annotated list of children's literature.

Presents fifty lessons for teaching mathematics in grades one through six, drawn from throughout ten years of the "Math Solutions" newsletter.

Presents a comprehensive curriculum program designed to help teachers of grades three through eight help their students develop as readers, writers, and language users, with resources for planning, assessment, evaluation, discussion, and trouble shooting.

Provides teachers with a practical approach to balancing whole-group and individual instruction.

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.

A resource guide for teachers that provides practical information, book summaries, literary insights, and teaching ideas for approximately 150 books appropriate for fourth and fifth graders.

Offers advice and insights to writing instructors on how to teach and develop curriculum based on their own experiences of reading and writing, and the resulting knowledge of how finished writing comes to be.

Presents an introduction to money, in simple text and illustrations, as the reader is invited to figure out if he or she has enough money to purchase goods from a store.