study and teaching (elementary)

Describes practical techniques for teaching writing in kindergarten through sixth grade, and discusses effective assessment and classroom management practices.

Presents an evidence-based curriculum guide to reading that provides an organizational framework for vocabulary instruction; and includes exercises, assessments, graphic organizers, and professional resources.

Presents research and guidelines for K-9 teachers on reading comprehension, providing sample activities, worksheets, assessment tools, and strategies for reading fiction, reading for information, engaging in research, performing tasks, studying, taking tests, improving vocabulary, and developing a lifelong love of reading.

Provides strategies to help elementary school teachers create a multicultural classroom, discussing classroom discipline, arrangement, parent and community involvement, and instruction.

Contains a comprehensive handbook to overcoming math phobia and includes information on math basics, making estimates, metric measurement, percentages, and algebra.

Contains eighty reproducible comic strips and companion mini-story problems that may be used to improve the problem-solving skills of students in grades three to six.

Contains reproducible pages and instructional strategies for more than forty differentiated activities designed to promote the math skills of students in second and third grade.

Provides instructions and reproducible pages for fifteen games designed to help students in fourth through sixth grade master word lists and expand their vocabulary.

Contains reproducible pages and instructional strategies for more than forty differentiated activities designed to promote the math skills of students in forth through sixth grade.

Contains reproducible pages and a CD-ROM with interactive whiteboard activities and lessons that are designed to help students in second grade learn and review key Common Core math concepts.