Teaching strategies

Presents twenty-five reproducible prewriting graphic organizers and planning sheets for grades three through five covering such topics as cause and effect, compare and contrast, role-play, imaging, and story maps.

Provides strategies and ideas for teaching students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder including the parallel teaching model, individualized behavior programs, parent and teacher partnerships, and more.

Describes how to match fiction with non-fiction on the same topic in order to develop students' comprehension in the subject area; and contains fifteen strategy lessons.

Presents reproducible forms, including checklists, graphic organizers, rubrics, and scoring sheets designed to improve writing skills in kindergarteners and first- and second-grade students.

Contains activities designed to prepare children for phonics instruction.

Contains ten mini-lessons designed to help students in grades three through six create lively characters in their writing.

Contains reproducible children's poems and lessons designed to help develop basic grammar concepts in the third through fifth-grade classroom, and includes multisensory activities, student models, and literature links.

Contains reproducible resources and strategies to help plan and organize differentiated instruction in the fourth grade and up classroom, and includes lesson plans, student work samples, assessments, and activity pages.

Presents a comprehensive guide to teaching poetry to grades four and up and contains reproducible exercises that help students develop fluency, create imagery, and understand poetic elements.