Elementary category: 2214 books
Media Literacy is Elementary
Teaching Youth to Critically Read and Create Media- Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This book provides a practical and theoretical look at how media education can make learning and teaching more meaningful and transformative. This second edition includes more resources, photographs, and updated information as well as two new chapters: one exploring the pedagogical potential for using...
Differentiating Instruction
A Practical Guide to Tiered Lessons in the Elementary Grades
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
This easy-to-use, teacher-friendly book is a must-have for any educator wanting to differentiate instruction for the gifted or regular classroom. Differentiating instruction has become an integral part of classroom instruction, and tiering lessons is a practical, easy, and efficient way to ensure...
Where's the Wonder in Elementary Math?
Encouraging Mathematical Reasoning in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book argues that even in today's high-stakes testing environment, 'teaching to the test' need not be teachers’ only focus as they introduce young children to mathematics. Judith McVarish demonstrates how building a community of learners and using problem solving to engage students can help...
Upper Elementary Math Lessons
Case Studies of Real Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Engaging students in worthwhile learning requires more than a knowledge of underlying principles of good teaching. It demands considerable practice as well as images of what good teaching in particular situations and for particular purposes might look like. This volume provides these images. These...
Digital Initiatives for Literacy Development in Elementary Classrooms
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Children of today are growing up in technology-rich environments and spend countless hours engaged with digital tools. It is essential that educators take advantage of children’s technological skills once they enter the classroom. Digital Initiatives for Literacy Development in Elementary Classrooms:...
Upper Elementary Reading Lessons
Case Studies of Real Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Engaging students in worthwhile learning requires more than a knowledge of underlying principles of good teaching. It demands considerable practice as well as images of what good teaching in particular situations and for particular purposes might look like. This volume provides these images. These...
Your Science Classroom
Becoming an Elementary / Middle School Science Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Your Science Classroom: Becoming an Elementary / Middle School Science Teacher, by authors M. Jenice "Dee" Goldston and Laura Downey, is a core teaching methods textbook for use in elementary and middle school science methods courses. Designed around a practical, "practice-what-you-teach"...
Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School
A Project-Based Learning Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School integrates principles of learning and motivation with practical teaching ideas for implementing them. Paralleling what scientists do, project-based learning (PBL) represents the essence of inquiry and the nature of science, and engages children and...
From Snorkelers to Scuba Divers in the Elementary Science Classroom
Strategies and Lessons That Move Students Toward Deeper Learning
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
From Snorkelers to Scuba Divers in the Elementary Science Classroom: Strategies and Lessons That Move Students Toward Deeper Learning
By John Almarode and Ann M. Miller.
Inspire a deep and lasting love of science in young students
With so much attention paid to student performance...
Everyday SEL in Elementary School
Integrating Social-Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
In this new book from educational consultant Carla Tantillo Philibert, you’ll gain practical strategies for teaching social-emotional learning (SEL), mindfulness, and movement to help your elementary students maintain positive relationships, assume responsibility, become bodily aware, and grow into...
Reading the Rainbow
LGBTQ-Inclusive Literacy Instruction in the Elementary Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Drawing on examples of teaching from elementary school classrooms, this timely book for practitioners explains why LGBTQ-inclusive literacy instruction is possible, relevant, and necessary in grades K–5. The authors show how expanding the English language arts curriculum to include representations...
by Susan Wise Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
This first book in the four-volume narrative history series for elementary students will transform your study of history. The Story of the World has won awards from numerous homeschooling magazines and readers' polls—over 150,000 copies of the series in print!
What terrible secret was buried...
Case Studies in Educational Psychology
Elementary School Grades
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This case study book serves as a valuable tool for professors and instructors of educational psychology. It contains 18 cases that represent current areas of interest in Educational Psychology embedded within current challenges that teachers face in today’s elementary grade classrooms. The cases...
A Well-Tempered Mind
Using Music to Help Children Listen and Learn
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
A Well-Tempered Mind investigates the intriguing connection between music education and brain development in children. Peter Perret and Janet Fox use the details of an innovative music education program for elementary school students to explore this fascinating relationship. A Well-Tempered Mind describes...