Elementary category: 2214 books
Integrating Literacy and Technology
Effective Practice for Grades K-6
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2007
An accessible resource for busy teachers, this informative book sets the stage for using technology effectively in the literacy classroom. The authors take the reader step by step through the ongoing cycle of planning, teaching, and assessment in a technology-rich environment. They demonstrate how...
Matching Books and Readers
Helping English Learners in Grades K-6
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum....
What Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated)
Fundamentals of a Good Fourth-Grade Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated
What Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know
How can you help your child at home? This book answers that important question and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed...
What Your Third Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated)
Fundamentals of a Good Third-Grade Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated
What Your Third Grader Needs to Know
What should your child learn in the third grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of...
Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care
Languages of evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Taking a broad approach, Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science and other fields and to an analysis of the world we live in today. It places these issues in a global context and draws...
The Arts in Education
An introduction to aesthetics, theory and pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Do the arts improve academic achievement? What does it mean to ‘teach’ art? What should the balance of classic and pop be in the music curriculum? Should we encourage young children on the stage? How do we judge whether what a child produces is good? How do we justify the arts in the curriculum?...
From Children's Services to Children's Spaces
Public Policy, Children and Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2005
More than ever before, children are apparently being recognised as social actors and citizens. Yet public policy often involves increased control and surveillance of children. This book explores the contradiction. It shows how different ways of thinking about children produce different childhoods,...
Spiritual Education in a Divided World
Social, Environmental and Pedagogical Perspectives on the Spirituality of Children and Young People
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
In the era of globalization debate has turned to the vital need for a thorough understanding of its impact on the spirituality and health of the youth of today. Spiritual Education in a Divided World recognises the urgent need for effective research in this area. This exceptional volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to tackle the key question
1000 Flashcards
For Educational Use
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
A huge collection of 1000 flashcards in 50 topics for educational use. A great resource for any educator.
The Joy of Planning
Designing Minilesson Cycles in Grades 3-6
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Between individual lessons and big units of study lies the joy of planning. Franki Sibberson takes you into her process of designing short sequences of lessons (known as cycles) around key areas of study including how characters develop in literature, nonfiction reading in the age of the Internet, and...
Alaska's Children's House
Building Essential Skills, Independent Thinking, and Character
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Preschool is a time in a child's life when adults can stimulate a child's brain to grow as they pass through the various stages of childhood. These changes should involve their motor and sensory functions through experiences in their environment. The purpose of a preschool should be to lay the groundwork...
French Speaking Activities (KS3)
Fun Ways to Get KS3 Pupils to Talk to Each Other in French
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Wouldn’t you love your pupils to have meaningful conversations with each other in French? French Speaking Activities contains 60 time-saving photocopiable activities for promoting oral communication. Activities range from role plays and surveys to quizzes, presentations and games. All encourage pupils...
by Cindy Koepp
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
As the state and federal testing gets increasingly harder, students are required to solve tougher math problems. This book contains over 400 word problems and questions for mathematical concepts. All the problems and questions have been used in 4th and 5th grade math classes. The problems vary in...
The Pedagogy of Teacher Activism
Portraits of Four Teachers for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Through the artful science of portraiture, The Pedagogy of Teacher Activism presents the stories of four teacher activists—how they are and have become social change agents—to uncover important pedagogical underpinnings of teacher activism. Embedded in their stories are moments of political clarity...