Elementary category: 2214 books
by Diane R. Page
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002
This workbook, to accompany the Facilitator's Manual, is a resource that will be used throughout the year. Its twelve chapters correspond to the twelve training modules in the manual. Contains reproducible notebook pages.
by HCCTA Elementary Reads
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Do you know what your special talent is and how you can use it to make the world a better place? Series One of HCCTA Elementary Reads is about five champion athletes who overcame many obstacles, set records, and made the world better.
Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic
Implications of Piaget's Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this fully revised second edition of the classic Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic, Constance Kamii describes and develops an innovative program of teaching arithmetic in the early elementary grades. Kamii bases her educational strategies on renowned constructivist Jean Piaget's scientific ideas...
Rise Up!
Life and Literacy in an Urban First Grade
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
This is an account of an ethnically and racially diverse classroom of funny, endearing, and often poignant six-year-olds in a Seattle inner-city elementary school. The author, their volunteer literary coach, describes the classroom, their heroic teacher, a number of clever teaching modules, and the...
Vocabulary in a SNAP
100+ Lessons for Elementary Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Elementary educators face crucial questions when shaping their vocabulary teaching methods—what vocabulary words to target and how to foster self-directed learning. SNAP (Seeing/Saying, Naming, Acting, and Producing) can help increase student confidence and interest in reading and improve 21st century...
The Field Trip Book
Study Travel Experiences in Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Looking for social studies adventures to help students find connections to democratic citizenship? Look no further! The Field Trip Book: Study Travel Experiences in Social Studies provides just the answer teachers need for engaging students in field trips as researching learners with emphasis on interdisciplinary...
by Susan Wise Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
This second 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!
Now more than ever, other cultures...
by Susan Wise Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2005
This fourth 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!
Where was the Crystal Palace?...
by Susan Wise Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2004
This third 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!
Now more than ever, other cultures...
by Mr. Ken Newton
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
A unique memoir of a male elementary school teacher's career working in a female dominated profession and all the joys, trials, and tribulations along the way. A one-of-a-kind insight to the world of working with all-women in the education field and with children.
Montessori Today
A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Paula Lillard, director of a Montessori school ranging in age from 18 months to fifteen years, provides a clear and cogent introduction to the Montessori program for the elementary and later years. In detailed accounts, Lillard shows how children acquire the skills to answer their own questions, learn...
Close Encounters of the Third-Grade Kind
Thoughts on Teacherhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
A twenty-year veteran of the classroom, elementary school teacher Phillip Done takes readers through a lively and hilarious year in the classroom. Starting with the relative calm before the storm of buying school supplies and posting class lists, he shares the distinct personalities of grades K-4,...
When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools
Class, Race, and the Challenge of Equity in Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to—and often end up becoming active in—urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools, but, as Linn Posey-Maddox shows in this study, it can also introduce...
Because We Can Change the World
A Practical Guide to Building Cooperative, Inclusive Classroom Communities
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Change the world, one classroom at a time!
Mara Sapon-Shevin skillfully blends vision statements, stories, and strategies to guide teachers in promoting social justice and creating classrooms that allow all children to experience academic success. This new edition of a highly acclaimed book:
Provides...