This essential guide has exactly the right books to help you celebrate special days throughout the year—even "holidays" you've never heard of—and provides hundreds of fun titles and
Using quality literature to introduce younger students to economic terms and concepts is an engaging and effective teaching method. This book demonstrates how.
This book presents games and other activities—unusual and effective methods—to get young readers hooked on some of the best titles in juvenile literature, ranging from humor to mystery to fantasy.
This valuable reference guide provides suggestions of picture books set in more than 70 countries in each continent of the world, along with standards-based activities.
Polette (Lindenwood U., Missouri) has 40-plus years of experience as an educator and is the author of some 150 professional books. Her latest text explains how teachers and librarians can use picture
Another winner from Nancy Polette! Traditional instruction in the social studies has been content rather than process oriented, concentrating on the lower level thinking skills. Reading the Fifty Sta
Students are asked to create poems, games, quizzes and other products in lieu of traditional written reports in this new book of ideas keyed to standards in writing, reading comprehension and informa
Another winner from prolific author, Nancy Polette, this title focuses on setting the stage for 200 popular picture book read-alouds. Similar to her LU book for the intermediate-grade audience, 300 J
The author has created reproducible anticipation guides to 300 popular junior novels (grades 4-8) ranging from classics like Ben and Me and Cricket in Times Square to the current award winner, Kira,
Covering all types of children's literature from Mother Goose to the Classics to the Award winners, this is a hands -on book made up of reproducible game and quiz pages that can easily be used in sch
Polette offers suggestions for creative reproduction, elaboration, rearrangements and transformations of text to help children connect reading content to their own experiences. An excellent resource f
