Using the approach based on a Harvard study that found "when the whole body is involved, the number of brain cells brought to the learning activity doubles," the author offers over one hundred kinest
Using quality literature to introduce younger students to economic terms and concepts is an engaging and effective teaching method. This book demonstrates how.
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
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.
Polette describes how a "brain power" story hour can provide the opportunity to share books that help preschool and primary grade children develop the ability to think productively and critically. She
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
This new book by Nancy Polette offers 49 short biographical readers theatre plays consisting of three performers discussing the same life, but with slightly different information. It requires student
This step-by-step introduction to teaching thinking skills in the primary grades will be useful to teachers, librarians, and staff development personnel, and of particular interest to teachers of the
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
