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In this learning-packed resource, two creative teachers share the standards-based survival unit they created around five favorite novels: Number the Stars, The Cay, My Side of the Mountain, Hatchet, and Banner in the Sky. Inside you'll find a survival simulation for piquing interest and activating prior knowledge, reading strategy mini-lessons, and literature-group management tips. Also includes discussion and writing prompts, reading-response projects, and creative activities for teaching literary elements and vocabulary. You'll use this resource again and again. Book jacket.
Setting Pop-ups, Paper-Chain Characters, Plot Mini-Books, and more to help students "learn by doing." Includes reproducible student direction sheets and rubrics.
Do you know students who groan at the mere mention of the word grammar? This teacher-written resource will help you motivate kids to learn -- even enjoy -- grammar. Hands-on activities like Foil the Fragments, Great Sentence Caper, and Vivid Verb Cheers encourage students' creativity and help them remember the concepts they need to know. Also includes mini-lessons, rubrics, reproducibles, and photographs. Make this book an enriching addition to your grammar lessons! Book jacket.
Ready-to-go lessons for using picture books to teach the use of literary devices in writing.
A complete toolkit for teaching literary elements: 8 high-interest picture books (one for each element), 8 companion teaching guides, 8 posters, and a copy of Using Picture Books to Teach 8 Essential Literary Elements!
An annotated guide to 100 new and classic picture books that model the use of key literary elementsand appeal to grades 48 students."
Provides lessons and models to help teach writing to elementary school students.
Meaningful, student-centered lessons and activities that include models and rubrics for teaching informational, narrative, persuasive essays!
A practical guide to grammar and usage, covering such topics as parts of speech, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and idioms.
A collaboration between well-established and rising scholars, Futures of Dance Studies suggests multiple directions for new research in the field. Essays address dance in a wider range of contexts—onstage, on screen, in the studio, and on the street—and deploy methods from diverse disciplines. Engaging African American and African diasporic studies, Latinx and Latin American studies, gender and sexuality studies, and Asian American and Asian studies, this anthology demonstrates the relevance of dance analysis to adjacent fields.