The Relatives Came

• Author : Cynthia Rylant
• Publisher : Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
• Release : 01 February 2001

The relatives' station wagon: it smelled like a real car, looked like a rainbow, and was roomy enough for a crowd. Lucky! Because a big crowd in all shapes and sizes piled into that old wagon at four o'clock one summer morning and piled out of it the next day at their relatives' place on the north side of the mountains. All in good moods. The visitors settled in everywhere throughout the house, laughing and making music and hugging everyone

• Author : Susan Nations,Mellissa Alonso
• Publisher : Maupin House Publishing, Inc.
• Release : 25 March 2023

For K-3 teachers Seven easy-to-maintain centers help you work smarter, not harder, as you connect standards-based reading and writing instruction with student application of skills and strategies. Your literacy centers will become focused places of learning, keeping you free to teach small groups and minimize student interruption--and you control how to fit the centers into your day. Primary Literacy Centers: Supports the balanced literacy approach; Features 36 language arts mini-lessons with easy-to-use center connections; Correlates to NCTE/IRA National Language Arts

• Author : Sarah Jossart,Gretchen Courtney
• Publisher : Good Year Books
• Release : 01 September 1996

Here's an innovative approach for exploring children's literature! In a story drama, children become the characters in the stories and poems they hear and read. Literature springs to life as children participate in dramatizing it.

• Author : Susan Lunsford
• Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
• Release : 01 October 1998

Using favorite picturebooks for her mini-lessons models, teacher Susan Lunsford shares 15 easy-to-do writing lessons. Mini-lessons include: Where do story ideas come from? Great First Lines, Exploring Settings, Painting Pictures with Words, Writing a Complete Story, and Great Endings. Her teacher-student dialogues make it all easy to replicate in your own classroom. Each mini-lessons includes follow-up strategies and activities and picturebook suggestions. Writing conference and management tips too! For use with Grades 1-3.

• Author : Bruce Morgan,Deb Odom
• Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
• Release : 25 March 2023

It's not easy being a tween. A lot of us are either in a tunnel or a bridge. A lot of us don't know who we are. Instead of following Barney's advice, we end up doing what popstars do. --Kelley, age 10No longer little children, but not yet teenagers, tweens are beginning to see themselves as autonomous while still struggling to understand where they fit in. It can also be an awkward time for teachers who cherish the hilarious and

• Author : Caroline W. Evans,Anne J. Leija,Trina R. Falkner
• Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
• Release : 25 March 2023

Literature-based math lessons using the NCTM 2000 standards. Each lesson includes suggested time frame, materials list, lesson plan, ideas for assessment, suggestions for special needs adaptations, a bibliography, and a list of related standards. Many lessons include reproducible student pages and suggested software. K-3.

• Author : Association for Library Service to Children
• Publisher : American Library Association
• Release : 25 March 2023

With its vivid annotations for all winning medal and honor books since the inception of the awards (Newbery in 1922 and Caldecott in 1938), librarians and teachers everywhere rely on this indispensable guide for quick-reference, collection and curriculum development, and readers' advisory. Indexed by title and author/illustrator, the 2001 edition includes background on the awards and photos of the new medalists and their books. If you serve young people, the 2001 edition will help you to introduce children to outstanding literature and illustration

• Author : Lynne R. Dorfman,Rose Cappelli
• Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
• Release : 25 March 2023

Shows teachers how to help students become confident, accomplished writers, using literature as their foundation. The book is organised around the characteristics of good writing: focus, content, organisation, style, and conventions.

• Author : Joan Novelli
• Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
• Release : 25 March 1998

Includes the latest Caldecott winners--Cover.

• Author : Barbara Orehovec,Marybeth Alley
• Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
• Release : 25 March 2023

Strategies and activities to develop an effective reading workshop program.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 March 1993

The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.

• Author : Bernice E. Cullinan,Diane Goetz Person
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release : 01 January 2005

Provides articles covering children's literature from around the world as well as biographical and critical reviews of authors including Avi, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and Anno Mitsumasa.

• Author : Pamela J. Farris
• Publisher : Waveland Press
• Release : 03 February 2015

The latest edition of Pamela Farris’s popular, value-priced text continues to
offer pre- and in-service teachers creative strategies and proven techniques sensitive to the needs of all elementary and middle school learners. Coverage includes the C3 Framework and the four sets of learning from the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. Farris, together with contributors who specialize in implementing successful teaching methods and theories, demonstrate how classroom teachers can excite and inspire their students to be engaged learners.

• Author : Mark Overmeyer
• Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
• Release : 25 March 2023

Provides practical advice for overcoming common problems associated with teaching writing to students, and offers help in developing vocabulary skills, preparing students for standardized tests, and much more.

• Author : Anita Silvey
• Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
• Release : 30 October 2012

Part fun- and information-filled almanac, part good book guide, the Children's Book-a-Day Almanac is a new way to discover a great children's book--every day of the year! This fresh, inventive reference book is a dynamic way to showcase the gems, both new and old, of children's literature. Each page features an event of the day, a children's book that relates to that event, and a list of other events that took place on that day. Always informative and often surprising,