investigating collaborative inquiry-based comprehension

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Reading and Writing to Learn: Strategies across the Curriculum
Katherine Wiesolek Kuta

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2008

Good writers use "writing to learn," to actively work and think about content areas and achieve ownership. In fact, research indicates that writing and reading should be taught in tandem. This content-area resource puts that research into practice across curricular areas. It shows teachers how to present strategies common to good readers to increase understanding of a text. Students are taught to predict and infer, visualize, connect, question, ...

Kamishibai Story Theater: The Art of Picture Telling
Dianne de Las Casas

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2006

De Las Casas has adapted 25 folktales from across Asia for whole classroom use, borrowing a Japanese method of storytelling through pictures. Kamishibai theater harkens back to itinerant storytellers (Kamishibai Men) who conveyed their tales by means of illustrated cards slid into slots in wooden stages built on the back of their bicycles. This book includes an introductory chapter describing in detail the methods to use in coaching students in ...

Teaching Thinking Skills with Picture Books K-3
Nancy Polette

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2007

This step-by-step introduction to teaching thinking skills in the primary grades will be useful to teachers, librarians and staff development personnel. It will be of particular interest to teachers of the gifted. Each thinking skill is explained in a full page reproducible format followed by a page offering book talks to be used to introduce favorite picture books that can be used to teach that skill to young children and two pages of ...

Teaching About Disabilities Through Children's Literature
Mary Anne Prater, Tina Taylor Dyches

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2008

This book is written to provide teachers, social workers, school psychologists, counselors, and other professionals who work with children a comprehensive guide to selecting and using children's books to teach about disabilities. With the support of this book readers will be able to: * Select appropriate children's literature that includes characters with disabilities; *Use children's books to teach awareness, knowledge, understanding, and ...

Art in Story: Teaching Art History to Elementary School Children Second Edition

6 reviews
Marianne C. Saccardi

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2006

Wonderful teaching resource
This book is a marvelous resource for all teachers, but especially art teachers. The author has researched art from all times and places and then written stories that will delight children as they draw them into other worlds through art. The bibliographies alone are worth the price of the book.

Songs and Rhymes Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers (Readers Theatre)
Anthony D. Fredericks

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2007

Kids love music and rhymes; literacy often begins that way. Singing nursery and other rhymes, pairing the song with books is a proven way to begin reading instruction and it is fun! Primary teachers and their librarians love to play rhyming and singing games often accompanied by hand and body motions. Out of requests from teachers and librarians attending his workshops, Tony Fredericks presents this readers theatre book for young readers, grades ...

Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators

4 reviews
Alexey W. Root

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2006

Great chess teaching guide for educators!
I have been teaching chess to children for the last 15 years. The first steps of learning this wonderfully complex and artistic game are the toughest for children. So, it is important to implement some special teaching techniques, as described in the book "Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators". By using these techniques, educators such as myself can help children learn about the abstract ...

African Legends, Myths, and Folktales for Readers Theatre
Anthony D. Fredericks, Bongaman

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2008

Teachers are continually looking for materials that will enhance their studies of cultures around the world. With this new book, author, Tony Fredericks and illustrator, Bongaman, present readers theatre scripts based on traditional African folklore. Plays are organized by area and identified by country. Included are tales from Algeria to Zambia and all areas in between. This title contains background information for teachers on each African ...

Science, Math, Checkmate: 32 Chess Activities for Inquiry and Problem Solving
Alexey W. Root

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2008

Chess captivates children. Connect their interest to education with Science, Math, Checkmate, an activity book and teacher resource for grades 3-8. Students learn chess rules and strategies through activities coded to the 32 pawns and pieces on a chessboard. The 16 pawn activities require no chess knowledge, 14 of the piece activities build on students' growing familiarity with chess, and the two king activities challenge budding chess experts. ...

MORE Science Adventures with Children's Literature: Reading Comprehension and Inquiry-Based Science (Through ...
Anthony D. Fredericks

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2008

These dynamic literature-based activities will help teachers and school librarians energize the entire science curriculum and implement national standards. Fredericks presents hundreds of "hands-on, minds-on" projects that actively engage students in positive learning experiences. Each of the units offers book summaries, science topic areas, critical thinking questions, classroom resources, reproducible pages, and lots of easy-to-do activities ...

Art in Chemistry: Chemistry in Art Second Edition
Barbara R. Greenberg, Dianne Patterson

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2007

Integrate chemistry and art with hands-on activities and fascinating demonstrations that enable students to see and understand how the science of chemistry is involved in the creation of art. Investigate such topics as color integrated with electromagnetic radiation, atoms, and ions; paints integrated with classes of matter, specifically solutions; three-dimensional works of art integrated with organic chemistry; photography integrated with ...

Spoofing and Proofing the Classics: Literature-Based Activities to Develop Critical Reading Skills and ...
Keith Polette, Nancy Polette

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2007

Using "shaggy dog" stories based on classic literature, the Polettes address common spelling and grammatical errors and the ways in which children can be taught to read critically to recognize them. Stories such as Rapunzel, Alice, The Hare and the Tortoise, and King Arthur, purposely embedded with common errors, have been pretested in teacher workshops given by Nancy Polette and in Dr. Keith Polette's classes at the University of Texas, El ...

Nonfiction Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers (Readers Theatre)

1 review
Anthony D. Fredericks

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2007

Nonfiction Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers
Fredericks, Anthony D. Fredericks. 2007. NONFICTION READERS THEATRE FOR BEGINNING READERS. Westport, Connecticut: Teacher Ideas Press. ISBN # 9781591584995 Nonfiction Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers is a great resource for classroom teachers and librarians who want their students involved in and excited about learning. In this book reader's theatre is defined as "an oral interpretation ...

Born Storytellers: Readers Theatre Celebrates the Lives and Literature of Classic Authors (Readers Theatre)
Ann N. Black

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2005

Students in grades 6-12 assume the roles of authors of classic literature, characters from the books, and storytellers. Through the dialogue, the audience will have a glimpse into the life of the author and reactions and thoughts of the characters. The storytellers assume a contemporary voice to react and clarify the times, while passages from the books are paraphrased or woven into the play to provide a flavor of the literature class. In ...

Playing to Learn: Video Games in the Classroom

1 review
David Hutchison

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2007

Educators Take Notice: Get This For Your Collection
Quick: name five video games. Can you do it? I can't. Video games are not part of my media environment. The few games I can recall are as a result of some recent news story about their violent or sexual content, or some state's effort to restrict youth access. Are all games bad--of course not. Why doesn't the mainstream media report more on the potential uses of video gaming in instruction? ( ...

On the Wing of a Whitebird: A Tomie dePaola Resource Book

2 reviews
Val Z. Hornburg

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2005

EXCELLENT!
A wonderfully practical and well-integrated book of great Tomie dePaola activities. May be used with many grades, and easily extended or adapted for kids of all ability levels. A MUST for every elementary teacher!

Much More Social Studies Through Children's Literature: A Collaborative Approach (Through Children's ...

1 review
Anthony D. Fredericks

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2007

Wonderful Homeschooling tool
I love his attitude toward learning and children. I will be using this in my homeschool class room, for SURE. It goes along great whith Charlotte Mason--they seem to feel the same way about learning through literature.

Reading is not Spectator Sport
Pelton

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 1993

Readers Theatre for Middle School Boys: Investigating the Strange and Mysterious (Readers Theatre)

2 reviews
Ann N. Black

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2008

Excellent Reader's Theatre Collection!
The number of same-gender schools is on the rise, and even schools with both boys and girls are experimenting with single-gender classes. Ann N. Black has rewritten classics for readers theatre appropriate for middle-school boys that lends itself perfectly to the all-male classroom. Many of the original literary short stories, this collection is based on, are studied in the major text-books ...

Mother Goose Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers (Readers Theatre)
Anthony D. Fredericks

Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited, 2007

Written for children reading at first and second grade levels, this readers theatre book uses Mother Goose rhymes as its basis, making it especially valuable to teachers and librarians working on building fluency skills in their beginning readers. The book offers plays based on well-known rhymes, complete with presentation and instructional follow up suggestions. The author also offers staging diagrams that enable teachers to use each script ...

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