This project-based guide is a blueprint for service learning—from getting started to assessing the experience—and integrates the K–12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice. It provides ideas for incorporating literacy into service learning and suggestions for creating a culture of service. An award-winning treasury of activities, ideas, annotated book recommendations, author int…
No one pays attention to officer Buckle when he's giving out safety tips, until Gloria, his police dog, surprises them.'
Everybody loves Amelia Bedelia! The literal-minded maid is up to her old tricks again when Mr. and Mrs.
Learn how current methods of trash disposal lead to pollution, and suggests how reducing, reusing, and recycling materials can lead to less waste becoming trash.
The spooky story in verse of a young boy lost in the depths of the forest one winter's night.Cold and tired he seeks refuge in a tumbledown castle.A rather odd looking-and smelling-butler answers the door and offers a bed for the night.He accepts with gratitude-but his nightmare has just begun.Woken during the night he creeps out of his bedroom to explore.He discovers a dungeon with a long wood…
A neighbor needs Amelia Bedelia's helping hands, so everyone's favorite housekeeper is off to Miss Emma's house for a day of work. She makes a merry mess, then feeds delectable desserts. Amelia shows her niece Effie Lou how to follow instructions to the letter as they dust the potato bugs and sew seeds.
Eddy Teddy thinks he is the finest teddy bear in the toy shop. After all he has the fluffiest fur, the biggest nose and the brightest ribbon. And yet, no one seems to want him - until he discovers the one thing that every bear needs.