This book build literacy with these easy, inexpensive, and fun ideas for responding to literature. Teacher-tested activities include story belts, shoe stories, triaramas, flap book, story cubes, and much more.'
In this book, Erik M. Francis explores how one of the most fundamental instructional strategies—questioning—can provide the proper scaffolding to deepen student thinking, understanding, and application of knowledge. You'll Francis offers myriad examples of good questions across content areas and grade levels, as well as structures to help teachers create and use the different kinds of quest…
More than 80 creative cross-curricular activities to help students of all learning styles and strengths begin to think critically. Each activity reinforces a specific critical thinking skill such as recognizing and recalling or inferring and drawing conclusions. Comes complete with student reproducibles and suggestions for integrating the activities into the curriculum with ease.
FROM AGENCY TO ZEST is a delightfully thought-provoking exploration of ideas central to the field of inquiry-based learning, written by renowned educator and inquiry expert, Kath Murdoch. Organized alphabetically, this collection offers the reader part explanation of and part reflection on 26 key words (and an abundance of related words) that embody the essence of inquiry. From Agency to Zes…
Teaching Green—The Elementary Years is designed for anyone working with young people in kindergarten through grade five, whether in schools or informal education settings. It offers 50 kid-tested teaching strategies that promote interdisciplinary hands-on learning about natural systems and foster critical thinking about environmental issues, both local and global. The book includes background…
In Getting Personal with Inquiry Learning, world-renowned inquiry expert, Kath Murdoch, draws on decades of experience to offer a thorough, practical guide to supporting young learners' investigations into their passions, interests and questions. Following her best-selling Power of Inquiry, this book invites teachers to take their thinking about inquiry to the next level and to truly honour bot…
The sixth title in the hugely successful Totally Brilliant series is the most exciting yet, packed with wildlife and nature-themed games, puzzles, conundrums and quizzes and more for boys and girls aged 7 and up! The puzzles have been carefully crafted so that kids work on key literacy and arithmetic skills as they have lots of fun.