Showing guides and explainers filed under Tips & Strategies for Teaching Grade School.
“Not This Bear!,” by Bernice Myers, although first published in 1971, is a humorous gem that offers up perhaps the most important lesson a K-1 student …
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Liesel Moak Skorpen’s charming story, “All the Lassies,” captures one of young children’s most common quandaries. Although first published in 1970, …
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Eleanor Clymer’s whimsical story, “Belinda’s New Spring Hat,” is a wacky romp of a tale with subtle though invaluable and timeless morals. Though …
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Mona Brookes’ book “Drawing with Children” has received much attention for its ability to break art down in a way so that children …
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Paul Tripp’s “The Little Red Flower,” though first published in 1968, illustrates simply and charmingly the complex dynamics K-1 students experience …
Continue ReadingJudy Blume’s first book, although written in the 1960’s, captures the pains of isolation and identity crisis kids experience in today’s …
Continue ReadingChildren grow up outside on the playground. Children play on school playgrounds to do much more than to burn off their built-up energy; playgrounds …
Continue ReadingThrough Endangered Eyes, a poetic journey into the wild, by Rachel Allen Dillon is a great book to share with elementary-aged students when teaching …
Continue ReadingRaz-Kids online interactive library provides a fun and interesting way to motivate and improve reading literacy in the K-6 grade classroom.
Continue ReadingChildren can more easily solve subtraction problems if they imagine a context for the problems in question. Helping students understand math beyond an …
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