Exploring Literature is a complete teaching unit designed to give you everything needed to help students understand and appreciate fine literature. This exciting approach includes classroom-tested activities sure to save you hours of valuable preparation time.

It's not pink and blue but gray that matters! Modern research shows amazing differences between the ways boys and girls acquire and use knowledge. Here are practical, sensible and immediately useful classroom applications.

Got questions about how to link your writing activities to rich and relevant literature? How to improve your students' writing skills and test scores? You need The Write Answer! This book contains student worksheets, resource lists, teacher pages, samples and activities for individuals and groups. These practical activities direct students to apply skills learned on the reproducible pages to their work in class.

Milliken's "Book Reports" workbook is a compilation of book report forms on twelve book categories from Adventure to Sports and Hobbies. Each book report form includes questions at three levels of comprehension: literal, interpretive, and creative. A book list, forms to keep track of silent and oral reading, and tips for choosing a book and giving an oral book report are also included.

This book demonstrates the usefulness of libraries and books by presenting a basic overview of how to find and use library materials. Many of the exercises require visits to a school or public library. Most of the worksheets can be completed with minimal assistance from the teacher. The work-study pages reflect the changing world of libraries and information centers. New technology affecting present libraries and libraries of the future is introduced and explained on these pages.

Experience African, Chinese, Jewish, Native American and other cultures through literature, celebrations, games and crafts. Each unit also includes an introduction, discussion of the culture's role in U.S. history, an extensive selection of recommended literature and a calendar presentation of significant events. The book concludes with a wonderful resource--reproducible illustrations of children from all the represented countries and cultures in native dress.

This unique resource includes a well-rounded collection of activities to help teachers instill in their students a sensitivity and appreciation toward others. Acknowledging that multicultural education is more than ethnicity, Appreciating Differences provides an inclusive and effective approach in teaching about physical, social, economic or the myriad other differences in today's world. Included are writing activities, games, art experiences, surveying and graphing skills, and expermenting with other languages and ways of communicating. In learning to appreciate differences, children can learn to make a positive difference.

Another book in the popular Daily Discoveries series! Every day is a classroom celebration, a fun and meaningful occasion to observe. Special days include: Soccer Day, Merry Olde England, Ice Cream Day, Flag Day, World Juggling Day, Theme Park Day, At the Beach Day and many more. Use the activities to spice up language arts, social studies, writing, math, science and health, music and drama, physical fitness and art.

This book reveals the dictionary to be an exciting tool. The book may be used with any dictionary, but students will profit from having a variety of dictionaries available. The worksheets emphasize interpreting the keys to dictionary entries. Students will learn new words and understand parts of speech more clearly as they progress through the worksheets. The exercises present a methodical way to practice using the dictionary until each entry and its explanation is clearly understood by the student. Concepts will be reinforced with only minimal assistance.

Each book in the Word Power series provides 22 activities which introduce more than 60 challenging new words chosen from popular literature at the designated level. This mode of selection expands the conventional basal vocabularies and ensures the usefulness of words learned. Three two-page reviews reinforce learning. Activity pages introduce new words in context. Reinforcement is provided in student activities matching words with their meanings, aphabetizing words, matching words with their antonyms, and completing puzzles. All lessons are teacher-created. The teaching guide includes a list of source books for each level.