Product Description: This handy flipchart describes how teachers can effectively use picture books as tools for learning. Through deeper reading, students experience and respond to picture books in a way that enhances understanding and leads to renewed wonder...read more

Product Description: Despite being a source of continuing interest to educational scholars, research into the literary understanding of elementary school students has emphasized written materials over multimodal mediums such as picturebooks. Focusing on students in Grades one and five, this book describes children's interpretations of and responses to a variety of contemporary picturebooks, specifically those books that employ Radical Change characteristics and metafictive devices...read more

Product Description: This reading list presents teachers with a sample of books that exemplify Christian virtues. These virtues parallel the Eight Beatitudes found in the Gospel of St. Matthew. At least twenty titles are presented for each virtue.Also available:Working Reading List: Preschool to Grade 2 - ISBN 155833307XWorking Reading List Grades 6 to 8 - ISBN 1558333096Our titles help all catholic educators and administrators have the professional resources to meet the highest standards of excellence in Catholic education...read more

Product Description: This reading list presents teachers with a sample of books that exemplify Christian virtues. These virtues parallel the Eight Beatitudes found in the Gospel of St. Matthew. At least twenty titles are presented for each virtue.Also available:Working Reading List Grades 3 to 5 - ISBN 1558333088Working Reading List Grades 6 to 8 - ISBN 1558333096Our titles help all catholic educators and administrators have the professional resources to meet the highest standards of excellence in Catholic education...read more

Product Description: This guide seeks to identify the best picture books for addressing specific areas of the curriculum. After brief book annotations, the authors outline 20 activities for each of the five disciplines. They include materials lists, tips for success, do's and don'ts, and additional resources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Elementary School Library Resource Kit