Prairie
Trail Elementary
Kaleidoscope
: a multicultural booklist for grades K-8
More
books kids will sit still for
Qualities
of effective teachers.
Teaching
gifted kids in the regular classroom : strategies and techniques every teacher
can use
In
the company of children. York, Me. :
Teaching
with children's books
Easy
to Tell Stories for Young Children.
Bookplay
: 101 creative themes
Inventing,
inventions, and inventors
Circuit
sense for elementary teacher and students : understanding and building simple
logic
The
Lap-time song and play book
Becoming
a love and logic parent
TEXAS
EDUCATIONS AGENCY'S 1995-96 ACADEMIC
The
National Geographic Society : 100 years of adventure and discovery.
LEWISVILLE
I.S.D. BOARD POLICY MANUAL
Abridged
Dewey decimal classification and relative index. Ed. 12.
Albany, N.Y. : Forest Press, a
THE
SCHOOL LIBRARIAN'S BOOK OF LISTS
National
geographic index, 1888-1988.
TEACHING
& LEARNING THROUGH MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES.
NEEDHAM
HEIGHTS, MA : SIMON & SCHUSTER,
THE
WORST LOSS - HOW FAMILIES HEAL FROM THE DEATH OF A CHILD. NEW YORK : HENRY HOLT INC.
Raise
your child's self-esteem :
Don't
feed the monster on Tuesdays!
The
smart parent's guide to kids' TV.
Helping
children cope with divorce.
DISCIPLINE
WITH LOVE AND LOGIC.
RAISING
THE ODDS FOR RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR.
DISCIPLINE
WITH LOVE AND LOGIC. GOLDEN,
COLO. : LOVE AND LOGIC PRESS.
WHO'S
PROBLEM? TECHNIQUES FOR PROBLEM SOLVING.
Control
theory in the classroom.
501
ways to use the overhead projector
UNBELIEVABLY
GOOD DEALS THAT YOU ABSOLUTELY CAN'T GET UNLESS YOU'RE A TEACHER.
DESIGNING
PLACES FOR LEARNING.
HOW
TO HELP YOUR LEARNING - CHALLENGED CHILD.
Parenting
a child with a learning
Inside
whole language : a classroom view.
Joyful
learning : a whole language kindergarten.
THINKING
AND LEARNING TOGETHER.
Story
stretchers for the primary grades :
LITERATURE
BASED THEMATIC UNIT - IMMIGRANTS
LITERATURE
GEMS - WHOLE LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES FOR
Math
through children's literature
Growing
mathematical ideas in kindergarten.
Building
number sense (Grade 1).
IN
TIME PAST – USING CHILDREN'S LITERATURE TO TEACH.
LITERATURE-BASED
THEMATIC UNITS ECOLOGY.
Ready-to-use
social skills lessons & activities for grades 7-12.
MATHEMATICS
THEIR WAY – AN ACTIVITY-CENTERED
USING
MATH EXPLORER CALCULATOR - A SOURCEBOOK FOR
The
Brown paper school presents
About
teaching mathematics : a K-8 resource.
MAKE
IT SIMPLER - A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PROBLEM : SOLVING IN MATHEMATICS.
Mathematicians
are people, too :
THE
WONDERFUL WORLD OF WIGGLERS.
HUMAN
BRAIN AND HUMAN LEARNING
Cultivating
a child's imagination through gardening.
HELICOPTERS,
DRILL SERGEANTS AND CONSULTANTS
HELICOPTERS,
DRILL SERGEANTS AND CONSULTANTS.
Love
me enough to set some limits.
Helicopters,
drill sergeants, and consultants :
Taming
the dragon in your child : solutions
NORMAL
CHILDREN HAVE PROBLEMS, TOO
HELPING
YOUR DIFFICULT CHILD BEHAVE.
AFTER
THE END: TEACHING AND LEARNING.
THE
SLAVE GIRL WHO HELPED START TEXAS
THE
TEXAS WHO SAID NO TO FAILURE;
THE
GIRL WHO SAW TEXAS INDEPENDENCE:
THE
EYES AND EARS OF THE TEXAS ARMY;"DEAF" SMITH.
The
Tejano who wouldn't give up : Juan Seguin.
PORTRAITS
OF ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS.
Portraits
of Native American Indians.
PORTRAITS
OF MEXICAN AMERICANS.
When
Eric's mom fought cancer.
A
collection of math lessons :
LOVE
ME ENOUGH TO SET SOME LIMITS.
PRO 011.62 CUL
Cullinan, Bernice E.
Let's read about : finding books they'll
love to read.
discovering what a child is interested in, then finding
books the child would like, and last helping the child
develop good reading habits so that continual progress is
made.
PRO 016.3058 KAL
Kaleidoscope :
a multicultural booklist for grades K-8.
IL : NCTE, c1994. An annotated list of nearly 400
multicultural books for children.
PRO 027.62 MAC
MacDonald, Margaret Read, 1940-.
When the lights go out : twenty
scary tales to tell.
[
Designed primarily as a collection of scary fare for adults
to tell elementary-age children, the tales may be read and
some even told by children. Also contains notes on the
stories.
PRO 028.1 FRE
Freeman, Judy.
More books kids will sit still for : a read-aloud
guide.
of ways to use children's books, with a series of graded
annotated list of over 3,500 kid-tested and recommended
titles, plus author, subject, and title indexes.
PRO 370.11 NOR
The moral of the story : folktales for
character development.
Publishers, 1999. A guide to using storytelling and
folktales in character education that includes twelve
stories that can be used in different lessons and additional
sources of folktales that would be suitable for classroom
use.
PRO 371.102
Stronge, James H.
Qualities
of effective teachers.
Development, c2002. Prerequisites of effective teaching --
The teacher as a person -- Classroom management and
organization -- Organizing for instruction -- Implementing
instruction -- Monitoring student progress and potential --
Effective teaching, what does it mean? -- Teacher
effectiveness, resources you can use -- Teacher skills
assessment checklists -- Teacher responsibilities and
behaviors.
PRO 371.2 DAN
Danielson, Charlotte.
Enhancing student achievement : a
framework for school improvement.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development,
c2002.
PRO 371.2 MAR
Marzano, Robert J.
What works in schools : translating research
into action.
and Curriculum Development, c2003. Ushering in the best of
times -- The school-level factors -- A guaranteed and viable
curriculum -- Challenging goals and effective feedback --
Parent and community involvement -- Safe and orderly
environment -- Staff collegiality and professionalism -- The
teacher-level factors -- Instructional strategies --
Classroom management -- Classroom curriculum design -- The
student-level factors -- Home environment -- Learned
intelligence and background knowledge -- Student motivation
-- Implementing the model -- Using the model -- The critical
role of leadership.
PRO 371.95 WIN
Winebrenner, Susan, 1939-.
to meet the academic needs of the gifted and talented.
identify themselves -- Learning contracts that really work
-- Creating more challenging activities for gifted students
-- Cooperative learning and gifted students.
PRO 372.3 HEF
Hefner, Christine Roots.
Literature-based science : children's
books and activities to enrich the K-5 curriculum.
of recommended readings, and activities for individual
students or small groups for different science units.
PRO 372.6 HIN
Hindley, Joanne, 1959-.
Stenhouse Publishers, c1996. Provides instruction on
building a successful reading and writing workshop in the
classroom, with information on how to introduce formal
writing projects from notebooks, where to get ideas for
mini-lessons, what role reader-response plays, and assessing
student progress.
PRO 372.6 TRE
Trelease, Jim.
The read-aloud handbook. 4th ed.
Penguin Books, 1995. Why read aloud? -- When to begin
read-aloud -- The stages of read-aloud -- The dos and don'ts
of read-aloud -- Read-aloud success stories -- Home, school,
and public libraries -- Television -- Sustained silent
reading : reading-aloud's natural partner -- How to use the
treasury -- Treasury of read-alouds. Explains how reading
aloud awakens children's imaginations, improves language
skills, and creates an atmosphere at home and in school that
encourages readers. Also discusses how to compete with
television and video games.
PRO 372.6 TRE
Trelease, Jim.
The new read-aloud handbook.
Penguin Books, 1989. Provides advice on reading aloud and
an annotated list of recommended titles, from picture books
to novels.
PRO 372.6044 TEA
Teaching with children's books : paths to literature-based
instruction.
English, c1995. Twenty-seven essays by teachers,
administrators, and educators discussing literature-based
instruction, the practice of using children's books as a
basis for teaching other classroom disciplines.
PRO 372.62 FLE
Fletcher, Ralph J.
What a writer
needs.
Heinemann, c1993. Provides specific, practical strategies
designed to help teachers improve and challenge their
students' writing skills.
PRO 372.62 GRA
Graves, Donald H.
A fresh look at writing.
Heinemann, c1994. Make a fresh start -- Consider your roots
-- Learn from the children -- Why would anyone ever want to
write? -- Day one : help children to write and keep writing
-- Understand children when they write -- Expect more of
your writers -- Establish the essentials for child
responsibility -- Conditions for effective writing -- Begin
to organize your classroom -- Help children to share their
writing -- Evaluate your own classroom -- Experiment with
portfolios -- Teach the fundamentals of writing -- Help
children learn conventions -- Help children to read their
own work -- Help children to revise their work -- How to
keep handwriting in perspective -- Spell to communicate --
Answers to frequent questions teachers ask about teaching
and writing -- Broaden the children's repertoire for writing
-- Help children read and write fiction -- Show children how
to write nonfiction -- Uncover the world through poetry --
Continue to learn with others -- Work with parents and
administrators -- Live the professional life --
Classification of actions. Describes techniques that
teachers can use to increase their students' appreciation
for writing and offers a detailed, week-by-week description
of fourteen sessions designed to improve students' writing
and reading skills.
PRO 372.64 BAU
Bauer, Caroline Feller.
The poetry break : an annotated
anthology with ideas for introducing children to poetry.
Bronx, N.Y. : H.W. Wilson, 1994. Presents a collection of
over 240 poems with methods and activities to familiarize
children with poetry.
PRO 372.64 HAR
Harrison, Annette.
National Storytelling Association : c1992.
PRO 372.64 MAC
MacDonald, Margaret Read, 1940-.
to share with young children. North Haven, Conn. : Library
Professional Publications, 1995. Suggestions for teachers,
librarians, or anyone in charge of a children's group, for
providing fun, book-based programs using stories, poems,
music, games, drama, and art.
PRO 394.2 THA
Thanksgiving handbook. Elgin, Ill. : Chicago, Ill. : Child's
World, Inc. ; Distributed by Childrens Press, c1985.
Contains classroom resources for teachers in grades K-3.
Contains crafts, cooking ideas, poems, etc.
PRO 398.2 CRI
Criscoe, Betty L., 1940-.
bull of Norroway -- The brave little tailor -- Cap O' rushes
-- Chicken little -- Clever Elsie -- The cunning little
tailor -- The goose girl -- Kate Crackernuts -- King
Thrushbeard -- Mother Holly -- Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar -- The
seven ravens -- The six servants -- The three pigs -- The
turnip. A collection of fifteen adapted fairy tales
arranged in dialogue format for two readers in grades 2-4.
PRO 591 LIV
Livo, Lauren J.
Of bugs and beasts : fact, folklore, and
activities. Englewood, Colo. : Teacher Ideas Press, 1995.
Profiles of fifteen animals include some of the folktales
associated with the animal, a variety of activities related
to the animal, and an annotated resource list for more
information.
PRO 607 FLA
Flack, Jerry D.
Inventing, inventions, and inventors : a
teaching resource book. Englewood, Colo. : Teacher Ideas
Press, 1989. Learning options to use with gifted and
talented youth.
PRO 618.92 QUI
Quinn, Patricia O.
Putting on the brakes : young people's guide
to understanding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD). New York : Magination Press, c1991. A guide to
understanding and gaining control over attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder.
PRO 621.39 HOU
Houghton, Janaye Matteson.
circuits. Englewood, Colo. : Teacher Ideas Press, 1994.
Provides instructions for classroom projects in electricity
and circuit design.
PRO 621.8 ST
St. Andre, Ralph E.
Simple machines made simple. Englewood,
Colo. : Teacher Ideas Press, 1993. Guide for teachers to
teach students grades 3-8 the essential principles and basic
mechanics of simple machines with ideas for experiments and
cooperative learning activities.
PRO 736 KAL
Kallevig, Christine Petrell.
storytelling and origami together for holiday fun. 1st ed.
Broadview Heights, Ohio : Storytime Ink International,
c1992. Holiday stories are used to help demonstrate how to
do nine different origami projects; includes activities for
Columbus Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
PRO 784.6 LAP
The Lap-time song and play book. San Diego : Harcourt Brace,
c1989. For piano; with interlinear words. A collection of
sixteen nursery songs, each with a historic note, musical
arrangements, and instructions for accompanying activities.
PRO 790.1 CHR
Christmas handbook. Elgin, IL : Childs World, 1984. Provides a
variety of Christmas activities which may be utilized with
children grades K-3.
PRO 790.1 EAS
Easter handbook. Elgin, Ill. : Chicago, Ill. : Child's World ;
Distributed by Childrens Press, c1986. Contains games,
songs, poems, bulletin board ideas, and activities suitable
for use with children in grades K-3.
PRO 790.1 FEB
February holidays handbook. Elgin, Ill. : Chicago, Ill. :
Child's World ; Distributed by Childrens Press, c1985.
Contains classroom resources for teachers in grades K-3.
Contains crafts, cooking ideas, poems, songs, bulletin board
ideas and more.
PRO 808 SPE
Speaking of journals : children's book writers talk about their
diaries, notebooks, and sketchbooks. 1st ed. Honesdale,
Pa. : Boyds Mills Press, 1999. Contains interviews with
twenty-seven notable children's book authors, including
Bruce Coville, Eileen Spinelli, and Jean Craighead George,
in which they discuss the impact of journal keeping on their
lives and careers.
PRO 808.5 BAR
Barchers, Suzanne I.
Scary readers
theatre.
Teacher Ideas Press, 1994. The black cats are talking --
The grave -- The Hobyahs -- The strange hotel -- The wolf
and the seven little kids -- Bolster -- Brave heart -- The
girl with the lavender dress -- Jack and his master --
Raggelugg -- The thieving lad -- The three dwarfs -- The
tinderbox -- The voice of death -- The witches with the
horns -- Antoine -- The creature who came to dinner -- The
fiddler's contest -- Fowler's fowl -- The headless haunt --
Janet and Tam Lin -- Rachel's curse -- The red ribbon -- The
robber bridegroom -- The tale of the talking eggs -- Aaron
Kelly's bones -- The hydra -- The minotaur -- The punishment
-- The thief and the liar. Scripts drawn from folktales,
myths, ghost stories, and modern urban legends with hints on
how to bring readers theatre into the classroom.
PRO 808.543 BAL
Baltuck, Naomi, 1956-.
Crazy gibberish : and other story hour
stretches (from a storyteller's bag of tricks).
bucket : chants & other nonmusical fun -- Tell it with me :
audience participation stories -- Sing it high, sing it low
: action songs, musical games, & snappy choruses -- Knee
slappers, rib ticklers, & tongue twisters. A sourcebook of
chants, songs, action stories, riddles, jokes, tongue
twisters, and participation games.
PRO KIT 649.1
Becoming a love and logic parent. Golden, CO : Cline/Fay
Institute, Inc., c1991. Helicopters, drill sergeants and
consultants -- Four steps to responsibility -- Avoiding
power struggles with kids -- Love me enough to set some
limits. A parenting program consisting of 7 modules:
Raising responsible kids -- The Love and logic formula --
"C" stands for control that's shared -- "O" is for ownership
of the problem -- "O" is also for opportunity for thinking
-- "L" stands for let consequences do the teaching -- Let's
wrap it up and take it home!.
PROF
TEXAS EDUCATIONS AGENCY'S 1995-96 ACADEMIC : EXCELLENCE INDICATOR
SYSTEM REPORT.
PROF
Allen, Dorothea.
Hands-on science! : 112 easy-to-use,
high-interest activities for grades 4-8. West
Center for Applied Research in Education, c1991.
PROF
Allen, Dorothea.
Hands-on science! : 112 easy-to-use,
high-interest activities for grades 4-8. West
Center for Applied Research in Education, c1991.
PROF
Allen, Dorothea.
Hands-on science! : 112 easy-to-use,
high-interest activities for grades 4-8. West
Center for Applied Research in Education, c1991.
PROF
Allen, Dorothea.
Hands-on science! : 112 easy-to-use,
high-interest activities for grades 4-8. West
Center for Applied Research in Education, c1991.
PROF
Allen, Dorothea.
Hands-on science! : 112 easy-to-use,
high-interest activities for grades 4-8. West
Center for Applied Research in Education, c1991.
PROF
Bryan,
C. D. B. (Courtlandt
narrative alternate with ten special theme sections to cover
the entire history of the National Geographic Society.
PROF.