Most Popular Books by Nancy Polette

These booktalks and activities have been chosen to strengthen and enrich this period of history and to help students develop critical thinking skills.

Features authors Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), Joan M. Lexau, Ezra Jack Keats, Hardie Gramatky, Robert Lopshire, Evaline Ness, Lillian Hoban, Arnold Lobel and Martha Alexander.

This new book from Nancy Polette discusses how to use picture book biographies to help students recognise traits of giftedness that they possess themselves. Stretch young minds to creative and productive thought with some of the best picture book biographies currently available.

A collection of literature activities for gifted students, featuring brief summaries of suggested titles, each followed by one or more activities; grouped in the categories of picture books, fairy tales and fantasy, the classics and poetry, exploring diversity, learning from the past, and heroines and heroes.

Contains more than 250 author games and booktalks to movtivate middle school readers.

Directed to teachers, librarians, and staff development personnel, an introduction to teaching thinking skills in the primary grades covers over thirty-five skills and includes reproducible pages of activities for practice.

Offers tools designed to encourage children to use their higher order thinking skills by discovering the history and culture of the United States by reading novels set in each of the fifty states. Includes reproducible reader-response activities, booktalks, and recommended titles for each state. Grades 3-6.

Fiction, Reading Recovery Level 9, F&P Level F, DRA2 Level 10, Theme Family/Grandparents, Stage Early, Character N/A

A hungry cat eats everyone he sees, until he swallows the little old woman who owns him and she takes steps to put a stop to his gluttony.

A is for Artists painting the hardships of prison life. E is for Escape, as determined prisoners make daring plans to regain their freedom. More than one hundred thousand American service members have been captured by an enemy and imprisoned during war. Tens of thousands are still missing. This book tells the true stories of only a few of these brave men and women, but their stories represent the experiences of many others. The accompanying illustrations are based on surviving artwork, current and historic photographs, and firsthand descriptions of people, places, and events. From Geneva Conventions to Operation Homecoming, Tap Code to Yellow Ribbon and more, N is for Never Forget is a compelling journey through wartime history, honoring the sacrifices of prisoners of war (POWs), those missing in action (MIA), and their families. Poignant illustrations and stories capture key people, concepts, and memorials to help readers understand and honor the sacrifices endured by men and women prisoners of war and missing in action on behalf of freedom.

If you expect to hear moaning and groaning in the children''s wards at St. Kit''s Hospital. you are in for a surprise. Despite their handicaps this lively bunch who call themselves THE BONE BRIGADE keep the doctors and Miss Brown, the head nurse, hopping.

Over 100 research activities are based on outstanding nonfiction titles for students in grades 4-9.

Contains classroom activities centered around the Cinderella tales from eight countries: Egypt, Korea, Africa, Germany, Native American, Great Britain, Russia, and China.

Literature-based Reading'' contains a wide variety of classroom-tested strategies for a successful literature-based reading/writing program. Included are strategies which are applicable to any literature selection, applicable to any grade level, applicable to any subject discipline, designed for ease in teaching skills naturally from the literature with built-in success for every student.

Brings history alive with junior novels by using a whole language approach.

Presents teaching suggestions for use with each of the novels.

Harold''s imagination takes him on an adventurous romp through the alphabet with a number of familiar storybook characters.