Most Popular Books by Nancy Polette

Because of her mother''s alcoholism, an Ozark girl is forced to take a job with a woman known as the town witch and subsequently learns the real meaning of forgiveness.

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

Approaches research through activities that promote critical and productive thinking. Skills of location, acquisition, organization, communication, and evaluation of information are presented. Intended to move students from teacher-directed to self-directed learning.

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.

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.

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.

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

This essential guide has exactly the right books to help you celebrate special days throughout the year—even "holidays" you''ve never heard of—and provides hundreds of fun titles and activities that could inspire your students to become life-long readers. Young students need to continually be presented with a vast variety of types of books, authors, illustrators, and subject matter in order to find the perfect concept or image that sparks their imagination, takes their comprehension to a new level, or helps them turn the corner to becoming a book lover. Nancy J. Polette''s The Picture Book Almanac: Picture Books and Activities to Celebrate 365 Familiar and Unusual Holidays can be used year-round as a key to open that great literary treasure vault. The books Polette has painstakingly selected for their value as learning opportunities tie into both familiar and unusual holidays, ranging from official, nationally recognized holidays to obscure ones such as Milk Day and Thesaurus Day. The daily featured book titles cover the classics, such as books in the Paddington Bear series and Cinderella to outstanding current and just-published titles, collectively representing the best choices for collection building over time. This book is an excellent tool for collection development as well as an indispensable resource for reading teachers and classroom teachers.

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

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.