A very unusual book ideal for gifted children. It compares old time folktales with modern folktales. It teaches the child how to analyze themes and characterization in literature.

Activities With Folktales and Fairy Tales

Literature & Fiction

Nancy Polette

Mythology & Folk Tales

Book Lures

This is a handy guide containing ready-to-use research activitie4s for every month of the school year, September through May. Activities call for the use of many standard reference sources found in most school libraries and are of both a convergent and divergent nature to enable students in Grades 4 through 8 to acquire knowledge and to stretch minds into higher levels of thinking.

The research almanac

Virginia Mealy

The Research Book of the Fifty States

Pieces of Learning

This book is Out of Print...Please search for the Research Without Copying - 3rd Expanded Edition - ISBN 978-1-934358-26-9

Research Without Copying

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Looking for a go-to storytime resource devoted to fairy tales? Fairy Tale Fun delivers storytime gold to any children s programming line-up with ready-to-use poems, stories, unique games, treasure hunts, and word searches. Offering variety for children 3-10 years old, these fairy tale activities can be used for one specific age group or different activities can be shared between cross-sections of age groups. Fairy tale bingo reinforces word and number skills, while more than ten original paper bag puppet designs add a wonderful visual element to storytime that keeps kids captivated. Companion book lists for each fairy tale make finding additional resources for specific fairy tales a breeze. The book includes traditional fairy tales, such as: Aesop s fables, Hansel and Gretel, Peter and the Wolf, Rapunzel, and The Ugly Duckling. It also includes unique activities for popular fairy tales, such as: Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Princess and the Pea. And less well-known European classics, such as: The Bremen Town Musicians, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Seven Ravens, and the Selfish Giant. Nancy Polette has written hundreds of books and taught children for years. School Library Journal called her, an educator with imagination, creativity and an appreciation for the intelligence of children. Nancy gives you the activities you want to use and resources you need for any fairy tale storytime.

Fairy Tale Fun!

Teen & Young Adult

Neal-Schuman Publishers

Four For Tea

Research Book of the Fifty States

Children's Books

Education & Reference

Over 100 unique research product models move students from lower to higher levels of thinking, Students are required to use analysis and synthesis of the data they collect as well as problem solving skills and evaluation. Changing the product changes the process and thinking level, creating an exceptional and distinctive research product. Categories of products include Projects to Build A Working Vocabulary; Poetry Patterns; Models for Reporting Factual Information; Reporting with a Camera, Paints, and Pencil; Blending Fact and Fiction; Record Books; and Biography Reports.

Research Project Book: Over 100 Research Reporting Models!

Education & Teaching

Polette, Nancy

Mealy, Virginia

Schools & Teaching

Activities for Any Novel provides approaches for developing a balanced reading program using literature as its focus. Polette presents literature-based activity examples allowing students to respond to literature in creative ways using skills important to literacy. Involve students with: - Vocabulary to group and/or use in sentences - Open-ended sentence starters - Higher order discussion questions Chapter summaries The strategies incorporate the Six Keys to Learning. - Learning is social. - Learning begins with the learner's experience. - Successful learning requires risk taking. - True learning stresses meaning. - Learning must be active. - Effective learning mandates choice. Polette also presents a clear procedure for evaluating projects.

Activities For Any Novel

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