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Inside Stories, Book 2 - Study Guides for Children's Literature

Children's Books

Montgomery, Janice

Education & Reference

Prufrock Pr

Discover who stole the secret chocolate recipe and you'll not only be a great detective, you'll be a master of logical thinking. The mystery becomes the vehicle for teaching logical thinking. Each logic puzzle presents clues that allow students to narrow the field of suspects to the one guilty culprit. Eight logical skills are presented in this motivating format. Students will love it! Grades 5-8.

The Great Chocolate Caper, A Mystery That Teaches Logic

UNKNOWN

In Quest of Solutions to the Mysteries Inside

Literature & Fiction

Andron, Sandy

Genre Fiction

Missing Pieces: Exercises in Critical Thinking

Campbell, Lucille Chisholm

Provides tips on how to start, organize, maintain, and display a collection and includes advice from young people who are currently maintaining collections.

Ultimate Guide to Collecting

Stephens, Kristen R.

Motivating gifted students can present a challenge for any teacher. This book is packed with strategies and helpful tips to help you motivate your gifted learners. The authors offer specific ideas for making sure that the gifted children in your classroom stay engaged and excited about learning. Although gifted students are not normally considered at risk for academic failure, the seeming lack of motivation of many academically gifted students is a continuing area of concern and frustration for many teachers, parents, and counselors. Del Siegle and D. Betsy McCoach explore crucial issues such as why some students who seem capable of outstanding performance fail to realize their potential and what causes some gifted students to be more motivated than others. This is one of the books in Prufrock Press' popular Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education. This series offers a unique collection of tightly focused books that provide a concise, practical introduction to important topics concerning the education of gifted children. The guides offer a perfect beginner's introduction to key information about gifted and talented education. Educational Resource

Motivating Gifted Students

Education & Teaching

Del Siegle

D. Betsy McCoach

Schools & Teaching

Motivate young students to strengthen their ability to communicate an idea or thought with these exciting, ready-to-use language activities. Because not all primary students are able to write fluently, students are given the option of writing, illustrating, or acting out their response to the activities. The book includes standards-based independent language arts activities for students in grades K-2, such as developing a newspaper and inventing new words. Students will enjoy acting out their own skits with finger puppets they make themselves; developing a travel brochure; designing their own state flag; or creating a new community of small, easy to assemble buildings. An optional self-evaluation worksheet is included in the book and may be used upon completion of each activity.

Extra! Extra!: Advanced Reading And Writing Activities for Language Arts

Crowder, Terri

This essential assortment of creative reading and writing activities for advanced learners includes a wide array of motivating activities that are sure to spark the creativity of your students and expand their literary horizons! Students will enjoy improving their writing skills through engaging minilessons on topics such as adding suspense or figurative language to compositions, while also using higher-order thinking skills to alter the point of view or setting. After completing a minilesson, the student then reads a fairy tale of his or her choice, and applies what has been learned to a writing assignment based loosely on that fairy tale. Students are sure to gain a better understanding of the connections between reading and writing that will benefit them in years to come!

Creative Writing: Using Fairy Tales to Enrich Writing Skills

Hackett, Teresa Cannon

This complete guide to the Creative Problem Solving process is everything you need to teach this versatile skill. CPS is a process that allows people to apply both creative and critical thinking to find solutions to everyday problems. Creative Problem Solving can eliminate the tendency to approach problems in a haphazard manner and, consequently, prevents surprises and/or disappointment with the solution. It is both a way to enhance creative behavior and also a systematic way of organizing information and ideas in order to solve problems. It is an effective way to exercise both divergent and convergent thinking. Students who learn the principles of CPS develop a sense of control in their lives derived from their ability to deal with difficult situations creatively. 
The extensive text includes an explanation of each step in the process, group lessons and extensions, skill builders for each step, open frames to use with each step, and practice problems. It includes ideas for identifying problems, finding relevant facts about each problem, and methods for generating and judging ideas. Examples are from common situations that students can relate to. Attractive illustrations add to the relevant problem situations and clear step-by-step presentation. 
Use these exercises to teach an entire unit on Creative Problem Solving or use selected worksheets for practice in creative or critical thinking or as writing prompts. 
For more information on Creative Problem Solving, refer to Creative Problem Solving: An Introduction, CPS for Kids, CPS for Teens, CPS in the Classroom, and the Creative Problem Solver's Guidebook. 
Grades 5–8

Creative Problem Solving for Kids

Draze, Dianne

Adequate preparation for the future requires that children are able to use more than a one-solution thought process; more than the right-answer, convergent thinking should be required by all in every classroom. The problems your students will face in the future will require differentiated thinking. An emphasis on creative thinking skills in the classroom necessitates providing students with open-ended assignments and encouragement as they search for new answers. 
Get ready for an explosion of creative thought when you use the ideas in this book. Your class will be overflowing with unique ideas as students brainstorm, make creative comparisons, find unusual uses, and problem solve. 
After an introduction to the four areas of creative thought (fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration) and tasks to stimulate these particular skills, this power-packed text gives students a variety of situations on reproducible worksheets that integrate these skills. Use this as your entire creativity course or as periodic thought provokers. 
Get the creative juices flowing. Have an imagination celebration! 
Grades 4-7

Imagination Celebration: Adventures in Creativity

Leimbach, Judy

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