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Brock, Cynthia H.; Goatley, Virginia J.; Raphael, Taffy E.; Trost, Elisabeth; Weber, Catherine M. – Teachers College Press, 2014
This accessible book will help elementary school teachers improve literacy instruction inside or outside the Common Core environment. The authors address teachers' instructional needs by introducing key concepts from current trends in literacy education--from high-level standards to the use of 21st-century literacies. Readers then follow teachers…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Literacy Education, Common Core State Standards
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McCormick, Theresa M. – Social Education, 2008
Decision making is one of the essential skills advocated by the National Council for the Social Studies for effective citizenship in a democratic society. Leaders in any society make decisions that influence many lives. In a democratic society, we expect that deductive and inductive reasoning guide decisions made for the common good. However, what…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Japanese Americans
Polette, Nancy – Teacher Ideas Press, 2008
Using an approach based on a Harvard study that found "when the whole body is involved, the number of brain cells brought to the learning activity doubles," the author offers over one hundred kinesthetic activities for classroom use. Activities are organized by content area, include directions for number of players, objective, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Grade 4, Nonfiction, Learning Activities
Reima Al-Jarf – Online Submission, 2003
The present study tried to find out whether Saudi history textbooks for grades 4-12 contain global themes, in which grade levels global themes are introduced, the percentage of global themes, local history themes and Islamic history themes, and which global history themes are taught. A checklist of global history themes was developed. Those are:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Textbooks, Grade 4