Creative Activities for Young Children Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought a used copy in good condition for $3.00.
This is the recommended purchase price, not $116.49
Congratulations to Mayesky on her retirement fund.
10th edition! Who could quarrel with that? I can.
This book is designed for the uncreative teacher,
swamped-under in an over-enrolled classroom.
It sets a standard for "creativity" that is mediocre,
despite the promises of the publisher. Visit any
preschool in America and this is what you can see.
Under-funded programs require this approach to
"creativity" - popsicle sticks and glitter, perhaps with
a feather for that additional creative flourish. Sad.
If you have more than $3.00, try The 100 Languages
of Children (Reggio Emilia) or Let's Talk With The World
(Cikanova)

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CREATIVE ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN, 10th Edition, is a terrific book filled with fun, creative, and easy-to implement activities for young children. You'll be encouraged to exercise your own creativity, as well as learn how to help young children do the same. Hundreds of activities, up-to-date research, recipes, finger plays, information on how to select children's books, and more make this book an invaluable resource for you and others planning to work creatively with children across the curriculum--and one you'll want to keep for use throughout your professional career.

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Learning Through Writing: Authentic Writing Activities for the Content Areas: Grade 4 Review

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(More customer reviews)Teachers of writing finally have a resource for authentic, engaging writing activities that can be successfully and easily implemented in the classroom! In this day of increased demands, teachers need a resource like this to help manage the complex task of integrating subjects. At this school, the principal has recognized the value of this resource by purchasing one for each third, fourth and fifth grade teacher. It includes all the components to effectively inspire even the most reluctant writer! I highly recommend this book to teachers searching for ways to impact student learning.

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Check students content-area knowledge, writing skills, and critical thinking at the same time! Fun, authentic writing activities for language arts, math, science, social studies, and health/nutrition take students through the entire writing process, from brainstorming to publishing, while letting imaginations soar.
This series includes one grade-level book each for third, fourth, and fifth grade, offering the flexibility to pick from a variety of activities. Choose the activities from each grade that appeal most to your students, or use only the book for your grade to match your students skill levels and target grade-appropriate content-area topics and writing skills.
Each ready-to-go activity -includes lesson plans, extensions, rubrics, student worksheets, and examples
-clearly lists objectives, materials and teacher preparation needed, and what prior knowledge and skills are being targeted-is easily differentiated to meet students needs-can be used on its own, with other content-area activities, or as class time allows-connects to national content-area and writing standards -reflects grade-appropriate language and writing skills
Publishing ideas, bibliographies, student checklists, and correlations to commonly taught writing standards and craft skills make this resource complete and easy to use.
You ll never run out of authentic ways to make learning through writing fun.--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Teaching Middle School Language Arts: Incorporating Twenty-first Century Literacies Review

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(More customer reviews)I was honored when the author asked me to write a preface for this splendid book. I have been teaching for about 30 years, but I learned a tremendous amount reading it. Ms. Roseboro's concrete examples and illustrations about teaching language arts will help teachers of all ages and subjects. She has learned by doing, by trying creative approaches and then refining the ones that worked the best.
I've always thought that language arts (I teach communication) is one of the most interesting topics to teach. Language arts is about people and relationships, and about stories that can enrich our lives and build common understanding for the good of community and society. Reading this book renewed my love affair with the field. Ms. Roseboro's own enthusiasm is infectious. I can understand why she is an award-winning teacher and a national board certified instructor.
I especially hope that new teachers will consider the ways that Ms. Roseboro has integrated deep pedagogical insights with practical teaching skills. It's easy as a new teacher to get so overwhelmed with daily preparations and classroom activities that one loses track of the theories behind one's instructional approaches. When it comes to teaching language arts with new literacies in mind, this kind of theoretically disconnected teaching becomes very problematic. Teachers fall prey to the latest "media" fads that are both unproven and usually a waste of time.
I'm grateful for Ms. Roseboro's inspiring book. I am honored to have written the preface.
Quentin J. Schultze, Ph.D., author of How to Write Powerful College Student Resumes and Cover Letters: Secrets That Get Job Interviews Like Magic

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Teaching Middle School Language Arts is the first book on teaching middle school language arts for multiple intelligences and related 21st century literacies in technologically and ethnically diverse communities. More than 670,000 middle school teachers (grades six through eight) are responsible for educating nearly 13 million students in public and private schools. Thousands more teachers join these ranks annually, especially in the South and West, where ethnic populations are ballooning. Teachers and administrators seek practical, time-efficient ways of teaching language arts to 21st century adolescents in increasingly multicultural, technologically diverse, socially networked communities. They seek sound understanding, practical advice, and proven strategies for connecting diverse literature to 21st century societies while meeting state and professional standards. Teaching Middle School Language Arts provides strategies and resources that work. Roseboro's book provides an entire academic year of inspiring theory and instruction in multimedia reading, writing, and speaking for the 21st century literacies that are increasingly required in the United States and Canada. An appendix includes supplementary documents to adapt or adopt, and a companion web site is designed to continue communication with readers.

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