Product Description

This well-organized and easy to use resource fosters vital skills in listening, reading, speaking and writing. Using popular children's books, you'll teach every curriculum area!

5 titles in each unit
18 integrated, thematic units
450 fresh new teaching ideas-based on teacher-recommended books!
Classroom-tested, developmentally sound-full of learning discoveries that children love!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #494472 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Ingram
The teacher's favorite whole language curriculum--now with 450 fresh new teaching ideas for grades 1-3. Each of 90 best-loved children's books is the basis for five cross-curriculum activities, including writing center. ". . . Raines and Canady have lost nothing of the creative insight and imagination that makes their work the best of its kind."--Jim Trelease, author of The New Read-Aloud Handbook.

About the Author
Dr. Shirley Raines is a Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Childhood Education at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Her specializations for her doctorate were in the areas of early childhood education and child development. Dr. Raines researches both children's interests in books and teaching cases of effective integrated curricula. She is a board member for the Association for Childhood Education International and is active in NAEYC and NAECTE. She is frequently a keynote speaker to local, state, national and international groups. Dr. Raines is a teacher educator who has been a primary classroom teacher, a child care center director and a Head Start director.

She is senior author of The Whole Language Kindergarten from Teacher's College Press and Stories: Children's Literature In Early Education from Delmar.

Dr. Robert Canady is Professor of Education at Marymount University in Virginia. He teaches graduate courses in language arts and reading, and does research in emergent literacy. He has both taught in and directed preschool programs.

Dr. Raines and Dr. Canady are a husband and wife author team. Bob spends his spare time drawing cartoons, restoring antique cars, and flying his own airplane. Shirley does photography and paints watercolors. Together they also wrote The Whole Language Kindergarten, published by Teachers College Press.