Author Description

This Book Provides Opportunities For Older And Younger Children In Different Grades To Work Together On Standards-based Activities. It Contains Over 40 Lessons In Which Elementary School Students Of Different Ages Can Learn Together. Each Activity Can Be Assigned As A Special Project Or As Part Of An Organized Program In Which Teachers Work Together On A Regular Basis. For Each Activity, You Will Be Provided With: Standards -- Reading, Writing, Or Mathematics, And Assessment Rubrics, Student Handouts, Ready For Photocopying. To Help You Assess Your Students Objectively And Confidently, About A Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table Of Contents; Preface; 1 Buddies: The Importance Of Partnership For Children And Teachers; The Benefits For Children; The Benefits For Teachers; Meeting Student Needs; Grade Combinations And Considerations; Implementation; Planning For Buddies; Training The Buddies; The Importance Of Standards; Assessing For Student Understanding; Generic Rubric; 2 Reading Activities; Beginning, Middle, And End; Character Cube; Dear Character Letter; Give Me Five Main Ideas; Mapping A Story; Memory With Words; Nonfiction Reading Timeline; Personal Dictionary Read And Rewriteread And Spin; Reading Bookmarks; Reading The Newspaper; Story Brief; Word Search; 3 Writing Activities; Buddy Couplets; Cinquain Poetry; Color My World; Dear Buddy Letter; If I Could Be; Interview; My Buddy And I Book; Name Poem; Postcards; Recipe For A Buddy; Revising And Editing; Story Strip; Want Ads; Who Am I?; 4 Mathematics Activities; Birthday Cake Graph; Buying Books; Dichotomous Classification; Geo-mallows; Guessing About Capacity; Me And My Buddy Glyphs; Menu Math; Odd And Even, Fair Game; Paper Quilts; Pebbles And A King; Probability Experiment Snowflake Symmetry, An Area Lessonstrategy With Basic Facts; Tape Measures Pia Hansen Powell. First Published 2001 By Eye On Education. English