Books in the The Pippin Teacher's Library series

This practical guide provides suggestions for creating meaningful activities to replace seatwork. Included are ideas for both literacy and content learning for individuals, pairs and small groups as well as recommendations for children's literature and assessment techniques.

Barbara Walker believes that struggling readers, like their more proficient counterparts, are active learners in search of meaning. She suggests that teachers can build on these children's strengths -- the things they can already do -- to help them broaden the strategies they use to make sense of text.

All teachers know that interested students are better learners, and that's why projects on subjects such as dinosaurs, life under the sea and Ancient Egypt have long been part of the elementary curriculum. This work discusses how teachers can build on the enthusiasm they generate.