Most Popular Books by Nancy Polette

These booktalks and activities have been chosen to strengthen and enrich this period of history and to help students develop critical thinking skills.

A closer look reveals the amazing changes as plants and animals grow.

Presents a brief look at the life of Mae Jemison

A hungry cat eats everyone he sees, until he swallows the little old woman who owns him and she takes steps to put a stop to his gluttony.

Presents information about things used in everyday life at home and work in the 1800s.

Offers tools designed to encourage children to use their higher order thinking skills by discovering the history and culture of the United States by reading novels set in each of the fifty states. Includes reproducible reader-response activities, booktalks, and recommended titles for each state. Grades 3-6.

This new book from Nancy Polette discusses how to use picture book biographies to help students recognise traits of giftedness that they possess themselves. Stretch young minds to creative and productive thought with some of the best picture book biographies currently available.

A collection of literature activities for gifted students, featuring brief summaries of suggested titles, each followed by one or more activities; grouped in the categories of picture books, fairy tales and fantasy, the classics and poetry, exploring diversity, learning from the past, and heroines and heroes.

In Hans Christian Andersen couldn''t spell, the author takes a light-hearted look at the early lives of some very gifted and talented people.

Literature-based Reading'' contains a wide variety of classroom-tested strategies for a successful literature-based reading/writing program. Included are strategies which are applicable to any literature selection, applicable to any grade level, applicable to any subject discipline, designed for ease in teaching skills naturally from the literature with built-in success for every student.

Suggestions for teachers to move assigned research projects from the "copy information" stage to the level of analysis and evaluation of data.

How were potato chips invented? Read this book to find out!