Most Popular Books by Nancy Polette

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.

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.

Includes games and quizzes (cryptograms, word searches, scavenger hunts, plays and more) will encourage reading, reading competitions, and games.

Fiction, Reading Recovery Level 9, F&P Level F, DRA2 Level 10, Theme Family/Grandparents, Stage Early, Character N/A

This essential guide has exactly the right books to help you celebrate special days throughout the year—even "holidays" you''ve never heard of—and provides hundreds of fun titles and activities that could inspire your students to become life-long readers. Young students need to continually be presented with a vast variety of types of books, authors, illustrators, and subject matter in order to find the perfect concept or image that sparks their imagination, takes their comprehension to a new level, or helps them turn the corner to becoming a book lover. Nancy J. Polette''s The Picture Book Almanac: Picture Books and Activities to Celebrate 365 Familiar and Unusual Holidays can be used year-round as a key to open that great literary treasure vault. The books Polette has painstakingly selected for their value as learning opportunities tie into both familiar and unusual holidays, ranging from official, nationally recognized holidays to obscure ones such as Milk Day and Thesaurus Day. The daily featured book titles cover the classics, such as books in the Paddington Bear series and Cinderella to outstanding current and just-published titles, collectively representing the best choices for collection building over time. This book is an excellent tool for collection development as well as an indispensable resource for reading teachers and classroom teachers.

A is for Artists painting the hardships of prison life. E is for Escape, as determined prisoners make daring plans to regain their freedom. More than one hundred thousand American service members have been captured by an enemy and imprisoned during war. Tens of thousands are still missing. This book tells the true stories of only a few of these brave men and women, but their stories represent the experiences of many others. The accompanying illustrations are based on surviving artwork, current and historic photographs, and firsthand descriptions of people, places, and events. From Geneva Conventions to Operation Homecoming, Tap Code to Yellow Ribbon and more, N is for Never Forget is a compelling journey through wartime history, honoring the sacrifices of prisoners of war (POWs), those missing in action (MIA), and their families. Poignant illustrations and stories capture key people, concepts, and memorials to help readers understand and honor the sacrifices endured by men and women prisoners of war and missing in action on behalf of freedom.

If you expect to hear moaning and groaning in the children''s wards at St. Kit''s Hospital. you are in for a surprise. Despite their handicaps this lively bunch who call themselves THE BONE BRIGADE keep the doctors and Miss Brown, the head nurse, hopping.

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

Activities using popular children''s novels, including songs, poems, games and research projects.