Brain Powered Lessons Story Retell

Based on current brain research, this ready-to-use lesson engages kindergartners using the Reverse, Reverse strategy. Encourage students with strategies designed to foster student achievement related to retelling a story.

Activate your kindergarteners’ brains and jumpstart learning with interactive, level-appropriate lessons across all content areas! Brain-Powered Lessons to Engage All Learners is a valuable teacher resource that provides necessary research and background information, including easy tips on how to fire up the brain. With strategies that range from incorporating movement and brainstorming to developing kinesthetic learning and content that includes rhyming, exploring your senses, parts of a book, and counting, your kindergarteners will dive into an engaging and motivating learning experience that includes formative assessments to evaluate student understanding after each lesson.

Based on current brain research, this ready-to-use lesson engages first graders using the Just Say It strategy. Encourage students with strategies designed to foster student achievement related to comparing and contrasting characters.

Activate your first graders' brains and jumpstart learning with interactive, level-appropriate lessons across all content areas! Brain-Powered Lessons to Engage All Learners is a valuable teacher resource that provides necessary research and background information, including easy tips on how to fire up the brain. With strategies that range from incorporating movement and brainstorming to developing kinesthetic learning and content that includes sorting shapes and drawing comparisons between characters, and understanding weather, your first graders will dive into an engaging and motivating learning experience that includes formative assessments to evaluate student understanding after each lesson.

Based on current brain research, this ready-to-use lesson engages second graders using the Response Cards strategy. Encourage students with strategies designed to foster student achievement related to adding adjectives to writing.

Do you struggle with creating engaging lessons for second grade students? If so, Brain-Powered Lessons to Engage All Learners is your answer. This resource provides fun, appealing, and rigorous lessons based on brain-powered strategies. The eight strategies included in these lessons are designed around how the brain learns as a foundation. Students will look forward to using the strategies and learning new content--ultimately resulting in higher student success. Get ready to move your classroom to a whole new level of excitement and learning!

While many texts explore ways to plan and implement story times in both school and public libraries, until now no work has brought together extensive book talks and follow-up activities specifically designed to develop thinking skills in young children. This innovative study offers age-appropriate book suggestions with related questions and activities tailored to a variety of thinking skills, including verbal or linguistic thinking, divergent and creative thinking, analytical and mathematical thinking, visual or spatial thinking, and many others. The program presented in this volume was successfully developed and implemented in the preschool/kindergarten laboratory school of Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, with 90 percent of the participating children selected for gifted programs in both public and private schools. Ideal for children's librarians, school librarians, teachers of early childhood gifted programs, parents, and homeschoolers, this study provides the tools for making any story hour a "brain power story hour."

Based on current brain research, this ready-to-use lesson engages second graders using the E-L-A-B-O-R-A-T-E strategy. Encourage students with strategies designed to foster student achievement related to story elements.