A beautiful anthology containing well-known and popular fairy tales, fables, nursery rhymes, and nonsense poems and stories

Tony Lynch looks at how learners interact in the classroom, and offers guidance to teachers on how to make lessons more effective by giving learners better opportunities for interaction and communication. Using illustrative transcripts, he offers insights from research into the nature of real-life interaction, and practical guidance on designing communicative tasks in all four skills

Presents a brief look at the life of Christopher Columbus and his search for a new route to the Indies

An introduction to the nurse who served on the battlefields of the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross

Crossroads Cafe and DVD offers a versatile alternative to videotape that is user-friendly, intuitive and fun. Play an entire episode or go direct to the World Play and Culture Clip segments. A simple menu system allows you to select by lesson name and number. Easy-to-read screen identify each episode, and remind learners visually where they shoul be in the correlated Photo Stories and Worktext

Packed with reproducible primary sources—from an NAACP pamphlet to Jim Crow-era signs—this collection of authentic documents will capture students

Packed with reproducible primary sources—from the Mayflower Compact to political cartoons about the Stamp Act—this collection of authentic documents will capture students’ interest in the events and people of Colonial times. Teaching materials provide background information, document-based discussion questions, and reproducibles that help kids analyze and evaluate each historical document. For use with Grades 4-8