Grounded in a strong evidence base, this indispensable text and practitioner guide has given thousands of teachers tools to support the literacy growth of beginning and struggling readers in grades K-2. The interactive strategies approach (ISA) is organized around core instructional goals related to enhancing word learning and comprehension of…

Children's economic reasoning follows a developmental sequence in which their ideas about money and other basic economic concepts are forming. Even children in the early primary grades can learn some basic economics and retain understanding of economic concepts if they are taught in developmentally appropriate ways. Given how important economic…

This textbook is a second-grade course in arithmetic. While it contains a review of the work of Grade I, pupils who have not had the benefit of a kindergarten training or of Grade I drill will need to have certain principles and definitions more carefully explained. Starting with this knowledge, which is usually given in all Kindergartens, the…

This textbook is a primary-grade reader focusing on silent reading of interesting selections to build control of eye movements that lead to careful silent reading with good comprehension and a long attention span. Silent reading is the complex process of getting thought from the printed page and involves an entirely new pedagogy. In the selection…

This textbook is a second-year reader. Bearing in mind the fact that only those children who like to read ever become good readers, the author has endeavored so to construct and arrange the several lessons as to make each reading exercise a source of pleasure to all. Illustrations are intended to be valuable aids towards making the reading…

There is no more direct way to the interest of children in the second school year than through the story. All thought of drudgery vanishes and the lesson is a real source of delight when the reading book furnishes one good story after another. This "Second Reader," therefore, is a book of stories -- stories in prose and verse. Fairy…

This textbook is a volume in the Pathways in Science series, designed to meet the demands of the modern tendency to introduce science as an essential part of the elementary-school curriculum by presenting a course of carefully graded problems in science for Grades I to VI. Each volume of the series has been organized about a number of units. These…

This textbook is a second-year reader in a series of illustrated primary readers prepared by the same editor for the first, second, and third grades, leading up to the fourth, fifth, and sixth grade readers. The editor has made a careful study of the most authoritative and recent reports, investigations, courses of study, surveys, and other…

This textbook presents an arithmetic course that seeks to adapt the subject matter to the experiences, interests, and immediate needs of children, and to provide means for a mastery of the formal phases of arithmetic through more scientifically organized drills. This series consists of three books: Primary, Intermediate (ED622334), and Advanced…

This textbook is first in a series of arithmetic books that apply the principles discovered by the psychology of learning, by experimental education, and by the observation of successful school practice, to the teaching of arithmetic. Part One of this book is for use as a supplement to the informal work of grade two, and as a basic text in grade…

In this book, author Catherine Jones Kuhns introduces student- and teacher-friendly math activities designed to get students thinking like mathematicians and loving mathematics, while addressing content standards through grade 2. She also shows how to make math fun for students, get children actively engaged in learning, create a student-centered…

This workbook provides practice for children in spelling 54 words found in spelling and reading texts for second grade, words that research has shown to be most frequently misspelled or misused at the elementary level. The workbook is designed to reach the different learning strengths of children through a process of seeing, hearing, tracing, and…

This textbook the second reader in a series of school readers to help children acquire the art and the habit of reading well enough to give pleasure not only to themselves, but also to those who listen to them. New words are introduced gradually, and the stories and poems are short and of such character as to appeal directly to the interest and…

This textbook is designed to meet all the requirements for language teaching in the second school year. It contains exercises in spelling, transcription, dictation, and the rapid recognition of words frequently met in the young pupil's reading, as well as illustrated short stories and suggestions for conversation lessons.

This mathematics textbook, written in Portuguese, is designed for second graders. Developed from objectives set forth by the National Portuguese Materials Development Center, it follows closely the objectives and methodology of major curricula used in schools of the United States. The thirteen chapters deal with: numeration (0-999); addition with…