Filled with creative and effective ideas for teaching kindergaten. Includes: start-the-year community builders, stratagies for classroom routines, mini-lessons on shared reading and writing, activities that build phonemic awareness and phonics skills, samples of student work, and much more....

A master kindergarten teacher shares her classroom-tested, inquiry-based lessons for using picture book and concept book favorites to help young learners build skills in number sense, basic operations, patterns and algebra, geometry and spatial sense, time, money, and measurement, and more. Lessons challenge students to problem solve and use critical thinking skills. Includes interactive reproducible activities and manipulatives. For use with Grades K–1....