We are happy to start a new year off announcing new issues of professional magazines that arrived after the break:
February/March 2009 issues of The Mailbox Magazines bring ideas and resources for teachers that you can find useful for your classes. English Journal, Language Arts, and Council Chronicle from National Council of Teachers of English discuss various topics on literacy in the digital age.
The Mailbox Kindergarten provides "skill-based ideas with a Valentine's Day flair" on word families, measurement and timesavers, sight words, initial letters, money, game cards, and more.
The Mailbox Grade 1 brings in a variety of creative ideas on how to continue stretching first grade students' academic skills seasoned with Valentine's Day flavor: two-digit number addition, consonant digraphs, capitalization and end marks, word problem solving, long and short - vowel word sort cards, Jamie O'Rourke and the Pooka by Tomie dePaola, Junie B., First Grader: Boss of Linch by Barbara Park, math cards and games, coins, tips for writing, simple science, Social Studies: famous Americans, and others.
The Mailbox Grades 2-3 suggests on retelling a story, cause and effect, punctuation, vocabulary, homophones, reading a diagram, chart, and graph, using a dictionary, on writing and grammar, editing, adding details,pronouns, rounding numbers, two-digit regrouping, using a calendar, fractions, clock, multiplication, money, Venn diagram, ideas for Social Studies, and more.
The Mailbox Intermediate offers ideas on:
how to help students control their chattering,
30 ways to say I love you (Valentine's Day),
subject-verb agreement,
book report project: biography,
graphic organizer,
adjectives and adverbs, punctuation, prefixes and suffixes,
writing: putting sentences in order, narrative writing,
Organizing information, Famous Black Americans,
Order of math operations, factors, measuring to the nearest, circle patterns,
Opposites, brain boosters,
recording weather, parts of a bee, and other tips.
As subscribers to Mailbox magazines, we have an access to Mailbox Companion. Log in into Mailbox membership and use a variety of printables resources accompanying materials from the magazines: https://www.theeducationcenter.com/cgi-bin/tec/page.jsp?NAME=MagazinesMailboxCompanion&route=leftnavmbxcomp&BV_SessionID=@@@@0060353934.1224524968@@@@&BV_EngineID=ddadeeghlhddjbffkcglcfmdgmg.0
English Journal, November 2008 issue is devoted to homework and controversial subject homework assignments (EJ in Focus by Ben F. Nelms offers an advice on how to engage students in completing homework), how to use the Internet in homework assignments and incorporate students' opinions in teachers' homework assignments. A section "Research for the Classroom" guides teachers to conduct research in their classroom and a column "Success with ELLs" suggessts how to modify lessons for English Language Learners. Speaking My Mind section offers an article on plagiarism.
Language Arts, November 2008 focuses on relationships between words and images, literacy in multicultural and diverse kindergarten classroom setting, poetry writing and interactions with visual art in Middle School class, integrating the arts into literacy learning, and integrating play into literacy events.
Council Chronicle, November 2008, features articles on students reading and writing online, using alternative strategies in reading program, reading and writing in the digital age, and assessment.
These magazines can be found in Professional Journals Display, next to the library collection of periodicals.
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