Shed some light with...

Teaching Pre K-8, Mar 2000 by Broderick, Patricia, Raymond, Allen

Shed sone light with...

Skylight Professional Development. We just love Skylights books. And we just loved Gift of Literacy for The Multiple Intelligences Classroom. 184 pages, 7 x 9 1/4, grades K-college, $30.95, plus-s/h.

This book offers many strategies that uncover students' greatest strengths and learning styles while improving literacy skills. There are eight sections, each dealing with one of the areas of intelligence identified by Gardner.

Each section begins with a discussion of the specific area of intelligence, followed by a series of flexibly-designed activities that promote literacy through the use of that particular intelligence. However, just as we have across-the-curriculum activities, we have across-the-areas of intelligence activities.

The directions are pretty much step-by-step, and almost all of the materials used are found in every classroom. Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence provides strategies for: Reading for the Main Idea, Reading Between the Lines, Questioning While Reading, Storytelling, Reading for Fun, Balancing Act, Using a Reading Response Journal, Being Critical of Advertising. The other areas are equally as detailed.

A nice section of blackline masters is included. These cover the food pyramid, Venn diagram, etc.; all handy aids. Use this book from cover to cover, or pick and choose. You'll find it meets your needs whatever way you put it to work.

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