From Pumpkin Time to Valentines: Sneaking Language Arts Strategies Into Holiday Celebrations

From Pumpkin Time to Valentines: Sneaking Language Arts Strategies Into Holiday Celebrations
ISBN-10
1563081717
ISBN-13
9781563081712
Category
Education
Pages
131
Language
English
Published
1994
Publisher
Libraries Unlimited
Author
Susan Ohanian

Description

Keep students happily focused on learning during two of the most exciting holidays of the year for the elementary classroom-Halloween and Valentine's Day. Poems and excerpts are used as launching points for such projects as writing spooky tongue twisters or designing animal valentine cartoons. Reproducible language arts strategies teach word play, interviewing, letter writing, research skills, problem solving, and metaphorical language while encouraging divergent thinking. Grades 1-5.

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