Table of Contents :

April 2004

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Professional Development

Teacher to Teacher

The Real World

Best Practices

Rhymes and Reasons

Your First Year

Sowing the Seeds

Features

School Story

A Breath of Fresh Air

Interview

Juanita Havill: Tough Love

Articles

A Taste of Shakespeare

A Celebration of Words

Screen Stories

Roving Reporters

Departments

Publisher's Memo

Letters

Our readers speak out

Keeping Fit

Put Some Spring in Your Step

Education Newswatch

News and Grants for Teaching Professionals

Life in the Middle

Strategic Moves

Art Curriculum that Works

Words that Inspire

Integrating Math in Your Classroom

The Meaning of the Mean

Integrating Science in Your Classroom

Thumbs Up for the Thumb

Teaching Talks

The Inevitables

Your Green Pages

Skill Activities for Levels preK-8

Teaching Day-by-Day

Top-notch daily activities in a calendar format

A Poetry Workshop in Print

Similes and Metaphors

Teaching With Children's Books

Remembering Best Friends

Teaching With Your Librarian

In Praise of Poetry

Celebrations in Reading and Writing

A World of Words

Issues in Literacy and Learning

Introducing Shakespeare

Laugh Lines

Every Teacher Has Them

Technology in Your Classroom

Blue Ribbon Reviews

Hot Websites

How To...Build a Tech Tip Library

Marketplace

Product Reviews April 2004

Online Extras

The Parent Connection April 2004

Thumbs Up Experiment and Data Table

Logos: Signs of the Times Help Beginning Readers

Logos Revisited: Beyond the Basics