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

by Susan Ohanian

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563081717
• ISBN13: 9781563081712
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 10.9"