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A Guide to Creative Questioning for Primary-Grade Literature Based on Bloom's Taxonomy This completely revised 2014 Edition by Myrna Kemnitz is from material originally supplied by Michael T. Bagley. This book for grades K-2 has four questions at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy for each of the works of literature listed below. The stories covered are: The Five Chinese Brothers, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Stone Soup, Cinderella, The Three Wishes, The Story of Babar the Little Elephant, Helga's Dowry: A Troll Love Story, Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Six Foolish Fishermen, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk, Henny Penny, Rumpelstiltskin, The Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel, The Emperor's New Clothes, A Birthday for Frances, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Story of Ferdinand, The Fisherman and His Wife, Frog and Toad Together, Arrow to the Sun, The Tooth Fairy Is Broke!, Amelia Bedelia, Town Mouse, Country Mouse, The Blind Men and the Elephant, Curious George, Star Boy, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, What Mary Jo Shared, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Ramona the Brave, "B" Is for Betsy, Busybody Nora, Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy, Marvin Redpost #4: Alone in His Teacher's House, Freckle Juice, It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House, The Cobble Street Cousins #4: Some Good News, Mary Marony and the Chocolate Surprise, Magic Tree House #20: Dingoes at Dinnertime, Martha Ann and the Mother Store, Pee Wee Scouts #34: Planet Pee Wee, Get the Picture, Jenny Archer?, The Loudest Noise in the World, The Island of the Skog, Dooly and the Snortsnoot, The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids #24:Dragons Don't Cook Pizza, Bunnicula Strikes Again!, Eli, Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

The International Baccalaureate Learner Profile hangs in every Primary Years IB classroom. However, the ten qualities seen as essential to good learning often remain simply a list of fuzzy words to the students. What does "Risk-Taker" and "Principled," really mean if they don't have practical examples of children their own age exemplifying these qualities? The beautiful, color illustrations are by second grader, Lauren Lohmeier. "I love these stories! They brought tears to my eyes because they turn negative situations into positive situations, such as the one about bullying being overcome with kindness." Diane Holman, Parent, Mission Viejo, CA "At last...These amusing and entertaining stories bring the Learner Profile to life for the students. Believable kids in real situations!" Marilynne Sinclair, Teacher, Ottowa, Canada "These stories are engaging and accessible. They will no doubt encourage questions and conversation for elementary learners." Amy Elliott, Family Therapist, San Diego, CA Author, Jerry Chris, Ed.D., has been a teacher in Southern California for 38 years. He has authored seven educational books and two novels. Dr. Chris served as International Baccalaureate Coordinator at Mission Viejo High School, from 1985 until 2008. In 1991 he became the first president of the California International Baccalaureate Organization (CIBO), the prototype for all the sub-regional groups in I.B. In 1998 he co-authored a senate bill which still provides funds for teacher training within the California I.B. organization. He also serves as an I.B. site visitor, Theory of Knowledge workshop leader, TOK examiner, school exam inspector, and applicant school consultant. Among his many awards are California-Orange Region (GATE) Teacher of the Year, Disney Creative Challenge County Teacher of the Year, and the Crystal Apple from NBC.

"Tom Townsend has written a compelling story of World War II...and has just the right touch."-JoAnn W Martin in the Review of Texas Books Spring 2006 Gypsy Prince was born small, the last foal of an of an old German war horse who had survived World War I. The stablemaster expected that because of his small size, the horse would end up pulling a beer wagon. But it was the late 1930s, and the Reich needed every horse for the conflict to come. And it needed all the expertise it could find to care for the horses, and so Gypsy Prince, and Hans the stable boy who had looked after the horse, ended up in the same unit of the German Army paired for the duration of the conflict. They go into battle on the Eastern Front as part of the invasion of the Soviet Union. Together they make it as far as Stalingrad, where with the Russians encircling the Germans, Gypsy Prince is turned loose rather than be turned into a stew for the hungry troops. With extraordinary luck, he makes it through enemy lines back to the German forces, where he is once again pressed into the war effort. This time he is shipped to the Western Front where he is taken and used by the French Resistance after the invasion at Normandy. Eventually, the horse finds himself loose and travels through France to German. He crosses the Rhine at Remagen just ahead of the American troops and continues to make his way across the countryside until he reaches the farm where he was born. Through the eyes of the horse and the perspective of his interaction with humans-kind and unkind-Tom Townsend has provided a very basic and comprehensible history of the Second World War. This perspective is superb at allowing kids to see the values of the participants in the war without being didactic or preachy.

Stephanie S. Tolan set out as a concerned mother to help her highly gifted son have a school experience that matched his intellectual ability and pace of learning. In the process, she became an advocate for gifted children and, as a founding member of the Columbus Group, played a major part in reshaping thinking about giftedness itself. Her essay "Is It a Cheetah?" is justly renowned for its power and worldwide influence. Other essays deal with spirituality, the problem of pain, self-esteem and the gifted adult, imagination, and intuition. Here, collected for the first time, are her essays and talks that are now part of the fabric of the most advanced thinking about gifted people. From the introduction: "For more than 30 years now, I've written and spoken about the difficulties this rare population of kids and their families face in a world that doesn't recognize their differences or-if it does-offers little to help them accept and cope with, let alone take joy in, those differences. It can still be difficult for such a child to think or believe, 'It's okay to be me.'" The author goes on to say: "In this volume I've collected many of the articles and essays I've written about the gifted and highly gifted precisely because (in spite of the enormous changes in the world: computers, internet, wi-fi, social media, the legalization of home schooling, the invention of charter schools, and the veritable explosion of information-and arguments-about the gifted)..., children and families still face the same basic challenges." Stephanie S. Tolan has been named a SENG Educator of the Year and a North Carolina Gifted Association Outstanding Parent of the Year. Stephanie S. Tolan has written and published poetry, plays, and more than two dozen books for children and young adults, including the 2003 Newbery Honor-winning Surviving the Applewhites.

A Guide to Creative Questioning for Elementary-Grade Literature Based on Bloom's Taxonomy Completely revised from material originally supplied by Michael T. Bagley This book for grades 3-4 has four questions at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy for each of the works of literature listed below. The stories covered in this volume: Mr. Popper's Penguins, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Superfudge, Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, The Computer Nut, The Eerie Canal, The Pinballs, The TV Kid, The Mystery of Misty, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, George's Marvelous Medicine, James and the Giant Peach, Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library, Shining Star, Where a White Dog Smiles, McBroom Tells the Truth, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, My Country: My Lee Comes to America, Max and Me and the Time Machine, See You Around, Sam!, The Purple Coat, Aldo Ice Cream, Class Clown, Just So Stories: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories: How the Camel Got His Hump, My Friend in Africa, Pippi Longstocking, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic, Sarah, Plain and Tall, Amelia Bedelia Helps Out, Monday, The Cricket in Times Square, Blue Ribbons for Juliet, Secesh, Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Visitor, Breaker at Dawn, All-of-a-Kind Family, Amelia's Notebook, Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Velveteen Rabbit, Amber Brown Sees Red, Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos

Seventh grader Lennie Miller continues her math adventures in Night of the Eerie Equations, the third book in Robert Black's mathematical fiction series. This time a crew of TV ghost hunters has come to Bailey, Indiana, and it seems like they may find out about Lennie's ability to talk to vampires, wizards, and monsters. This will relieve Lennie from her responsibilities of "Pattern Finder," and she will no longer have to solve her invisible friends' math problems. Now she not only has to decide whether she should betray her friends or keep them safe, but she has to figure out a way to keep the ghost hunters from hunting for her. Each chapter is filled with pre-algebra math problems. Robert Black says about his creative math puzzles: "Many 'word problems' don't make sense in real life. They never explain why you'd have sixty watermelons or why you want to give three-fifths of them to your friend. But in my books, the math problems come out of the situations the characters get into and the characters have reasons why they want to solve those problems." Night of the Paranormal Patterns and Night of the Frightening Fractions are the previous novels in which Lennie goes on a series of adventures as she solves her monster friends' math problems. Black has written two historical novels for Royal Fireworks Press: Liberty Girl, set in Baltimore during the First World War and based on his grandmother's real-life memories and Unswept Graves, set in 1890s' Chinatown in San Francisco to which two 21st century girls are magically transported and undergo terrifying experiences.

This book touched my heart." Gabrielle, aged 9 "A small gem...an instant classic in the field." Professor Stephen T. Schroth "..presents a refreshing, liberating perspective for girls." Kathryn P. Haydon "I highly recommend this book for use in the gifted classroom, the homeschooling environment, and as a gift of confidence from parent to child." Dr Maurice D. Fisher Manifesto of the Gifted Girl reaches out to girls and women in all walks of life and in every kind of circumstance. It strengthens, inspires and counsels those are are struggling to find their place in school and society, as well as those who are launching out on their own for the first time. Framed with the voices of the girls themselves, the book is conversational in style and written so that both girls and young women, together with their advocates (parents, older friends, mentors), can gain strength and hope from the messages contained in the book. This is an important book for understanding and supporting gifted girls. Heavily illustrated with images of women and girls in art and history. Dr Smutny is founder and director of The Center for Gifted (which is a partner with National-Louis University, Evanston, Illinois), and a winner of the NAGC Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contribution to the field of education. See also, by the same author, Reclaiming the Lives of Gifted Girls and Women

A Guide to Creative Questioning for Middle School Literature Based on Bloom's Taxonomy This completely revised 2014 Edition, for grades 5 and 6, has additional questions at the higher level of thinking for each of the works of literature listed below. The stories covered in this volume: Island of the Blue Dolphins, White Fang, Sounder, Redwall, Freaky Friday, Blubber, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, The Kipton Chronicles #1: Kipton and Gruff, Dragon Charmer, The Incredible Journey: A Tale of Three Animals, The Summer of the Swans, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Harly Weaver and the Race Across America, Danny, the Champion of the World, For the Love of Gold, There's a Bat in Bunk Five, Jake's the Name-Sixth Grade's the Game, The Black Stallion, Love, From the Fifth-Grade Celebrity, The Death of Old Man Hanson, A Girl Called Al, Make Me Disappear, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweile, Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, A Wrinkle in Time, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Taking Control, Saratoga Captive, Trapped!, The Call of the Wild, Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst, Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gilly Hopkins, Belly Up, The Westing Game, How to Eat Fried Worms, Count the Stars Through the Cracks, The Little Prince, Black Beauty, The Sign of the Beaver, The Pearl, The Cay, If I Touched an Eagle, The Inexperienced Ghost, Bottles of Eight and Pieces of Rum, Most Beautiful, The Ghost from the Schenectady Massacre: A Haunting from the Dutch Settlers, Hold On Tight Completely revised from material originally supplied by Michael T. Bagley

Maggot Man is about maggots and murder. Sure to appeal to kids! It is not commonly thought that an interest in flies and maggots can turn into an exciting career, but Dr. Neal Haskell has used his fascination with these bugs to become a leading, internationally-known forensic entomologist. Told from the point-of-view of a single maggot, readers follow the life cycle of a maggot from egg to fly, learn about characteristics of different fly species, and how the presence of maggots and their life cycle give important evidence in crime investigations. Maggot Man takes us to Dr. Haskell's lab to study maggots, to his farm to find them, and to court to present evidence for a case. Readers plunge into the text with the narrating maggot and into Dr. Haskell's accounts of real- life cases. The lively narration and fascinating details, together with scientifically accurate color illustrations and a reference section for further reading, make the study of maggots into an unusual and fascinating topic. Author Shannon Anderson is a literacy coach, adjunct professor at Saint Joseph's College in Rensselaer, IN, and a children's book author. She received her Master's degree from Indiana Wesleyan University and a licensure to teach high ability students from Ball State University. About her interest in maggots and in Dr. Haskell's work, she says, "With the emphasis on nonfiction in education, I wanted to write a nonfiction book with high interest. I already knew Dr. Haskell and the interest in CSI dramas on TV. I figured forensic entomology would be a great thing to explore. The more I learned, the more interested I became." She lives in Rensselaer, Indiana with her husband and two daughters. This is her first book for Royal Fireworks Press.

The story of Joan of Arc is well-known: peasant girl, soldier, miracle worker, heretic burned at the stake and then beatified as a saint. Girl at Arms tells us what it must have been like to be her, growing up in the country, defying family and tradition, even risking her soul by dressing as a boy because she believes she has a calling to save France from the cruelties of English rule. Her story is told alongside that of Erich von Zimmerman, an orphan living on the streets of Frankfurt who dreams of becoming a knight. He steals a horse, rides to France and eventually joins Joan in the battle to relieve the siege of Orleans. Miracles happen when Joan is around; even Nature seems to bow to her will as, at her request, Heaven reverses the wind. Worshipped as "The Maid," she leads the French in a number of stunning victories culminating in the crowning of French king Charles VII, with Joan by his side, in Rheims. However, Normandy does not fall and proves their undoing. Erich is banished and Joan is captured, abandoned by her followers and brought before the Inquisition for heresy. The forces of vengeful English generals and scheming clergy work together to put her to death. It is a tale of triumph and horror, of history and conviction, and ultimately of the fickle nature of loyalty. Author: Jaye Bennett is an education aide at Mt. Vernon Elementary, Springfield, Oregon teaching reading groups of kindergartners to fifth grade. When she could not find many books about young women in history she says she set out to do something about it. "My qualifications are dedication and passion. I delve into research and researched Joan of Arc for many months. And the more I learned about her, the more I liked her."

Brain Launch & Other Perfectly Awesome Stories is a collection of short fiction meant specifically for middle-grade readers. In each story, the reader learns about one quality that lifelong learners will apply through high school and beyond, and they are always exemplified in everyday situations. The qualities that these ten short stories focus on are: Inquirer, Knowledgeable, Risk-Taker, Communicator, Principled, Open-Minded, Thinker, Caring, Balanced, and Reflective. Based on the International Baccalaureate Learner Profile, the ten stories with their accompanying qualities will interest readers as entertaining fiction as well as showcase qualities seen in model students. Jerry Chris, Ed.D has taught English, Humanities, and Theory of Knowledge in Southern California, specializing in the extremes of the student ability spectrum-the gifted and talented (GATE) as well as the reluctant and disadvantaged learners. He has authored seven educational books and two novels. He served as International Baccalaureate Coordinator at Mission Viejo High School, from 1985 until 2008. In 1991 he became the first president of the California International Baccalaureate Organization (CIBO), the prototype for all the sub-regional groups in I.B. In 1998 he co-authored a senate bill which still provides funds for teacher training within the California I.B. organization. He also serves as an I.B. site visitor, evaluating I.B. school applicants, Theory of Knowledge workshop leader, training both new and experienced TOK teachers, TOK examiner, school exam inspector, and applicant school consultant. Among his many awards are three-time Mission Viejo teacher of the year, California-Orange Region (GATE) Teacher of the Year, Disney Creative Challenge County Teacher of the Year, and the Crystal Apple from NBC. At the 2004 annual California Gifted Conference, he was given the "Award of Recognition" for a career of dedication to Gifted education.