Let's communicate - teacher-student communication - Grade-Perfect Theme Club

Launch a harmonious new year with this grade-specific unit.

As your students get to know each other--and build their skills for getting along--it's the perfect time to explore the many ways we communicate with each other.

September's Grade-Perfect Theme Club is an eight-page, ready-to-use collection of materials designed specifically for your grade level, and geared to the theme of Communication. The Theme Club for your grade level begins after this page. If your Theme Club is missing or you have the wrong edition, see the box below.

Here's what's inside each grade-level edition of the Communication Theme Club.

Grades K-1

* Start by sharing Jack Prelutsky's The Telephone Call" (first page).

* Help students get to know one another and build classroom and community links with the activities on the second and third pages.

* Tap into expert developmental advice about communication and young children under Ages and Stages on the third page.

* Gather a mini-library about communication with the Literature Connections on the fourth page.

* Introduce students to Tedd Arnold, author and illustrator of The Signmaker's Assistant with the reproducible "Behind a Book" page.

* Extend students' learning about communication with two reproducible activities.

* Stay connected with parents with the take-home calendar (last page).

Grades 2-3

* Launch a discussion about listening to different points of view by reading the old tale of the three blind men and the elephant (first page).

* Help students develop interpersonal skills and an appreciation of the world around them with the activities, developmental advice, and literature connections on the next three pages.

* Inspire students with the "Behind a Book" reproducible page about Leo and Diane Dillon, illustrators of the folktale Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears.

* Equip kids to say hello around the world and introduce a newcomer to your school with the reproducible activities on the next two pages.

* Link up with parents by sending home the reproducible calendar.

Grades 4-6

* Start students thinking about communication with the two poems on the first page--"Useless Words" by Carl Sandburg and "Silence" by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

* Expand students' understanding of the theme with two pages of challenging activities.

* Find help meeting your upper elementary students' needs with developmental advice and literature suggestions on pages three and four.

* Introduce students to Bette Bao Lord, subject of our "Behind a Book" reproducible and author of In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson.

* Keep kids engaged all month with the take-home calendar.

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