Joyful Learning: Follow The Directions: Grade 1-3

Help children become independent and effective learners with 180 daily, quick follow-the-directions activities! These easy-to-read, step-by-step exercises give kids essential practice following both oral and written directions and reinforce primary skills.

Denise Nessel, Ph.D., is an education consultant and writer with professional experience as a classroom teacher, clinician, university professor, curriculum supervisor, author, and software designer. Her interests include teaching reading and writing as thinking processes, integrating reading and writing across the curriculum, and using technology intelligently within instruction. She is currently a Senior Consultant and Project Director for the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, Teacher's College, Columbia University, an organization that serves urban school districts across the county.

Joyce Graham Baltas, Ph.D., is a Senior Consultant and Project Director with the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, Teacher's College, Columbia University. Previously she was Director of Research and Professional Development for the Instructional Publishing Group at Scholastic, Inc., responsible for the assessment, staff development, and writing components of Literacy Place, a core reading and language arts program. She has edited a number of professional books for Scholastic, and is the co-author of several titles for Scholastic Teaching Resources, including Easy Lessons and Strategies that Build Content Area Reading Skills, co-authored with Denise Nessel.