Supporting Students, Meeting Standards: Best Practices for Engaged Learning in First, Second, and Third Grades

Teaching Enthusiastic, Independent Learners

This resource for first, second, and third grade teachers describes best practices for promoting learning and development while helping students meet standards. You will find information, ideas, experiences, and activities that: 

• Promote positive approaches to learning and foster students’ social and emotional development 
• Help students meet standards in English language arts, math, science, and social studies 
• Support authentic assessment to scaffold student progress and improve instruction 

Filled with research-based strategies, this book offers assistance for the many decisions teachers make every day.

Gera Jacobs is a professor of early childhood education at the University of South Dakota. She served as president of NAEYC from 2012 to 2014.

Kathy Crowley is a kindergarten teacher and has taught preschool through the primary grades. She also served as vice president of the South Dakota AEYC.