Overview
This book helps educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. Chess expert, Alexey Root, describes her project to have kids read and write about chess while learning to play and excel at the game. Patterned after an actual project undertaken with 25 middle school students, this book features all you need to know to teach kids to play well and reinforce their reading and writing skills at the same time. This book helps educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. All activities are linked to the NCTE/IRA national standards for language arts. Lesson plans, over 100 chess diagrams, parent letters, annotated bibliographies and all other needed information project in the classroom is included. Grades 3-8.
- | Author: Alexey Root
- | Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
- | Publication Date: Mar 20, 2009
- | Number of Pages: 140 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1591587549
- | ISBN-13: 9781591587545
