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Read, Write, Checkmate: Enrich Literacy with Chess Activities

Read, Write, Checkmate: Enrich Literacy with Chess Activities

Paperback

ChessTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 1591587549
ISBN13: 9781591587545
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Published: Mar 20 2009
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.35 Width: 9.19 Depth: 10.78
Language: English

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.

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.

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