25 Ideas to Motivate Young Readers! To celebrate Children's Book Week, the people at the BOOK-IT!® Program have given permission for Education World to reprint 25 great ideas from teachers -- ideas that are sure to get kids across the grades excited about reading! After reading the 25 incredible ideas in the story above, we'd love for you to share an activity, a game, a bulletin board idea or any other idea you've used to motivate young readers. See story for details.
	Webs (The Discussion Kind!) in the Classroom Want to liven up your classroom discussions? Introduce Discussion Webs to your students! Included -- Tons of ideas for active discussions across the curriculum and across the grades!
	Getting to Know You: Activities for the First Day of School Every veteran teacher has his or her favorite first-day-of-school activities. Here are a few of mine. Let me hear about your favorites too!
	Pretzels A weekly activity that allows the exchange of compliments and criticism among the students in your class can help resolve conflicts and teach children how to properly handle conflict.
	The Titanic Including Teaching Tips for All Grades Will Titanic, the movie, be this holiday season's blockbuster? Will its producers be swimming in profits by Christmas? Or will the movie get lost in a sea of holiday releases and sink big-time to the bottom of the box office? Whatever the case, now's a great time to teach about the Titanic!