Making the connections / Bette Bosma and Nancy DeVries Guth -- A first-grade literature-based science program / Bette Bosma and Marilyn Brower -- Reading and Rembrandt : an integrated study of artists and their works / Jane Steffen Kolakowski -- PicLit : using picture literature to integrate language arts and content instruction / Carole Geiger -- A schoolwide study of stars and
skies / Bette Bosma -- A second chance : at-risk students experience success under a specialist's guidance / Nancy DeVries Guth -- Using real literature in a multi-age setting : how to survive spring / Marilyn Thompson -- Building bridges / Norma Boehm -- A sense of balance : a first-grade literary community / Janice V. Kristo and Mary H. Giard.