Today is National Day on Writing

To draw attention to the remarkable variety of writing Americans engage in and to help make writers from all walks of life aware of their craft, the National Council of Teachers of English has established October 20, as the National Day on Writing.
 
To celebrate NCTE encourages participants to the visit National Gallery of Writing where they can read published work, contribute their own writing, start a local gallery, or search galleries.

NCTE provides a list of wonderful classroom activities, Web sites, and related resouces available here.

Thinking of writing a book or maybe starting your memoirs? Why not start today?

Need a book to help your students with their writing? Check out our Ace Your Creative Writing Project or Ace Your Research Paper or Ace Your Writing Assignment titles.

Happy National Day on Writing!

Ace Your Sports Science Project

In this book, suthors Barbara Gardner Conklin, Robert Gardner and Madeline Goodstein show students how to use baseball, basketball, football, and other sports to learn about the science behind sports–the Magnus effect, topspin and backspin, center of gravity, and more!

Enslow Publishers, ISBN-13: 978-0-7660-3229-3, Interest Level: Grades 5-up, Page Count: 128

For more information on this title, please visit: http://www.enslow.com/displayitem.asp?type=1&item=2683

Ace Your Space Science Project

Authors Robert Gardner and Madeline Goodstein wrote this fantastic book in the Ace Your Science Project series called Ace Your Space Science Project.

Students can explore the solar system with this great book that applies space science questions to experiemnts. Just two examples of an awesome experiment is making a model of a lunar eclipse or building a spectroscope! Why doesn't the Moon fall to Earth? Why do the seasons change? What is parallax? How can you simulate weightlessness on Earth? Many experiments include ideas students can use for science fair projects.

Enslow Publishers, Inc.

ISBN: 978-0-7660-3230-9
Interest Level: Grades 5-up
Page Count: 128

Ace Your Forces and Motion Science Project

This full color illustated book by Robert Gardner and Madeline Goodstein will help young scientists explore the physics of forces and motion with the great experiments in this book. Many experiments are followed by ideas for science fair projects. Help students ace their next physics project or test with Ace Your Forces and Motion Science Project part of the Ace Your Physics Science Project series.

For more information on this title, please visit http://www.enslow.com/displayitem.asp?type=1&item=2706

Enslow Publishers, ISBN: 978-0-7660-3222-4, For grades 5 and up, 128 pages

Ace Your Human Biology Science Project NSTA REVIEW

NSTA just reviewed Enslow's latest title in the series, Ace Your Biology Science Project. The title is Ace Your Human Biology Science Project by Robert Gardner and Barbara Gardner Conklin

"...I was pleasantly surprised and impressed by the books' exciting
delivery of the content. This all-inclusive idea book provides both factual
information and great ideas centered on the human biology theme. It's
designed in such a way that all but guarantees success in the middle school
students' pursuit of inquiry-based projects....The book is jam-packed with so
much terrific information that there is something in here sure to
capture each student’s interest. I was most impressed by the
simplicity with which difficult ideas like genetics and chromosomes were
explained using words and maps like family trees and Punnett square."

To read the full review, please go to NSTA's site at http://www.nsta.org/recommends/ViewProduct.aspx?ProductID=19379

For more information on this title, please visit http://www.enslow.com/displayitem.asp?type=1&item=2652

Ace It! Information Literacy Series, Review in SLJ

Click here for the full review from SLJ.

SLJ has reviewed one of Enslow Publishers, Inc 's latest series, Ace It! Information Literacy. These titles are among those chosen that "can help support the efforts to make our children readers, writers, and, most importantly, thinkers."

For grades 3-4, these books are "will work for independent readers, and they will also be good resources for teachers or librarians to offer when they sense that students may be intimidated by either the research process or by making presentations."

For more information on this series, please visit http://www.enslow.com/catalog.asp?exact=true&SeriesID=272