Read, Write, Checkmate: Enrich Literacy with Chess Activities both teaches chess to students and provides educators with an outline for a classroom literacy project.
The Foreword is by Grandmaster Susan Polgar, Executive Director of SPICE at Texas Tech University and the Head Coach of the Texas Tech Knight Raiders Chess Team. In Read, Write, Checkmate, chess expert Alexey Root describes her project to have students 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 students in grades 3-8 to play well and reinforce their reading and writing skills at the same time. All activities are linked to the National Council of Teachers of English and International Reading Association national standards for language arts.
Lesson plans, over 100 chess diagrams, parent letters, annotated bibliographies and all other needed information to immediately implement this project in the classroom or library are included. This new title is available from Libraries Unlimited’s Web site or from Amazon.com.
Author information: http://lu.com/authors/AlexeyRoot.pdf
Read, Write, Checkmate: http://lu.com/showbook.cfm?isbn=9781591587545
Science, Math, Checkmate: http://lu.com/showbook.cfm?isbn=9781591585718
Children and Chess: http://lu.com/showbook.cfm?isbn=9781591583585
Blog: http://monroi.com/chess-blog/chess-experts/dr-alexey-root.html
Sounds like a good book. Thanks for pointing it out.