This Level 2 guided reader teaches how to interpret and create pictographs. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning about using a scaled pictograph to represent a data set.

Hands-on reproducible activities in which children generate, collect, organize, display, and analyze data using graphical representations. Geared toward NCTM standards. For use with Grades 1-4.

This comprehensive guide to the rock art of Missouri presents major design motifs and links those images to Native American beliefs.

A breakthrough in learning Chinese based on spatial character recognition. Northwestern University Professor Gu Licheng has been using this method of artistic character representation with great success to teach Chinese to his students for many years. Color images depict characters artistically so that students learn to associate characters with vivid mental images that are easy to remember. Here is Professor Gu's innovative method collected and published for the first time!

Pictographs may be the most entertaining kind of graph. They use pictures or symbols to represent amounts. In this inviting book, fun pictures and colorful graphics make learning to read and interpret pictographs enjoyable. Readers will especially like learning how to create their own pictograph. This book, a valuable tool to address the Measurement and Data standards of the Common Core, also includes questions and an answer key for self-evaluation.

Taking bar graphs in a different direction, this title shows readers how symbols can represent numbers. Readers will explore books in different ways, including the number read by many groups at one point in time, different types of books read, and books read by one group over several months. Readers are encouraged to make their own pictographs through activities.