Provides information about the Arab-Israeli conflict, including which leaders were involved, how the wars have affected the world, and why the wars have lasted for so long.
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This first volume in a new series intended to aid middle and high school writing teachers focuses on writing arguments. While traditional writing instruction emphasizes form, the structured process ap
View the Independent Writing Within, Beyond and About TextsWebinar Now there are three distinct Reader's Notebooks to help students grades K through 8 become better readers through writing.New! Reader
To be truly effective, teachers need to move beyond stock assignments for teaching genre to students and on to activities that invite students to become passionately involved. The authors, all profess
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The techniques described here are based on a classroom project conducted between 2006 and 2009; the book includes many real-life classroom dialogues and discussions between teachers and students from
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O'Donnell-Allen, director of the Writing Project at Colorado State University, shows middle and high school teachers how to use literature to challenge students to consider difficult issues such as ra
Written in an accessible style, this work gives guidelines for curriculum planning and program design for teaching English language learners (ELLs). A distinguishing feature of the book is that it fra
Fletcher, author of many books for adults and children, works with student writers and writing teachers in schools. Here, he collects 24 short readings (stories, poems, memoir, picture books, and exce
Middle schoolers can be the masters of disengagement. Recognizing that all students, adept and struggling writers alike, lose steam at times and need a revitalizing jump start, Christopher Lehman offe
Afghanistan offers complete coverage of this fascinating country, including sections on history, geography, wildlife, infrastructure and government, and culture. It also includes a detailed fact file,
Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, lifestyle, religion, language, arts, leisure, festivals, and food of the Czech Republic.
