Mexico 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, maps
Introduces readers to the problem of cyberbullying, looking at the some of the forms that it can take, how it can hurt those involved, and what can be done to prevent it.
Surveys the origins and growth of the Olympics and how it became a truly international event, describes the games held on different continents and the accomplishments of athletes from each continent,
Introduces readers to the Mandarin dialect of Chinese, with information about where it is spoken, who speaks it, and what script it uses, as well as lessons of basic Mandarin phrases.
India 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, maps
Count on the assessment that only counts what "really" counts "With these nine sensible, essential assessments, teachers can gather all the data they need. We share these assessments and show teachers
"These essays seek to understand how institutions set boundaries between professionals and ordinary people, how ideologies organize expert and lay knowledge into cognitive and cultural hierarchies, an
Bomer, director of the Heart of Texas Writing Project and professor of pre-service English teachers at the University of Texas, provides ideas for preparing students to participate in a globalized, di
Empson (science and mathematics education, U. of Texas at Austin) and Levi, who directs Cognitively Guided Instruction in Initiatives, show how the same kinds of intuitive knowledge and sense making t
This book for in-service teachers presents readings, activities, and discussion prompts for teaching middle and high school students how to write strong arguments and evaluate the arguments of others,
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With this book, the authors support content-area and language arts teachers alike by pairing more than 75 short, kid-tested reproducible nonfiction texts with 33 simple, ready-to-go lessons that deepe
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