Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, lifestyle, religion, language, arts, leisure, festivals, and food of the Czech Republic.
The strains on high school writing classrooms are endlessexternally imposed curriculum requirements, everincreasing expectations, high-stakes accountability assessments, and looming pressures for stud
This book presents a tapestry of short, highly practical essays loaded with ready to use strategies for teaching reading comprehension and assessing understanding.
Describes practical ways that parents can teach mathematical concepts to their children, including counting sneezes, finding geometric shapes in nature, and using coupons
For every teacher who has sought practical, comprehensive methods for recording and analyzing students' literacy processes, this book will be an invaluable resource.
Provides information on ways to develop an inclusive classroom, covering such topics as coteaching, team building, creating personalized learning agendas, and writing behavior plans.
An account of the life of Pocahontas, including her tribal childhood, her encounter with John Smith, and her adulthood as an Englishwoman named Rebecca.
Lead your practice, your school, or your district toward a return to professionalism and away from faceless literacy programs designed with dividends in mind.
Explains how teachers can use practical classroom techniques for combining science and language literacy at different grade levels ranging from elementary to high school.
This resource for elementary teachers suggests specific titles in four nonfiction categories: expository, narrative, persuasive, and descriptive. Author Heard, founder of the Teacher's College Reading
Battista (mathematics education, Ohio State U.) presents a learning progressions-based model for teaching fractions called cognition-based assessment and teaching, which stresses determining students'
Two experienced teachers suggest instructional strategies for using manipulatives to model math concepts, pictures to represent mathematical thinking, numbers to represent mathematical ideas, and grap
The Reading Detective Club, a unique new book of "mystery cases" that are actually reading strategy lessons for third through eighth graders and their teachers.
Combines practical discussion with theoretical information on the rationale for active assessment, enabling classroom teachers to develop, interpret, and score their own assessments. Annotation copyri
Myron Echenberg traces the social history of a large and diverse group of West Africans who served in Senegalese regiments of the French colonial army.
In today's linguistically diverse elementary classrooms, research suggests that a universal approach to building academic vocabulary and conceptual knowledge holds huge promise for closing the opportu
Nine education professionals from Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts contribute seven chapters examining how educators can make a lasting difference by combining authentic, important les
This book brings together some of Rosenblatt's most important work, essays from the 1930s through the 1990s that explore the breadth and depth of her theory.
Eleven Canadian school-based practitioners and university-based researchers report findings from a recent school-community-university collaborative project situated in two schools in Ontario Province
This creative yet mathematically rigorous guide to teaching elementary and middle-grade mathematics emphasizes empowering children to learn abstract concepts based on mathematical techniques used arou
