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Help students become active learners, use higher-level thinking, and read with a purpose by using these reproducible six-page booklets. Each visually appealing booklet contains several graphic organi
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Mostly historians, but also a sociologist, mostly from the US, but also Ireland and Canada, approach US history as a moral enterprise: an undertaking to understand the circumstances that allow evil to
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This brand-new manual presents three model exams with all questions answered and explained. Subject review chapters cover arithmetic, algebra, geometry (plane, solid, and coordinate), trigonometry, fu
Make numbers concrete and boost must-know counting skills with this charming collection of 16 illustrated, read-aloud storybooks that teach the numbers 1 to 10, 30, 100, skip counting, simple addition
All educators want their students to be able to achieve more and do well on standardized tests. Some believe that the way to make that happen is mindless test drill. The positive effect of writing is
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Contains 15 portable and self-contained centers that students may use to practice mathematics skills such as measurement, graphs, fractions & decimals, and much more.
Contains 14 portable and self-contained centers that students may use to practice mathematics skills such as computation, measurement, graphs, geometric shapes and fractions.
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This unique and timely resource gives writing teachers over 250 ready-to-use activity sheets to correct 101 of the most frequent errors made by students in grades 4-12. For each error, it provides tw
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Contains scores of practical management techniques plus more than 180 reproducible student activities for teaching reading and writing skills through a selection of great literature covering various g
The author interviewed nearly a dozen of the most successful consultants in the country to provide indispensable advice on fee-setting, contracts, proposal writing and client communication. Features a
