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This widely adopted text and K-8 practitioner resource demonstrates how successful literacy teachers combine explicit skills instruction with an emphasis on reading for meaning. Distinguished researcher Richard L. Allington builds on the late Michael Pressley's work to explain the theories and findings that guide balanced teaching and illustrate what exemplary lessons look like in action. Detailed examples offer a window into highly motivating classrooms around the country. Comprehensive in scope, the book discusses specific ways to build word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, especially for readers who are struggling. New to This Edition *Updated throughout to reflect important recent research advances. *Chapter summing up the past century's reading debates and the growing acceptance of balanced teaching. *New and revised vignettes of exemplary teachers.
La propuesta de este libro es abordar conceptos centrales de las leyes como qué es el Derecho, cómo funciona el Estado, qué es una Constitución, qué son los derechos humanos y muchos de los mecanismos para su defensa o protección; todas estas nociones se revisan desde una realidad nacional y latinoamericana, sin que por eso se omitan los marcos teóricos tradicionales y se dejen de lado los hitos de la historia universal. Pero también contempla significativos aspectos de originalidad como por ejemplo la introducción de la perspectiva de género y la perspectiva ambiental, el abordaje más actualizado que sigue las corrientes de mayor vanguardia en la defensa de los derechos de incidencia colectiva (no discriminación, ambiente, usuarios y consumidores) y da cuenta de la vinculación con las organizaciones no gubernamentales que actúan en su defensa a nivel nacional e internacional.
This invaluable supplementary curriculum meets Reading First criteria and contains numerous classroom-ready activities designed to increase the phonemic awareness and preliteracy skills of preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade students.
Michel Meyer offers a new beginning for philosophy rooted in a theory of questioning that he calls "problematology." Meyer argues that a new beginning is necessary in order to resituate philosophy, science, and linguistic analysis, and he proposes a global view of rationality by returning to the nature of questioning itself. For Meyer, philosophy does not solve problems or give answers but instead shows how propositions are related to a whole field of questions that give them meaning. Reason is identified not with answers but with the question-answer process. Meyer pursues this new theory of reason and meaning in a critique of Western philosophy from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle through He...
Seventeen-year-old Carla Ambrogio works as a shorthand typist in the shadow of the Duomo. Written between 1954 and 1957, and set in Milan just after the Second World War, this book describes how Carla confronts the hostile environment in which she lives and works with courage and intelligence.
"The Monster Loves His Labyrinth offers a fascinating glimpse into the mind of the poet. Passionate, witty, tender, and curious, these notebook entries range from casual jottings to profound observations. Their subject is the vast array of ways in which we human beings try to make sense of our world."--BOOK JACKET.
Mixes the haunted world of the poet's East European memory with the American present in verses that fill the wee hours of the evening with angels, pigs, riddles, cemeteries, and dolls that smile
"The Neale analysis of reading ability is the most widely used standardised and diagnostic test of reading in Australia. It assesses the oral reading, comprehension and fluency of students aged 6 to 12 years"--Case slip of videodisc.