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Strategic Reading
Strategic Reading provides the tools teachers need to help students of all abilities make the important transition to higher-level texts.
The Slab
The slab was the name that she had given the table where she did her autopsies. It had become the place where she would be forced to deal with the pains of her past. And when the child she leaves in the woods for dead is brought to her slab, at that moment, Tonya will face the pain of her present. Or will the pain be so overwhelming that, Tonya runs back to her God? Or will darkness cover her? Then while consumed in that darkness. Will Tonya fall deeper and deeper in her own pain and end up on her own Slab?
Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines
Being literate in an academic discipline is more than being able to read and comprehend text; you can think, speak, and write as a historian, scientist, mathematician, or artist. Author Doug Buehl strips away the one-size-fits-all approach to content area literacy and presents an instructional model for disciplinary literacy, which honors the discipline and helps students learn within that area. In this revised second edition, Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines shows how to help students adjust their thinking to comprehend a range of complex texts that fall outside their reading comfort zones. Inside you'll find: Instructional tools that adapt generic literacy practices to discip...
Student Diversity, 3rd Edition
From ice-breaking activities to ways to meet specific expectations in all areas of the curriculum, teachers will discover practical strategies and organizational frameworks that will help them to reach all students. Whether you're searching for new ways to inspire students with different learning styles, celebrate the abilities of the physically challenged, or boost the skills of those learning English for the first time, Student Diversity has what you need to meet and defeat the wide variety of challenges in today's classroom. Packed with examples of student work and reproducible worksheets, this book will help to smooth the daily path of beginning and experienced teachers alike.
Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension
This book provides a wealth of enactment techniques that help students apply their social, physical, and intellectual selves to the books they read to help improve their comprehension.
Teaching the Best Practice Way
Everyone talks about "best practice" teaching--but what does it actually look like in the classroom? How do working teachers translate complex curriculum standards into simple, workable classroom structures that embody exemplary instruction--and still let kids find joy in learning?In Teaching the Best Practice Way, Harvey Daniels and Marilyn Bizar present seven basic teaching structures that make classrooms more active, experiential, collaborative, democratic, and cognitive, while simultaneously meeting "best practice" standards across subject areas and throughout the grades. Each section begins with an essay outlining one key method, providing its historical background and research results,...
Lady Left
Can Hollywood's rich and famous find happiness in the Third World—or will they find only murder? That's the question that blues-playing police lieutenant Nicky Rachmaninoff must answer in Robert Westbrook's third book in The Left-Handed Policeman series, Lady Left. Having exposed the Hollywood dream machine and the world of rock and roll in his previous two mysteries, Robert Westbrook now gives the same delightfully satirical treatment to another hot topic on the Hollywood scene: fashionable leftist politics. Nicky Rachmaninoff must take on Tinsel Town's liberal elite as it involves itself in a wild scheme to make the hemisphere safe for romance, revolution, and beautiful people ...
Teenage Boys and High School English
Identifies some of the reasons why teenage boys are generally less successful in English studies as girls, and offers practical strategies, many drawn from the author's own teaching experiences, for addressing those difficulties.
Integrated Literacy Instruction in the Middle Grades
This book presents both a theoretical framework and classroom-tested ideas for literacy instruction in middle schools. Equally suitable for middle school courses as well as for in-service training, this concise yet comprehensive text is divided into two parts--Part I introduces students to 8 principles/concerns that are at the forefront of middle school students' minds and Part II includes applications for Literacy Instruction and Learning in the Middle Grades Reading/LA classes, providing teaching ideas, instructional strategies, and suggestions for assessment, evaluation and grading. This text gives one new insight for the potential for literacy instruction in today's middle schools and the need to understand the many questions and concerns that pre-service and practicing teachers have as they teach in those schools. This text is loaded with theoretically-sound ideas for building student-sensitive literacy curricula.
Thinking about Literature
Details a different system for teaching classic and contemporary literature in high school that is designed to keep students interested in what they are learning and understand the material.
