Reptiles galore star in this slippery seek-and-find picture book. When the sultans snakes decide to hide from him, he searches high and low for the prized pets. However, the sultans not-so-discerning eyes fail to see the serpents that cleverly appear in various guises throughout the palace. Turpins slight text does little more than set the ......
Online Reading Conversation Journals in the Middle School
In this book you will read many examples of rich literacy conversations between a teacher and his 8th grade students that never would have occurred face to face in the classroom. These conversations take place online when 8th graders write to their teacher about the books they're interested in reading and choosing to read independently. Students ......
Attaining Understanding, Tolerance, and Respect Through Young Adult Lite
The purpose of Teaching Diversity in Rural Schools is to assist secondary English Language Arts rural educators and students regarding diversity education by facilitating the development of understanding, tolerance, and respect toward those different form oneself through the use of rural, small town-themed young adult literature.
Attaining Understanding, Tolerance, and Respect Through Young Adult Lite
The purpose of Teaching Diversity in Rural Schools is to assist secondary English Language Arts rural educators and students regarding diversity education by facilitating the development of understanding, tolerance, and respect toward those different form oneself through the use of rural, small town-themed young adult literature.
Recent educational reform initiatives such as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) largely fail to address the needs--or tap into the unique resources--of students who are developing literacy skills in both English and a home language. This book discusses ways to meet the challenges that current standards pose for teaching emergent bilingual ......
Recent educational reform initiatives such as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) largely fail to address the needs--or tap into the unique resources--of students who are developing literacy skills in both English and a home language. This book discusses ways to meet the challenges that current standards pose for teaching emergent bilingual ......
The distinctive element of this book is that it offers ways to model for students some procedures for the reading of narratives and to design learning experiences that will allow learners to discover "rules" for reading complex works of literature.
