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From the invitations to the suggested books, games, activities, and themed party snacks, this book makes it easy to plan a fun literacy event from start to finish.

Picture books, storytime readings, and parties are always popular with children because they find them highly entertaining.

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This popular collection of 22 program plans includes introductions for read-alouds and booktalks and suggestions on how to use such other materials as poetry, participation books, songs, fingerplays, action rhymes, films, and filmstrips. An annotated bibliography of other titles that are useful for story hours is also given. Grades Pre K-3.

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You'll appreciate the time-saving assistance this guide gives you, including background and publication information about picture books by Latino writers, summaries of titles, and biographical information on the authors, illustrators and translators.

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From Mendel to Normandy: Curriculum and Connectionsfor Tweens and Teens is an invaluable resource with many suggestions and with space for recording connecting ideas and strategies to infuse literacy into every area of the curriculumin classrooms and librarieswith older readers.

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This descriptive bibliography of the works of science ficiton author, Phillip K. Dick, covers all the editions and first periodical appearances of his work up until 1981. Annotations are by Steven Owen Godersky and illustrations are included.

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This book describes techniques for evaluating services provided through library networks, including collection development, group purchases, and reference services. Providing guides for developing evaluation instruments, testing them and applying them, it is comprehensive in its treatment of evaluating network services.

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The public library director needs information that helps in understanding what is involved in planning for a public library building project.

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Comprehensive planning has become an essential element in the management of the modern university library.

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This guide focuses on the implementation and management of second-generation automated library systems. The book expands the subject to include special, public and academic libraries and takes into account the experience of those libraries which have already automated and are now considering migration to more powerful automated library systems.

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This book draws on Catherine Malabous work on plasticity, investigating the transformative power of sport both in its ability to positively shape and, conversely, to destroy. Foschia positions sport as the ontological and discursive force that shapes how we work, watch, and play

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Learn how to set up a student-led podcast in your library, involve staff from several subject areas, market effectively, what challenges you are likely to face, and how podcasting will benefit the students and school overall.

Podcasting from the library is a growing movement.

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Lesson plans and exercises teach the basic elements of poetry such as alliteration, word repetition, metaphors, and rhyming. As students gain appreciation and understanding, the book covers more sophisticated poetry forms such as limerick, haiku, and narrative. Grades 4-6.

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This book provides suggestions and examples for you to become a leader on local, state, and national levels by enlisting parents, teachers, and students to improve library programs.

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This volume examines political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. It contains studies of political campaign communication using a wide range of empirical, rhetorical, and social science methodologies and reflects the growth and maturity of the discipline of political communication.

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This book analyzes political conversion stories as a communication strategy aimed at winning the hearts and minds of the public. Through key cases, it charts the historical and contemporary uses of this strategy as a type of civilreligious persuasion in public discourse, evaluating its features and functions in politics.

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This book is devoted to anticipating and addressing where the field of political humor and its effects will move in the next generation of scholarship, exploring the continued evolution of the study of political humor as well as the normative implications of these developments.