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"Based on a three-year ethnographic study, this book looks at the role of place, materiality and the body in the literacies of young children aged 12-36 months"--

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Written for children reading at first and second grade levels, this readers theatre book uses Mother Goose rhymes as its basis, making it especially valuable to teachers and librarians working on building fluency skills in their beginning readers.

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Through the compelling, sometimes heartbreaking story of one new teacher's experience in a Brooklyn elementary school classroom, a NEW YORK TIMES education reporter illuminates the complex dilemmas currently confounding American public education

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Includes literature-based activities that help you energize the entire social studies curriculum and implement US national (and state) standards.

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This light-hearted sourcebook for teachers and librarians describes food-related activities, including stories, rhymes, fingerplays, crafts, cooking and tasting experiences, and short skits, designed to delight young minds while teaching skills.

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Unlike most readers theatre titles, the 36 scripts in this book introduce young readers to classic authors like Louisa May Alcott and Mark Twain while they have fun and improve their reading fluency.

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A state-of-the-art resource concentrating on the practical applications, philosophical and social policy motivations, and historical development of various approaches to multicultural education in the United States.

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Born during the turbulent years of the 1960s, multicultural education has attempted to help students acquire a more sophisticated understanding of the pluralistic populations of the United States.

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Each chapter examines the history and structure of the school system in a particular country, and discusses efforts to promote multicultural education. This reference book examines advances in multicultural education in 42 countries from around the world.

Chapters are devoted to individual countries and are arranged alphabetically.

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Introduce elementary children to six areas of the world-Japan, Italy, Hawaii, Australia, Kenya, and Brazil. Using an integrated approach to authentic learning and assessment and to literacy development, activities teach children about family life, school, games, crafts (such as origami), foods, language, customs, and celebrations.

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Introduce your students to other countries and cultures through the traditional folk and fairy tales in these engaging readers theatre scripts. Valuable as supplements to multicultural units, these scripts actively involve students in the subject, and they promote oral reading and presentation skills.

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If you're searching for research activities or multicultural topics for a diverse student population, this is the book for you. Cultural searches are related to Hispanics, Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and other U.S. immigrant groups.

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Beyond the conservative backlash against multiculturalism, Cai (literacy education, U. of Northern Iowa) focuses on definitional issues in multicultural literature, the author's cultural identity and role in such literature, and empowerment in the classroom via reading multiculturally. He presents t

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This important new book for college teachers, administrators, trainers, workshop leaders, and prospective secondary school teachers challenges of teaching in institutions and classrooms that are increasingly diverse.

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This text synthesizes the research on the learning style characteristics of five culturally diverse groups: Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and European Americans.

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The first part of this book is concerned with classroom strategies and with student research projects. The second part is concerned with information resources which should be useful to both instructors and students.

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This practical and easy-to-use resource will help teachers and library media specialists effectively integrate multimedia projects into their curriculum.

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Multiple Perspectives on Mathematics Teaching and Learning offers a collection of chapters that take a new look at mathematics education.

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Multiple Perspectives on Mathematics Teaching and Learning offers a collection of chapters that take a new look at mathematics education.