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More Mirrors in the Classroom: Using Urban Childrens Literature to Increase Literacy is the first book in the Kids Like Us series. It includes research summaries, guidelines for text selection, and a step-by-step guide to increasing the cultural relevance of literacy instruction with urban childrens literature.

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This resource text contains 30 teaching guides for some of the best literature commonly taught in grades 6-12. Organized around the same format, each section includes a plot summary, explores themes and literary concepts, and provides reading and vocabulary lists.

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Teachers loved Mary Ann Carr's One-Hour Mysteries and asked for more! In this follow-up to her wildly popular book, Mary Ann Carr offers five motivating mysteries that your students can solve using clues and logical reasoning.

Grades 4-8

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A companion to the best-selling Philosophy for Teens, this volume tackles the topics of reality and knowledge in a teenager-friendly format.

Grades 7-12

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These dynamic literature-based activities will help teachers and school librarians energize the entire science curriculum and implement national standards. Chapters cover: Life Science, Space Science, Earth Science, Physical Science, and the Human Body for students in grades K-4.

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Based on 30 quality works of children's literature, each chapter includes information on appropriate vocabulary, concepts, applications, and a wide variety of activities, including hands-on and inquiry-based topics, games, puzzles, word searches, and so on.

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These dynamic literature-based activities will help you energize the social studies curriculum and implement national (and many of state) standards.

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Responding to the tremendous interest in their previous volume (Virtual Field Trips, Libraries Unlimited, 1997) and to specific requests from users, Cooper and Cooper bring you a host of new and exciting sites for educational field trips into cyberspace.

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Current conceptualizations of children's thinking tend to be unneccesarily narrow, and to focus on what might be called convergent thinking.

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Current conceptualizations of children's thinking tend to be unneccesarily narrow, and to focus on what might be called convergent thinking.

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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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It is vital that students think independently and critically to tackle the challenges of todays ever-changing world. The book shows how educators can facilitate the learning process by creating, monitoring, and assessing affective deep learning in the contemporary classroom.

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It is vital that students think independently and critically to tackle the challenges of todays ever-changing world. The book shows how educators can facilitate the learning process by creating, monitoring, and assessing affective deep learning in the contemporary classroom.

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Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving considers how secondary English language arts teachers can thoughtfully teach pieces of literature in their classrooms in which large-scale deaths are a significant aspect of the texts. Each chapter provides practical activities for students to engage with loss through writing, projects, and prompts.

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Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving considers how secondary English language arts teachers can thoughtfully teach pieces of literature in their classrooms in which large-scale deaths are a significant aspect of the texts. Each chapter provides practical activities for students to engage with loss through writing, projects, and prompts.

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Arguing technicism fixates on methods and techniques at the expense of larger social issues in education, this book advocates a critical and liberal approach to teacher education through examples from the authors studies with critical teacher education within the limiting space of Turkeys standardized technicist teacher education curricula.

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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.