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Beat the Test!: A Guidebook for Elementary Teacher Candidates is designed to assist elementary candidates with an educational methodology to pass the Education Teaching Performance Assessment. The methodology can be used to plan, implement, and assess student learning during i...

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Re-visioning Community Colleges has the foresight into the shape that community colleges will likely take in the future. Their predictions are based on an analysis of the growth and innovation trajectory in community colleges as they respond to the dramatic changes in the field.

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Build relationships between students and their community, while encouraging the development of important life skills. This resource helps you integrate service learning into your curriculum. After defining service learning and connecting research to practical classroom applications, the authors give you the tools to launch your own program.

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Reaching Reluctant Young Readers features 150 middle-grade books. Each title has the potential to hook the reluctant reader and lure them to read the entire book. To specifically encourage reluctant children to read, there is first a pitch to get their attention followed by a short reading passage to set the hook.

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Reaching Reluctant Young Readers features 150 middle-grade books. Each title has the potential to hook the reluctant reader and lure them to read the entire book. To specifically encourage reluctant children to read, there is first a pitch to get their attention followed by a short reading passage to set the hook.

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Read With Me synthesizes decades of research into simple things that adults can do with young children to improve early literacy and language skills. After reading this book, adults use Active Reading to engage children in reading, prepare them to read on their own, and instill a lifelong love of reading.

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Designed to promote literacy in young children and to empower parents, educators, and librarians, this guide is filled with simple strategies, creative activities, and detailed instructions that help make reading fun.

Encouraging a love of reading in young children can be a source of both great frustration and immense joy.

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Twelve reproducible scripts from the classics serve as examples of the readers theatre format. In addition, the authors have identified scenes from 30 contemporary novels (e.g., Prairie Songs, Tex, Gentlehands, Z for Zachariah) that are suitable for adaptation to readers theatre.

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The authors contend that reading would be learned in normative ways, were not some factor intervening in the learning processes that would naturally take place.

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Research indicates that writing and reading should be taught in tandem. Grades 3-12

Good writers use writing to learn, to actively work and think about content areas and achieve ownership. and Planning a Lesson to Teach Incorporating Reading and Writing Strategies.

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Exploration of what a reading circle approach can offer adult emergent readers, and what adult literacy learners can tell us about novel reading.

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An exploration of what a reading circle approach can offer adult emergent readers, and what adult literacy learners can tell us about novel reading. It explores adult reading development, novel reading and reading circles in the context of an examination of reading pedagogies and practices in the English-speaking world.

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This book illuminates methods for drawing upon young adult literature to facilitate students critical literacies and to prompt social action in their local and broader communities.

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In this riveting investigation, Dehaene explores every aspect of the ability to read, from its origins to its neural underpinnings. A world authority on the subject, Dehaene reveals the hidden logic of spelling and describes pioneering research on how we process languages.

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Reading Motivation supports pre-service and in-service educators in conducting systematic case studies of childrens motivation to read in specific contexts. Readers are guided step-by-step through the process of conducting a case study of reading motivation from which they may better support their students developing motivation to read.

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Reading Motivation supports pre-service and in-service educators in conducting systematic case studies of childrens motivation to read in specific contexts. Readers are guided step-by-step through the process of conducting a case study of reading motivation from which they may better support their students developing motivation to read.

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Filled with ideas, practical tips, useful statistics and other helpful data on teen reading, this book details numerous methods for getting teens to read, such as reading workshops, literature circles, book clubs, and booktalks.

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This valuable reference guide provides suggestions of picture books set in more than 70 countries in each continent of the world, along with standards-based activities.

Reading the World with Picture Books presents an exhaustive collection of booktalk options with picture books that are set in the major countries of each continent.

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