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Writing assessment programs help place entering and mid-career students in composition courses at the appropriate level, monitor the progress of those students, and assist in placing them in writing courses throughout their undergraduate careers.

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Over 550 reproducible bookmarks for grades 4-6, filled with fun facts and trivia

Bookmarks are easy to reproduce and cut apart for your students

Use bookmarks to reinforce concepts, to motivate students to learn, or as rewards

Blank bookmarks are included-students can design their own and trade

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This one-of-a-kind collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative practices from classrooms, schools, districts, communities, and faraway places in the world.

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Celebrating Intellectual Curiosity: Kindergarten Through College Scholarship and Research broadens the perspective on academic pursuits, using vignettes and stories to establish the complexities and utility of varying forms of research. Criteria are identified that fit the respective approaches.

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Celebrating Intellectual Curiosity: Kindergarten Through College Scholarship and Research broadens the perspective on academic pursuits, using vignettes and stories to establish the complexities and utility of varying forms of research. Criteria are identified that fit the respective approaches.

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This volume is a contribution to the debate on the reliance of the education system on standardized tests. It uses the methods of discourse analysis to examine not only material from reading tests but also children's responses to it. It also explores the role of culture in shaping children's understanding.

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The increasing reliance of our educational system on standardized tests has precipitated a national debate. This book makes a scholarly contribution to the debate by using the methods of discourse analysis to examine not only representative material from reading tests but also children's responses to it.

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This text offers lesson plans, realistic advice, and explanations and descriptions focused on how to move academically discouraged students from failure to thrive to success with the Common Core.

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A practical and topical guide designed to help teachers and support staff in schools to maximise the benefits of coaching for learning. It shows how coaching can transform the learning process in schools. Packed with real-life examples and practical exercises, it is suitable for teachers.

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This book makes a case for a STEM-based approach across the curriculum.

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The first part deals with literature as a subject and offers many practical units for the library media specialist and the language arts teacher to use in collaboratively teaching students inquiry and a framework for literature.

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Parents had questions about the tests their children took at school. They considered them to be common sense questions. They posed them to the businesspeople, publishers, and politicians who championed tests. They also posed them to the school administrators, teachers, and ...

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Parents had questions about the tests their children took at school. They considered them to be common sense questions. They posed them to the businesspeople, publishers, and politicians who championed tests. They also posed them to the school administrators, teachers, and ...

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In Concept-Based Instruction, readers will learn how to use the works of educational leaders to create cohesive, engaging, challenging, and interwoven units of study in the areas of writing, literature, reading, social studies, and science.

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The Connecting the Dots in World History: A Teachers Literacy-Based Curriculum series changes this by showing how effective a teacher-generated curriculum can be. These books can inspire other teachers to create their own curricula and inspire a change in the way that the public views teachers and teaching.

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The Connecting the Dots in World History: A Teachers Literacy-Based Curriculum series changes this by showing how effective a teacher-generated curriculum can be. These books can inspire other teachers to create their own curricula and inspire a change in the way that the public views teachers and teaching.

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This book is an interdisciplinary guide for middle grades (4th through 8th grade, though it can be adapted to lower and higher levels of learning), in social studies, language arts, mathematics and art production.

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This book is an interdisciplinary guide for middle grades in social studies, language arts, and art production. The curriculum allows students to explore cultures and civilizations through enriching content, engaging activities, and problem-solving experiences. Cooperative learning and inquiry-based opportunities are explored in every lesson.

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This book is an interdisciplinary guide to connect art lessons with core curriculum. Social studies, language arts, math, and/or science are supported in every unit. It is an ideal source for elementary and middle school teachers to enrich their curriculum. It is an invaluable tool for art teachers.

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In this book the authors address issues of language diversity and also go beyond these to emphasize the impact of culture on the learning environment.

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In this book the authors address issues of language diversity and also go beyond these to emphasize the impact of culture on the learning environment.

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An examination of the relationship between curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. It adopts a cross-sector and comparative approach, and provides a critical commentary on policy initiatives in this field. It does not aim to reach a conclusion, but to air the various debates.

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This first volume in a new series examines the relationship between curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment, applying a cross-sectional and comparative approach. The editor is affiliated with Open University in the UK, and most of the contributing authors are UK based; but the ten chapters include case