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With emphasis on practical classroom application, this title is suitable for teaching creative writing. Divided into four sections - "Laying the Ground Rules", "What is 'Appropriate' for the Workshop", "Teaching 'Technique'", and "The Hybrid TA", it explores issues of daily concern to creative writing instructors from many viewpoints.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

This versatile book from Master Teaching Artist Resurreccion Espinosa features 10 full-length plays in English and Spanish. Equally accessible to Spanish-dominant and English-dominant students, each play includes a list of essential vocabulary words that will enhance every student's language abilities!

(Paperback)

With the renewed emphasis in the Primary Framework on Speaking and Listening, Molly's book on Drama provides a refreshing approach to drama teaching. The activities are excellent as ice-breakers' or for getting to know you' sessions for adults and children both in school and during out of school drama clubs.

(Paperback)

With the renewed emphasis in the Primary Framework on Speaking and Listening, Molly's book on Drama provides a refreshing approach to drama teaching. The activities would be excellent as ice-breakers' or for getting to know you' sessions for adults and children both in school and during out of school drama clubs.

(Paperback)

This user-friendly book provides poems and stories accompanied by dramatic activities to help elementary school teachers create and maintain a peaceful classroom environment.

(Hardback)

This book analyzes white early literacy teachers experiences in low-income school communities. Through in-depth interviews that excavate the teachers sense of identity and their life experiences, Landa blends their successful practices with theoretical frameworks about teaching low-income children of color.

(Paperback)

Computers can be a powerful tool for building literacy, even with very young learners. This study seeks to help educators and parents use technology to encourage and support the learning of elementary students. Casey sums up what we know about how children learn to read and write, and shows how to build a learning environment.

(Paperback)

Offers starting points for young children beginning to learn about mathematics through engaging activities. This resource is suitable for whole classes or small groups.

(Paperback)

eBooks offer students as well as teachers, school and public librarians, and parents tremendous possibilities. This book explains how to expand and enhance the reading experience through the use of technology.

(Paperback)

Ecopolis has students run their own government to learn about issues including scarcity, resource allocation, needs vs. wants, opportunity costs, entrepreneurship, and global interdependence.

(Hardback, 3rd edition)

(Paperback)

A guide to spiritual, moral, social and cultural education (SMSC), seeking to bridge the gap between theory and practice in this area. It includes research findings and confronts such topical and practical issues as teaching methods and whole school policy.

(Paperback)

Describes how many Latino families are settling in areas where there has been little Latino presence. This New Latino Diaspora places pressures on host communities, especially schools. The chapters describe how host community conceptions of and policies toward newcomer Latinos both contradict and so

(Hardback)

This work presents important background information on the reading and process and classroom tested strategies that include implementation, information, and ideas for modifying the strategy to diverse needs.

(Paperback)

This work presents important background information on the reading and process and classroom tested strategies that include implementation, information, and ideas for modifying the strategy to diverse needs.

(Hardback)

Despite the additional challenges presented by diversified student populations, author Charles Vert Willie demonstrates the advantages which may also derive from these groups, and shows how minority students can make general contributions to educational reform.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

Electing the President is a motivating, hands-on simulation that lets students experience the exciting process of electing the President and Vice President of the United States.

(Paperback)

This teaching manual supplies lessons designed for elementary students (grades 1 5) that establish a foundation for skill-building in recognizing, deconstructing, evaluating, and choosing for themselves whether to accept a tangible product or intangible message. Students will learn to become active, rather than passive, receivers of messaging.

(Paperback)

"This book presents an integrated strategy approach that can be used to accompany text structure instruction on the five most commonly used expository text structures"--

(Hardback)

Anyone who reads with young children will benefit from this book designed to provide a fun, evidence-based approach to shared reading. Empowering Young Readers offers a straightforward approach for creating meaningful dialogues while reading as well as practical recommendations for getting the most out of your cherished reading experiences.

(Hardback)

This indispensable reference is a comprehensive guide to significant issues, policies, historical events, laws, theories, and persons related to the education of African-Americans in the United States.

(Hardback)

This reference includes more than 400 entries from a broad range of topics related to multicultural education.

(Paperback)

In this book authors share their expertise and resources with music teachers who seek to confirm, renew, and extend their philosophies and practices in elementary general music.